Case Histories

The following are a few examples of some of the specialist cases we have recently been involved in:

Serious Fraud Office Prosecution

i) The case is a highly complex fraud, as evidenced by the fact it is being prosecuted by the SFO. It involves a group of companies and the fraud is alleged to have led to a loss to creditors, factoring companies and training companies in the region of £7million. The matter was made all the more complicated by the fact that 11 different types of fraud were alleged to have taken place over a number of years.

We also have particular experience in dealing with Section 2 Notices and interviews and offer a full advisory service for any client or their company or business facing SFO investigation or questioning.

Carousel/MTIC/Mobile Phone Fraud & Confiscation

ii)Currently working on one of the oldest MTIC (Mobile Phone Fraud) currently being prosecuted by RCPO and concerns the evasion of VAT in 2001 wherin the loss to the revenue was £100 million. By the time the case came to trial the case papers were in excess of 100,000 pages of primary, secondary and MTIC disclosure. Consequently, as a result of this and other such cases we have detailed knowledge concerning the impact of legal rulings in this changing and developing area of the law.

False accounting , Fraudulent Trading & Forgery

iii) This case was prosecuted by the special Case Work Directorate in York CPS and concerned a complex fraud wherein it was alleged that a fraud was committed against, in particular, the Regulatory bodies of the travel industry, eg: IATA, ABTA, various insurance companies and the Civil Aviation Authority. The holidays dealt with were high class exotic holidays. The case involved documentation generated by numerous companies and the clients were a company director and a chartered accountant. The alleged fraud totalled in the region of £2.5 million and was complex due to the alleged lengths gone to move funds around the companies to create the illusion of a viable company.

The defendants received only a community penalty of 120 hours community service and notwithstanding the sums and property involved were not made subject confiscation orders.