Proceeds of Crime applications following conviction or the use of money laundering legislation along with other criminal fraud offences within predicate matters is now routine. However, dealing with each of the cases is far from routine and the lack of consistency by the Crown means that there is frequently a substantial amount of logical and robust response that can be made to financial cases and Statements of Information that are being presented. Our financial and business expertise is employed to:
Unpick the often confusing nature of a Prosecution case
Present the case clearly and succinctly
Exclude errors such as double counting and inappropriate application of financial legislation
Support a more balanced “common sense” position under cross examination
Almost every forensic accounting case handled by Mark Jenner & Co Limited will involve some money laundering threats. It is the backbone of every fraud and financial crime that is… Read More »Money Laundering Threats – A Danger To Legitimate Business
Does Preventing Tax Evasion Also Cure Money Laundering?Tax evasion and money laundering represent the outside layers of the same onion, whereby the core consists of drug trafficking, robbery and extortion.… Read More »Comparing Tax Evasion and Money Laundering Legislation
The Economic Crime Act – Too Little, Too Late? Global money laundering is one of the biggest (if not the biggest) criminal problems facing the world today. In the UK,… Read More »Money Laundering The Easy Way
Money laundering activity is not restricted to the criminals who are trying to clean up their proceeds of crime so that they can spend it or invest in further criminal… Read More »Money Laundering – Don’t Ignore The Real Threat!
Confiscation proceedings follow a criminal conviction for a number of different crimes. Anybody making money from illegal activities is likely to commit a qualifying offence. Such offences are those where… Read More »Expert Forensic Accountancy Services For Confiscations Explained
DIFFERENT BURDENS OF PROOF (CIVIL OR CRIMINAL) WHEN DETERMINING BENEFIT RELIANCE ON PARTIAL RECORDS WHEN CALCULATING BENEFIT IN DRUG TRAFFICKING CASES READ FULL JUDGEMENT AT BAILII This criminal defence case… Read More »Mark Whittington – v – The Crown [2009] ECWA Crim 1641
BENEFIT – USE OF MIXED FUNDS READ THE FULL ACCOUNT AT BAILII.ORG This case concerns Mr Waya who purchased a property using £310,000 of his own legitimate funds and £465,000… Read More »R – v – Waya
The judgements made by the House of Lords in 2008 in the three cases of R – v – May, R – v – Jennings and R – v –… Read More »R – v – May
Mark Jenner & Co was involved in a confiscation case recently where the principles established in the case of R – v – Allpress were argued, including within the forensic… Read More »R – v – Allpress
GARY JOHN WILKES [2003] EWCA Crim 848 No: 200102859 Z3 Court of Appeal Criminal Division – Lord Justice Latham, Mr Justice Gross and Mrs Justice Cox – Friday 7 March… Read More »R – v – Wilkes
