Kangs Solicitors represented a client in relation to Operation Airbrick which was a large scale money laundering investigation brought by HMRC. HMRC alleged the money laundering amounted to in excess of £20 million and was derived from duty evasion. Our client stood trial along with 3 other defendants at Chelmsford Crown Court. After a 7-week trial ending […]
19/03/15
Operation Wayfarer was a West Mercia Police Serious and Organised Crime Unit investigation into a multi-million pound enterprise to import and distribute controlled drugs from China and India into the UK. The case specifically involved delivery addresses and false names being provided to the Chinese company, which facilitated 38 separate importations of Methylethylcathinone drugs, totalling […]
19/03/15
We were instructed by our client ‘SA’ after his assets were restrained by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO). It was alleged that our client had received a tainted gift £175,000 from the ‘AL brothers’, one of whom had been convicted of mortgage fraud, the other had absconded. Under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 the […]
16/03/15
Kangs Solicitors start a 2-month trial today at Teesside Crown Court in relation to a multi-million pounds mortgage fraud allegation (Operation Bamburgh 2). Our client is a legal professional and is one of 10 defendants standing trial. This is a large scale operation being prosecuted by the CPS with the investigation initially commencing in 2009. […]
09/03/15
Our Client pleaded guilty to conspiracy to steal and money laundering offences. The allegation related to trading in copper wire and the Prosecution case was that there was a significant dealing in cash. Following his guilty plea, our client faced confiscation proceedings under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 and the lifestyle assumptions were applied. […]
03/03/15
Cash Seizure specialist’s Kangs Solicitors are a firm who have experienced victory once again in a cash seizure case involving a substantial sum. The applicant in this matter, Kent Police, seized a significant sum of cash from our client when he was intercepted at a UK port on his way to Europe. Our client was […]
11/02/15
