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...The SFO’s case was dismissed by a UK criminal court in 2018, but Barclays was fined £50mn last year by British regulators for failing to disclose arrangements tied to the fundraising....
...Causeway Capital Management LLC, the LA hedge fund, has declared 4.88 per cent of Micro Focus....
...This memo was “untrue, or seriously misleading”, Edward Brown QC for the SFO told the jury....
...However, it was not clear whether the SFO would also bring charges against Barclays Bank PLC. But, this morning it is - and the SFO will....
...The SFO said in a statement: The charges relate to Barclays Plc’s capital raising arrangements with Qatar Holding LLC and Challenger Universal Ltd, which took place in June and October 2008, and a $3 billion...
...The SFO said in a statement: “The charges relate to Barclays plc’s capital raising arrangements with Qatar Holding LLC and Challenger Universal Ltd, which took place in June and October 2008, and a $3bn...
...Barclays and the SFO declined to comment....
...Mr Diamond is one of several of Barclays’ former top brass to have been questioned by the SFO....
...Matthew Parker QC, for the SFO, told the hearing that the agency was “broadly on course” to make a charging decision by March 2017....
...A judge this week approved a deferred prosecution deal between a division of Tesco and the SFO, in which the supermarket will pay a £129m penalty to avoid prosecution over its 2014 accounting scandal....
...The SFO investigation could have far-reaching consequences for Airbus, in which the French and German governments are key shareholders....
...Last year, Cenkos clarified that it was not being investigated by the SFO....
...All deny wrongdoing and the SFO has not reached a charging decision. The bank must now decide how to react to both the SFO and PCP’s lawsuit....
...But the lawsuit airs publicly some of the details that the SFO is believed to have examined in private over the past three years....
...It is the bank’s fees and arrangements with Qatar that is currently the subject of the SFO probe....
...However, the size of the profit restatements — and the disclosure of an SFO investigation — caught many small investors by surprise. “Wow,” wrote one commenter on an online bulletin board....
...Under the old laws, the SFO must prove that a so-called directing mind of a company knew of and ordered bribes....
...The SFO said it could neither confirm nor deny special funding for the Barclays probe, and declined to comment further....
...(Foreign Policy) “Tri Pointe Homes, a homebuilder backed by Barry Sternlicht’s Starwood Capital Group LLC, is in advanced talks to buy Weyerhaeuser Co’s homebuilding division for about $2.7 billion, according...
...Both the SFO and GT thought £800m was missing from a Tchenquiz bet on Sainsbury, when in fact a CFD position in the grocer had simply been closed out, worthless....
...Qatar Holding, the FSA and SFO as well as Barclays all declined to comment. Sheikh Hamad – who is also the chairman of Qatar Holding – could not be reached for comment....
...Qatar Holding, the FSA and SFO as well as Barclays all declined to comment, while Challenger could not be reached for comment....
...Only one court clerk has been prosecuted under the act so far – by the Crown Prosecution Service rather than the SFO. The SFO has removed Bribery Act guidance from its website....
...EADS is in merger talks with BAE Systems, which the SFO infamously investigated over Saudi arms deals....
...The bank said on Thursday that it was the target of a fresh probe by the UK’s Serious Fraud Office, which was scrutinising “payments under certain commercial agreements between Barclays and Qatar Holding LLC...
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