Fraud covers a wide range of activities ranging from benefit fraud, through fraud against employers, to online scams, romance frauds, Ponzi schemes, all the way up to high value stock market fraud.
These offences are often accompanied by other allegations, such as forgery and money laundering. The detailed law of all these offences is covered in blog posts that you can find if you want to explore the law in detail. But, here we want to talk about how we can help you.
We always want to hear your side of the story. We want to know whether you even accept being involved in whatever scheme the police allege or whether you are an innocent victim too – see the case studies below. Once we know what you have to say, we will examine the prosecution evidence, often this is something we can do but if necessary we can instruct a forensic accountant to trace funds and identify the source of money as well as to challenge claims made by the prosecution.
Our job is to help you through the process, help you understand the evidence against you, and help you secure an acquittal. We work as a team, with you as ultimate team leader, to challenge the prosecution evidence and put forward your own coherent, and persuasive defence case.
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Case studies
A was accused of fraud having been caught using store gift cards that the police said were obtained by an employee processing fake refunds onto gift cards. A was accused of being part of the conspiracy to defraud the store and involved in the laundering of the criminal money from the employees fraudulent acts. A denied this and said that they were a student who had lent money to a friend, the gift cards had been given to them as repayment of that debt and they had no reason to believe that the gift cards were anything other than legit. After hearing A’s account, the police were convinced to take no further action against them.
B was accused of benefit fraud when HMRC notified the benefits agency that B was receiving interest on a significant amount of money in her bank account that left her ineligible for benefits. B was an elderly woman and upon speaking to her, it quickly became obvious that she was being used by other people who she trusted to hold money in bank accounts opened in her name but controlled by the other people. We were able to convince the court that she was herself an innocent victim of the criminal gang and she was acquitted of fraud.