i) Jeffrey Lewis advises an individual following allegations of involvement in multi-million pound pension fraud: he will be assisted by Siobhain Egan;
ii) Jeffrey also advises a substantial buy to let landlord who has found that over 20 of his properties have been ‘colonised’ by individuals running cannabis ‘farms’. The Police force to whom this issue has been reported has not reacted at all to this complaint, and it is now left to the landlord to pursue civil proceedings against these ‘sub-tenants’ and his managing agents.
- i) Keith Wood defends an individual facing complex confiscation proceedings following a conviction for conspiring to defraud HMRC of £10million (the client was represented by another firm at trial). Keith is one of the top confiscation defence experts in the Country, he works with leading forensic accountants and barristers and achieves great success with these type of cases;
ii) Keith is also defending another client facing extradition proceedings brought by the Spanish Government following allegations of involvement in a large scale ‘time share’ fraud which has attracted National publicity both here and in Spain.
- i) Sean Reilly advises a businessman whose assets have been frozen by a Civil Recovery Order brought as a result of a joint investigation by HMRC and the NCA. It is even more likely now, with the budgetary constraints and financial cuts that all investigative agencies are currently facing, that instead of instituting lengthy expensive criminal proceedings (for tax evasion and money laundering as in this case), the authorities will now directly target assets that they suspect are the Proceeds of Crime. The burden of proof will be upon the defendant to show that these assets are bona fide, have been lawfully acquired and that tax has been paid upon the income used to purchase those assets;
ii) Sean is also representing a client facing extradition proceedings brought by the US Government, concerning allegations of serious fraud.
- Richard Demczak of our Oxford Office has received the following recent instructions:
i) An undergraduate student at Oxford University facing three allegations of rape;
ii) A young man with severe learning difficulties facing an allegation of rape;
iii) A professional man defending a charge of perverting the course of justice;
iv) Two young men accused of cultivating cannabis, they will raise the statutory defence (s45 Modern Slavery Act 2015) of victims of modern slavery and people trafficking. - i) Siobhain Egan advises an academic investigated by Police, following a historic allegation of rape, which allegedly occurred some 56 years ago;
ii) She also represents a Company Director facing an allegation of dishonesty and fraud.
