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The UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has once again failed in a high-profile prosecution after a case against three former executives of a subsidiary of security corporation G4S over a tagging contract collapsed in London’s Old Bailey court on March 10.…

The disgusting comments published by Twitter about Canada’s Governor General Mary Simon require the same response such defamation would spark against this newspaper should it have transgressed so appallingly – she should sue.

Yes, Canada’s respected 75-year-old first ever indigenous Governor General should sue Elon Musk for defamation, as owner of Twitter, which published these untrue and poisonous comments.…

The goal of any anti-fraud investigation is to uncover the truth about wrongdoing, and experience can help – with investigators using it to hone and direct their inquiries and uncover potential leads. But when might personal assumptions leach into misconceptions and bias that might push an investigator down the wrong track and reach the wrong conclusions?…

Research commissioned by British telecoms regulator Ofcom has concluded that 87% of adults accessing the Internet – or 43 million people – have seen content they suspected to be a scam or fraud (1). After surveying some 150,000 panellists for an ‘Online Scams & Fraud Research’ study, UK-based Yonder Consulting found 46% of UK adult internet users had been personally drawn in by an online scam, while 39% knew someone else who had.…

Better analytical capabilities should be implemented to reduce the incidence of adulterated honey being imported into the European Union (EU), industry observers claim after a testing programme revealed almost half of the samples were fraudulently labelled. This concern was uncovered by a research initiative, ‘From the hives’, led by the European Commission’s directorate-general for health and food safety.…

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine launched last February (2022) has severely damaged Ukraine’s digital textile printing segment, and while it has also harmed the Russian industry, this sector has performed better than expected, despite comprehensive western sanctions.

In Ukraine, where the invasion had killed 8,101 civilians by February 28 (UN data), the country’s light industry, including its digital textile printing sector, continues to suffer from bombardment, logistical bottlenecks and persistent power cuts.…

The European Union (EU) has taken fresh action to reverse the decline of honeybees in Europe, with the European Commission revamping the EU Pollinators Initiative. The revised strategy involves spending on conservation, species reintroduction, research, monitoring and restricting dangerous pesticides. https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-5692-2023-INIT/en/pdf;…

Australia is at the forefront of developing innovative marine coatings that draw inspiration from nature. These have the potential to not only protect ships from biofouling but also reduce fuel consumption by up to 10% by mimicking the properties of streamlined natural surfaces.…

Money launderers continue to develop layering techniques to insert criminal proceeds into legitimate financial transactions, and these typologies are becoming increasingly varied.

‘Cuckoo smurfing’ is one new technique attracting attention, for instance, said a briefing note from Australian FIU Austrac (1).…

With European textile finishers keeping a close eye on sustainability rules being developed by the European Union (EU), the fact that the EU Council of Ministers on March 16 (2023) struck agreement (1) on European Commission proposals (2) for reforming the EU industrial emissions directive will require particularly careful attention.…