- Fraud
- Money Laundering
- Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA)
- Asset Forfeiture
This is one of chambers major strengths where we can provide a depth of high class advocacy. Due to our vast expertise and experience we are often instructed in the most complex and prolific of cases.
Examples of cases Members of chambers have been instructed in:
- R v Mazhar Raja – Tax Evasion Fraud (Sir Desmond de Silva QC)
- R v Manjit Chagga and Others - Conspiracy to Defraud / Money Laundering, the case was further complicated as the defendant is a former solicitor. (Harendra de Silva QC & Charles Benson)
- R -v Megrahbi and others - Money Laundering £50m. (Harendra de Silva QC, Charles Benson & Glenn Carrasco)
- R v Philip Hadley and Others - Confiscation Proceedings, Mr Hadley was the principal defendant in this vexed and difficult case, which went to the House of Lords as H and C (2004) 2 AC 134 on interlocutory matters and became the leading case in dealing with the treatment of unused materials and the appointment of special counsel. (Charles Benson)
- R –v- Adams – Largest ever money laundering case to be tried in the UK. (Charles Benson)
- R –v- Hauxwell-Smith - The IKEA carrousel fraud
- The Operation Norfolk prosecutions – fraud with over 500,000 pages of evidence. (Charles Benson)
- The Aston Election Petition - The first election commission for 100 years dealing with postal ballot fraud in Birmingham. (Simon Baker)
- The Ostrich Farming Corporation fraud - one of the biggest SFO prosecutions ever with a brief in excess of 2.5 million documents (Charles Benson)
- R v Lim, the largest ever case of counterfeiting in English history involving £180 million (Gregory Bull QC)
- R v Rees-Jones & Others, Largest ever fraud in Wales (Gregory Bull QC)
- Operation Horizon, bank fraud. (Brian Lett QC)
- Operation Nail, bank fraud (Brian Lett QC)
- R v Woghiren & Others, the UK's largest marriage "sham" fraud, representing the "mastermind" of the operation (Notu Hoon & Frances Bolton)
- R v Mirza & Others, Multi-Million pound global conspiracy to distribute counterfeit pharmaceuticals (Harendra de Silva QC)
- R v Chandoo, largest and most expensive case ever prosecuted carousel fraud (Dominic D'Souza)
- R v Rouse & James, Network Rail fraud which involved the creation of ghost employees and false overtime claims (Rupert Gregory)
- R v F & B [2008] EWCA Crim 1868 before the Court of Appeal and on the certified appeal to the House of Lords, on the question of whether the Crown are required to prove the underlying offence when prosecuting for money laundering
