Oral answer to question provided on Thursday, 11 March 2010 in the House of Commons, by Vera Baird (Labour), Solicitor General.
Serious Fraud Office
- Answer
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Yes, there is a relationship already between asset recovery, in a broad and not technical sense, and a premium on that, as it were, for the organisation that has recovered the assets. The issue is one that we are looking at, in order to ensure that, in the criminal sense as it were, the polluter pays.
- Question
- The SFO needs more money to investigate and prosecute bribery cases. The Solicitor-General will have seen that BAE Systems was required to pay $400 million to the US Department of Justice in relation to the al-Yamamah case. Will she consider how financial penalties paid in such cases in the UK could be used to fund the cost of enforcing the law against bribery?
Secondary information
- Type
- Oral answer to question
- Reference
- 507 c419-20
- Session
- 2009-10
- Chamber / Committee
- House of Commons chamber
- Subjects
- Corruption
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- View this Oral answer to question on www.publications.parliament.uk
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