A Botched Bribery Case Prompts Calls for SFO Reform
- Serious Fraud Office suffered “litany of disasters”: lawyer
- U.K. fraud cops accused of focusing on deals over prosecutions
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A London ruling that heavily criticized the behavior of the country’s top fraud cops capped a tough year for the Serious Fraud Office that saw prosecutions crumble and a conviction quashed.
The decision, which overturned a long-fought for guilty verdict in the Unaoil investigation, lambasted the agency for its inappropriate relations with a U.S. fixer that triggered a review into its conduct from the U.K.’s most senior lawyer and led to calls for the agency’s head to resign.