Syedur Rahman | 17 June 2024
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Law360 sought Syed Rahman's opinion about the Serious Fraud Office seeking permission to pursue charges against individuals as part of its Glencore bribery investigation.
Glencore has already pleaded guilty and been fined. But Syed said that any prosecution of individuals would face "a number of hurdles’’.
He added that the SFO will have to persuade the Attorney General that charges are justified on the evidence and that the prosecution is in the public interest.
Syed also explained that the Attorney General’s dual-facing role as both head of the prosecution service and legal adviser to the Cabinet can become complicated in bribery cases involving a political element.
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