This week features Laura Dunseath along with Natalie Walker and James Tryfonos.

Under discussion:

•The Sweett Group plc sentence hearing – the first conviction of a corporate for failure to prevent bribery under s.7 of the Bribery Act 2010

•The global settlement following a FCPA investigation of VimpelCom resulting in the 6th largest financial penalty ever imposed for FCPA violations.

•The NCA being given ‘power of direction’ over the SFO

•Trends in corporate crime in Scotland revealed in a BDO Report.