Blake books
13 September 2012
Case law suggests that employers can reclaim profits made corruptly by staff, although successes are likely to be rare. Graham Fuller assesses the impact of the key judgments
George Blake, the famous double agent, was employed by the British security services. During the 1950s, he also worked for their Soviet Union counterparts and in 1961 he was sentenced to 42 years’ imprisonment for his treachery.
In 1966, he cut his time in prison to five years by escaping from Wormwood Scrubs prison and fleeing to Moscow, and in 1990, his...