Osofsky’s appearance may have also featured the first mention of TikTok (a social media platform popular with da yoof, m’lud) in the same sentence as the SFO.

Conservative MP Paul Maynard namechecked the platform while artfully chipping away at Osofsky’s reserve. ‘Here’s one I think you can answer, because it is about the written evidence you’ve submitted to the select committee,’ he began encouragingly. ‘What is a non-law enforcement influencer? I presume it’s not TikTok.’

Osofsky appeared bemused, so Maynard quoted the SFO’s written evidence, in which it said it believed that ‘effective cross-agency working domestically, including engaging non-law enforcement influencers, is essential’.

Luckily, Michelle Crotty, the SFO’s chief capability officer (tough gig), jumped in: ‘I think that might be a rather convoluted way of saying some of the NGOs who are involved in the fraud space.’

Crotty later clarified: ‘What we are trying to refer to there is working with people who are not part of law enforcement, including MPs.’

Maynard seemed content with the answer – perhaps he was just pleased to hear someone say he has influence.

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