Month: September 2023

Businesses in the UK should be considering how a new ‘failure to prevent’ fraud offence should be accounted for in their compliance programmes and contracts, experts at Pinsent Masons have said.

Mariko Takeuchi, a former nurse sentenced to hang for trafficking 3.5 kilos of methamphetamine into Malaysia in 2009, has appealed under the law allowing prisoners sentenced to death or life imprisonment to seek reduced sentences.

Tharman took the presidential affirmation before an audience of some 200 people in the republic’s colonial-era presidential palace, the Istana.

The decision to drop corruption charges against Deputy PM Ahmad Zahid Hamidi sparked criticism that the move is a betrayal of PM Anwar’s reform agenda.

MPs have voted to back a narrower new offence of ‘failure to prevent’ fraud than proposed by UK peers, and to reject calls for a separate new offence of ‘failure to prevent’ money laundering to be added to the UK statute book.

Authorities were investigating the cause of the fire, which started around midnight in the parking area of the building that had no escape route.

Whistleblowing complaints are growing in frequency all over the world and in all kinds of organisations.

Norwegian police say the ‘serious and complicated’ case involves an attempt to eavesdrop on the prime minister’s office in Oslo.

Controlling emissions from the Suralaya complex could save the country as much as US$960 million each year from preventable deaths, medical bills and work absences, according to a study.

Online platform services operated by six technology companies have been made subject to regulation under the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA).