Richard Alderman

Richard Alderman (layer, deep state functionary)
Widely criticised SFO director.  Senior Consultant Dates unknown Employer Slaughter and May  SFO/Director In office - 2012 Succeeded by David Green Widely criticised for irregularities, including £1m of unauthorised payoffs to colleagues.

Richard Alderman is a former SFO director. He was widely criticised for his role as SFO/Director. The Telegraph reported that the SFO " was run in a “slovenly, sloppy” and that he took 52 days foreign travel in a year and sanctioned £1m of unauthorised payoffs to colleagues. Andrew Feinstein described him as a man whose "long career in the deeper reaches of the British bureaucracy made him a safe pair of hands".

Career

Before the SFO, he was a senior investigator at HM Revenue and Customs in charge of specialised tax inquiries.

SFO Director

In 2010 Alderman met the head of the World Bank's anti-corruption unit, Leonard McCarthy, "to discuss strengthening co-operation between the two agencies."

Payoffs to colleagues

In March 2013, The Telegraph began a report by stating that "Before a brutal grilling by MPs on the Public Accounts Committee, Richard Alderman was forced to admit he had not obtained written approval for nearly £1m of severance payments to three departing colleagues." They quoted Emily Thornberry as saying that "A financial irregularity on this scale is an affront to the standing of the SFO, which is supposed to be the nation’s flagship fraud and corruption watchdog.’"

Later Activities

Slaughter and May hired Alderman as a senior consultant, a group with which he had dealings when he lead the SFO.

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