News: Financial Crime

Account Freezing Order (AFO) discharged

On 11 June, Westminster Magistrates' Court discharged an AFO imposed on funds received from Iran and the Metropolitan Police...

12th June 2019

Former Company Director pleads guilty to £12M bribery scheme

A former owner of UK-based ALCA Fasteners has pleaded guilty at Walsall Magistrates Court to bribing a purchasing manager to...

31st May 2019

Multi Million Fraud Gang Convicted

John Hardy QC, leading John Greany, successfully secured the convictions of a gang for their part in the fraud of millions of...

20th May 2019

Turkey fails in attempt to extradite media boss from UK

Turkey has failed in a final attempt to extradite a dispossessed media proprietor to Ankara to face financial charges...

11th April 2019

Sanctions enforcement set to increase

Rachel Barnes, Patrick Hill and Genevieve Woods have co-authored an article on sanctions in the January 2019 issue of...

8th February 2019

South Thanet election agent acquitted

Nathan Gray has been acquitted by a jury at Southwark Crown Court of offences of forgery and knowingly submitting a false...

14th December 2018

Civil Recovery Order in SFO Chadian Corruption case

Jonathan Ashley-Norman KC and Nicholas Yeo acted for the wife a senior Chadian diplomat accused of taking £4.4m of shares as...

26th March 2018

Peter Ferdinand acquitted of conspiracy to bribe

Hugo Keith QC and Rachel Kapila acted for Peter Ferdinand in the SFO's latest case of overseas bribery. Mr Ferdinand was...

27th September 2017

Military Equipment Corruption

Following a guilty plea, former financial director, Simon Davies, was sentenced to 11 months imprisonment at the Old Bailey...

30th September 2016

Fraudster who lived in a secret six bedroom mansion jailed

A fraudster who built a six-bedroom luxury mansion disguised within a farm shed has been jailed for drugs and money...

27th July 2016