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  2. Fraud Act 2006 - Wikipedia

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    The Fraud Act 2006 (c 35) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which affects England and Wales and Northern Ireland. It was given royal assent on 8 November 2006, and came into effect on 15 January 2007.

  3. False accounting - Wikipedia

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    False accounting is a legal term for a type of fraud, considered a statutory offence in England and Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. England and Wales [ edit ]

  4. Fraud - Wikipedia

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    In 2016, the estimated value lost through fraud in the UK was £193 billion a year. [19] In January 2018, the Financial Times reported that the value of UK fraud hit a 15-year high of £2.11bn in 2017, according to a study. The article said that the accountancy firm BDO examined reported fraud cases worth more than £50,000 and found that the ...

  5. Indictable offence - Wikipedia

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    In many common law jurisdictions (e.g. England and Wales, Ireland, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore), an indictable offence is an offence which can only be tried on an indictment after a preliminary hearing to determine whether there is a prima facie case to answer or by a grand jury (in contrast to a summary offence).

  6. Obtaining pecuniary advantage by deception - Wikipedia

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    This offence replaced the offence of obtaining credit by fraud, contrary to section 13(1) of the Debtors Act 1869. [4] The elements of the actus reus are similar to the offence of obtaining property by deception: There must be a deception. This has the same meaning as for section 15 (according to section 16(3) of the Theft Act 1968).

  7. Serious Fraud Office (United Kingdom) - Wikipedia

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    The UK's Serious Fraud Office spent £16.2 million on its corruption investigation into the oil consultancy Unaoil, with nearly a third allocated to external legal fees. The investigation faced significant challenges, including the quashing of three bribery convictions due to non-disclosure of evidence and the collapse of a fourth trial [145].

  8. Former tech exec admits to fraud involving a scheme to boost ...

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    A former technology executive has pleaded guilty to a single count of fraud involving a scheme to artificially inflate the share price of photo and video distributor , federal officials said Friday.

  9. English criminal law - Wikipedia

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    Fraud Act 2006; Ivey v Genting Casinos (UK) Ltd [2017] UKSC 67, Ivey was unable to claim £7.7m in winnings from the Genting Casinos because he had won by cheating, by "edge sorting" with an accomplice, at a card game called Punto Banco. Supreme Court held the "fact-finding tribunal" should establish a defendant's actual state of mind and then ...