[4][5] She began her career working as a US federal prosecutor, taking on white collar crime cases including defence contractor and bank frauds, money laundering and drug related conspiracies.

She spent five years as Deputy General Counsel and Ethics Officer at the FBI and was seconded to the SFO whilst a Special Attorney in the US Department of Justice’s Fraud Division.

[6] Prior to joining the SFO, Osofsky worked for Exiger, a global governance, risk and compliance advisory firm, where she served as Regional Leader and Head of Investigations for Europe, Middle East and Africa.

[24][25] Less than 1 month later, in March 2022, the SFO’s director refused to answer questions from MPs about the quashing of a second former oil executive’s bribery conviction, saying she did not want to ‘impinge on’ a judge-led review of the watchdog’s disclosure failures.

[26][27] Lisa Osofsky was finally judged[28][29] to have made a “number of mistakes and misjudgments”[16][30] in her handling of a prosecution which has ultimately resulted in the convictions of three businessmen being overturned.

[33] The report criticized and exposed “fundamental failures”[33] at the UK’s anti-fraud agency, including Osofsky’s use of her personal mobile, lack of accountability, undocumented and unminuted meetings with a fixer.

But only in October 2022 did Osofsky finally admit to MPs[43] that she was taken in by an ex-US Drug Enforcement Administration agent acting as a ‘fixer’ in relation to the Unaoil bribery scandal.

[51] A "Report and Recommendations from The Shadow Attorney General’s Office” says a series of high-profile errors and scandals have called the current leadership and culture of the SFO into question, undermining morale at the organisation, and increasing the likelihood that yet more of its experienced staff will be poached by corporate law firms.