Companies that discover instances of corruption within their organization face the complex and uncertain task of weighing up the potential benefits of making a voluntary selfdisclosure to prosecutors against the risk of otherwise being prosecuted.
This second DPA offers another helpful insight into the approach of the SFO and the judiciary to this developing and important area of criminal enforcement.
Charles Thomson and Henry Garfield of Baker & McKenzie LLP look at the Serious Fraud Office’s recent performance and developments in the internal and external environment in which it operates.
A new U.K. unit will investigate cases of international corruption affecting developing countries. The International Corruption Unit will merge existing investigation and intelligence units spread across several agencies, including the National Crime Agency, as well as Metropolitan and City of London police. It will be operated by the National Crime…
The SFO’s first successful prosecution of a corporate entity for bribery of foreign public officials and its first successful prosecution of individuals under the UK’s Bribery Act 2010 (the “Bribery Act”), as well as the publication of a broadly favourable report, are three recent markers of what appears to be…