SFO’s woeful record undermines the rule of law
29 March 2023
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Fraud Focus quoted in The Times of Scotland
Fraud Focus: Is the Serious Fraud Office fit for purpose?, a new paper by IEA Academic and Research Director James Forder has been referenced in The Times of Scotland.
The piece said:
“Since the Serious Fraud Office brought in deferred prosecution agreements in 2013, it’s raked in hundreds of millions of pounds… But the Institute of Economic Affairs makes a neat point: ‘There have not been any successful prosecutions of individuals relating to the nine cases in which corporate entities have been given DPAs’ (report, page 45).
“Obvious question: given the SFO’s pitiful prosecution success rate, why do companies pay up?”
The full article can be read on page 39 of The Scottish Times (28/03/2023).
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