At the Cambridge Symposium on Economic Crime at Jesus College Tuesday, David Green QC, the Director of the Serious Fraud Office, described what he called a cross section of the SFO’s current caseload. It was Green’s third presentation to the Cambridge Symposium as director of the SFO. The cases were said to represent “the top tier of fraud and bribery work”, many of which concerned blue chip UK companies, and many of which are very large and require “resilience and focus” from the investigations team. The cross section included:
- Libor
- Forex
- Barclays/Qatar
- Rolls Royce
- GlaxoSmithKline
- G4S and Serco
- GPT
- Alstom
- The Sweett Group
- Ukrainian old regime politician (ongoing money laundering investigation)
David Green noted that:
- the Weavering Capital trial is scheduled for October and
- the first LIBOR trial for January, and
- that as of the date of the speech there were 37 defendants awaiting trial in the 12 cases.
These were also cases which “might prove suitable” for the SFO’s first Deferred Prosecution Agreement. A copy of the speech is available here. http://bit.ly/1lI5Lk7
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