Ex-SFO chief attacked over payments

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The former director of the Serious Fraud Office has come under fire for allegedly sanctioning severance payments to senior staff totalling almost £1 million without getting the necessary approval.

Richard Alderman was grilled by the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee just days after the publication of a scathing inquiry into the payments, commissioned by his successor as head of the SFO, David Green.%VIRTUAL-SkimlinksPromo%

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