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    Crime incorporated

    Nov 26, 2020 3 minutes

    WHY IS THE government so unwilling to tackle the problem of corporate fraud? Years pass and nothing is done. It’s almost as if ministers don’t want to see companies in the dock.

    As the law now stands, a company can be convicted of an economic crime in the United Kingdom — but only if prosecutors can prove that individuals who can be regarded as the company’s “directing mind” knew about, actively condoned or played a part in the offending. The bigger the company, the

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