This week found me in Cambridge, at the annual International Symposium on Economic Crime, held at Jesus College.
Now in its 40th year, what began with a university don, Professor Barry Rider, bringing together a group of like-minded individuals to discuss the damage wreaked by fraud and money laundering, and how countries should work closer together to try and combat the perpetrators, has grown into a unique event.
Rider used to lecture me in law, and he allowed me to attend as an observer. My first one, in 1987, comprised 30 people – academics, lawyers, senior police officers, legislators – sitting in a room above the old college bar.
