Serious Fraud Office: UK whistleblowers deserve better

The Barclays case may have saved the SFO, but the UK fraud agency needs to change the way it deals with whistleblowers.

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The UK’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) finally did something that many had been anticipating for years: charging bankers for crisis-era wrongdoing. The SFO last month charged four Barclays executives with fraud in connection to injections of cash they received from Qatar and Abu Dhabi to stave off a UK government bail-out during the 2008 financial crisis.

But the wrongful termination suit brought by one of those charged, Richard Boath, has been on hold since a postponement last November, following arguments over whether the case should be heard in private.

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