by AdrianaAMLP | Nov 26, 2025
The updated guidance outlines six scenarios in which SFO may assess a company’s compliance programme — including prosecutions, deferred prosecution agreements (DPAs), monitorships, potential “adequate/ reasonable procedures” defences under anti-fraud and anti-bribery...
by AdrianaAMLP | Nov 20, 2025
The SFO, working with Metropolitan Police and West Yorkshire Police, has arrested two men on suspicion of fraud and money laundering following coordinated raids in London and West Yorkshire targeting Basis Markets, which raised funds through NFT and token sales in...
by AdrianaAMLP | Sep 9, 2025
The Unexplained Wealth Order targets a Lake District property owned by Claire Schools, purchased with proceeds from her ex-husband Timothy Schools’ £100 million investment fraud. Timothy Schools, sentenced to 14 years in 2022, admitted transferring over £1 million of...
by Jyotsna Bucktowar | Jul 24, 2025
Between 2011 and 2014, over 1,900 UK investors were allegedly misled into transferring their pensions to acquire leaseholds on storage units, lured by promises of guaranteed rental returns. According to the SFO, the defendants—Toby Whittaker, Stephen Michael Talbot,...
by Jyotsna Bucktowar | Jul 23, 2025
The updated framework agreement between the SFO and the Attorney General’s Office (AGO) introduces stronger ministerial oversight, clearer strategic controls, and enhanced governance standards designed to sharpen the accountability of the UK’s leading financial crime...
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