Robert Wardle was Director of the Serious Fraud Office of

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. He was appointed on 21 April 2003 and had previously been Assistant Director for eleven years. He had been a member of the SFO since it was created in 1988. Previously he was a

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at the

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. He was reappointed for a further year from April 2007.Press release on his reappointment
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