UK MPS ACCUSE SFO HEAD OF SERIOUS AND BASIC ERRORS ON UNAOIL
April 25th, 2022
A British parliamentary committee gave the director of the UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO), Lisa Osofsky, a roasting March 29 just days after the Court of Appeal quashed a second conviction in the Unaoil bribery case. Former company executive Paul Bond had challenged his March 2021 conviction after a December 10 ruling overturned that of his former colleague Ziad Akle. In both cases the judges ruled that the men had not had fair trials because the SFO had withheld key documents from the defence claiming “wholly inappropriate” contact between senior SFO ...
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