Category Archives: News Releases
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New Economic Crime Bill includes plans to expand SFO’s investigative powers
22nd Sep 2022 | News ReleasesToday saw the first reading of the Government’s Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill. The Bill includes provisions to expand the Serious Fraud Office’s (SFO) section 2 powers, which the SFO uses to compel suspected criminals, financial institutions like banks and/or technology companies, to share information or documents in relation to a suspected crime.
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Investment manager behind £100 million no-win-no-fee fraud jailed for 14 years
11th Aug 2022 | News ReleasesFollowing a successful investigation and prosecution by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), Timothy Schools, the investment manager who used millions of pounds of investors’ money to fund his luxury lifestyle, has been sentenced to 14 years in prison, in a hearing at Southwark Crown Court today.
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Fraudulent Caribbean resorts owner convicted after SFO investigation
3rd Aug 2022 | News ReleasesThe Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has successfully convicted the individual behind a £226 million fraud involving celebrity-endorsed luxury resorts in the Caribbean.
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Convicted fraudster found to be in contempt of court
29th Jul 2022 | News ReleasesAt the High Court today, Dr Gerald Martin Smith was held in contempt of court for breaching a restraint order that prevented him from spending or accessing his assets, except in limited circumstances. He admitted a total of three separate breaches and accepted the facts as presented at court today by the SFO. Smith was […]
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Publication of Brian Altman QC and Sir David Calvert-Smith reviews
21st Jul 2022 | News ReleasesToday, comprehensive versions of the expected Brian Altman QC review into the collapse of the R v Woods and Marshall trial and Sir David Calvert-Smith’s review into the SFO’s handling of the Unaoil investigation, have been published.
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Serious Fraud Office secures Glencore conviction on seven counts of international bribery
21st Jun 2022 | News ReleasesGlencore Energy (UK) Ltd has today been convicted on all charges of bribery brought against it by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO). At Southwark Crown Court, the company admitted to multiple counts of paying bribes to secure access to oil and generate illicit profit.
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Fraudulent duo each sentenced to 11 years’ imprisonment after successful SFO prosecution
15th Jun 2022 | News ReleasesFollowing the SFO’s successful investigation and prosecution, Andrew Nathaniel Skeene (44) and Junie Conrad Omari Bowers (45) were today sentenced at Southwark Crown Court to 11 years’ imprisonment.
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Serious Fraud Office welcomes two new non-executive directors
1st Jun 2022 | News ReleasesThe Serious Fraud Office is today announcing the appointment of two new board members, Claire Bassett and James Thomson. Claire takes up her new post today (1 June) and James will start in August. Both are initially appointed to serve a three year term.
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First SFO trial of 2022 results in double conviction
31st May 2022 | News ReleasesThe Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has today secured the convictions of the two company directors behind fraudulent green investment schemes in Brazil, which took in approximately £37 million of investments.
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Second fraudster jailed over fake investment scheme
27th May 2022 | News ReleasesThe Serious Fraud Office (SFO) can confirm the imprisonment of a convicted fraudster who conned investors out of £72.5 million with false claims of supplying services to the London Olympic Village.
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Serious Fraud Office charges Glencore with seven counts of bribery
24th May 2022 | News ReleasesThe Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has charged Glencore Energy (UK) Ltd with seven counts of bribery in connection with its oil operations.
At a hearing at Westminster Magistrates’ Court today, the company indicated it will plead guilty to all charges.
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Serious Fraud Office recovers almost £600k from bank accounts of former Petrofac fixer
29th Apr 2022 | News ReleasesThe Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has recovered £567,466.53 from personal bank accounts linked to a former fixer for the Petrofac group.