Judge blasts SFO's 'sheer incompetence' in Vincent Tchenguiz probe The SFO has already apologised to Vincent Tchenguiz over the arrests, saying it relied on "misinformation" to obtain the search warrants. However, the organisation has refused to drop the investigation. Vincent Tchenguiz hit back at the start of the year, threatening to sue the SFO for £100m for alleged damage to his business interests caused by the investigation. On Wednesday the court decided the judicial review would go ahead as planned on May 22. It gave the SFO an extra week to produce its statement. Responding to the request by the SFO for more time, Justice Thomas said: "These warrants were issued in a blaze of publicity. Why should I now show sympathy to the SFO? Mr Tchenguiz compared the reasons offered by the SFO for not producing the statement on time with a schoolboy claiming "my dog ate my homework." The Tchenguiz brothers deny any wrongdoing.