Category Archives: News Releases

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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.

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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.