Fraud: Prosecutions

(asked on 22nd February 2022) - View Source

Question to the Attorney General:

To ask the Attorney General, how many Deferred Prosecution Agreements the Serious Fraud Office signed between 25 April and 31 December 2013.


Answered by
Alex Chalk Portrait
Alex Chalk
Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice
This question was answered on 2nd March 2022

Between the 25th of April and the 31st of December 2013, no Deferred Prosecution Agreements (DPAs) were signed by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), as DPAs were only introduced on 24th of February 2014, under the provisions of Schedule 17 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013. Since then, the SFO has entered into a total of 12 DPAs.

During the period of the 25th of April 2013 and the 13th of December 2013, 9 SFO led prosecutions resulted in a conviction. All of these were brought against individuals. There were no prosecutions brought against corporate entities during this period.

Detailed information regarding SFO prosecutions and DPAs can be found on their website: https://www.sfo.gov.uk/.

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