Deferred Prosecution Agreements
Deferred Prosecution Agreements (DPAs) involve companies reaching an agreement with a prosecutor, where the company is charged with a criminal offence but proceedings are automatically suspended. The company agrees to a number of conditions, which may include payment of a financial penalty, payment of compensation and implementation of a corporate compliance programme. DPAs may be used for fraud, bribery and economic crime.
This page contains links to DPAs agreed between the CPS and named companies.
NB: Publication of the Statement of Facts and full judgment has been postponed until further order of the Court.
Reporting restrictions: Pursuant to section 4(2) of the Contempt of Court Act 1981, there shall be postponed until the conclusion of any criminal proceedings against the Relevant Individuals, any report of the paragraph 8 hearing save in the terms of or with reference to the terms of the written summary of the judgment and the approved market statement.
“The Court has directed that pursuant to paragraph 12, Schedule 17 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013:
a. a written summary of the judgment setting out the reasons for the declarations pursuant to para 7 and 8 of Schedule 17 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013 and handed down on 05 December 2023 shall be published immediately; the full judgment to be provided once any criminal proceedings against Relevant Individuals have concluded or until further order;
b. publication of that full judgment is postponed as above;
c. any publication of the anonymised form of the Statement of Facts, as provided to the Court on 5 December 2023, shall be postponed until the conclusion of any criminal proceedings against the Relevant Individuals, or until further order.
For the avoidance of doubt, insofar as the Statement of Facts sets out the facts agreed between the parties to this DPA, in determining whether to approve a DPA, the court did not make any finding of fact. The judgments referred to above only deal with the culpability of the Company. No findings are made against any individual”