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Serious Fraud investigators knew they needed to do more work to prove fraud over a Labour Party artwork donation but decided not to, leading directly to four defendants being acquitted

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Developer who turned Caribbean dreams into nightmares in £226m fraud

David Ames persuaded thousands of people to invest holiday homes in resorts that were never built

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Essex man jailed over £226m Caribbean holiday homes ‘Ponzi scheme’

Judge tells David Ames he is a ‘menace to anybody unfortunate enough to do business with you’

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Labour Party Conference: Bosses will carry the can over corporate fraud, vows Emily Thornberry

Companies would be held liable for corporate crime committed by their employees under a Labour government, the shadow attorney general announced on Tuesday.

Evening Standard

What's the value of freedom from public scrutiny?

Lawyers for the seven defendants in the SFO prosecution over political donations challenged the very basis of the charges faced by their clients

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Lawyer claims Labour official knew of donations scam

Did a top Labour official know a big donation from a leading Chinese businessman was disguised as five donations from other in the community and fail to tell the Electoral Commission?

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'They all lied, except for Jami-Lee'

Lawyers summarise the Crown's prosecution of former MP Jami-Lee Ross and Chinese donors alleged to have concealed big sums given to both Labour and National

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Labour's prizes: Art, wine and the Ardern Cup

Labour figures buying art, wine and other collectibles for the party to auction for fundraising was not unusual, a party 'hack' told the High Court

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Donations trial: Battle of the translators

Finally, the defence opens in the case of seven people charged with crimes over political party donations - and it starts with a word by word challenge to Chinese translations relied on by the C

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Why did the Serious Fraud Office target donations to Labour?

Labour was considering the future of the SFO before it 'coincidentally' was drawn into a political donations investigation by the office, a defence lawyer claims

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SFO raids house, seizes kids' laptop

Defence lawyers attack the actions of the Serious Fraud Office in its political donations inquiry, questioning what investigators told judges to get search warrants

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Political donor offered $30m bail security

The wealthy Chinese donor in the political donations case offered to hand over legal rights to $30m of properties in NZ so he could visit his dying mother in China.

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Anger as Serious Fraud Office head says she’s proud of ‘revolving door’ between regulator and law firms

Fears grow that movement of senior figures into private sector sees some use inside knowledge to help companies being investigated

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Minister pressed on what he told SFO

When the Labour Party learned the names of Chinese businessmen accused of political donations crimes involving National, it turned to its chief whip and ethnic affairs lead Michael Wood to s

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Donations trial eavesdrops on WeChat deals

The High Court trial of seven people for concealing political donations hears WeChat deals and disputes over what Labour knew about a wealthy Chinese donor.

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SFO reveals more covert recordings of Ross and Bridges

The MP who first complained to police about secret, broken-up political donations finds himself finally on trial in the High Court, and the SFO has more covert tape recordings

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Big political names drawn into donations trial

The Crown outlines its case against six men and a woman charged with deceit in concealing donations to the Labour and National parties, and lines up big names to give evidence.

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Court reverses Aberdeen man's conviction in Unaoil bribery case

Stephen Whiteley has been exonerated in the third such reversal for cases stemming from the oil company scandal

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Serious Fraud Office chief found to have made errors over major corruption trial

Independent review criticises Lisa Osofsky personally after two businessmen’s convictions were overturned

Bangkok Post

Thai Airways engine deal 'unlawful'

The National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) has found grounds supporting the allegation that former finance minister Thanong Bidaya broke the law in a deal to supply Rolls-Royce engines for Thai Airways International (THAI) three decades ago, according to Isranews.

The Independent UK

Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi’s tax affairs under investigation by HMRC

Exclusive: Revelation comes as Mr Zahawi launches bid to succeed Boris Johnson as prime minister

Evening Standard

Serious Fraud Office drops four-year criminal probe into Chemring

Bribery and money laundering investigation began after company referred itself to SFO

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The Winston-sized hole in the NZ First trial

The High Court fraud case against two men around donations to the New Zealand First Foundation ends, with the defence asking why neither the Serious Fraud Office nor the Crown called on the pa

The Guardian - UK

Glencore pleads guilty to bribery related to African oil operations

SFO says subsidiary of commodity trading company will be sentenced in November

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No defence evidence in NZ First fraud case

Details of a morning raid to execute a search warrant at a defendant's home wrap up the Crown's case against two men over the use of political donations to the NZ First party.

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