SFO has clear public interest in pursuing Barclays case | Nils Pratley

The financial crisis may feel a long time ago, but the Serious Fraud Office is duty bound to investigate alleged criminalityOne idea doing the rounds in the City needs to be knocked on the head. It is the notion that the Serious Fraud Office should have let whatever sleeping dogs there might be lie in the Barclays case.This argument holds that, whatever went on with the bank and Qatar in 2008, the UK Treasury avoided having to fund another expensive banking bailout, to sit alongside those at Roy