The case against two former Tesco directors initiated by U.K. regulators earlier this year has collapsed after a judge dismissed the case due to lack of evidence, reports in the BBC said Thursday (Dec. 6). The U.K. Serious Fraud Office (SFO) unsuccessfully attempted to have...
The new director of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has stepped down from the prosecution of four former Barclays bankers over potential conflicts of interest. According to City A.M., Lisa Osofsky has handed over responsibility for the case to the SFO’s general counsel Alun Milford...
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) of the U.K. is taking a second look at one of its practices that has raised criticism in the past following a report published by the Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate (CPSI). CPSI released a report on Tuesday (May 24) that found...
February 19, 2019
During a fraud trial on Tuesday (Feb. 19), the former chairman of Barclays bank said that Qatar was “not as central” to the bank’s plans to fundraise billions in 2008, according to a report in the Financial Times. Marcus Agius was speaking during a trial of four former Barclays executives accused of lying to the […]
May 25, 2016
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) of the U.K. is taking a second look at one of its practices that has raised criticism in the past following a report published by...
