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Revealed: SFO records £2.1m spend on Forex investigation

Legal Business
Legal Business · 7 June 2016 · 2 min read
Legal affairs Regulatory

External legal spend hits £330k on dropped inquiry

Having closed its investigation earlier this year due to ‘lack of evidence’, it has emerged that the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) spent £2.1m investigating alleged rigging of the foreign exchange (forex) market in less than two years.

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