The Serious Fraud Office has recovered more than £400,000 for nine fraud victims after 24 years. Investigators used civil recovery action to reclaim money from a 2002 email fraud scheme run by Abdullah Ali Jammal, a former director of a retail‑depositor bank. Because no conviction was possible, the recovered funds would normally go to HM Treasury, but the SFO decided to return them directly to victims. Mr Jammal’s accounts were frozen, including £150,000 bound for the Jammal Trust Bank in Lebanon, which is sanctioned by the US. The case involved cooperation with Australian, Belgian, French, US and UK authorities and marks a new approach to civil recovery proceedings. The SFO plans to use this technique in other cases.
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