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The Director of the Serious Fraud Office has decided to discontinue the investigation into the affairs of BAE SYSTEMS Plc as far as they relate to the Al Yamamah defence contract with the government of Saudi Arabia.
The investigation into suspected fraud at the Ravenhead Company Limited, which went into administration in February 2001, has been closed for lack sufficient evidence. Following a lengthy investigation by the Serious Fraud Office, in conjunction with Merseyside Police, the SFO has decided that the evidence as a whole is insufficient to justify a prosecution.
Today at Southwark Crown Court Barry George Williamson was acquitted of fraudulent trading. Williamson's co directors, Paul William Nathaniel Flint and Nicholas Furr, pleaded guilty to the same charges last year and gave evidence for the Crown at Williamson's trial.
Carlton Cushnie, former chairman and chief executive of the Versailles Group convicted in 2004 of defrauding investors in Versailles Traders Ltd/Trading Partners Ltd, has paid over £10 million in confiscation in one of the highest ever criminal confiscation orders ever satisfied.
Edward Cosgrove was sentenced at Southwark Crown Court today to 4 years' imprisonment after admitting he attempted to obtain by deception a grant of £84,000 from the Welsh Assembly Government and to raising false invoices of nearly £2 million to a trade finance firm in order to keep his ailing Deeside-based CD/DVD packaging business afloat.
Gerald Smith was sentenced today at Cambridge Crown Court to eight years' imprisonment for misappropriating over £34 million belonging to Izodia plc and to false accounting. He has also been disqualified from acting as a company director for 15 years.
Bjorn Stiedl, who was convicted in 2004 of defrauding £2 million from the pensioners of the Balfron Group, has paid over £2 million in compensation to the victims. The SFO has today authorised that the money be released to the fund trustees of the "Clarion Group Retirement and Dependants Benefits Scheme".
The remaining defendant in a case of bribery for service contracts between a Slough-based machinery maintenance firm and the confectionery company Mars sentenced at Reading Crown Court to four years' imprisonment.
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Four people have been found guilty at Reading Crown Court in a case of bribery for service contracts between a Slough-based machinery maintenance firm and Mars, the confectionary company. All four have been given custodial sentences.
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