Legal News & Expert Insights

KANGS has assisted a senior National Health Service (NHS) Consultant in successfully defending fraud allegations. The investigators alleged that he had, fraudulently undertaken and received payment for private clinical work during periods when he was contracted to, and being paid by the NHS. Following the detailed preparation of our client’s defence by the team at […]

As part of its drive to reduce the ‘tax gap,’ being the difference between the amount of tax HMRC collects and the amount it estimates is actually owed, HMRC operates a powerful data networking and analytical system known as HMRC Connect. The system enables HMRC to identify businesses or individuals that may not have paid […]

KANGS has successfully assisted our client, a company director specialising in the provision of IT services, defeat allegations that he had committed fraud by abusing his position, with the assistance of a contact within the police service, when seeking the award of police IT contracts. The team at KANGS guided our client through a complex […]

Companies House has introduced a new identity verification process whereby anyone setting up, running, owning or controlling a company in the UK must verify their identity, as newly prescribed. The new requirements arise from The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (‘the ECCTA’), which forms part of a wider government initiative to improve transparency […]

Where a confiscation order has been made and has not been satisfied or subject to an appeal, an application may be made to appoint an Enforcement Receiver. The Enforcement Receiver is tasked with enforcing the confiscation order in respect of the defendant’s realisable property. KANGS has successfully assisted a client defeat an application by the […]

Money laundering covers financial transactions, both small or large in value, where there exists an attempt to disguise money or the monetary value of other assets which have been illegally obtained, with the intent of subsequently releasing that money onto the marketplace in a manner which makes it appear to be legitimate. In every day […]