SFO dealt blow after second Unaoil conviction overturned
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Neil Hodge2022-03-25T16:39:00
The U.K. Serious Fraud Office was dealt another blow after Paul Bond, a former sales manager at Dutch energy services company SBM Offshore, had his 42-month jail sentence overturned because the agency failed to disclose vital evidence in its Unaoil case.
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