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Three men have been arrested in an investigation into a suspected fraud surrounding football-based apprenticeship schemes financed by the Skills Funding Agency. Early this morning Serious Fraud Office investigators, together with officers from four police forces (i.
Today, at Southwark Crown Court, two men and a woman have been jailed for a fraud where more than £4 million was taken from private investors through share-pushing operations based in Spain and Ireland. Another man will be sentenced at a later date. Brian O'Brien and Lynne D'Albertson controlled the operation centred around Secure Trade & Title Ltd in Sussex.
Today, David Green CB QC commences his appointment as Director of the Serious Fraud Office. At the start of his four-year term David Green said, "The SFO is here to stay. It is and will remain a key crime fighting agency targeting top-end fraud, bribery and corruption.
Two men have today appeared before Westminster Magistrates' Court in response to a summons in connection with an alleged £1 million fraud relating to contracts entered into by JJB Sports plc (JJB) in 2008. Christopher Ronnie (50) was the Chief Executive of JJB between August 2007 and March 2009.
The Serious Fraud Office reports another successful year with increased prison sentences for white collar criminals and more than £50 million pounds in assets recovered from the proceeds of crime. In its annual review of the year 2011-12 published today the SFO says that its actions have secured prison sentences averaging 55 months for each convicted fraudster, up from an average of only 30 months in 2010-11.
Sentences have been handed down today at Belfast Crown Court in a case in which corrupt payments were made to civil servants in the Ministry of Defence ("MoD") to show favour for the tendering and continuation of CCTV contracts in Northern Ireland valued at £16.
Today, the OECD has issued a report produced by its Working Group on Bribery in International Transactions. (1) In response to its publication Richard Alderman, Director of the Serious Fraud Office said, "I welcome this report and its recognition that significant efforts have been made in the UK to combat foreign bribery.
The Serious Fraud Office, the Government of Tanzania, BAE Systems and the Department for International Development (DFID) have now signed a Memorandum of Understanding enabling the payment of £29.5 million plus accrued interest to be paid by BAE Systems for educational projects in Tanzania.
Terence Lindon was today sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court to six months' imprisonment, suspended for one year, for failing to keep accounting records which were sufficient to show and explain the transactions of Invaro Ltd. The offence, in contravention of s221, Companies Act 1985 took place between 1 April 2003 and 23 June 2004.
Yesterday afternoon, convicted fraudster, Virendra Rastogi was ordered to serve a seven year default sentence at Westminster Magistrates Court. The sentence was imposed for failure to satisfy a £20M confiscation order imposed in August 2010. The confiscation order was issued following Rastogi's conviction for fraud offences, and was due to have been paid by the 5 August 2011.
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