SFO

abbreviation

1. Serious Fraud Office: the department of the British government which investigates cases of serious financial fraud

Example Sentences

Investors say they were passed between the Metropolitan Police and the SFO, until the SFO eventually said it was not a complex-enough case for it to take on.

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The liquidator says he is not allowed to tell us whether he referred the case to the police or the SFO.

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The SFO told us it only "takes on a small number of high-level economic crime cases" each year.

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Saturday after the Delta Air Lines flight from Minneapolis landed at SFO, according to a sheriff’s news release.

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The decision comes 13 years after the SFO began investigating the practice of some traders to try to influence benchmark interest rates through Euribor and now-discontinued Libor.

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