Category Archives: News Releases

• SFO secures second DPA

  8th Jul 2016 | News Releases

  The Serious Fraud Office’s second application for a Deferred Prosecution Agreement was today approved by Lord Justice Leveson at Southwark Crown Court, sitting at the Royal Courts of Justice.

• SFO applies for its second Deferred Prosecution Agreement

  7th Jul 2016 | Case Updates

  At a public hearing tomorrow, 8 July 2016, the Serious Fraud Office will apply for final approval of a DPA with a UK SME which cannot currently be named.

• Convicted LIBOR manipulators sentenced

  7th Jul 2016 | News Releases

  Four former Barclays Bank plc employees have been sentenced to a total of 17 years in prison following their convictions manipulating US Dollar LIBOR.

• SFO to seek retrial of two former LIBOR traders

  6th Jul 2016 | Case Updates

  The SFO has today announced that it is seeking a retrial of Stylianos Contogoulas and Ryan Michael Reich.

• LIBOR traders and submitters found guilty

  4th Jul 2016 | News Releases

  Three former employees of Barclays Bank plc have been convicted of conspiracy to defraud in connection with an investigation into the manipulation of LIBOR.

• Arck LLP fraudsters ordered to pay £562,766

  17th Jun 2016 | News Releases

  Richard Clay and Kathryn Clark, convicted of fraud and forgery charges last year, have been ordered to pay a total of £562,766.07.

• Ponzi fraudsters sentenced to a total of 21 years

  24th May 2016 | News Releases

  Three fraudsters who took almost £80m from London investors were sentenced to a total of nearly 21 years, at Southwark Crown Court today.

• 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.