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<p>In its role as a specialist law enforcement agency tackling the top level of serious
or complex fraud, bribery and corruption, the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is prosecuting
eight cases within the 2022-23 financial year. These involve more than 20 individuals,
charged with criminality worth over £550m.</p><p> </p><p>Given this specialist role,
as well as the scale and complexity of the cases it takes on, the focus of the SFO
is less on increasing the number of cases it takes on, but rather increasing its capacity
through the use of technology, reducing manual errors and delivering this year’s trials
effectively.</p><p> </p><p>Driving this, the SFO received a funding uplift in the
2021 Spending Review which included £4.4m over three years to invest in technology.
This will complement the wider work that it is doing to reduce case lengths and ensure
the tools it uses to investigate and prosecute fraudsters match the evolving methods
used by these criminals.</p>
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