Category Archives: News Releases

• LIBOR: SFO to investigate

  6th Jul 2012 | News Releases

  The SFO Director David Green QC has today decided formally to accept the LIBOR matter for investigation.

• Oxford Publishing Ltd to pay almost £1.9 million as settlement after admitting unlawful conduct in its East African operations

  3rd Jul 2012 | News Releases

  The Serious Fraud Office has taken action in the High Court, which resulted in an Civil Recovery Order that Oxford Publishing Limited pay £1,895,435.

• LIBOR: Update

  2nd Jul 2012 | News Releases

  The SFO is considering whether it is both appropriate and possible to bring criminal prosecutions in regards to the recently reported issues of LIBOR.

• Innospec Ltd: Former CEO admits making corrupt payments

  11th Jun 2012 | News Releases

  Paul Jennings, Miltos Papachristos and Dennis Kerrison were charged with alleged offences of conspiring to make corrupt payments to public officials.

• SFO investigates football apprenticeship schemes

  16th May 2012 | News Releases

  Three men were arrested in an investigation into a suspected fraud relating to football-based apprenticeship schemes financed by the Skills Funding Agency.

• Offshore share sharks who duped British investors jailed

  23rd Apr 2012 | News Releases

  Brian O’Brien, Lynne D’Albertson and James Pye were jailed for a share pushing fraud where more than £4m was taken through Secure Trade & Title Ltd.

• New SFO Director David Green

  23rd Apr 2012 | News Releases

  Today, David Green CB QC commences his appointment as Director of the Serious Fraud Office.

• Two charged in JJB Sports case

  4th Apr 2012 | News Releases

  David Ball and Christopher Ronnie have been charged in connection with an alleged £1 million fraud relating to contracts entered into by JJB sports plc

• Stiffer sentences and an increase in criminal assets recovered in SFO cases

  4th Apr 2012 | News Releases

  In the annual review (2011-12) the Serious Fraud Office reports another successful year with increased prison sentences and more criminal assets recovered.