Property worth up to £8.1 million – including a villa in Tenerife, a Range Rover Evoque and 16 addresses in and around Bath in Somerset – have been recovered by the National Crime Agency (NCA) following a civil recovery and tax investigation. Four members of…
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Jolan Saunders and Michael Strubel, former company executives at Saunders Electrical Wholesalers Ltd, have been ordered to pay confiscation orders totalling £7,393,663.33. Saunders and Strubel have been ordered to pay £5,262,301.03 and £2,131,362.30 respectively. These totals represent the full realisable assets from their criminal benefit…
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According to Donald Toon, the National Crime Agency’s (NCA) director of economic and cyber crime, unexplained wealth orders (UWOs) are the much-needed weapon for waging war on the flow of dirty money into the UK. With Toon’s organisation having just begun its second case involving…
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Jailed unlicensed security director ordered to pay over £63,000 from proceeds of crime
by Brian SimsLast December at Teesside Crown Court, jailed security director Christopher Catchpole was ordered to pay back proceeds of crime amounting to £63,628. Catchpole, formerly of Pro-Lock Security Limited based in Durham, had previously been sentenced to 32 months in prison at Teesside Crown Court in June…
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National Crime Agency and international partners join forces to tackle global grand corruption
by Brian SimsA new multinational centre for co-ordinating law enforcement action against grand corruption has now been launched. The International Anti-Corruption Co-ordination Centre (IACCC), hosted by the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA), brings together specialist law enforcement officers from multiple jurisdictions at a single location to tackle allegations…
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The Home Affairs Select Committee has stated that the combination of “poor supervision and enforcement” in the London property investment market is creating a safe haven for laundering the proceeds of crime. As a result, the Committee is calling for much stronger supervision of agents, buyers and sellers.…
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The new Conservative Government has seemingly delayed its proposed plans to replace the Human Rights Act with a British Bill of Rights and Responsibilities. While many of the Conservative’s General Election Manifesto commitments appeared in the legislative agenda, the Queen’s Speech to Parliament today stated only that ‘proposals’…