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<p>Official data regarding prosecutions are held by the Ministry of Justice, but the
department does not record it in a form which allows it to distinguish between overseas
bribery and domestic bribery.</p><p> </p><p>Whilst not official data, the Crown Prosecution
Service (CPS) and the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) record data for their own management
information purposes. In the last five years, the SFO has successfully prosecuted
three British companies and 10 individuals, nine of whom were British citizens, for
bribery or corruption overseas (offences under the Bribery Act 2010 or the Prevention
of Corruption Act 1906).</p><p> </p><p>In addition to this the SFO has secured three
Deferred Prosecution Agreements with British companies in the past two years for overseas
corruption offences. The first agreement included a financial penalty of $25m, plus
SFO’s full costs; the second resulted in financial orders of £6.6m and the most recent
one was for £497.25m plus interest, as well as a payment of the SFO’s full costs.</p><p>
</p><p>CPS’s data measures the outcome of prosecutions against defendants but not
on the outcome against individual offences. This information could only be obtained
by examining CPS case files, which would incur disproportionate cost.</p>
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