Former FBI lawyer Lisa Osofsky is to be the next director of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO). Osofsky, an expert on money laundering, prosecuted more than 100 cases during a 30-year career. She has also worked in the private sector, including for Goldman Sachs. Robert Amaee, a former head of anti-corruption at the SFO and now partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, predicted Osofsky would steer the organisation ‘to be ever more aggressive in targeting proceeds of crime and suspected money launderers’ and would make use of ‘the new unexplained wealth orders and the upcoming public register of company beneficial ownership’.
07 June 2018
From the FBI to the SFO
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