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HMRC raids on football clubs have made news headlines more frequently of late, the most recent seeing HMRC officers raiding the premises of Oldham Athletic Football Club as part of an investigation into the Club’s tax affairs. It is understood that HMRC officers seized a large quantity of paperwork and hard drives from the club’s […]

Extradition is the enforcement process whereby an individual is transferred from one legal jurisdiction to another, thereby enabling that individual to  either face trial for an alleged criminal offence or serve a prison sentence which has already been imposed in the requesting jurisdiction. Cagin Husnu of Kangs Solicitors comments further on extradition proceedings. Bars to […]

With the ever increasing volume of allegations of offences of an historic sexual nature, solicitors engaged in defending clients charged with such offences must have reliable knowledge of the current law relating to such offences and the manner in which it has developed from previous law. This importance became apparent in a recent judgment handed […]

Successful Conclusion Achieved | Kangs POCA Specialist Solicitors The Confiscation proceedings were very complicated and the Prosecution sought to recover a figure in excess of £120,000 by way of a Confiscation Order plus costs. The previous articles have highlighted the challenging difficulties which confronted our client at the outset and the manner in which they […]

It was announced on the 11th December 2017 that the government is to set up a new National Economic Crime Centre (NECC) in order to ‘task and coordinate the response to economic crime’. Kangs Solicitors are regularly instructed by companies and individuals who find themselves being prosecuted for alleged crimes involving financial fraud. Frances Murray […]

Not every investigation by the authorities results in a prosecution before a Crown Court. Under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (‘POCA’) there is provision for proceedings to be issued in the civil courts for the recovery of assets that the investigating authority believes to have been acquired with the proceeds of crime derived from […]