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POCA arising from EncroChat investigations

Defendant was charged with drug and money laundering offences arising from EncroChat investigations. He was sentenced to 10 years and 3 months imprisonment and made subject of confiscation proceedings. The Crown had calculated the defendant’s Benefit to be c.£966k and his Available Amount to be £138k. We were asked to assess the defendant’s Benefit and […]

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Insolvency Service – Criminal Investigations

This was a criminal investigation undertaken by the Insolvency Service into a company that provided courier and delivery services for a number of organisations including Amazon. The company had a confidential invoice discounting facility with Bibby. It is alleged that the company over-inflated and/or under- inflated the invoices it submitted to Bibby to obtain advances […]

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