Draft rules to make it easier for national authorities to freeze and confiscate criminals' assets across the EU were beefed up by the European Parliamentary Civil Liberties Committee this week. The MEPs also sought to safeguard the right to a fair trial, and called upon member states to use confiscated assets to fight crime and for social projects.
...Beltrami & Company Criminal Law & Glasgow Solicitors Blog
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A recent study by the Institute for Economics and Peace reveals that, while the UK is 11% less violent than a decade ago, Glasgow is the least peaceful of all the major urban areas, with London ranked as the second most violent.
...The European Commission has published its annual report on the implementation of the EU's Internal Security Strategy (ISS), which highlights areas under each of the objectives of the strategy (2011-2014) where Member States and EU agencies should pay particular attention.
...In an interesting development, Greater Manchester Police has announced that its officers are to begin recording whether someone has been a victim of an alternative sub-culture hate crime. The move will typically affect groups such as Punks, Emos and Goths.
...A former stockbroker who was convicted of defrauding investors of millions of pounds has been ordered to pay £1 after being declared bankrupt, reports the Independent.
Nicholas Levene was jailed for 13 years last year after pleading guilty to 12 counts of fraud, one count of false accounting and one count of obtaining a money transfer by deception.
Eighteen months on from the coming into force of the Bribery Act, and there was only one completed bribery and corruption case last year in Scotland, and only four completed by the Serious Fraud Office, according to accountancy firm Ernst & Young.
...In a case brought by the Financial Services Authority (FSA), Paul Milsom, a senior equities trader, was this week sentenced at Southwark Crown Court to two years imprisonment for disclosing inside information. A confiscation order was also made in the sum of £245,000.
...The European Commission has announced plans to crack down on counterfeiters throughout the EU, in the wake of figures showing that, while the vagaries of currency markets may have affected the popularity of the euro in financial sectors, the same cannot be said for the criminal fraternity.
...Children’s charity, Just For Kids Law, this week challenged the way 17-year-olds are treated when detained by the police in England and Wales
...A bankrupt who acted as a shadow director was sentenced to 14 months imprisonment at Hull Crown Court earlier this week.
...Following a nine-day trial, an English QC has been found guilty of a charge of cheating the public revenue between 1st June 1999 and 24th September 2011.
...The level of fraud in the UK may have dropped by a third over the past year, but according to a new report by accountants BDO LLP, the amount of tax fraud hardly fell at all. It now accounts for almost half (44%) of all fraud reported in the UK.
...Two businessmen were convicted last week of conspiring to defraud banks, principally Allied Irish Banks (AIB) and the Bank of Scotland, of millions of pounds and euros.
...A Dundee man has been sentenced to nine years imprisonment, after being convicted of three charges of being knowingly involved in the fraudulent evasion of VAT and two charges of money laundering, occurring between 2002 and 2004.
...The Scottish Government is consulting on new proposals for safeguards to the criminal justice system, after reviewing responses to the Carloway consultation.
...European justice ministers meeting in the Council of the European Union last week reached agreement on proposals for a Directive on insider dealing and market manipulation that will criminalise such behaviour.
...A prosecution service campaign targeting knife carrying offenders over the seasonal period has been launched by the Lord Advocate, Frank Mulholland QC.
...The Crown Office has reported that the Civil Recovery Unit is to recover £5.6 million under Proceeds of Crime legislation after a Scottish drilling company accepted that it had benefited from unlawful conduct.
...Statistics published by the Scottish Government have provided a detailed picture of the scale of religious hate crimes across Scotland.
...A national campaign has been launched to warn UK investors they risk falling victim to thousands of pounds worth of fraud if they fail to take simple steps to check who they’re investing with.
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