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  • Peter William Young

    15 December 2000

    The jury, at the hearing at Southwark Crown Court today, have returned a verdict that Peter Young is not fit to plead in the proceedings brought against him by the SFO alleging conspiracy to defraud and Financial Services Act offences.

  • 2 former directors of Powerhouse Resources Inc were convicted and sentenced today for conspiracy to defraud and theft

    05 December 2000

    At Southwark Crown Court today, former company chairman, Malcolm Richard Stone was sentenced to 4½ years imprisonment and former finance director John Rupert Mottram was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment.

  • Three jailed in a luxury car hire fraud

    30 November 2000

    Three businessmen who defrauded suppliers and clients who hired cars from their luxury car rental businesses were given prison sentences amounting to almost seven years at Luton Crown Court today.

  • FOUR JAILED IN CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY CORRUPTION CASE

    17 November 2000

    Two (former) directors of Bell Cablemedia and two executives of sub-contracting firms were sentenced today in a case of bribery for the award of contracts for the laying of television and telephone cables.

  • Sentencing of David & Cameron Ross

    10 November 2000

    David Ross was found guilty and sentenced today at Winchester Crown Court for an offence of fraudulent trading by factoring false and misleading invoice information through factoring company International Factors Ltd (IFL).

  • Ostrich farming fraud – Jack Bennett

    01 November 2000

    Jack Bennett was found guilty and sentenced today to 4 years imprisonment at Leicester Crown Court for his part in a conspiracy to defraud members of the public in relation to investing in an ostrich breeding enterprise.

  • Sentencing of Peter Foster, Foremost Bodycare Corporation Ltd.

    28 September 2000

    Peter Clarence Foster, a former senior executive of Foremost Bodycare Corporation Ltd was sentenced today at St Albans Crown Court to 33 months imprisonment (on 3 charges to run concurrently) for attempted fraud through the use of forged documents in order to secure preferential business terms.

  • Sentencing of Hardev Chaggar at Leeds Crown Court

    12 September 2000

    Travel agent, Hardev Singh Chaggar, (d.o.b 25/1/54) was sentenced today to 2 concurrent terms of 18 months imprisonment suspended for 2 years. He was disqualified from acting as a company director for 8 years.

  • £32 million fraud: former grain trader jailed

    18 August 2000

    Peter Allan Leonard, former director of Muirpace, a City based commodities firm, was sentenced today at the Central Criminal Court to 3 years 9 months imprisonment for fraud relating to grain investments.

  • SFO Annual Report published today

    20 July 2000

    The annual report of the Serious Fraud Office for 1999/2000 is to be laid before Parliament today. SFO Director Rosalind Wright introduces the report in her letter to the Attorney General by saying that the SFO, now in its thirteenth year, has become a mature and established organisation constantly refining its techniques to respond to the many and varied challenges it faces.

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