Let’s be honest – things might have gone a bit too far. In recent years, both the mainstream and business press have frequently stuck the boot into the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) – ‘Serious Farce Office’, anyone?
It has been with good reason – there have been legitimate failings worthy of legitimate criticism. By all accounts, the agency has achieved very little since signing a near-€1bn deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) with Airbus in January 2020. But in the context of woeful government funding, the agency’s
