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SFO officer 'got it wrong' over privileged interview with ENRC executive, UK court hears

By Phoebe Seers ( July 28, 2021, 17:20 GMT | Insight) -- A senior official with the UK's Serious Fraud Office told a London court today that he missed warning signs that an interview he took with Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation’s chief compliance officer would have been protected by legal privilege. Mark Thompson acknowledged that he should have stopped the interview, blaming a misunderstanding rather than a deliberate attempt to extract privileged information for the SFO in its corruption probe into ENRC.A senior official with the UK's Serious Fraud Office told a London court today that he missed warning signs that an interview he took with Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation’s chief compliance officer would have been protected by legal privilege....

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