Active Serious, Fraud, Business Crime & Regulatory Cases

Please find below brief descriptions of serious, fraud, business crime and regulatory cases in which we are currently defending.

• R v. RH & 9 Others - 'Operation Inertia' - A very substantial prosecution brought by HMRC alleging over £150 million of VAT fraud - a 'Carousel / MTIC' case involving mobile phones. We are acting for one of the main defendants out of 10. Case to be tried in London in April 2010.

• R v. NLS & Many Others - Serious Fraud Office - National investigation into alleged conspiracy to defraud and money laundering arising from compensation claims made on behalf of miners and mineworkers.
  
  
  
• R v EH & 14 Others - 'Operation Contact' - conspiracy to defraud and money laundering arising from staged road traffic accidents and fraudulent personal injury claims.  Several million pounds involved.

• R v. HS & 8 Others - 'Operation Duma' - HMRC prosecution of 'Carousel / MTIC' fraud involving alleged loss of revenue of £50 million. Case to be tried in Midlands in early 2010. 

• R v. LC & Many Others - London CPS Fraud Office - National investigation into multimillion pound mortgage fraud involving numerous professional persons.

• R v. AH & 3 Others - 'Operation Cloudlet' - HMRC investigation into £1 million VAT fraud involving international travel and retail food outlets.

• R v. KDE & 6 Others - 'Operation Caliper' - Alleged banking fraud approximately £1.4 million. Case to be tried in the Midlands in January 2010.

• R v. DAK & 4 Others - 'Operation Tandem' - Alleged conspiracy to defraud over lengthy period involving approximately £4 million of public money paid to a waste disposal company. Case to be tried in North of England in 2009. 
  
  
  
• R v. STB & 13 Others - 'Operation Humidity' - HRMC prosecution of an alleged VAT fraud involving approximately £1.7 million. Case to be tried in Liverpool in 2009. 
  
  
  
• R v. DC & 6 Others - 'Operation Bittern' - Case involving alleged conspiracy to evade duty relating to large scale importation of cigarettes over lengthy period of time causing very high value losses to the Revenue.  Case prosecuted by HMRC.
  
  
  
• R v. KMO - City of London Major Crime Unit investigating international fraud, including the chartering of private jets to travel to southern Spain.
  
  
  
• R v. AT & Many Others - City of London investigation into identity theft and a hundred million euro fraud.
  
  
  
• HSE v. CL Ltd - Health & Safety Executive prosecution following a fatal accident at a quarry.
  
  
  

• HSE v. TS & 2 Others - Joint Police and Health & Safety Executive lengthy investigation following fatal accident at a building site. 
  
  
  
• R v. SK & Others - Conspiracy to commit Robbery involving an armed gang alleged to have shot a security guard in the leg and stolen £20,000 in cash.

• R v. NN & 24 Others 'Operation Greengage' - Substantial importation of Class A drugs and firearms from the continent. Trial in Liverpool in late 2009.
  
  
  
• R v. CBA - Police investigation into alleged causing death by dangerous driving following fatal RTA on motorway.
  
  
  
• R v. MM - Murder case involving alleged attack on man in a park; we act for 16 year old youth charged with murder.
  
  
  
• R v. DW - 'Operation Favour' - alleged large conspiracy to supply Class A & B drugs involving 12 defendants in the North West of England. Trial scheduled for late 2009 in Preston.
  
  
  
• R v. MH - SFO investigation into boiler room fraud relating to property development and systematic abuse of auction houses.
  
  
  
• R v. GL, KS & Others - 'Operation Tench' - Large conspiracy to supply Class A drugs across the North West of  England.
  
  
  
• R v. PP - NHS Counter Fraud investigation into the alleged theft by an in-house accountant of large amount of monies.