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2020-128 – Section 2 notices over last 5 years

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Date Answered: 14 Medi 2020

Last year you issued 629 section 2 notices, according to your annual report. Over the last five years, what proportion of these notices have been associated with an investigation that has led to a prosecution, and a successful result? If any of these have involved banks, please let me know.

I can confirm that the SFO holds the information requested. The information for the last five financial years (2015/2016 to 2019/2020) is listed in the below table:

Total number of s2 notices

 

3869

 

Total number of cases

 

83

 

Total number of cases with charge and successful outcome (conviction after trial, deferred prosecution agreement or guilty plea)

 

26

 

Total number of s2 notices issued* (cases with charge / successful outcome only)

 

1150

30%

*Total number of these s2 notices issued sent to banks

 

226

20%

Please note, the 20% for s2 notices issued to banks is out of the 1150 s2 notices issued in cases with charge / successful outcome only and not the total number of all s2 notices issued during the complete timeframe.