Meanwhile, no - one goes to prison
for fraud offences running into tens, or possibly hundreds of millions of pounds.
In this case DLA represented a client charged by the SFO
with fraud offences concerning a company called Torex Retail Ltd of which this client had been a director.
«Any ambition which the SFO director had of projecting the SFO into a Department of Justice equivalent doing deals across the spectrum of
serious fraud offences with companies and determining where the public interest lies is now in the realm of fantasy» (see Law in the headlines, p 783).
Douglas Rudolph and Peter Mill were charged in a multi-count Indictment before the Nova Scotia Supreme Court alleging various
fraud offences arising out of their involvement with the CanGlobe group of companies.
A barrister is to be disbarred for dishonest conduct following convictions for a range
of fraud offences amounting to about # 900,000.
The details are very important when it comes to prosecuting fraud; there are very many different state and
federal fraud offences.
Tuckers Solicitors specialist lawyers have successfully defended allegations of boiler
room fraud offences arising under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000.
Prosecuting authorities are increasingly eager to take advantage of the wide range of offences that constitute money laundering and which allow them to spread their investigative net wider than just those individuals who are charged with
fraud offences alone.
representing professionals accused of criminal offences in the course of their employment ranging from serious sexual offences to
fraud offences.
The wide ambit of ss 2 — 4 which define how
the fraud offence created by s 1 can be committed, coupled with sub-s (4), ensures that the privilege will apply to a variety of offences which reasonably might not be described as frauds.
Trial judges, if not the government, believe juries can cope with serious
fraud offences.
He added: «Given that the individual defendants would be in a breach of trust scenario they would be looking at the higher end of sentencing for
the fraud offences.