UK PRINTERS FINED GBP2.2 MILLION OVER AFRICA CORRUPTION
January 1st, 2016
A UK court has fined British printing company Smith & Ouzman Ltd GBP2.2 million over corruption offences involving contracts for security documents, such as ballot papers and exam certificates, in Kenya and Mauritania. The fines, handed down in a January 8, sentencing hearing at Southwark Crown Court, follow a four-year investigation by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) into a total GBP395,074 in corrupt payments to public officials for the contracts. This is the first fine and confiscation for 2016 in an SFO lawsuit, following a December 2014 ruling also at ...
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