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Criminal Litigation, Legal Highs & Psychoactive Substances
Kangs Solicitors represented a client at Stafford Crown Court charged with conspiracy to supply a substantial amount of class A drugs. The case was largely based on telephone evidence including cell site analysis and observation evidence which appeared to implicate a significant number of defendants in the case. Our client walked free from Stafford Crown […]
04/06/14
The trial starts today of a Midlands based Company facing allegations of fraud. Kangs Solicitors and John Jones QC are instructed on behalf of the Company. The trial is expected to last 6-8 weeks.
03/06/14
We successfully represented a client at Bristol Crown Court in Confiscation Proceedings which originally commenced in May 2013. The proceedings related to an organised conspiracy to facilitate the supply of significant amounts of cocaine from the West Midlands to Gloucestershire. The Prosecution asserted that our client was specifically involved in the movement of around £200,000 […]
02/06/14
Operation Metacarpal related to a conspiracy to acquire high value cars and plant machinery in the UK and remove them from the jurisdiction to the United Arab Emirates. It was estimated that the total value of the conspiracy was £1 million. The Prosecution concluded in their s16 Confiscation Statement that due to the discrepancy between […]
16/05/14
Kangs Solicitors successfully represented a client at Lewes Crown Court in long-running confiscation proceedings by ensuring that no finding of ‘hidden assets’ was made against our client. The Prosecution had initially sought over £500,000 in hidden assets from the client and had refused to concede any ground on this point. The prosecution alleged that our […]
07/04/14
Kangs Solicitors represented a client in confiscation proceedings at Kingston Upon Thames. The case related to a particular type of fraud referred to as Missing Trader Intra Community (MTIC) fraud or carousel fraud and is essentially theft of VAT from the Treasury. It was the HMRC case that the total amount of VAT repaid in […]
02/04/14