Yearly Archives: 2016

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  25th Feb 2016 | News Releases

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• Sweett Group PLC sentenced and ordered to pay £2.25 million after Bribery Act conviction

  19th Feb 2016 | News Releases

  Sweett Group PLC was today sentenced and ordered to pay £2.25 million as a result of a conviction arising from a Serious Fraud Office investigation.

• David Green’s contract extended by two years

  9th Feb 2016 | News Releases

  The Attorney General has today announced a two year extension to David Green’s contract as Director of the SFO.

• Guilty verdicts in £45m investment fraud scheme

  8th Feb 2016 | News Releases

  At Southwark Crown Court today two men were convicted of a conspiracy to defraud investors in a London-based Ponzi fraud scheme.

• Two convicted fraudsters returned to prison

  4th Feb 2016 | News Releases

  Shinder Gangar and Alan White convicted of fraud offences in an SFO prosecution were sent back to prison today for failure to pay their confiscation orders.

• Fugitive fraudster extradited to UK

  3rd Feb 2016 | News Releases

  A company director convicted and sentenced as a result of a joint Serious Fraud Office and Greater Manchester Police investigation has been extradited from South Africa to serve his sentence.

• LIBOR defendants acquitted (update)

  29th Jan 2016 | News Releases

  A sixth defendant has been found not guilty of conspiracy to defraud in connection with the SFO’s ongoing criminal investigation into the manipulation of LIBOR by a jury at Southwark Crown Court.

• Landmark High Court win for the SFO

  28th Jan 2016 | News Releases

  The High Court yesterday ruled in favour of the SFO over the way it handles the identification of material potentially subject to Legal Professional Privilege (LPP).

• LIBOR defendants acquitted

  27th Jan 2016 | News Releases

  Five individuals have been found not guilty of conspiracy to defraud in connection with the SFO’s ongoing criminal investigation into the manipulation of LIBOR by a jury at Southwark Crown Court today.

• New SFO website

  27th Jan 2016 | News Releases

  The SFO has replaced its website, both to update the platform and to better reflect the current organisation.

• Convicted printing company sentenced and ordered to pay £2.2 million

  8th Jan 2016 | News Releases

  UK printing company Smith and Ouzman Ltd, convicted of making corrupt payments, was today ordered to pay a total of £2.2 million in a sentencing hearing at Southwark Crown Court.