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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.
The current logo of Virgin Money's operations outside the UK. Virgin Money's logo is focused around the main logo of Virgin Group, which is an underlined word 'Virgin' in a red and magenta gradient coloured circle. This logo was introduced in January 2012 to signify the purchase of Northern Rock, which used a magenta logo.
This unit is responsible for policing London's and the UK's main financial hub, as part of the City of London Police Economic Crime Department (ECD) It investigates what could be described as traditional fraud offences such as banking frauds; insurance frauds; investment frauds; insider dealing frauds; advance fee frauds and Internet frauds, amongst others.
Virgin Money was acquired by Nationwide in October for £2.9 billion ($3.7 billion). Under an obscure license exit fee, founder Richard Branson was expected to pocket $320 million so Nationwide ...
Formed in 1946, [1] the unit was originally known as Metropolitan and City Police Fraud Department or "C6 Branch". It was the first integrated cross-border, co-operative unit set up jointly between London's two police services; the City of London Police due to their expertise in business and stock market fraud, and the Metropolitan Police with their investigative experience.
After a raid by the UK Serious Fraud Office in September 1990, the share price collapsed. The CEO Asil Nadir was convicted of stealing the company's money. Bank of Credit & Commerce International: United Kingdom: 5 July 1991: Banking: Breach of US law, by owning another bank. Fraud, money laundering and larceny. Better known as BCCI. Nordbanken ...
A branch of the Northern Rock with Virgin Money branding on Briggate in Leeds. On 13 October 2007, Sir Richard Branson announced that Virgin Group were putting together a consortium of financiers to propose to plough millions into the troubled Northern Rock bank and in return take an approximate 30% stake in the business, bringing the current financial products offered by Virgin and combining ...
Virgin Money may refer to: Virgin Money (brand), a financial services brand owned by Virgin Group; Virgin Money UK, a British banking and financial services company; Virgin Money Australia, an Australian banking and financial services company owned by the Bank of Queensland; Virgin Money US, a former US loans company