“Immigration Minister Damian Green announced the expansion of the Biometric Residence Permits (BRPs) system to help tackle immigration abuse by proving a person’s right to work or access services in the UK.”
Home Office, 27th February 2012
Source: www.homeoffice.gov.uk
“Four private detectives have been given jail terms for conspiring to defraud people by ‘blagging’ personal information via persuasive phone calls.”
BBC News, 27th February 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Two members of a Romany gypsy family who flew in and out of Britain to pocket more than £800,000 in benefits have been ordered to pay back just £17.65.”
Daily Telegraph, 24th February 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Viren Rastogi, the London metals trading tycoon behind one of Britain’s biggest ever frauds, has been ordered to serve seven years behind bars on top of an initial sentence of nine-and-a-half years because he has failed to return millions of pounds defrauded from 20 international banks.”
The Guardian, 24th February 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A bank worker who siphoned off £167,000 from customers has been jailed for two-and-a-half years.”
BBC News, 24th February 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“‘Byzantine’ laws in England and Wales determining the affairs of those who go missing are so bewildering that they should be replaced with a simplified presumption of death act, a report by MPs proposes.”
The Guardian, 22nd February 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Five members of a car clamping operation that used motorists ‘as a licence to print money’ have been jailed for a total of almost eight years.”
The Guardian, 21st February 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A mother-of-six has been jailed for claiming benefits when she had over £180,000 hidden in nine bank accounts.”
BBC News, 17th February 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Mark James-Dawson, Crown Advocate for the CPS said:
‘This was a particularly brazen and audacious fraud, carried out on national television. Jean-Claude Baumgartner claimed to own software vital to the business opportunity he pitched on BBC’s Dragon’s Den, and went on to fabricate evidence of advance orders for his product from overseas retailers and the world famous department store, Harrods.'”
Crown Prosecution Service, 17th February 2012
Source: blog.cps.gov.uk
“Prosecutors have recovered more than half a million pounds in assets from Anne Darwin, whose husband faked his own death in a sea canoeing accident so they could claim more than £600,000 in life insurance money.”
The Guardian, 14th February 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Four members of a criminal gang have been jailed for their roles in one of the biggest alcohol-smuggling frauds ever uncovered in Britain.”
The Guardian, 10th February 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Blight and others v Brewster: [2012] EWHC 165 (Ch); [2012] WLR (D) 26
“Bankrupts who were subject to an order for enforcement of a judgment had to take both the benefits and burdens of their bankruptcy and should not be allowed to hide their assets in pension funds when they had a right to withdraw monies needed to pay their creditors.”
WLR Daily, 9th February 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“A Government-appointed taskforce is prepared to recommend changing the law if it finds ‘unnecessary legal barriers’ to the sharing of information under just-announced anti-fraud plans.”
OUT-LAW.com, 8th February 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“A lawyer has been struck off after admitting he stole £3 million from his company and clients in what a tribunal described as one of the worst cases of fraud it had encountered.”
Daily Telegraph, 7th February 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A bogus therapist and his wife who told women they could diagnose and treat cancer have been found guilty of sexual assault and fraud.”
BBC News, 3rd February 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A benefits cheat has been jailed after claiming more than £33,000 in state handouts despite owning a £1.1 million property portfolio.”
Daily Telegraph, 3rd February 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The trial of Achilleas Kallakis, the onetime Mayfair property tycoon accused of using forged paperwork to trick banks, including HBOS and Allied Irish Bank, into lending £750m, has collapsed after four months. A retrial has been ordered.”
The Guardian, 30th January 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A Church of England vicar was jailed for two and a half years today after carrying out dozens of sham marriages allowing illegal immigrants to live in the UK.”
The Independent, 26th January 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Schmitt v Deichmann and others [2012] EWHC 62 (Ch); [2012] WLR (D) 8
“The court had an inherent jurisdiction under the common law to permit the statutory power under section 423 of the Insolvency Act 1986, preventing transactions defrauding creditors, to be applied to a foreign administrator not falling within the express scope of the 1986 Act.”
WLR Daily, 23rd January 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) may formally investigate alleged corruption at firms that self-report the activity but will be mindful not to harm the company’s reputation, the head of the organisation has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 24th January 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
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