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SFO–PNF–OAG anti-corruption taskforce: cross-border enforcement, DPAs and extraterritorial reach; UK Bribery Act 2010 and Sapin II compliance implications post FCPA pause

Published on: 23 April 2025

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The task force brings together:

  • The UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO)
  • France's National Financial Prosecutor's Office, Parquet National Financier (PNF)
  • The Swiss Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland (OAG)

Its founding declaration unequivocally affirmed the trio's unwavering resolve to combat bribery and corruption under domestic and international legal regimes. Businesses within the reach of these authorities' jurisdictions—including US companies operating in Europe—should continue to uphold rigorous, well-embedded anti-corruption programmes.

Purpose of the task force

Its creation crowns more than ten years of close operational partnership among the three nations, spanning tightly coordinated cross-border enquiries, systematic intelligence collection, and law-enforcement information sharing and co-operation.

Among other outcomes, the task force will deliver:

  • a leaders' group dedicated to the regular and routine exchange of insight and strategy
  • a working group tasked with developing proposals for case co-operation
  • expanded initiatives to share best practice, and
  • a reinforced platform to seize opportunities for operational collaboration

Specifics on the structure and role of the leaders' group, the working group, and other initiatives have yet to be set out...

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