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  • Sunday, 24 January, 2021
    US & Canadian companies
    US executives brace for more corporate prosecutions under Biden

    Criminal cases against companies fell steeply during the Trump administration

  • Friday, 22 January, 2021
    Beny Steinmetz
    Beny Steinmetz found guilty of bribery

    Swiss court sentences Israeli businessman to 5 years in prison over Guinea natural resources case

  • Thursday, 21 January, 2021
    Russian politics
    Russia cracks down on Navalny supporters ahead of planned protests

    Moscow demands social media companies delete posts publicising rallies called for Saturday as police give warning

  • Wednesday, 20 January, 2021
    New York’s investigation of cryptocurrency Tether hits fresh delay

    Parent company faces allegation of ‘covering up’ loss of $850m in company and customer funds

  • Wednesday, 20 January, 2021
    US-China relations
    Pompeo says China’s repression of Uighurs is ‘genocide’

    Trump administration accusation is backed by Joe Biden’s nominee for secretary of state

  • Wednesday, 20 January, 2021
    Hong Kong politics
    British lawyer steps down from Hong Kong trial after intense UK pressure

    David Perry was called a ‘mercenary’ after agreeing to prosecute pro-democracy activists

  • Tuesday, 19 January, 2021
    UK politics & policy
    Tory MPs rebel over genocide amendment to trade bill

    More than 30 Conservatives break with government in attempt to block deals with states on human rights grounds

  • Tuesday, 19 January, 2021
    White collar crime
    London Capital & Finance investors entitled to payouts, court told

    Judicial review begins into lifeboat fund’s decision to compensate only fifth of customers

  • Tuesday, 19 January, 2021
    Energy sector
    US court strikes down Trump’s pro-coal power sector rules

    Decision gives Biden clean slate to deal with emissions from electricity generation

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    Lebanon
    Switzerland says it is investigating Lebanese central bank

    Fresh blow for embattled Banque du Liban as it faces first European probe

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    Big miners face new front in Colombia human rights battle

    Activists seek OECD help to close vast Cerrejón coal project owned by Anglo American, BHP and Glencore

  • Monday, 18 January, 2021
    Samsung Electronics Co Ltd
    South Korean court sends Samsung head back to jail for bribery

    Lee Jae-yong will spend 18 months in prison in blow to global technology group

  • Monday, 18 January, 2021
    Inside BusinessPatrick Jenkins
    Why banks should not bear all the burden of Britain’s scam culture 

    The cost of soaring online fraud should be shared by other companies

  • Sunday, 17 January, 2021
    UK trade
    Tory rebels seek to block trade deal with China over Uighurs

    MPs join forces with opposition in support of amendment upholding human rights

  • Friday, 15 January, 2021
    UK insurance industry
    UK businesses win right to insurance payouts for Covid losses

    Supreme Court rules that policies do provide cover against impact of virus and lockdown measures

  • Friday, 15 January, 2021
    Wirecard AG
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    Austrian financier Alexander Schütz called on Markus Braun to do more to rebut FT’s critical reporting

  • Friday, 15 January, 2021
    British American Tobacco PLC
    Serious Fraud Office closes bribery probe into British American Tobacco

    UK agency began investigation in 2017 after claims company bribed officials in east Africa

  • Thursday, 14 January, 2021
    Wirecard AG
    Commerzbank suspends coverage of groups tracked by former Wirecard analyst

    Move comes after it emerged that Heike Pauls had briefed payment group’s managers about hedge fund’s criticism

  • Thursday, 14 January, 2021
    Sexual misconduct allegations
    UK hearing into Weinstein lawyer stopped on medical grounds

    Mark Mansell had been referred to regulator’s disciplinary tribunal for work on non-disclosure agreement

  • Thursday, 14 January, 2021
    Legal services
    English civil law legal aid system ‘running on empty’, study finds

    Cuts imposed eight years ago are having a ‘damaging effect’ on barristers, according to Bar Council report

  • Thursday, 14 January, 2021
    Ukraine conflict
    Europe’s top human rights court to examine Ukraine’s allegations against Russia

    ECHR to give its judgment on Kyiv’s claims of human rights violations in Crimea

  • Thursday, 14 January, 2021
    Cambodia
    Cambodia begins mass ‘show trial’ of opposition figures and activists

    Critics claim the prime minister has exploited the pandemic to crack down on opponents

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    This week: time is running out to end Lugano limbo, and sharing a divorce lawyer

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    Ultimate prize is coding after pandemic sparks embrace of online document sharing, data analysis and e-signatures

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