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UK corporate crime and sanctions in late 2025: SFO account forfeiture tests, CPS–Entain DPA fallout, and UniCredit’s SAMLA s.44 defence at the Supreme Court

Published on: 29 August 2025

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SFO powers to claw back dirty cash to be tested

Two matters pencilled in for late 2025 could clarify, by way of precedent, when and in what situations the SFO may confiscate funds suspected to be the proceeds of crime. The first, listed for September 2025, concerns an appeal against an account forfeiture order made by Westminster Magistrates’ Court in 2023 for upwards of £7m. The order targets Mario Ildeu de Miranda, a one-time Petrobras executive at the Brazilian-owned oil group. The SFO was originally authorised to take the money from de Miranda following his conviction in Brazil for involvement in a bribery scheme linked to the energy major. This cash seizure represents the largest sum the SFO has ever obtained from a single bank account. It followed a painstaking agency inquiry tracking the funds within Brazil’s “Operation Car Wash”. De Miranda is alleged to have received US$24.7m—paid into a Swiss account held in the name of his Belize company, Tech Trade Corp—by the Odebrecht Group, a Brazilian conglomerate implicated in the South American country’s bribery probe, with the money trail forming part of the wider investigation and underpinning the contested order which the appeal now seeks to challenge therein...

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