UK SFO director favours whistleblower payments and covert techniques

Nick Ephgrave intends the Serious Fraud Office to "be bolder, more pragmatic, more proactive" during his tenure as director. In his first speech since taking office last September, Ephgrave, who previously served at the top of the Metropolitan Police, told the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) audience that "we have already gone through more front doors [in dawn raids] in the last three months than in the last three years".

Nick Ephgrave intends the Serious Fraud Office to "be bolder, more pragmatic, more proactive" during his tenure as director. In his first speech [1] since taking office last September [2023], Ephgrave, who previously served at the top of the Metropolitan Police, told the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) audience that "we have already gone through more front doors [in dawn raids] in the last three months than in the last three years".