Bribery and Corruption

French defence giant Thales is being investigated by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) for suspected bribery and corruption.

Authorities in the UK and France said they were carrying out a joint probe into the company, which employs more than 7,000 staff in the UK.

Thales is one of the Government's key defence contractors and built hundreds of Lightweight Multirole Missiles which the UK sent to Ukraine in September.

An investigation into the construction of a hotel and conference centre owned by one of the UK’s largest trade unions has been passed to the UK Serious Fraud Office.

The four-star venue in Birmingham commissioned by Unite as a commercial venture has been valued at tens of millions of pounds below its construction cost.

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Serious Fraud Office has settled a lawsuit brought by Kazakh mining group ENRC, which accused the agency of leaking information about a corruption probe to journalists.

ENRC sued the SFO, the agency's former case controller for the ENRC probe and a former employee over alleged leaks during a decade-long criminal investigation into alleged bribery by the former FTSE 100 company. The SFO had denied the claims.

Today, six former employees of commodities giant Glencore appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court charged with conspiring to make corrupt payments to benefit their company’s oil operations in West Africa.

This is the first time that the SFO has announced charges against David Perez, for conspiring to make corrupt payments in Cameroon and the Ivory Coast.

The UK’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has charged Beard, ex-Glencore head of oil, with corruption and bribing NNPC officials.

The billionaire former head of oil at Glencore Plc, Alex Beard, has been charged with corruption by the UK’s top fraud agency, alongside four other ex-employees from the commodities trader.

https://www.arise.tv/uk-fraud-office-charges-former-glencore-billionaire-oil-chief-with-bribing-nnpc-officials/

Commissioner will work with HMRC, NCA and SFO to recover billions lost to Covid fraud

Recruitment begins for Covid corruption tsar (civilserviceworld.com)

A man wanted in relation to a multi-million pound NCA bribery investigation has been charged alongside the company of which he is a director.

Peter Virdee, 50, also known as Hardip Singh, appeared at Westminster Magistrates Court today (23 May 2024) where he was charged with bribing a foreign public official. It is alleged that between January 2015 and July 2017 he bribed Asot Michael, a Member of Parliament and Government Minister of Tourism, Economic Development Investment and Energy for Antigua and Barbuda, to benefit PV Energy Ltd, the company he is a director of.

The National Crime Agency has released new audio clips exposing bribery in action after today’s sentencing of the former Chief of Staff to the President of Madagascar and her associate, French national Philippe Tabuteau.

Romy Andrianarisoa, 47, from Madagascar, and Tabuteau, 54, were charged in August 2023 after requesting substantial sums of money in exchange for their help in securing an exclusive mining joint venture with the Government of Madagascar.

https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/audio-released-as-former-chief-of-staff-to-madagascan-president-sentenced

LONDON (Reuters) - The UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) said on Thursday it had secured just under 1.2 million pounds ($1.6 million) from a Brazilian national implicated in Brazil's "Operation Car Wash", the country's biggest bribery investigation that began in 2014.

https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/finance/news/british-fraud-office-secures-assets-155510257.html

Jeffrey Cook has been ordered to pay back a six-figure sum.

A former Ministry of Defence civil servant was jailed for 30 months at Southwark Crown Court on Friday, after being convicted of misconduct in public office last month.

He was also handed a confiscation order to pay £123,813.06 within three months.

https://www.civilserviceworld.com//professions/article/exmod-official-sent-to-jail-for-pocketing-secret-payments