Martin Coyle

A former aide to Madagascar's president was jailed today alongside a French middleman for soliciting bribes from UK precious-stones miner Gemfields last year.

A former executive at UK plastics maker RPC Group escaped jail today despite his conviction for netting tens of thousands of pounds trading on inside information about the takeover of a rival company.

Fabio de Pasquale, one of Italy's most highly regarded anti-corruption prosecutors, has been demoted over his role in bringing criminal charges in Milan against oil companies Shell and Eni.

Sanctions on Russia are having a crippling effect on the country's war machine, according to a prominent financier and Kremlin critic, who today called for the West to confiscate $300 billion worth of frozen Russia-linked assets.

Oil producer PetroNor E&P faces corporate criminal charges after a Norwegian bribery probe was widened to include charges that it misled investors over its 2019 takeover of African Petroleum Corp.

The UK's Serious Fraud Office doesn't need to “boil the ocean” when investigating cases, the agency's head told lawmakers today as he signaled a more pragmatic approach to tackling criminal probes.

New legislation that will empower the UK's National Crime Agency to direct the country's anti-fraud agency to take on investigations has come into force.

A review of former UBS trader Tom Hayes' rate-rigging conviction by the UK's Serious Fraud Office over disclosure issues won't hold up his bid to take his appeal to the Supreme Court, his lawyer told MLex today.

Nick Ephgrave may have breezed through questioning by lawmakers this week as he set out his plans for his tenure as UK fraud boss, but the session was characterized by what was left unsaid.

A unit of Belgian construction conglomerate Ackermans & van Haaren faces a probe into suspected corruption in Chad, French prosecutors have confirmed.