Two men arrested as Serious Fraud Office investigates £21.4m cryptocurrency firm The law enforcement agency appealed for information from investors in a scheme called Basis Markets. Evening Standard · Nov 20, 2025
Probe into Thales defence group looking at Indonesian contract A French-British investigation into alleged bribery at France-based defence giant Thales is examining a contract with Indonesia, an AFP investigation has showed. Radio France Internationale · Nov 6, 2025
NFL Players from Helix H.S. (La Mesa, CA) ere’s an up-to-date list of all NFL Players from Helix High School in La Mesa, California. The list includes only SuperWest Sports · Oct 2, 2025
Large firms liable for fraud happening under their watch under new UK laws The new ‘failure to prevent fraud’ offence, which came into effect on Monday, holds large firms to account over their internal anti-fraud measures. Evening Standard · Aug 31, 2025
Rate-rigging convictions of five more bankers may be unsafe, says SFO Serious Fraud Office has assessed six more cases after supreme court quashed convictions of two traders last month The Guardian - UK · Aug 29, 2025
Banker's fraud convictions over rate rigging 'could be unsafe', officials admit after Supreme Court defeat The Serious Fraud Office has conceded several rate rigging convictions may be unsafe Evening Standard · Aug 29, 2025
‘Hopelessly insolvent’: how ‘saviour of steel’ Sanjeev Gupta’s global empire unravelled This week’s collapse of the tycoon’s Yorkshire operations brought relief for some. It echoes insolvency steps at 15 of his companies The Guardian - UK · Aug 22, 2025
Revealed: oligarchs spied on UK lawyers who ran Serious Fraud Office cases The Guardian has obtained surveillance images taken by hired spies whose goal is said to have been identifying sources and gaining ‘leverage’ The Guardian - UK · Aug 10, 2025
Tom Hayes, the UBS trader who spent 5 years in prison unjustly convicted of rigging interest rates, describes what it’s like to be vindicated Hayes’ conviction was overturned last week after the U.K. Supreme Court ruled he had not received a fair trial. Fortune · Jul 29, 2025
Passenger Died Onboard International Flight. Now Their Body Is Missing A passenger who died midflight on a trip from Turkey to the U.S. has gone missing after the plane made an unscheduled stop at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. Latin Times · Jul 24, 2025
City traders’ Libor prosecutions always had a whiff of scapegoating Case of Tom Hayes and others prompt questions about the Serious Fraud Office and the criminal appeal system The Guardian - UK · Jul 23, 2025
Traders found guilty of rigging interest rates have convictions quashed by Supreme Court Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo’s convictions are ‘unsafe’, Supreme Court justice rules The Independent UK · Jul 23, 2025
Two former traders have rate rigging convictions quashed at Supreme Court Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo were jailed for 14 years and four years respectively. Evening Standard · Jul 23, 2025
UK watchdog investigates eight years of Deloitte audits of mining firm Glencore FRC examines whether accounting firm ‘gave sufficient consideration to risk of non-compliance with laws’ The Guardian - UK · Jul 23, 2025
The Guardian - UK · Jun 3, 2025 SFO investigates alleged multimillion-pound fraud at collapsed council Thurrock council invested £100m-plus into solar farms, via a bond scheme sold by Rockfire Investment Finance
Evening Standard · Jun 3, 2025 Investigation launched into suspected fraud against debt-ridden local council Thurrock Council was left with huge debts after investing millions in solar farms between 2016 and 2020.
The Independent UK · May 28, 2025 Man charged over alleged fake plane parts scam which grounded hundreds of flights Customers included airlines, maintenance providers and parts suppliers
Tom’s Hardware · May 1, 2025 UK company allegedly paid $4m in bribes to secure Microsoft data center construction contract The UK government arrested three people connected to British companies that were involved with Microsoft's data center project in the Netherlands.
The Guardian - UK · Apr 30, 2025 Serious Fraud Office makes three arrests after dawn raids in bribery investigation Individuals at British firm Blu-3 alleged to have paid more than £3m to former associates at Mace Group construction company
Evening Standard · Mar 7, 2025 Top US lawyer faces questioning over torture allegations Arthur Newbold, former general counsel for Dechert, is to be subpoenaed about activities of its ex-head of fraud in London
The Guardian - UK · Feb 10, 2025 Asil Nadir obituary Businessman whose meteoric rise in the 1980s at the head of the Polly Peck empire ended in scandal and prosecution
Evening Standard · Dec 20, 2024 Fraud charges brought against directors of collapsed law firm Axiom Ince Axiom Ince was shut down in 2023 after an investigation by the Solicitors Regulation Authority
The Independent UK · Dec 12, 2024 Hundreds targeted in multimillion-pound bogus timeshare payback scheme Investigators believe hundreds of people could have been targeted by a scam allegedly run through 19 companies based across the UK.
Evening Standard · Nov 22, 2024 Thales denies allegations as fraud office launches probe into suspected bribery Thales, which employs more than 7,000 workers in the UK, is one of the Government’s key defence contractors.
The Guardian - UK · Nov 21, 2024 Defence firm Thales faces bribery and corruption investigation UK Serious Fraud Office and French equivalent ‘will pursue every avenue’ in allegations against Paris-based company