Financial Crime Financial Crime

Halted ABB probe saw UK's SFO pour in 1,400 hours of investigation

By Martin Coyle
  • 15 Jun 2020 11:59
  • 16 Jun 2020 05:35
A UK corruption probe into ABB, dropped last month, saw the Serious Fraud Office conduct 15 interviews and 1,411 hours of investigation, MLex has been told.

The figures came in response to a Freedom of Information request made by MLex in which the fraud agency also said it had issued 17 sec

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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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