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The SFO encourages companies to inform it if they uncover allegations of overseas corruption within their firm in return for it taking a more lenient approach to the issue.

Guidance the SFO has issued on self-referrals states that firms that own up to potential corrupt practices are responsible for investigating their own matters “where possible”.  Companies that do not self-report are more likely to be subject to the SFO’s own criminal investigation, according to the guidance.

SFO Director Richard Alderman said that organisations that have genuinely tried to uncover information as part of their investigations will not be deemed to have been uncooperative if they failed to do so.

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EAST ST. LOUIS — Alorton street director Ronnie D. Cummings was in federal court Monday morning for an initial hearing and arraignment before Magistrate Judge Donald G. Wilkerson.

Cummings, wearing a charcoal gray shirt with light gray pin stripes in it and blue jeans, pleaded not guilty to two federal charges. He wore shackles around his waist, hands and ankles.

Cummings is charged with being a previously convicted felon in possession of firearm ammunition and making false statements to federal agents. He was represented by Adam Fein, an attorney with Scott Rosenblum’s law firm in St. Louis.

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On Tuesday, an Illinois mother was charged with a misdemeanor charge of endangering the life and health of a child and two felony counts of unlawful possession of a controlled substance.

Nicole Edwards, 31, from Cottage Hills, Illinois, was charged with after two separate investigations were performed by the Madison County Sheriff’s Office.

The first incident resulted in the aquisition of a substance suspected to be heroin from Edwards’ 11-year-old daughter on January 4, 2012.  The daughter reportedly found the capsules containing residual amounts of the substance on a dresser in their home.

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MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) – Mobile police believe Bobby Grimes, 17, is a suspect in the carjacking of a 1995 Toyota Corolla from Parklane Apartments, located off Zeigler Blvd.

Officers said the victim was home when the suspect stole her car from the parking lot, two days before Christmas.

“Bobby Grimes approached our victim with a hand gun and demanded her property. He

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“When I woke up there was a fire. I know it wasn’t anything I was doing,” Mark William Roberts said in the audio recording. During that interview, Roberts was “very specific” that the fire did not start in his apartment, but he talked “about the fire being in the living room of his apartment,” testified Mike Nance, a now-retired Tulsa Police Department homicide investigator. Nance indicated that regarding the investigation of the March 10, 2009, fire at the Royal Arms Apartments, “we began to believe the fire had started because of an explosion of a working meth lab in Apartment 210,” which is where Roberts lived. Roberts said he had been asleep on a couch in his second-floor apartment, according to Nance. Find more information…

Home Page Potential Lawsuit St. Jude Medical has issued a recall of its Riata ST (7Fr) Silicone Endocardial Defibrillation Leads, models: 7000, 7001, 7002, 7010, 7011, 7040, 7041, 7042: and Riata (8F) Silicone Endocardial Defibrillation Leads, models: 1560, 1561, 1562, 1570, 1571, 1572, 1580, 1581, 1582, 1590, 1591, 1592. The distribution dates are: June 2001 to December 31, 2010. The leads connect an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (lCD) or cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator (CRT-D) to cardiac tissue in order to monitor and regulate a patient’s heart rate by providing pacing and delivery of high voltage therapy for ventricular arrhythmias. T Find more information…

BELLEFONTAINE — Huntington Bank has offered a reward up to $5,000 to help catch bank robbery suspect Christopher Yaeger.

Bellefontaine Police charged Yaeger for the robbery of the Huntington Bank located at 201 E. Columbus Ave. in Bellefontaine.

The robbery occurred on Dec. 9, 2011. Anyone with information on Yaeger’s location is requested to contact the Bellefontaine Police Department at 937-599-1010.