IMTEC Fraudster Must Sell Home to Meet Confiscation Order

The Times 25 May 2009 reported that a convicted IMTEC fraudster is to repay £26 million and has had to put his £2.75 million home on the market in order to meet the confiscation order. If you are facing complex confiscation proceedings and are fearful that you may lose your family home, contact our Asset Restraint and Confiscation Department.

New Instruction in Investment Scheme Fraud

The firm has been instructed to advise and represent one of three individuals currently being investigated by the SFO and City of London Fraud in relation to an allegedly fraudulent investment scheme that may have led to losses of up to £250 million for investors. Jeffrey Lewis and Siobhain Egan are dealing.

£Multi-Million Ponzi Fraud Instruction

Lewis Nedas & Co have been instructed to represent a defendant charged with a £multi-million ponzi fraud focusing upon the UK and Sri Lanka. Jeffrey Lewis and Tony Meisels are dealing.

PM Backs New Strategy for Prosecution of Serious Crime

The Times on 12 May 2009 drew attention to the Prime Minister’s suggested overall of the prosecuting authorities’ approach to the prosecution of serious organised crime. He is advocating a new strategy focusing upon the business interests of alleged criminals, authorising the police to adopt a more aggressive approach to internet crime and  these types of criminal businesses.

If you are concerned in any way about this and are being investigated and or prosecuted, contact Jeffrey Lewis or anyone in the MONEY LAUNDERING, ASSET RESTRAINT or SERIOUS CRIME departments.

High Court Judgement

Nick Brett recently acted for all three claimants in the case of Scopelight Ltd & Ors v Chief of Police for Northumbria & Ors [2009] EWHC 958 (QB) (07 May 2009) in which the High Court ruled last week that the police cannot, as a matter of law, retain property on behalf of a further private prosecutor under PACE 1984, once a decision not to prosecute has been taken.

Read the full text of Mrs Justice Sharp’s judgement online at the British and Irish Legal Information Institute’s website: http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/QB/2009/958.html.

National Broadsheet Interviews Senior Partner

Jeffrey Lewis has been interviewed by Cahal Milmo of The Independent in relation to the activities of SOCA and the Metropolitan Police in Operation Rize - the operation in June 2008 in which over 7,000 safety deposit boxes were seized and investigated.

Jeffrey headed a team which included Nick Brett and Siobhain Egan, and between them they have advised and/or represented over 70 clients whose boxes were seized and investigated. To date, over 98% of those boxes have been returned without prosecution or further investigation.

For further information, read the article to printed in The Independent on 11 May 2009: The Holocaust survivor whose savings were seized by the police…