Ex-Serco executives discussed inflating costs on tagging contracts, papers show

Legal documents published by Serious Fraud Office after trial collapsed this week

Former Serco executives discussed inflating costs on electronic tagging contracts to “whatever we wish” as part of a fraud on the UK government, according to legal documents newly published by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO).

Serco, the FTSE 250 outsourcing company, has already paid a fine and legal costs of nearly £23m to the UK’s anti-corruption agency in relation to the fraud, which it admitted in 2019 under a deferred prosecution agreement.

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