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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Juliette Garside

UK defence firm Ultra Electronics to pay £15m after SFO bribery investigation

Pedestrians walk past the Serious Fraud Office headquarters sign in London
The SFO had been hit by the collapse of a series of high-profile cases against Serco, G4S and London Mining. Photograph: Russell Hart/Alamy

The British defence company Ultra Electronics has accepted responsibility for a failure to prevent bribery and agreed to pay £15m after an investigation by the Serious Fraud Office.

The penalties are part of a deferred prosecution approved by the high court on Friday, after an investigation opened in 2018 when the company referred itself to the UK law enforcement agency a month after corruption allegations were published by Algerian media.

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