Dossier
Serious Fraud Office
Coverage of Serious Fraud Office in the Nexus archive.
- UK defence firm Ultra Electronics to pay £15m after SFO bribery investigation
British defence company Ultra Electronics agreed to pay £15m after a Serious Fraud Office (SFO) investigation found it failed to prevent bribery in public sector contracts in Algeria and Oman. The deferred prosecution was approved by the high court in 2023, following a self-report in 2018 after corruption allegations emerged in Algerian media.
- Four people arrested over suspected £44m UK home insulation scam
Four individuals were arrested in the UK over a suspected £44m home insulation scam, with the Serious Fraud Office and National Crime Agency alleging false invoices were submitted for work not performed. The arrests followed coordinated dawn raids across England as part of an ongoing investigation into conspiracy to defraud.