Serious Fraud Office
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Hugh Muir's diary...from the Cabinet Office; four from the Ministry of Defence; three from the Foreign Office. One each from the Northern Ireland Office, the Serious Fraud Office, Government Communications Headquarters, and the Department for International... In this article: Tony Blair, Steve Scott, Nicolas Sarkozy, EU, Birmingham, Recession, Inflation, and Serious Fraud Office |
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Guardian | 12 hours ago
British lawyer laundered bribes to Nigeria, court told
...US if sent there and convicted. He claims extradition would be unfair because he might also face prosecution in Britain, where the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has been conducting its own prolonged investigation. Tesler, who is claimed to...
In this article: United States, Nigeria, London, Britain, Bribery, Halliburton, and Liquefied natural gas
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Sydney Morning Herald - Business | 3 days ago
Police raids in RBA probe
...auditor KPMG to conduct a case-by-base review of the company's agreements with agents. The Age can also reveal that Britain's Serious Fraud Office has become involved in the investigation. Two of Securency's leading sales executives...
In this article: KPMG, Polymer, Australia, Tax, and Reserve Bank of Australia
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Guardian | 5 days ago
Judge allows secret services to hide evidence in civil lawsuits
...his recent privacy action against the News of the World. Here we trace his life in pictures 7 Jun 2007: Robert Wardle, director of the Serious Fraud Office, describes the corruption investigations into BAE going on all round the world and his...
In this article: Martin Mubanga, Defendant, UK, Max Mosley, Guantanamo, Allegation, and Detainee
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Guardian | 5 days ago
Security agencies can withhold 'secret government information' in civil cases
...government to account, particularly on the all-important issue of complicity in torture". 7 Jun 2007: Robert Wardle, director of the Serious Fraud Office, describes the corruption investigations into BAE going on all round the world and his...
In this article: Defendant, Detainee, Guantanamo Bay, UK, and Allegation
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Stuff | 7 days ago
Discharges in property case
Two men have been discharged on Serious Fraud Office (SFO) allegations of dishonesty over a multi-million dollar property deal, in a case that has spent years working its way through the court system. Christchurch District Court Judge...
In this article: Allegation, People's Republic of China, South Island, and New Zealand
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Daily Mail | November 14, 2009
Thousands of savers with Keydata to be compensated
...it became clear that money belonging to a further 5,000 savers had been invested in assets that appeared to have been lost or stolen. The Serious Fraud Office was called in. Because the crisis involved a Luxembourg-based business - one...
In this article: Tax, Revenue & Customs, Norwich & Peterborough, Icesave, and Financial Services Authority
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Telegraph.co.uk - International news | November 14, 2009
Majorcabased British financier probed by Serious Fraud Office
Majorca-based British financier probed by Serious Fraud Office To his fellow cricketers at the Majorca Cricket Club he was a charmer with the midas touch - a financial wizard who loved making his fellow British expatriates rich, and a...
In this article: Majorca, United Kingdom, Cancer, and Dow Jones Index
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Telegraph.co.uk - Business | November 12, 2009
SFO to investigate Mayfair hedge fund
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has launched a criminal investigation into a Belgravia-based hedge fund that was founded by a former academic from Imperial College London. The SFO said it has started an investigation into Dynamic Decisions...
In this article: Financial Services Authority, Allegation, Imperial College London, and Milan
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Telegraph.co.uk - Business | November 12, 2009
Merlin's Sir Chris Evans cleared by SFO
Sir Chris Evans, the larger-than-life biotech entrepreneur, was celebrating yesterday after the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) dropped a four-year investigation into alleged fraud at his venture capital firm Merlin Biosciences. The...
In this article: Venture capital, Tax, and Merrill Lynch
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Guardian | November 12, 2009
Serious Fraud Office probes hedge fund
...Fraud Office investigates hedge fund SFO launches criminal inquiry into Kensington-based Dynamic Decisions Capital Management The Serious Fraud Office has launched a criminal investigation into a London-based hedge fund that collapsed...
In this article: Grant Thornton, Kensington, Legal advice, Allegation, Credit crunch, and London
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The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is an arm of the Government of the United Kingdom, accountable to the Attorney-General. Established by the Criminal Justice Act 1987, the Serious Fraud Office is responsible for the investigation and prosecution of suspected cases of serious or complex fraud where £1 million or more are involved or covers more than one national jurisdiction, though it is rare for cases involving less than £1 million to be taken. It has jurisdiction over England and Wales and Northern Ireland but not Scotland, the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands, though the Serious Fraud Office's compulsory information powers contained in section 2 of the Criminal Justice Act 1987 do so under invitation from the relevant prosecuting body.
The SFO was established in 1988 after the Roskill Report recommended that this specialist duty be taken away from normal police forces and the Crown Prosecution Service. The report came in the wake of several failed prosecutions
The Director is Richard Alderman, a former prosecuting lawyer at the Inland Revenue, and later head of Special Civil Investigations at HM Revenue & Customs. Mr Alderman was appointed on April 21, 2008, replacing Robert Wardle.
- Name:
- Serious Fraud Office
- Location Country:
- United Kingdom
- Founding Date:
- January 01, 1988
- Website:
- http://www.sfo.gov.uk/
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