SFO UNDER REVIEW AFTER UK COURT OVERTURNS CONVICTION
December 2nd, 2021
Britain’s Attorney General Suella Braverman has commissioned an independent review of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) after its failings led the Court of Appeal to quash the conviction of Ziad Akle, former territory manager in Iraq for Monaco-based, Unaoil. In July 2020 Akle was sentenced to five years prison over bribes Unaoil paid to secure Iraqi contracts for offshore mooring buoys, but appeal judges Lord Justice Holroyde, Mr Justice Jeremy Baker and Mr Justice Jay, overturned the overturned the conviction December 10. The judges ruled that the SFO’s ...
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