SFO TAGGING FRAUD CASE AGAINST EX G4S CHIEFS COLLAPSES
March 23rd, 2023
The UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has once again failed in a high-profile prosecution after a case against three former executives of a subsidiary of security corporation G4S over a tagging contract collapsed in London’s Old Bailey court on March 10. Former managing director Richard Morris, commercial director Mark Preston and finance manager James Jardine, of G4S Care and Justice Services, had been accused of defrauding the British government between 2009 and 2012 over an electronic prisoner tagging contract. The case had been settled by a 2020 deferred ...
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