Serious Fraud Office receives extra budget for intelligence gathering
The Government has confirmed upwards of £8 million of investment over the next three years will be spent on strengthening the Serious Fraud Office’s (SFO) intelligence and information-gathering work and expanding the agency’s use of technology to assist with disclosure. The extra funding, which is in addition to the £9.3 million of funding announced in the […]
Should the SFO be scrapped? The IEA thinks so
The Institute of Economic Affairs has published a paper asserting the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) should be replaced with a new body dedicated to combating economic crime with greater emphasis on prevention. In the paper, the IEA says the SFO has been plagued by a series of high-profile failures, ‘including ethical misconduct and incompetence’. In […]
