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Nick Kochan

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Nick Kochan is a journalist and author of books on economic crime including ‘Corruption: The New Corporate Challenge’.

Peter Hain has joined forces with Shirreff

Shirreff and Hain join forces as consultants

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Companies supplying NHS could cost £1bn a year in fraud

Legendary: Barack Obama has stayed at the King David Hotel in Israel, which was built in 1931

The King David Hotel gives precious work to Palestinians - unless

Cherie Blair at the launch of the Vodafone Connected Women report in Delhi in July last year

From the Bar to a seat on the Renault board: how Cherie Booth’s

Simandou, one of the world's richest undeveloped mineral deposits

The corruption deal of the century: How Guinea lost billions of pounds

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Business Analysis & Features

Diezani Alison-Madueke: The woman working to clean up Africa's dirty

Standard and Chartered has been accused by American financial investigators of making billions of pounds worth of transactions with the Iranian regime

These fines for HSBC, Standard Chartered and LLoyds prove there's one

David Green, a commercial barrister, is said to 'relish a fight'

Business Analysis & Features

Fraud squad's new bruiser

David Green, a commercial barrister, is said to 'relish a fight'

Business Analysis & Features

Fraud squad's new bruiser