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ENRC ‘leaks’ case does oblige UK fraud office to request officials' personal phones, appeal court rules

By Martin Coyle
  • 19 Apr 2023 13:03
  • 19 Apr 2023 13:03
The UK's Serious Fraud Office has lost a challenge to a court order to ask 55 former and current senior officials to hand over personal devices potentially relevant to a High Court "leaks" claim brought by mining giant ENRC.
The ruling, delivered at the Court of Appeal in London yesterday,

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Martin Coyle

Senior Correspondent


Martin Coyle is a senior correspondent, based in MLex's London office, reporting daily on bribery and corruption issues in the UK and Europe. Previously he was a senior editor at Thomson Reuters where he covered anti-money laundering, financial crime and regulatory enforcement issues. Prior to that he was editor of The Accountant, the world's oldest accounting publication, and International Accounting Bulletin, a bi-monthly business journal owned by Lafferty.

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