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NEWS: MLRO receives a nine-month sentence for tipping off client about criminal investigation 

A general view of the Central Criminal Court, commonly known as the Old Bailey, in London. (Photo by Vuk Valcic / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

By Alisha Houlihan for AMLi

AN MLRO has been sentenced for tipping off a client he was under investigation.

Britain’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) announced the sentencing of solicitor William Osmond to nine months in prison, suspended for an 18-month term.  

The decision follows Osmond’s involvement in tipping off a client during an SFO money laundering investigation and having presented investigators with a forged document.

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