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Bribery is a criminal offence under the Bribery Act 2010 (the ‘Act’), and allegations of bribery and corruption can have serious consequences for individuals and businesses. The Act applies to both the public and private sectors in the UK and creates four key bribery offences. The Act introduces strict liability for those commercial organisations whose […]

Account Freezing Orders are often obtained under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 by law enforcement agencies such as the National Crime Agency, Serious Fraud Office or HMRC, where there are reasonable grounds to suspect that funds are intended for use in unlawful conduct or constitute recoverable property. However, suspicion alone is not sufficient to […]

KANGS has assisted a senior National Health Service (NHS) Consultant in successfully defending fraud allegations. The investigators alleged that he had, fraudulently undertaken and received payment for private clinical work during periods when he was contracted to, and being paid by the NHS. Following the detailed preparation of our client’s defence by the team at […]

As part of its drive to reduce the ‘tax gap,’ being the difference between the amount of tax HMRC collects and the amount it estimates is actually owed, HMRC operates a powerful data networking and analytical system known as HMRC Connect. The system enables HMRC to identify businesses or individuals that may not have paid […]

KANGS has successfully assisted our client, a company director specialising in the provision of IT services, defeat allegations that he had committed fraud by abusing his position, with the assistance of a contact within the police service, when seeking the award of police IT contracts. The team at KANGS guided our client through a complex […]

Companies House has introduced a new identity verification process whereby anyone setting up, running, owning or controlling a company in the UK must verify their identity, as newly prescribed. The new requirements arise from The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (‘the ECCTA’), which forms part of a wider government initiative to improve transparency […]