Regulatory & Financial Crime

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Overview

A number of senior practitioners within Chambers are recognised as white collar crime and fraud experts, and leaders in the field. They offer a wealth of experience and talent to both private and publicly funded clients. The breadth of work extends from major City, banking and commercial frauds to dishonest mortgage, insurance and trading schemes.

Within the general category of fraud, a specialist Regulatory and Financial Team offers advocacy and a rapid, authoritative advice resource. The team also now provides dedicated training programmes for lawyers and those in the regulated sector. All members have considerable experience in the particular specialties of Fraud and Asset Recovery Law, including:-

• Fraud Act 2006;
• Money laundering;
• Compliance Advice for the regulated sector/legal profession;
• Restraint Proceedings;
• Criminal Confiscation;
• Cash Seizures;
• Civil Recovery

Published works by team members include:-

• 'Blackstone's Guide to the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002' (Third Edition, April 2008 - Edward Rees QC and Richard Fisher)
• Asset Recovery and Confiscation chapters in "Blackstone's Criminal Practice" (Edward Rees QC)

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Cases

Cases

Recent representative cases include:-

• R v Paul Fisher - "Jubilee Line" fraud
  
  
• R v Shaun Lynch - "Jockey Club" fraud
  
  
• R v Lesley Ash - "Millennium Dome" fraud
  
  
• R v Stuart Armer - "Morgan Grenfell" stock trading fraud
  
  
• R v Lewis - £170 million MTIC fraud
  
  
• R v D, B and J - land registry fraud involving £7.5 million loss
  
  
• R v Catie Walker - corruption and fraud by Lady Mayoress
  
  
• R v Rebekah Hart - MOD accounting fraud
  
  
• R v Ijaz Ashraf - major car purchase credit fraud
  
  
• R v Saad Jalil - large scale car insurance fraud involving staged
  accidents
  
  
• R v Fady El-Reyess, Anwoir and El-Moghrabi - appeals in major money laundering trial resulting in Court of Appeal guidelines on what must be proved to establish that property "derives from" criminal conduct
  
  
• R v Karamath - Prosecution on behalf of the DPP (Trinidad and Tobago) a large scale fraud involving corrupt tendering for public works
  
  
• R v McFarnon and Ors - £100million VAT contra-trading fraud. Due to be tried in 2010
  
  
• Sharma - £3M fraud and money laundering case concerning the immigration consultancy company Univisas and the submission of false applications to the UK immigration authorities
  
  
• Beyioku - £1M commercial fraud concerning the use of confidential information obtained from Job Centres for use in hundreds of false applications for benefits. He was convicted and sentenced in November 2009 following an 8 week trial
  
  
• R v Brown, Downer, Williams & Jones - allegation of conspiracy to defraud and money laundering arising from the fraudulent sale of land valued at £12m, leading to the Land Registry paying compensation of £7.5m. Extensive confiscation proceedings no sought by the Serious Organised Crime Agency
  
  
• R v Scarrott - VAT fraud valued at £25 million
  
  
• R v I & Ors - laundering £100 million of drugs money for major drug dealer in south east of England
  
  
• Antigua IHI Commission of Inquiry - into diversion of monies from a Government repayment of US$30 million loan
  

Notable asset recovery cases include:-

• Ajibade [2006] 2 CrAppR (S) 168
  
  
• NW [2008] EWCA Crim 2
  
  
• Stroud (No.2) [2005} EWCA Crim 161
  
  
• R (Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police) v City of Salford Magistrates ex p. Sarwar [2008] EWHC 1651 (Admin)
  
  
• Anwoir [2008] 4 All ER 582

What the Directories say

Chambers and Partners, 2010

This set's regulatory and financial crime team provides advocacy and advice on money laundering, confiscation and restraint proceedings and matters pertaining to the Fraud Act 2006. Clients who have worked with the set for a prolonged period of time remark that all of its members are inventive and immensely committed, while the support staff have never let them down. Christopher Sallon QC is "a powerful combination of being an excellent lawyer and a top jury advocate." He is truly excellent in court, although he has been undertaking a lot of advisory work recently. Fellow silk Michael Grieve QC concentrates on international corruption cases, and has appeared in numerous cases tried in the Caribbean.