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American Conference Institute (ACI)

The DOJ’s New Pilot Programs: A Bane for Compliance Programs

For years, Department of Justice officials have stressed how important chief compliance officers are as the first line of defense in fighting corporate crimes. While that’s true, compliance programs now have a competitor in...more

Ankura

Proceeds of Crime and the Cautionary Tale of Convicted Fraudster Achilleas Kallakis

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Recent SFO Confiscations Linked To Decade-Old Crime - On 24 November, the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) successfully confiscated £250,000 from Achilleas Kallakis, which was held as a debenture by The Queen’s Club, home of the...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

U.S. Supreme Court to Decide the Scope of Federal Courts’ Criminal Jurisdiction over Foreign Sovereign Defendants

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On October 3, 2022, the United States Supreme Court granted certiorari in Turkiye Halk Bankasi A.S. v. United States, No. 21-1450 (“Halkbank”), to determine whether federal courts have subject-matter jurisdiction over...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Governmental overreach or proper jurisdiction - Defendant seeks dismissal of charges by arguing lack of requisite nexus to the...

The extraterritorial reach of statutes seeking to prohibit unscrupulous financial practices has been debated and watched as both entities and individuals seek to determine the scope of the United States’ government’s ability...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Indictments Spotlight Broad Extraterritorial Reach of U.S. Money Laundering Statutes

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The U.S. money laundering statutes have a broad global reach and may be used to prosecute cases involving alleged schemes perpetrated almost entirely outside of the United States. These types of allegations seem to be an...more

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