Offence – failure to prevent fraud

July/August 2025 | Commercial
Practitioners are reminded that the new corporate criminal offence that will hold large organisations to account if they profit from fraud comes into force on 1 September 2025. The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (ECCTA) created a new corporate criminal offence of ‘failure to prevent fraud’. Under the legislation, an organisation will be …
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