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Protecting Premier League football clubs through tighter regulation

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The Football Governance Bill sets out to establish a new Independent Football Regulator (IFR) for English men’s elite football. As these plans for a new regulator continue to unfold, research conducted by the Department of Criminology at The University of Manchester has found that the ownership structures of many English Premier League football clubs share […]

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The Pandora Papers: A Pandora’s box for the offshore industry, or a case of ‘as you were’?

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The Pandora Papers are the latest data leak offering a glimpse into the ways in which powerful individuals and corporate entities manage their finances with the assistance and direction of third party, professional intermediaries such as company formation agents and trust and company service providers. The data leak consists of just under 12 million files […]

Cryptocorruption: what hit series ‘Billions’ tells us about how cryptocurrency could be misused

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Taking a lead from a hit US TV show, former University of Manchester law student Alex Sprake and Dr Nick Lord discuss the potential for the misuse of cryptocurrencies to facilitate fraudulent and illicit payments. They find it as likely to be an issue in the world of ‘legitimate business’ as for organised crime, and […]

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Not always what it says on the tin: Legitimate business and the dynamics of food fraud

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Dr Nick Lord is leading a major ESRC-funded investigation into instances and opportunities for fraud within the UK food system. Here, Nick reports back on the key findings of the study and the changes of approach that government and law enforcement need to make if they are to fully understand  and meet the challenge of food fraud in […]

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The Panama Papers and the stumbling blocks to exposing secret activity

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The unprecedented leak of 11.5 million files at the centre of the Panama Papers scandal has caused headlines around the world and a headache for many rich and powerful people, including our own Prime Minister.  But what was surprising, argues Dr Nicholas Lord, was not just the sheer size of the leak, but that the […]

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