UK SERIOUS FRAUD OFFICE FINED OVER MAJOR SECURITY BREACH
March 8th, 2015
The UK confidentiality watchdog, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), has fined the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) GBP180,000 after evidence in a high-profile fraud, bribery and corruption case was sent to a witness.The SFO had been investigating allegations that senior executives at BAE Systems had received payments in an arms deal with Saudi Arabia. Returning evidence after the case closed in February 2010, the SFO wrongly sent 407 bags of confidential documents, such as bank statements, to a witness in the case between November 2011 and February 2013. An ...
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