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SFO has frozen £10,865.76 in Bitcoin and  £289.30 in USDC (value at the time of freezing) in cryptocurrency belonging to Arena TV's CEO, Richard Yeowart.
Factsheets giving details of the different measures contained in the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act.
The SFO Annual Report and Accounts for 2024-25 have been laid before Parliament today.
The SFO traces, restrains and recovers the proceeds of complex economic crime, including fraud, bribery and corruption.
The SFO today searched five properties and made three arrests as it announced a new multi-million pound international bribery investigation.
The SFO launched an investigation into suspected fraud at Safe Hands Plans Limited and its parent company SHP Capital Holdings Limited in 2022.
The SFO announced a bribery investigation into Blu-3 and former associates of the global construction firm Mace Group in April 2025.
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