Media Reports
An obituary in The Times of London this week got us thinking about the value of patents. John Wall, who died in January, was an English amateur astronomer who invented an eyepiece that enables telescopes to focus smoothly. It is known as the Crayford eyepiece, named after the Kent town in which he was born. […]
Money laundering continues to be the plague upon which organised criminals depend to fund both their lifestyles and their efforts to extract ever more ill-gotten gains from their victims. It takes a lot of money to establish call centres, boiler rooms, illegal drug shipments and other labour intensive operations by which to separate you and […]
The everyday work of a corporate investigator are the foibles of the business world: fraud, litigation, tracing assets, trademark and patent infringements, etc. But once in a while something comes our way that’s different and more important. Such was the case of Richard Alden. As readers of The Sunday Times and MailOnline will know, Richard […]
The everyday work of a corporate investigator are the foibles of the business world: fraud, litigation, tracing assets, trademark and patent infringements, etc. But once in a while something comes our way that’s different and more important. Such was the case of Richard Alden. As readers of The Sunday Times and MailOnline will know, Richard […]
The problem with our so-called post-truth environment is that we have to make decisions based on conflicting information. Therefore, we are told, we should consider the sources of conflicting information. But it’s not always a clear-cut solution. Take the case of everyday computer security. The anti-virus software Kaspersky Lab has been offered free since 2008 […]
Last week Airbus reported to the U.S Department of Justice (DoJ) that it has breached American arms export regulations by making “certain inaccuracies” in its disclosures about payments to middlemen. The U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations requires disclosure about third-party agents who assist with export deals worth $500,000 or more. On 1 November the […]
Art sleuths come in various shapes: the assiduous researchers who have a specialisation, the detectives who try to deal directly with art thieves (often undercover), the people who run databases that track art that has been reported lost or stolen and investigators who, possibly with the assistance of any of the above, will check the […]
Police in Manchester, England, conducted raids last week of businesses selling counterfeit luxury products. In one day they seized more than £2 million ($2.7 million) of counterfeit clothing. Six people were detained by police. The raids were conducted in the notorious and aptly named Cheetham Hill area of the city. Chief Inspector Denise Pye of […]