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The Defendant was arrested in August of 2014 and ultimately found Not Guilty in December 2019.
Operation Barcelona was an HMRC investigation into alcohol diversion fraud. The loss alleged was over £1.8 million of evaded duty.
The Crown relied on 8,000 pages of served evidence at trial with many thousands more being served as unused material.
Seven Defendants were charged on the indictment and only one other Defendant was acquitted at trial.
Operation Bayweek was an HMRC Investigation and prosecution which spanned 3 decades and focussed upon smuggling and money laundering offences in multiple jurisdictions involving high ranking members of terrorist organisations.
The Defendant was the lead Defendant in the final trial which concluded in July 2021.
The Defendant was the lead Defendant in a multi-million pound European Distribution Fraud, which extended to multiple EU countries and was orchestrated in the UK. The Defendant is the last remaining Defendant to be sentenced.
The Defendant had the leading role in a Romanian Organised Crime Group (OCG) which ran a highly sophisticated online shopping fraud. The OCG was highly developed and was split into different cells to deal with the forgery of documents, the creation of false identities, the setting up of personal and business bank accounts, the creation of advertisements and the laundering of money. The fraud was in excess of £1 million. His wife who we also represented, faced a number of associated money laundering charges.
Both Defendants were found not guilty of every contested count during the trial. MC was acquitted of one offence at trial charged under section 327 of POCA 2002.
AC was found not guilty at trial in respect of all money laundering offences made against her.
This was the first ever Prosecution for Carbon Credit MTIC fraud and the loss to HMRC was £38 million. The fraud resulted in the suspension of the trading system in Carbon Credits that the EU had adopted. Following a trial that spanned 5 months the Defendant was acquitted.
Represented the wife of a notorious con man who had previously deceived the entire art world on an art forgery fraud. The Defendant and her husband both faced charges in these proceedings and the husband sacked 3 legal teams before ultimately standing trial on his own. The Defendant was acquitted following a trial that lasted from October until February.
Represented lead Defendant in Operation Ginseng proceedings, one of biggest mobile phone MTIC investigations in the UK. Proceedings against the Defendant were discontinued following an aggressive strategy of pursuing disclosure.