Activities
The SFO is a specialist organisation that investigates only the most serious types of economic crime. As a result a potential case must meet certain criteria before it is taken on. These criteria include whether:
- the value of the alleged fraud is more than £1 million
- there is a significant international dimension
- the case is likely to be of widespread public concern
- the requires highly specialised knowledge, for example, of financial markets
- the SFO’s special powers (such as Section 2 of the Criminal Justice Act) need to be used
Read more about this topic: Serious Fraud Office (United Kingdom)
Famous quotes containing the word activities:
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—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)
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—Aaron Ben-Ze’Ev, Israeli philosopher. “The Vindication of Gossip,” Good Gossip, University Press of Kansas (1994)
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—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)