Case study categories: Members

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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Matrimonial

Shadow expert witness advice in matrimonial financial proceedings concerning a house-builder comprising a group of construction companies with a turnover of £60m per annum.

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Fraud investigation

Assisting in the defence of a care worker charged with stealing clients’ money and using such funds to purchase goods for themselves.

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POCA proceedings – Hidden Assets issue

Defendant pleaded guilty to cheating the public revenue and conspiracy to commit money laundering. The defendant was part of a Berkshire OCG responsible for large scale laundering of the proceeds of VAT “missing trader” fraud predicated on alcohol diversion fraud. Defendant was sentenced to 5 years and 2 months imprisonment and was made subject of […]

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Portfolio of properties held personally and in a company

Instruction to consider the CGT arising on a number of residential properties, owned directly by the Parties and through a company. In addition we were asked to value the holding company and then identify the tax efficiency of using transfers and dividends for dividing the properties in a settlement.

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