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Serco fined nearly £23 million over electronic tagging scandal
The humiliating sanctions come as the company is slammed over cooking prisoner to death in a cell
A general view of a Serco prison van leaving Wormwood Scrubs prison in west London in 2011
OUTSOURCING giant Serco has agreed to pay nearly £23 million in fines to the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) after it overcharged the government for electronically tagging offenders.
SFO director Lisa Osofsky said Serco had “engaged in a concerted effort to lie to the Ministry of Justice in order to profit unlawfully at the expense of UK taxpayers.”
At the height of the scandal, which emerged in 2013, Serco was accused of tagging dead people.
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