Serious Fraud

Business as usual or storms on the horizon? A mid-year review looking at the Serious Fraud Office’s achievements and upcoming pressure points for 2022

24th August 2022
Bribery, Corruption and SFO Investigations, Corporate Crime, Financial Crime, Insights, Matt Davies, News & Insights, Serious Fraud, Shula De Jersey
In this article Shula de Jersey and Matt Davies provide a brief mid-year update looking at what the Serious Fraud Office (“SFO”) has achieved so far this year and what is on its plate for the rest of the year.

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The Serious Fraud Office: What’s on the horizon? BCL’s Richard Sallybanks and Anoushka Warlow write for Fraud Intelligence

27th April 2022
Anoushka Warlow, Bribery, Corruption and SFO Investigations, Corporate Crime, Financial Crime, News, News & Insights, Richard Sallybanks, Serious Fraud
With the SFO operating under a shadow cast by the independent reviews being conducted by Sir David Calvert-Smith and Brian Altman QC, BCL partner Richard Sallybanks and senior associate Anoushka Warlow look at where next for the beleaguered agency.

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SFO agrees tenth Deferred Prosecution Agreement – Alex Swan writes for Fraud Intelligence

19th July 2021
Alex Swan, Bribery, Corruption and SFO Investigations, News, News & Insights, Serious Fraud
An extended version of senior associate Alex Swan’s article ‘SFO agrees tenth Deferred Prosecution Agreement – good money, but do they work?‘ has been published by Fraud Intelligence, discussing the announcement by the Serious Fraud Office that Amec Foster Wheeler Energy will pay a £103m penalty in a Deferred Prosecution Agreement to settle corruption allegations.

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Another bad day for the Serious Fraud Office – but what are the broader implications?

14th May 2021
Alex Swan, Bribery, Corruption and SFO Investigations, Insights, News & Insights, Richard Sallybanks, Serious Fraud
On 26 April the SFO’s prosecution of two former directors of Serco Geografix Ltd (“SGL”) collapsed. Unsurprisingly this case has re-ignited questions as to whether the SFO is fit for purpose, but it also shines a light – again – on the contrast between the SFO’s ability to secure lucrative Deferred Prosecution Agreements (“DPAs”) with corporate suspects and its inability to secure convictions of the individuals whose conduct underlies the DPA.

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