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Fraud & Financial Crime

Financial crime cases are won in the detail. ASL defends complex fraud and confiscation proceedings with forensic precision.

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Defending complex financial crime

Fraud and financial crime investigations are often lengthy, document-heavy, and conducted by specialist agencies. A conviction can mean imprisonment, confiscation of assets and lasting reputational harm.

Our team has the commercial and forensic understanding to defend complex fraud cases and to take on confiscation proceedings under the Proceeds of Crime Act, where what is at stake is everything you own.

“Confiscation can cost you everything you have built. We fight the figures as hard as the charge.”

Offences we regularly defend

Fraud by false representation and by abuse of position

Money laundering and proceeds of crime

Confiscation and restraint proceedings (POCA)

Benefit fraud and revenue/tax fraud

How ASL defends your case

We work through the documentation methodically, instruct forensic accountants where needed, and challenge the prosecution’s assertions about benefit, criminal lifestyle and available assets.

Forensic accounting and document analysis

Challenge to confiscation ‘benefit’ and ‘available amount’

Early engagement with the investigating agency

Our goal is not only acquittal where it can be won, but the protection of your assets at every stage.

If you or someone you care about has been arrested or invited for a voluntary interview, do not answer questions until you have spoken to us. The earliest advice is the most valuable advice.

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Charges we defend

Fraud & financial crime offences we cover

We defend complex and document-heavy financial crime under the Fraud Act 2006, the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 and related legislation.

Fraud by false representation

s.2 Fraud Act 2006

Fraud by failing to disclose

s.3 Fraud Act 2006

Fraud by abuse of position

s.4 Fraud Act 2006

Conspiracy to defraud

Common Law

Obtaining services dishonestly

s.11 Fraud Act 2006

Possession of articles for use in fraud

s.6 Fraud Act 2006

Money laundering

s.327–329 POCA 2002

Confiscation & restraint proceedings

s.6 & s.41 Proceeds of Crime Act 2002(confiscation — s.6; restraint orders — s.41)

Benefit fraud

s.111A Social Security Administration Act 1992(dishonest representations) and/or Fraud Act 2006

Tax & revenue fraud (HMRC)

s.106A Taxes Management Act 1970 and/or Finance Act 2000 / Fraud Act 2006 in practice often charged under the Fraud Act 2006, so Fraud Act 2006 / TMA 1970

Mortgage & insurance fraud

s.2 Fraud Act 2006

Cheating the public revenue

common law

Bribery

Bribery Act 2010

Forgery & counterfeiting

Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981(s.1 for forgery, s.14–16 for counterfeiting currency)

Computer misuse / cybercrime

CMA 1990

Making or supplying articles for use in fraud

s.7 Fraud Act 2006 (distinct from s.6 possession)

Participating in a fraudulent business

s.9 Fraud Act 2006

Money laundering, failure to disclose

s.330 POCA 2002

This list is not exhaustive and is provided for general guidance only. If the charge you are facing is not shown here, we almost certainly defend it
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