Series offering insights into the work of the Serious Fraud Office.
Nightmare on Elm Street. The early nineties were a wretched time forthe SFO. Financier Asil
Nadir, who escaped trial after beingcharged with the theft of millions of pounds from the Polly Peck company, recalls how he fled to Cyprus when he lost faith in the British judicial system.
Then the Maxwell brothers,
Ian and Kevin, were both acquitted after lengthytrial arising from their father Robert's misappropriation of company pension funds. But the office's fortunestook an upturn when it successfully prosecuted the Bank of Credit and Commerce
International in the biggest fraud case in recorded history.
Producer Mark Hedgecoe ; Series producer MarkKillick
BOOK: Fraudbusters is available from bookshops, priced £18.99