Archive for June 14th 2012

New SFO Director David Green’s first public speech

“Piffle”. That was the round response of the new SFO Director, David Green, to adverse press speculation about the future of the SFO, linked to the visit by the CPS Inspectorate and current High Court litigation.

Today at the Corporate Accountability conference in London, sponsored by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, the new SFO Director set out his stall for the first time in a public speech. The SFO’s “fuzzy” role is to be refocused on “top drawer” fraud, cases which undermine confidence in UK PLC and serious corruption. It will also tackle, in the public interest, cases which other bodies are not set up to handle including those relating to new species of fraud but out go the “boiler room” frauds and other cases of less public interest significance.