Category: fraud

R v Sivaraman – WLR Daily

Posted July 28th, 2008 in conspiracy, fraud, law reports, proceeds of crime by sally

R v Sivaraman; [2008] WLR (D) 256

“There was no rule of law to the effect that, for the purposes of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, the amount of the benefit to each of the co-conspirators to a fraud must be taken as the whole amount of the loss attributable to the fraud: the amount of the benefit might vary as between the co-conspirators, and was to be determined on a common sense appreciation of the particular facts of the case.”

WLR Daily, 25th July 2008

Source: www.lawreports.co.uk

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Legal aid for canoe fraud couple – BBC News

Posted July 26th, 2008 in fraud, legal aid, news, proceeds of crime by sally

“Back-from-the-dead canoeist John Darwin and his wife Anne have been awarded legal aid to fight attempts to recover their assets.”

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BBC News, 25th July 2008

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Canoe couple’s assets frozen in attempt to retrieve £250,000 – The Guardian

Posted July 25th, 2008 in fraud, freezing injunctions, news by sally

“The assets of the fake canoe death couple, John and Anne Darwin, have been frozen in a first step towards retrieving the £250,000 they conned out of insurance companies, it emerged yesterday.”

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The Guardian, 25th July 2008

Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Canoe man and wife jailed for six years – The Independent

Posted July 23rd, 2008 in fraud, insurance, news, pensions, sentencing by sally

“John and Anne Darwin were each jailed for more than six years today for carrying out a £250,000 insurance con by faking his death in a canoeing accident.”

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The Independent, 23rd July 2008

Source: www.independent.co.uk

Increased powers to tackle fradusters – Attorney General’s Office

Posted July 21st, 2008 in compensation, Crown Court, fraud, press releases by sally

“Today the Attorney General Baroness Scotland will announce new measures that are designed to prevent fraudsters committing further offences, and ensure that they pay back all the victims of their crimes.”

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Attrorney-General’s Office, 18th July 2008

Source: http://www.attorneygeneral.gov.uk

Anne Darwin ‘played vital role’ in canoe man fraud – The Times

Posted July 15th, 2008 in fraud, insurance, news, pensions by sally

“The wife of John Darwin, the canoeist who faked his own drowning, played an ‘equal and vital role’ in the scheme to gain £250,000 in insurance and pension payouts by staging his death, a court heard today.”

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The Times, 14th July 2008

Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Serious Fraud Office v Lexi Holdings plc (in Administration) and M – WLR Daily

Posted July 14th, 2008 in confiscation, fraud, law reports, proceeds of crime, trusts by sally

Serious Fraud Office v Lexi Holdings plc (in Administration) and M [2008] EWCA Crim 1443; [2008] WLR (D) 235

“A restraint order should not be varied so as to allow for the payment of a debt to an unsecured creditor unless there was no conflict with the object of satisfying any confiscation order that had been or might be made.”

WLR Daily, 11th July 2008

Source: www.lawreports.co.uk

Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.

UBS fails in bid to fight sub-prime lawsuit in London – The Times

Posted July 9th, 2008 in banking, fraud, jurisdiction, news by sally

“The Swiss bank has been told by the High Court that it must defend itself against a £100m lawsuit in the US, not in London.”

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The Times, 8th July 2008

Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Fraud: Whitehall ‘doomed to lose £1bn of benefit payments every year’ – The Guardian

Posted July 8th, 2008 in benefits, fraud, government departments, news by sally

“The Whitehall department fighting benefit fraud and error will always lose more than £1bn of taxpayers’ cash every year to cheats and through mistakes, the civil servant running the department tells MPs in a letter published today.”

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The Guardian, 8th July 2008

Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Benefit fraud ‘needs firm action’ – BBC News

Posted July 8th, 2008 in benefits, fraud, news, prosecutions by sally

“The government needs to do more to prosecute suspected benefit fraudsters, MPs have said.”

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BBC News, 8th July 2008

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Fraudster known as the Bogus Contessa is jailed – Daily Telegraph

Posted July 4th, 2008 in fraud, news, sentencing by sally

“A convicted fraudster has been jailed for posing as an incredibly wealthy noblewoman to con the life-savings out of vulnerable victims.”

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Daily Telegraph, 3rd July 2008

Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Barrister jailed for £17.5m aircraft scam – The Times

Posted July 1st, 2008 in barristers, fraud, news, sentencing, VAT by sally

“A barrister was jailed for five years today after an ‘audacious’ bid to pocket £17.5 million in VAT through the sale of four imaginary Boeing 747 engines.”

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The Times, 1st July 2008

Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Elderly abusers to be targeted by Crown Prosecution Service – Daily Telegraph

Posted July 1st, 2008 in assault, elderly, fraud, news, threatening behaviour by sally

“People who pick on and abuse the elderly will be treated more harshly under a government crackdown to be announced next month.”

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Daily Telegraph, 28th June 2008

Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Food poison alert after fraudsters steal trader’s identity to place £2m orders – The Times

Posted June 30th, 2008 in food, fraud, news by sally

“A national food poisoning alert linked to meat and fish products has been issued after a fraud of least £2million, The Times has learnt.”

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The Times, 30th June 2008

Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Jessica de Grazia Full Report into the Serious Fraud Office – Attorney General’s Office

Posted June 11th, 2008 in fraud, reports, Serious Fraud Office by sally

Review of the Serious Fraud Office: Final Report, June 2008 (PDF)

Attorney General’s Office, 10th June 2008

Source: www.attorneygeneral.gov.uk

Fraud office comes under scrutiny – BBC News

Posted June 10th, 2008 in fraud, news, Serious Fraud Office by sally

“The Serious Fraud Office’s conviction rate has dropped from 82% to 61% in five years, a report has found.”

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BBC News, 10th June 2008

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

‘Crippled’ benefit fraud jailed – BBC News

Posted June 6th, 2008 in benefits, fraud, news, sentencing by sally

“A man who said he could barely walk and claimed £90,000 in benefits has been jailed for 18 months after fraud inspectors filmed him playing football.”

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BBC News, 6th June 2008

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Multimillion-pound metal fraudster Virendra Rastogi jailed – The Times

Posted June 6th, 2008 in fraud, news, sentencing by sally

“For six years Virendra Rastogi posed as the highly successful and respectable chief executive of a multibillion-pound metal trading company. His home was in Mayfair, a short chauffeur-driven trip from his offices in Piccadilly, his children were at private school and his customers were dotted around the world. But all was not quite as it appeared. The business, backed by banks in Britain and the United States, was ‘propped up by dishonesty’, the customers were Rastogi’s accomplices and his customers’ addresses included a New Jersey launderette and a cowshed in India.”

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The Times, 6th June 2008

Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

‘Dog patient’ dentist is jailed – BBC News

Posted May 22nd, 2008 in dentists, fraud, news, sentencing by sally

“A dentist and his wife who stole more than £30,000 from the NHS by claiming money for treatment never given to patients have been jailed.”

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BBC News, 20th may 2008

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Last of NatWest Three enters US jail – The Guardian

Posted May 8th, 2008 in fraud, news, plea bargaining, sentencing by sally

” The three former NatWest bankers sentenced to 37 months imprisonment for fraud offences relating to the collapse of Enron will all be behind bars in the US tomorrow after the last of the trio reports to a Californian jail.”

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The Guardian, 8th May 2008

Source: www.guardian.co.uk