Category Archives: News Releases

• JJB Sports PLC: Two men charged

  8th Feb 2013 | News Releases

  Sir David Jones and Stuart Jones were charged with offences relating to forgery and misleading statements made to the market by JJB Sports Plc in 2009

• South Wales coal mines fraud prosecution: Six at court

  30th Jan 2013 | News Releases

  Eric Evans, Alan Whiteley, Frances Bodman, Richard Walters, Stephen Davies QC & Leighton Humphreys were charged with conspiracy to defraud today.

• Five charged in South Wales mining sites fraud case

  24th Jan 2013 | News Releases

  Eric Evans, Alan Whiteley, Frances Bodman, Richard Walters & Leighton Humphreys have been charged with conspiracy to defraud in relation to Celtic Energy.

• Achilleas Kallakis and Alexander Williams jailed

  17th Jan 2013 | News Releases

  Achilleas Kallakis and Alexander Williams have been sentenced to seven years’ and five years’ imprisonment respectively for conspiring to defraud banks.

• Banks defrauded in £100 million bridging loan facility

  17th Jan 2013 | News Releases

  Waheed Luqman, director of Lexi Holdings PLC, has been sentenced to 7 years’ for fraud and 4 ½ years each for two counts of false accounting.

• Achilleas Kallakis and Alexander Williams guilty of defrauding banks in property financing deals

  16th Jan 2013 | News Releases

  Achilleas Kallakis and Alexander Williams have been found guilty of defrauding Allied Irish Banks through deception and forgery to obtain finance.

• Four charged in Nigerian corruption investigation

  17th Dec 2012 | News Releases

  Paul Jacobs, Bharat Sodha, Nidhi Vyas & Trevor Bruce were charged with conspiracy to corrupt in relation to the tax affairs of a Swift Group company.

• Weavering Hedge Fund: criminal charges

  14th Dec 2012 | News Releases

  Ulf Magnus Peterson, the founding director of Weavering Capital (UK) Limited, was charged with six offences in relation to an investment fraud.

• LIBOR: three arrested

  11th Dec 2012 | News Releases

  Today the Serious Fraud Office executed search warrants in connection with the investigation into the manipulation of LIBOR.

• Stockbroker jailed for “Ponzi” fraud

  5th Nov 2012 | News Releases

  Former stockbroker, Nicholas Levene, was sentenced to 13 years after pleading guilty to fraud, false accounting and obtaining a money transfer by deception.

• Asil Nadir ordered to pay £5 million

  2nd Nov 2012 | News Releases

  Asil Nadir was ordered to pay £5 million compensation to Polly Peck International Plc in respect of losses suffered by the company.

• Kaupthing Bank

  15th Oct 2012 | News Releases

  The Director of the Serious Fraud Office has discontinued the investigation into the circumstances surrounding the collapse of Icelandic bank Kaupthing hf