Accountancy giant Deloitte has been fined £4.2 million by the Financial Reporting Council for its audit of Serco's Geografix division over the outsourcer's electronic tagging scandal.
The accounting watchdog said Deloitte's audit partner, Helen George, has been fined £97,500, and both the firm and Ms George have been "severely reprimanded" following admissions of misconduct.
It comes after Serco was fined £19.2 million, plus £3.7 million in costs, by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) on Wednesday after it overcharged the Government for offender tagging contracts between 2010 and 2013.
It brought to an end a lengthy probe by the SFO without Serco facing any criminal charges.
Serco said its Geografix subsidiary had taken responsibility for three offences of fraud and two of false accounting.
As part of the settlement, the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) said Deloitte has also arranged for all its audit staff to undergo a training programme aimed at improving the behaviour at the heart of the misconduct.
It said Deloitte and Ms George "failed to act in accordance with the fundamental principle of professional competence and due care".
Deloitte's fine was discounted from an initial £6.5 million due to settlement, as was Ms George's from £150,000.
Deloitte will also pay £300,000 towards investigation costs.
Serco and fellow outsourcer G4S found themselves at the centre of a public and political storm in 2013 when it emerged that the pair had been overcharging the Government for electronically monitoring people who were either dead or in jail, or had left the country.
The two companies were stripped of their responsibility for tagging criminals in the UK later that year.
Serco's SFO fine came on top of a £70 million settlement with the Ministry of Justice in December 2013.
G4S, which repaid the Government £109 million plus VAT for its part of the scandal, remains under investigation by the SFO.
