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Two directors of dealerships selling mobile phone products and services for agents such as Phones 4 U were sentenced today for abusing the introductory sales commission system. Jonathan Shulton and James Cahill, who pleaded guilty to fraudulent trading, were sentenced at Southwark Crown Court to two years, three months imprisonment and to 240 hours Community Punishment Order respectively.
The Serious Fraud Office is consulting some of the biggest legal and accountancy firms in the world to ask them to help identify frauds in the wake of the credit crunch. At the same time the SFO is reaching out to City workers to see if they have an inside track when it comes to early fraud detection.
Major insurance companies were defrauded by an independent financial advisor (IFA) into paying over £1 million in up-front commissions on fake policies a trial verdict confirmed today. Philip Bates (d.
The final confiscation order was made today in the Cheney Pension Fund fraud. Ian Selby ordered to pay over £415,000. Orders against Kevin Sykes (£90,000) and Simon Maya (£1.46 million) were made earlier this year.
Today, the Court of Appeal refused leave to the Serious Fraud Office to appeal against an earlier ruling in a case alleging drugs price fixing known as Operation Holbein. This means that the prosecution comes to an end.
In an investigation into complaints about failure by companies to supply at least 4,000 tickets for events such as the Beijing Olympics and music festivals in the UK, four addresses in the London area were searched yesterday by Serious Fraud Office investigators and officers of the Metropolitan Police Service.
Richard Alderman, Director of the Serious Fraud Office, has announced that the SFO is reallocating more resources to combat overseas corruption. He was speaking at an Anti-Corruption and Bribery conference in London today, where he told delegates that the SFO would be increasing the number of investigators it has on anti-corruption work from 65 to around 100 - an increase of over 50 percent.
Proceedings have been brought against two former directors and a former employee of Alfred McAlpine Slate Ltd ("Welsh Slate"), a subsidiary of Alfred McAlpine plc. Following a joint investigation by the Serious Fraud Office and North Wales Police, the following persons have this week been charged with fraudulent trading.
As fraud across the world is expected to rise in the wake of the credit crunch - the Director of the Serious Fraud Office, Richard Alderman, has announced that he is to visit Washington and New York to discuss closer ways of working with his US counterparts.
Nigel Heath, a former solicitor from Olney near Milton Keynes, was sentenced today for conspiring with others to corruptly give to the Attorney General of the USA or other US government law enforcement officers, $500,000 to lift a freezing order over bank accounts containing investor money obtained through a Ponzi-Fraud.
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