Confiscation Proceedings
11th Jun 2024
News
Partner Gerry McDonald has been instructed by the second defendant and two others defendants in a 28 hander HMRC case (Operation Eider).The mechanism of the cheat was that companies controlled by the defendants rece...
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26th Jun 2019
News
Disqualified Directors
Recently, three men from Halifax were convicted after one of them was found to have run a company whilst disqualified. The other two were convicted of assisting him.
If you're thi...
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11th Mar 2019
News
Facilitating Tax Evasion
HMRC is reported to be investigating alleged violations of a new criminal offence, part of the crackdown on money laundering, for the first time.
A freedom of information reques...
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13th Feb 2019
News
Pensions - Time to Rethink Corporate Responsibility
The government has published proposals to punish individuals who mishandle pension scheme management. Two new offences are proposed.
The first will ta...
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5th Jul 2018
News
Participating in Organised Crime
Section 45 of the Serious Crime Act 2015 makes it is an offence to participate in the activities of an organised crime group, this is a new offence created by the 2015 legislatio...
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2nd Jan 2018
News
Confiscation –Money for Old Money
If you were able to listen in to a conference between client and solicitor, you might hear an exchange a little like this one:
'What am I looking at?'
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