SFO secures extra funding for Rolls-Royce investigation The Serious Fraud Office has secured extra funding from the Government for its investigation into allegations of bribery by Rolls-Royce in Indonesia and China. The Treasury has agreed to so-called blockbuster funding in the "low millions of pounds," according to a report in the Financial Times, citing sources. In December, the SFO announced it was launching a formal investigation into the Rolls bribery allegations. Since then, Rolls is understood to have liaised closely with the SFO, making it clear that it would fully co-operate with the agency in its inquiry and reduce its use of intermediaries in contract negotiations. The US Department of Justice has also been made aware of the allegations. Britain's fraud-busting agency has spent more than a year examining claims from a whistleblower over Rolls" use of middle-men in winning multi-million pound contracts in Indonesia, China and elsewhere, dating back more than 20 years. Among the claims from whistleblower Dick Taylor, a former employee, was the allegation that the engine maker had handed a $20m (£12.2m) bribe and a blue Rolls-Royce car to Tommy Suharto, the youngest son of the late Indonesian dictator. It was for his help, it was claimed, in persuading the country's flag-carrier Garuda to buy Rolls" Trent 700 engine for Airbus A330 aircraft in 1990. Mr Suharto denied the allegation in November in a surprise intervention. Both the SFO and the Treasury declined to comment.