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At Southwark Crown Court today, Kevin James Steele, a former partner of the solicitors' firm Mishcon de Reya (MDR) was convicted of forgery and two fraud offences. Two other defendants pleaded guilty before trial. They are all to be sentenced on 9th January 2012.
Case update 5 December 2011 On 22 October 2010 the defendant, James Baird, was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for contempt of court when he wilfully breached the terms of a Restraint Order made on 14th June 2010 preventing him from dealing with his assets.
All six defendants in the Gresham Ltd case have now been jailed. Following the sentencing of Edward Davenport and two others in September, the remaining three convicted defendants, David McHugh, David Horsfall and Richard Stephens, were given custodial sentences by HHJ Higgins at Southwark Crown Court today.
A new service is launched today for confidential reporting of suspected fraud or corruption. "SFO Confidential" is now live on-line for concerned individuals to help expose situations that might deserve a closer look. Anyone in an organisation or connected through business or providers of professional services, and with some inside knowledge of suspect practices, can call a dedicated team of trained SFO operatives.
Former chief executives of the Innospec business, Dennis Kerrison and Paul Jennings appeared before Westminster Magistrates' Court today on charges surrounding alleged corrupt payments to gain public contracts in Indonesia. Mr Jennings is also charged in relation to Iraq.
Dr David Turner appeared before Westminster Magistrates' Court today. He is charged with alleged offences of conspiring to make corrupt payments to public officials in Indonesia and Iraq to secure contracts for Innospec Ltd for the supply of its products.
Victor Michael Phillip Dahdaleh, an international businessman, has been arrested today and charged with corruption offences relating to contracts for the supply of aluminium to Bahrain. He has been released on conditional police bail to appear at City of Westminster Magistrates' Court on 31 October 2011.
A guilty plea entered today at Southwark Crown Court completes the prosecution of six defendants over two trials in a £4 million commercial loans advance fee fraud between 2006 and 2009 operating as Gresham Ltd. With reporting restrictions now lifted the convictions of Edward Davenport, Peter Riley and Borge Andersen in May can now be published alongside the convictions of David Horsfall , Richard Stephens and David McHugh who all pleaded guilty before the second trial, due to commence today.
Seven men, who collaborated in a Spanish based boiler- room operation, were sentenced at Ipswich Crown Court today to a total of 39 and a half years' imprisonment for conducting an £8 million investment fraud. Following a trial, six defendants were convicted by the jury on the 12 September.
Seven men are facing jail after being convicted at Ipswich Crown Court for their roles in a boiler-room fraud that pulled in over £8 million. The Spanish-based operation targeted thousands of investors in the UK applying high pressure telesales techniques to push shares in a bio-diesel company, Worldwide Bio Refineries.
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