Day: February 19, 2022

On 1 February, EU Business reported that fraudsters behind the ‘EU Business Register’ scam are causing havoc once again, cybersecurity technology company Bitdefender warned.  The research, on a phishing scam which has targeted global businesses for years, should serve as a warning for EU businesses who could fall victim to it. 

https://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/eu-business-register-scam.27vl

https://ebra.be/warning-about-the-eu-business-register/

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The EU Business website provides these Business Guides, which are background information and Questions & Answers about topical EU business issues.  These includes guides on the December agreementto update the current rules governing VAT rates for goods and services; a new tool to counter the use of economic coercion by third countries;  a minimum effective tax rate for the global activities of large multinational groups; and a new Standardisation Strategy outlining the EU’s approach to standards within the Single Market as well as globally.

https://www.eubusiness.com/guides

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On 17 February, ICIJ published an article saying that the sanctions regime that U.K. officials say they are devising may be the most worrying for rich Russians, who have long seen London as a safe destination for storing and growing their wealth.  For more than a decade, ICIJ has tracked flows of money globally – stories that have commonly involved wealthy Russians with elite political connections. These projects included the Panama Papers, Paradise Papers, FinCEN Files and Pandora papers.  It details 5 oligarchs whose financial dealings have been uncovered by ICIJ investigations – and who have received additional scrutiny from authorities.

https://www.icij.org/investigations/pandora-papers/as-the-west-takes-aim-with-russian-sanctions-heres-what-we-know-about-oligarchs-secret-finances/

A post from Cooley on 16 February says that 2 recent cases in the UK courts highlight the tension between an individual’s right to privacy during a criminal investigation and the freedom of the press to report on the investigation as a matter of public interest.  It remarks that such cases raise questions about the privacy rights of the subjects of investigation under Article 8 of the ECHR.  A Court of Appeal case involved Bloomberg publishing a second report describing a letter of request for mutual legal assistance to foreign authorities, where the balance tipped in favour of privacy, even though the investigation related to the business dealings of a large international company and included matters of ‘high public interest’.  In a second case, the High Court recently addressed the privacy rights of individuals under investigation by the SFO and ordered a postponement of the publication of a Statement of Facts re a DPA, as those involved had neither testified nor agreed to the DPA version of the facts. 

https://cc.cooley.com/2022/02/16/uk-supreme-court-considers-privacy-rights-of-executives-under-investigation/