In April 2015, the UK Bribery Act (UKBA) celebrated its fifth birthday. In the same month, the Serious Fraud Office brought a third round of corruption charges under the UKBA in the Alstom case. Those allegations, brought against Alstom Network UK and one of its former employees, add to the expanding case against multiple UK […]

Britain’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) charged a UK subsidiary of Paris-listed French engineering group Alstom with four further criminal offences of corruption and conspiracy to corrupt in a drawn-out investigation that has swung to Hungary. The SFO, which has already charged two UK-based Alstom units and four former employees with alleged corruption in India, Poland, Tunisia […]

British prosecutors are investigating whether subsidiaries of Alstom, the French power and transport company at the centre of an international corruption inquiry, committed offences in Hungary, a London court heard on Wednesday. The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has already charged two UK-based Alstom subsidiaries and four former employees with corruption, alleging they disguised bribes as […]