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BREAKING: Serco Execs Acquitted After SFO Evidence Errors

ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Serco Former Execs Acquitted After SFO Evidence Errors Law360, London (April 26, 2021, 11:36 AM BST) Two former Serco Group PLC executives were acquitted of fraud charges on Monday after the Serious Fraud Office s case collapsed a third of the way through the trial as it emerged the white-collar watchdog had failed to disclose evidence to the defense. Two former execs of outsourcer Serco have been acquitted at Southwark Crown Court after the Serious Fraud Office failed to disclose evidence to the defense. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali.) Judge Amanda Tipples instructed the Southwark Crown Court jury to deliver not guilty verdicts on all charges against Simon Marshall, Serco s former operations director of field services, and Nicholas Woods, the former.

Serco tagging trial falls through after SFO declines to offer evidence

Serco tagging trial falls through after SFO declines to offer evidence Serco tagging trial falls through after SFO declines to offer evidence Two former Serco executives have been cleared of defrauding the Ministry of Justice after the SFO declined to offer evidence. The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) brought claims against Nicholas Woods and Simon Marshall, who were accused of “defrauding the taxpayer” by concealing £12m in profits related to an electronic tagging contract for offenders. Today a court dismissed the SFO’s plea to adjourn the hearing after it uncovered errors made with disclosures it had made in the case.

SFO under fire as tagging prosecution thrown out

By Michael Cross2021-04-26T13:46:00+01:00 The high-profile prosecution of two former directors of outsourcing giant Serco collapsed today when a judge at Southwark Crown Court directed a jury to acquit following admissions of disclosure failings by the Serious Fraud Office. Nicholas Wood and Simon Marshall had been accused of defrauding the government out of £12m by understating the profitability of Serco s prisoner-tagging contract. The matter was the subject of In a statement, the SFO said that a prosecution review of its disclosure process uncovered errors made in the non-disclosure of certain materials . Mrs Justice Tipples rejected a request for an adjournment to remedy the position so that it could pursue a retrial, saying this was not in the public interest. The judge also pointed to what she called real concerns in relation to the nature of the prosecution case . 

Trial of former Serco executives collapses as SFO fails to disclose evidence

The trial of two former executives at Serco has collapsed after the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) failed to disclose evidence to the defendants, in a major blow to the UK’s anti-corruption agency. A judge at Southwark crown court on Monday instructed jurors to return a verdict of not guilty for Nicholas Woods and Simon Marshall, two former directors of the Serco subsidiary Serco Geografix Ltd, after the SFO offered no evidence following its identification of its error. The executives had been charged with using fraud and false accounting to artificially reduce Serco’s profit margins on a contract for the electronic monitoring of offenders on behalf of the Ministry of Justice.

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