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 […]

On 23 October Smith & Ouzman Limited, a UK based printing company, appeared in court on charges brought by the Serious Fraud Office (“SFO“). The charges relate to allegations of agreeing to make payments totalling nearly half a million pounds, contrary to section 1 of the Prevention of Corruption Act 1906. It is alleged that […]