{"id":57814,"date":"2023-08-25T03:19:13","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T18:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2023\/aug\/24\/serious-office-drops-corruption-inquiry-kazah-miner-enrc-rio-tinto-investigation-uk"},"modified":"2023-08-25T03:19:13","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T18:19:13","slug":"serious-fraud-office-drops-10-year-corruption-inquiry-into-kazakh-miner-enrc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57814","title":{"rendered":"Serious Fraud Office drops 10-year corruption inquiry into Kazakh miner ENRC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK agency also shuts other high-profile cases including Rio Tinto investigation<\/p>\n<p>The UK\u2019s Serious Fraud Office has abandoned a criminal investigation into the Kazakh mining group ENRC, ending a decade-long corruption inquiry mired in controversy.<\/p>\n<p>The SFO updated its website on Thursday with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfo.gov.uk\/cases\/enrc\/\">notice<\/a> that it had closed the case after concluding there was \u201cinsufficient admissible evidence\u201d to prosecute the company.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2023\/aug\/24\/serious-office-drops-corruption-inquiry-kazah-miner-enrc-rio-tinto-investigation-uk\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK agency also shuts other high-profile cases including Rio Tinto investigationThe UK\u2019s Serious Fraud Office has abandoned a criminal investigation into the Kazakh mining group ENRC, ending a decade-long corruption inquiry mired in controversy.The SFO &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3905,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,262,86,730,1524,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-kazakhstan","category-law","category-mining","category-rio-tinto","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3905"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57815,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57814\/revisions\/57815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}