Archifau Blynyddol:2019

• SFO charges second individual in relation to Global Forestry Investments investigation

  31st Gor 2019 | Case Updates

  Omari Bowers, a former director of Global Forestry Investments, has been charged with conspiracy to defraud, forgery, and misconduct in the course of winding up. He is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates Court on 2 August 2019.

• John Venskus ordered to pay £410k confiscation order

  23rd Gor 2019 | Case Updates

  John Venskus was ordered by His Honour Judge Beddoe to pay a £410,786.14 confiscation order on 22 July at Southwark Crown Court.

• De La Rue plc

  23rd Gor 2019 | Case Updates

  The SFO confirms it has opened an investigation into the activities of the De La Rue group and its associated persons in relation to suspected corruption in South Sudan.

• SFO Annual Report and Accounts 2018-2019

  22nd Gor 2019 | Datganiadau

  The SFO Annual Report and Accounts 2018-2019 was today laid before Parliament.

• Sanjay Bhandari and Magnus Falk join the SFO as Non-Executive Directors

  22nd Gor 2019 | Eitemau newyddion

  The Serious Fraud Office has appointed Sanjay Bhandari and Magnus Falk to join its Board as non-executive directors.

• Former Unaoil executive pleads guilty to conspiracy to give corrupt payments

  19th Gor 2019 | Case Updates

  Basil Al Jarah, Unaoil’s former partner in Iraq, pleaded guilty on 15 July 2019 to five offences of conspiracy to give corrupt payments in connection with the SFO’s investigation into Unaoil.

• Three individuals acquitted as SFO confirms DPA with Sarclad

  16th Gor 2019 | Case Updates

  Michael Sorby, Adrian Leek and David Justice were today acquitted after a jury found the three men not guilty of conspiring with various agents to agree bribes in relation to 27 separate overseas contracts for their company, Sarclad Ltd.

• SFO charges former director of Global Forestry Investments

  9th Gor 2019 | Case Updates

  The Serious Fraud Office has charged Andrew Skeene, former director of Global Forestry Investments, with conspiracy to defraud, forgery, and misconduct in the course of winding up.

• Bank trader acquitted in EURIBOR trial

  4th Gor 2019 | Case Updates

  Andreas Hauschild was today acquitted of conspiracy to defraud at Southwark Crown Court over the rigging of the Euro Interbank Offered Rate (EURIBOR).
  The former Managing Director at Deutsche Bank was found not guilty of manipulating EURIBOR at the height of the financial crisis.

• SFO completes DPA with Serco Geografix Ltd

  4th Gor 2019 | Case Updates

  The Serious Fraud Office and Serco Geografix Ltd (SGL) have today received final approval from Mr Justice William Davis to enter into a Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA).

• SFO announces DPA in principle with Serco Geografix Ltd

  3rd Gor 2019 | Case Updates

  The Serious Fraud Office announces that a Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA) with Serco Geografix Limited (SGL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Serco Group, has been approved in principle by Mr Justice William Davis.

• Former company director sentenced for £12 million bribery scheme

  27th Meh 2019 | Case Updates

  Carole Ann Hodson was sentenced today at Walsall Magistrates’ Court over a bribery scheme she operated to secure £12m worth of contracts for ALCA Fasteners Ltd, a company she owned at the time.