SFO OFFICIAL’S WARNING OVER COMPLIANCE DEFENCE
March 1st, 2018
Company-compliance programmes are not sufficient to act as a defence against a “failure-to-prevent” prosecution under section 7 of the UK Bribery Act, a senior Serious Fraud Office (SFO) official has told a specialist conference. Camilla de Silva, Joint Head of Bribery and Corruption at SFO told an ABC Minds Financial Services conference, London, that it will be up to the courts to decide if a company’s compliance programme “is adequate enough to form a defence under the Bribery Act,” but she added: “Since the passing of this act, we, the SFO, have ...
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