What connects 30,000 civil servants in Mozambique, 25,000 in Cameroon, 16,000 in Tanzania and 12,000 in Kenya? Just one thing: they did not exist. Over the last five years, all such groupings were identified as fraudulently sitting on the assorted government payrolls and accounting for millions of dollars in deliberate or mistaken lost revenue. These […]
The legacy of Boris Johnson will not be found in the getting done of Brexit (for such a thing is impossible), nor will it ultimately be in the ‘world-beating’ track and trace system and VIP contract lane. It will not even be in the litany of crude insults, inadequacies and irregularities that have become the
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Late last year, South Korea reinforced a strategy borne from fighting the pandemic: untact. This is, in brief, minimising all unnecessary interactive barriers to human society and economic growth. For instance: creating a full spectrum of contactless service industries, and looking at running increasingly numerous aspects of daily life in the digital arena or even
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There is trouble looming along the bordering countries with Russia. Well, that is to say there is more trouble to be expected. Eastern Ukraine has been engaged in conflict with Russian-backed separatist forces since the annexation of Crimea in March 2014. The animosity between the two nations is higher than ever and there are some
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The past two pandemic-afflicted years have seen coronavirus dominate the news agenda, and what would in typical times be headline news, relegated off the front page. As the world prepares to enter the third year of uncertainty, now more than ever must the key events be treated with appropriate gravity; as they will contribute towards
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If a tree falls in the forest and nobody hears it, does it make a sound? Or to put it in more modern terms, if a cryptocurrency partnership deal collapses because there was nobody on the other end, did you really have a deal? This curious eventuality happened to Manchester City FC last month, when
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Due Diligence and the Legal Sector: A Changing Environment By KCS Group Europe & Squire Patton Boggs The nature, role and importance of due diligence has fluctuated over time. Around 500 years ago, when the phrase first entered common use, it was defined only as “requisite effort” in a business transaction, which is very
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