Yearly Archives: 2016

• The role and remit of the SFO

  18th May 2016 | Speeches

  Matthew Wagstaff, Joint Head of Bribery & Corruption, speaking at the 11th Annual Information Management, Investigations Compliance eDiscovery Conference.

• Former Securency manager sentenced for corruption

  12th May 2016 | News Releases

  Peter Michael Chapman, the former manager of a polymer banknote manufacturer, Securency PTY Ltd, was today sentenced to two and a half years, at Southwark Crown Court.

• Former Securency manager convicted of corruption

  11th May 2016 | News Releases

  A former manager of a polymer banknote manufacturer, Securency PTY Ltd, was today convicted of four counts of making corrupt payments to a foreign official contrary to the Prevention of Corruption Act 1906.

• Six charged following apprenticeship scheme investigation

  4th May 2016 | News Releases

  Six men were charged in connection with a Serious Fraud Office investigation into the activity of Luis Michael Training Ltd, a company purporting to provide young people with football-based apprenticeship schemes.

• Fraudsters ordered to pay £11 million in large boiler room case

  19th Apr 2016 | News Releases

  Convicted fraudsters Jeffrey Revell-Reade and Anthony May were today ordered to pay a total of £11, 001,000 in compensation, at Southwark Crown Court.

• Tata Steel investigation

  8th Apr 2016 | News Releases

  The Serious Fraud Office confirms it opened a criminal investigation in December 2015 into activity at Speciality Steels, a business unit of Tata Steel (UK) Ltd.

• Speech to compliance professionals

  29th Mar 2016 | Speeches

  Alun Milford, SFO General Counsel, speaking to an audience of compliance professionals at the European Compliance and Ethics Institute, Prague.

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  29th Mar 2016 | News Releases

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• Further charge in Alstom investigation

  29th Mar 2016 | News Releases

  Another British national has been charged as part of the SFO’s ongoing investigation into Alstom Network UK Ltd.  Terence Stuart Watson, the Alstom Country President for the UK and Managing Director of Alstom Transport UK & Ireland, has been charged by requisition with an offence of corruption contrary to section 1 of the Prevention of […]

• Tom Hayes ordered to pay £878, 806 confiscation order

  23rd Mar 2016 | News Releases

  Tom Hayes, the first individual to be convicted after trial for the manipulation of LIBOR, has been ordered to pay a confiscation order of £878,806 today.

• Two acquitted of money laundering

  17th Mar 2016 | News Releases

  James Sutherland and Jack Flader were acquitted of a money laundering offence by a jury at Southwark Crown Court today.

• SFO closes Forex investigation

  15th Mar 2016 | Case Updates

  The Director of the Serious Fraud Office has today closed the SFO’s investigation into allegations of fraudulent conduct in the foreign exchange market.