In April the High Court in England approved the Deferred Prosecution Agreement (“DPA”) agreed between the Serious Fraud Office (“SFO”) and Tesco Stores Limited (“TSL”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Tesco PLC (“Tesco”), the UK’s biggest retailer, in connection with the much-publicised accounting scandal in 2014. Whilst the DPA itself has not been published because of reporting restrictions (due to the on-going prosecution of individuals by the SFO in relation to this matter), it was approved by Sir Brian Leveson, the same judge that has so far approved all of four of the SFO’s DPAs.
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