The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) is the office or official charged with the prosecution of criminal offences in several criminal jurisdictions around the world. The title is used mainly in jurisdictions that are or have been members of the Commonwealth of Nations.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is the principal public agency for conducting criminal prosecutions in England and Wales. It is headed by the Director of Public Prosecutions.
Dame Vera Baird is a British barrister and politician who has held roles as a government minister,police and crime commissioner,and Victims' Commissioner for England and Wales.
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is a non-ministerial government department of the Government of the United Kingdom that investigates and prosecutes serious or complex fraud and corruption in England,Wales and Northern Ireland. The SFO is accountable to the Attorney General for England and Wales,and was established by the Criminal Justice Act 1987,an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
A prosecutor is a legal representative of the prosecution in states with either the adversarial system,which is adopted in common law,or inquisitorial system,which is adopted in civil law. The prosecution is the legal party responsible for presenting the case in a criminal trial against the defendant,an individual accused of breaking the law. Typically,the prosecutor represents the state or the government in the case brought against the accused person.
Al Yamamah is the name of a series of record arms sales by the United Kingdom to Saudi Arabia,paid for by the delivery of up to 600,000 barrels (95,000 m3) of crude oil per day to the British government. The prime contractor has been BAE Systems and its predecessor British Aerospace. The first sales occurred in September 1985 and the most recent contract for 72 Eurofighter Typhoon multirole fighters was signed in August 2006.
The U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey is the chief federal law enforcement officer in New Jersey. On December 16,2021,Philip R. Sellinger was sworn in as U.S. Attorney. The U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey has jurisdiction over all cases prosecuted by the U.S. attorney.
The Revenue and Customs Prosecution Office (RCPO) was a non-departmental public body created under the Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Act 2005 as an independent prosecution body to take responsibility in the England,Wales and Northern Ireland for the prosecution of criminal offences in cases previously within the purview of the Inland Revenue and HM Customs and Excise (HMCE). In Scotland it was a Specialist Reporting Agency and the cases are then prosecuted by the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service. It was merged with the Crown Prosecution Service on 1 January 2010.
The Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB) is an independent agency of the Government of Singapore responsible for the investigation and prosecution of any possible serious or complex fraud and corruption in Singapore. The CPIB has the mandate to investigate into any acts or forms of corruption in the public and private sectors in Singapore,and in the course of doing so,any other offences under any written law,with the powers of arrest.
The Public Prosecution Service of Canada was established on December 12,2006,by the Director of Public Prosecutions Act. A federal agency,the PPSC prosecutes offences on behalf of the Government of Canada. It is responsible to Parliament through the attorney general of Canada,who litigates on behalf of the Crown and has delegated most prosecution functions to the PPSC.
Dame Barbara Jean Lyon Mills DBE,QC was a British barrister. She held various senior public appointments including Director of Public Prosecutions,and was widely seen as a pioneer for women gaining such appointments in the higher echelons of the legal profession. At the time of her death she was chair of the Professional Oversight Board.
The Serious Fraud Office is the public service department of New Zealand charged with detecting,investigating and prosecuting financial crimes,including corruption,of a serious and complex nature.
Vincent Tchenguiz is an Iranian-British entrepreneur born in Tehran. Robert Tchenguiz is his younger brother. Tchenguiz is known as a major donor to the Conservative Party (UK) and an investor in the controversial company SCL Group,known for the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal involving its subsidiary.
Sir David John Mark Green is a British lawyer and prosecutor,who served from 2012 until 2018 as the Director of the Serious Fraud Office.
Unaoil is a Monaco based company which provides "industrial solutions to the energy sector in the Middle East,Central Asia and Africa." Unaoil is incorporated in the British Virgin Islands,a tax haven with an opaque banking system.
The trial of Benjamin Netanyahu began following investigations into allegations of bribery,fraud,and breach of trust by him and close political allies within his inner circle during his fourth and fifth terms as Israel's Prime Minister. The Israel Police began investigating Netanyahu in December 2016 and subsequently recommended indictments against him.
R v Director of the Serious Fraud Office [2008] UKHL 60 is a UK constitutional law case,concerning the rule of law.
Dana Michelle Nessel is an American politician and lawyer serving as the 54th Attorney General of Michigan since January 2019. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
In Canada,a deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) or remediation agreement refers to an agreement under Part XXII.1 of the Criminal Code. The agreement is made between the Crown prosecutor and an organization alleged to have committed certain types of criminal offences,usually in the context of fraud or corruption,with the consent of the relevant Attorney General and under the supervision of a judge. Under a deferred prosecution agreement,the Crown prosecutor can agree to defer bringing a prosecution for the alleged offences if the organization takes steps to improve its conduct,makes restitution,and implements internal controls to avoid a repetition of the conduct.
Marwan Lahoud,born March 6,1966,in Lebanon,is a naturalized French-Lebanese weapons engineer,living in France. He was deputy chief executive officer for strategy and marketing for the Airbus group until February 2017. In May 2017,he was appointed chairman of the supervisory board of OT-Morpho,a position he only held for a short time,even if he remained director for two years of different entities of this group,renamed from IDEMIA.
