About Crime
In ordinary language, a crime is an unlawful act punishable by a state or other authority. The term crime does not, in modern criminal law, have any simple and universally accepted definition, though statutory definitions have been provided for certain purposes.
Thousands march against antisemitism in London
... The rally comes amid a steep rise in hate Crime, especially against the capital s Jewish community...
Dublin riot: 'Huge destruction' after school stabbing leads to 34 arrests
... " We could not have anticipated that in response to a terrible Crime - the stabbing of school children and their teacher - that this would be the response, " he said...
Chris Mason: Will the measures in the King's Speech be enough?
... And the focus on Crime - while potentially popular with a wide cross-section of the electorate - appears framed with a particular eye on Conservative voters recent and long-standing, a big chunk of whom polls suggest are disillusioned with the party...
I was innocent - but it cost me £500,000 to prove it
...By Nick Garnett and Claire KendallBBC NewsEach year, thousands of people in England and Wales are accused of Crimes for which they are later acquitted...
Uttar Pradesh: Indian schoolgirl's cycling death lays bare ugly face of ‘Eve-teasing'
... The that their sons were involved in the Crime - they insist that their boys are not those seen in the viral CCTV footage and accuse the police of shooting and injuring them in staged encounters...
Defiant Trump turns up at $250m fraud trial to blast 'scam'
... " There was no Crime - the Crime was against me...
Teens feel unsafe and anxious, but are positive about future - poll
... " Telling them that it s a Crime - it s not a compliment, it s not a flattering thing, " she says, " this isn t something that should be yelled across the street for someone minding their own business...
'Don't Ask Why': South Korea grapples with back-to-back 'Mudjima' stabbings
... " What s happening in South Korea these days? " cried citizens online afterwards - dazed by back-to-back stabbings in a nation known otherwise for low rates of violent Crime...
EY: Gold, drug money and a major auditor's 'cover-up'
Auditor Amjad Rihan says EY covered up transactions that were "way Beyond Suspicion "
A major accountancy firm covered up evidence of smuggling by an organised Crime Gang that was laundering British drug money, an investigation has revealed.
EY failed to report suspicious activity at one of The World 's largest gold refineries And Then altered a compliance report to hide The Crime .
BBC Panorama found The Gang laundered money by selling 3. 6 tonnes of gold to the Kaloti refinery in Dubai .
Both EY and Kaloti deny any wrongdoing.
Twenty-seven members of the Money Laundering Gang were jailed in France in 2017.
The Gang had collected cash from drug dealers in the UK and other European countries. They then laundered the Dirty Money by buying and selling black market gold.
Documents seen by Panorama and French news agency Premieres Lignes show that Renade International - a company owned by a member of the Money Laundering Gang - Sold $146m (£114m) of gold to Kaloti in 2012 alone.
The Following year the accountancy firm EY, formerly known as Ernst and Young, had been asked to conduct a review of Kaloti's compliance with rules designed to keep gold from illegitimate sources out of the global supply chain.
Smuggled goldThe auditors discovered that Kaloti had paid out a total of $5. 2bn (£4bn) in cash in 2012, but EY didn't report suspicious activity to the Money Laundering authorities.
EY also helped to cover up A Crime - the export to Dubai of gold bars that had been disguised as Silver to avoid export limits on gold.
The audit team had been shown what appeared to be bars of Silver from Morocco, but scratching The Surface revealed they were really gold bars coated Silver .
The BBC and Premieres Lignes have now discovered the smuggled gold was owned by the Money Laundering Gang 's company, Renade International.
Amjad Rihan was The Lead auditor for EY in Dubai in 2013 and he says he wanted to report the suspicious activity at the time. But he says his bosses watered down reports and told him not to tell The Authorities .
"If you identify a suspicious transaction you should report it to The Authorities and what we identified was way Beyond Suspicion . Instead of reporting the crimes that I told them about, my bosses just covered them up," he said.
EY did not just fail to report The Crime - it helped to cover it up too.
Panorama has seen A Number of drafts of a compliance report to a Dubai regulator. In the initial report, Kaloti seems to admit buying gold coated with Silver . It says: "We acknowledge an incident… with the bars coated with Silver . "
Suspicious activityBut EY rewrote The Report so that it said: "We acknowledge transactions. . in which there were certain documentary irregularities. "
The accountancy firm turned The Crime into a "documentary irregularity".
EY declined to comment about the rewriting of The Report but said it was confident that all legal and reporting obligations had been complied with. The Company said it had delivered its findings to the relevant regulator in Dubai .
The Gang bought and Sold black market gold to launder profits from the drug tradeThe Company said: "It was The Work of EY Dubai that brought to light Kaloti's non-compliance with the applicable regulations and ultimately resulted in the remediation of the issues.
"More recently, and many years after these events, Mr Rihan has raised certain unfounded allegations in a legal claim which is being vigorously defended. "
Under the Proceeds of Crime Act, accountants have a legal duty to report any suspicious activity to The Police .
In its legal dispute with Mr Rihan, EY admits that the disguised gold "provided reasonable grounds for knowing or suspecting… Money Laundering . "
'Appropriate checks'But the accountancy firm claims it did not have to report this to The Police because its auditors were not doing accountancy work at Kaloti.
Kaloti said that it had conducted all Appropriate anti-Money Laundering checks.
"Kaloti would not knowingly enter into a trading relationship with any party in the knowledge that such party had been engaged in financial impropriety or criminal activity of any kind.
"It is categorically denied that Kaloti purchased gold coated in Silver from Renade, or anyone else for that matter. "
The Company said that cash payments were common in Dubai , but it no longer buys gold for cash.
Panorama: is on BBC1 at 20:30 GMT on 28 October .
money laundering, gold, drugs trade
Source of news: bbc.com
Crime Photos
