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The Attorney General, the Rt. Hon. Lord Goldsmith QC, has appointed Robert Wardle to be Director of the Serious Fraud Office. Mr. Wardle will succeed the present Director, Rosalind Wright, on 21 April 2003.
Four persons appeared at City of London Magistrates Court today on charges relating to the unlawful use of price sensitive information. Following a joint investigation with the fraud squad of the City of London Police, the following persons have been charged with conspiracy to contravene the provisions of section 52 of the Criminal Justice Act 1993 contrary to section1 (1) of the Criminal Law Act 1977.
Henry Sweetbaum, Trefor Llewellyn and Terence Carson have been acquitted today of offences relating to the £18.3 million overstatement of company profits of the Wickes group of companies between 1994 and 1996.
Dennis Michael Cook, was sentenced yesterday at Telford Magistrates Court to an additional 5-years imprisonment for failure to comply with a confiscation order. In addition Cook received a 12 months consecutive sentence for failure to comply with a compensation order.
The Serious Fraud Office has commenced an investigation into irregular payments made by the Royal Mint Following a referral on 26 June 2002 by HM Treasury to the Serious Fraud Office, concerning irregular payments made by the Royal Mint over the period 1996 to 1999, the Director of the SFO has now authorised an investigation into the matter.
Five men and one woman have been charged following a Serious Fraud Office investigation into the laundering of 11 ½ million US dollars obtained through an allegedly fraudulent high-yield investment scheme.
20th Cambridge Symposium on Economic Crime - Putting the crooks out of business! The financial war on organised crime and terror. Speaking today at the Cambridge Symposium for specialists engaged in the study, prevention, detection and prosecution of fraud and other economic crime, SFO Director Rosalind Wright delivers her wide-ranging perspective of achievements, threats and challenges faced by law agencies.
Following his surrender today at Stroud Police Station, Patrick Charles Morris was charged with Forgery, false accounting and publishing a false statement. Background: Pursuant to a joint investigation by the SFO and the Gloucestershire Constabulary, Patrick Charles Morris, the former Finance Manager of the Milk Development Council has been charged with 1) Forgery, contrary to s.
Graham Hammond, former chairman of FCS Fund Management, was sentenced today to 8 years' imprisonment for a £10 million high yield investment fraud promoted by his company, FCS Fund Management. Graham Kenneth Hammond (45), pleaded guilty on 25 May 2002 to all twenty counts on the indictment of furnishing false information.
CPS AND SFO WELCOME FRAUD OFFENCE RECOMMENDATION Effective prosecution of various forms of fraud will become easier in future if the Government accepts a recommendation by the Law Commission to create a single general fraud offence.
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