SFO receives final approval for DPA with G4S Care and Justice Services (UK) Ltd. Hannah Willcocks acted for the Serious Fraud Office as first junior in a team led by Crispin Aylett QC.

July 19, 2020
SFO receives final approval for DPA with G4S Care and Justice Services (UK) Ltd. Hannah Willcocks acted for the Serious Fraud Office as first junior in a team led by Crispin Aylett QC.
The SFO has today received approval to enter into a Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA) with G4S Care and Justice Services (UK) Ltd (G4S C&J), a wholly-owned subsidiary of G4S Plc. The DPA requires G4S C&J to pay a financial penalty of £38.5m and the SFO’s full costs of £5.9m. Compensation to the MoJ has already been paid by G4S C&J as part of a £121.3m civil settlement in 2014. The DPA only relates to the potential criminal liability of G4S Care & Justice Services (UK) Ltd and does not address whether liability of any sort attaches to any employee, agent, former employee or former agent of G4S Care & Justices Services (UK) Ltd.

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