Luxury jewellery, designer fashion and perfume worth a combined £16m were bought from Harrods by a woman who has been hit with the UK’s first unexplained wealth order. Zamira Hajiyeva blew £600,000 in a single day at the London department store as part of a decade-long spending spree there, splashing out £30,000 on chocolates in one afternoon. The 55-year-old spent…
A recent survey commissioned by Shred-it, one of the UK’s leading information security companies and a Stericycle solution, has revealed a positive understanding and engagement with the principles of GDPR among SMEs on its first anniversary. The findings show that 72% of UK SMEs report being ‘very aware’ of its requirements. However, 60% reported that the…
A little over a year ago, amid the global furor over revelations that terrabytes of ostensibly personal Facebook data had been harvested by now defunct U.K. political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica, Process Nerd mused — somewhat presciently, as it turned out — over what, exactly, might happen if the House ethics committee decided they needed to hear…
The news, for Chinese telecom giant Huawei, keeps getting worse. While the United States has outright banned the company from future government work, the United Kingdom has been more accepting of the fact that many of the underlying flaws in Huawei’s devices and code are fixable. The UK established the Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Centre…
Spanish police were carrying out an operation on Tuesday against several footballers, ex-players and club executives accused of fixing matches in the first and second divisions, a source close to the case said. The source, who refused to be named, said that matches were allegedly fixed in the first and second divisions during this season…
Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA) President Isha Johansen has been acquitted on all counts of corruption by a high court in Freetown. Her acquittal, along with SLFA General Secretary Christopher Kamara, paves the way for the lifting of a ban from global football. The two top SLFA officials were surrounded by their jubilant supporters as…
— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News Russian authorities have seized 12 billion rubles ($185.5 million) from former FSB official Colonel Kirill Cherkalin, making him the country’s richest ex-law enforcement official under investigation for corruption. Cherkalin, former head of the FSB economic security department’s financial counterintelligence support unit, was charged with…
— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News Three women are accused of taking almost $900,000 in bribes, which they spent on fur coats, designer handbags and property in Florida, to help people snatch affordable New York apartments from thousands of families waiting on a list. Anna Treybich, 71, Irina Zeltser, 66,…
— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News The Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine (SAPO) intends to call in the former president of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko for interrogation concerning the possible involvement in the corruption in the electric and thermal energy producing company Centerenergo, as the Ukrainian News reported. “He will be…
— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News The US’ Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) found corruption wasvisible in Fresenius Medical Care (FMC) from the early 2000’s butnothing was done to address it. The SEC was tasked with probing the claims made about FMC. FMC said ithad co-operated fully with…