Serious Fraud Office drops case against three former G4S executives it accused of defrauding Justice Department over prisoner-tagging contract
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has dropped a lawsuit against three former G4S executives it accused of defrauding the Department of Justice over a prisoner tagging contract.
Richard Morris, Mark Preston and James Jardine were due to stand trial in 2024.
They were charged with seven counts of fraud in relation to alleged false statements made to the Justice Department between 2009 and 2012.
Trial: Richard Morris, Mark Preston and James Jardine were due to appear in court in 2024
But the prosecutor said the SFO offered no evidence against them.
The three all worked in the care and justice sector of the security company.
They were due to stand trial next year – 10 years after the SFO began its investigation.
In 2020, the SFO and G4S agreed to a £44million settlement to settle three fraud offenses between 2011 and 2012, where G4S accepted responsibility for misleading the government about the true extent of the profits that he was carrying out on a prisoner marking contract, including for the marking of offenders who had died.
