Throwing Cash Into The Abyss
For more than 20 years I have been receiving money laundering instructions on matters involving Hawala … Read More
For more than 20 years I have been receiving money laundering instructions on matters involving Hawala … Read More
Confiscations – the authorities are missing a trick and failing to maximize a self funding process or take advantage of a massive source of income … Read More
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 the benefit from the crimes trigger a £5,000 threshold or … Read more…
As I regularly see a dozen or more new confiscation proceedings every year as a forensic accountant appointed on behalf of the criminal defence team, I can’t fail but to notice the lack of consistency with the Crown’s approach in … Read more…
There has always been a significant use of tax legislation in the fight against serious and organised crime. Al Capone was a raketeer, an extortionist and a murderer, yet was put behind bars for tax evasion. Since the Proceeds of … Read more…
The Labour government has been criticised widely for the huge raft of legislation it has introduced in its 12 or so years of reign. Much of it has been lengthy and often arguably unnecessary. The burden of regulation on any business … Read more…
Organised criminals such as fraudsters, drug dealers and people traffickers all deal in large amounts of criminal proceeds. They need some way to manage this money, so they can spend it without the authorities seeing that it is proceeds of … Read more…
Confiscation Proceedings and POCA indictments within fraud cases impact a large proportion of the work carried out at Mark Jenner & Co. We see case after case involving anything from a few £1000 being stolen from the DWP to confiscations … Read more…
In the UK, the interpretation of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 when using asset confiscation as a weapon in the criminal regulators’ arsenal of sanctions will continue to develop and solidify over time. However, in recent years it seems … Read more…