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  • Severn Trent Water to be prosecuted

    22 November 2007

    Severn Trent Water to be prosecuted The Serious Fraud Office has informed Severn Trent Water Ltd that it is to be charged with offences concerning the provision of false information to the industry regulatory body, Ofwat.

  • Izodia plc - Court orders Gerald Smith to pay £41 million

    13 November 2007

    Gerald Smith has today, at Inner London Crown Court, been ordered to pay nearly £41 million by way of confiscation and given 12 months to pay. He is currently serving eight years' imprisonment handed down in September 2006 after he admitted he had misappropriated funds belonging to Izodia plc.

  • Independent Insurance Trial: Former directors sentenced

    24 October 2007

    This announcement confirms the sentences handed down today at Southwark Crown Court in relation to the Independent Insurance trial. Michael Bright, Philip Condon and Dennis Lomas have today been sentenced to terms of imprisonment following their convictions announced yesterday.

  • Independent Insurance Group Plc: Briefing note

    23 October 2007

    Briefing note on IIC THIS DOCUMENT IS FOR INFORMATION PURPOSES ONLY PRIOR TO VERDICTS AND IS NOT TO BE PUBLISHED OR DESEMMINATED IN WHOLE OR PART IN ADVANCE OF THE VERDICTS. The defendants Michael John Bright, born 10.

  • Independent Insurance Group Plc: Former directors convicted

    23 October 2007

    Michael Bright, Philip Condon and Dennis Lomas have been found guilty of conspiracy to defraud in relation to their running of In dependent Insurance, of which they were directors. They are to be sentenced tomorrow morning.

  • Three sentenced in IKEA supplies corruption case

    11 October 2007

    A supplier and two former IKEA staff were jailed today at Birmingham Crown Court in a £1.3m bribes case to evade the retailer's purchasing limits and to obtain orders for the supply of goods. Adam Hauxwell-Smith was sentenced to three years' imprisonment.

  • SFO publishes its annual report for 2006/7

    17 July 2007

    SFO Director Robert Wardle has submitted his annual report to the Attorney General for presentation to Parliament on 17 July 2007. The report covers the period 5 April 2006 to 4 April 2007. Review of the year (pages 4 to 7 of the report): Charges of conspiracy to defraud brought against five companies and nine individuals in Operation Holbein, the pharmaceuticals price-fixing case.

  • SFO Director welcomes the OLAF annual activity report for 2006

    09 July 2007

    SFO Director Robert Wardle on the occasion of the publication today of the OLAF Activity Report for 2006 commented: "Economic crime is increasingly borderless and international cooperation in combating it is paramount.

  • BAE SYSTEMS PLC

    08 June 2007

    In today's edition of the Guardian it is reported that the Attorney General ordered British investigators to conceal from the OECD details of the investigation into BAe Systems plc concerning the Al Yamamah contract and payments made under that contract.

  • Four jailed over multi million pound fraud

    17 May 2007

    Four people including three company directors have been sentenced today at Leeds Crown Court to various terms of imprisonment for a multi million pound fraud on three financial institutions. This followed a trial of two of the defendants at Leeds Crown Court which concluded yesterday with Jury verdicts of guilty.

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