Fraud and Financial Crime Consulting Ltd

17/10/2021

Embarrassing - training for Sgt required!!!

A contrived situation indeed but it would have greatly assisted the Officer if he actually understood the laws of Theft and Fraud.

He fell into the trap of acting as a debt collector.
Insufficient evident for s.3 Theft Act......there was no making off.
A more appropriate offence may have been s.11 FA 2006........but again.....payment required on the spot.......He was offering payment, Tescos were refusing legal tender.
No power of arrest here

Can you be lawfully arrested on a charge of ‘making off without payment’ when you are in fact- Not making off, but remaining on the premises where payment is expected; ANDOffering to pay your debt …

03/10/2021

ICIJ and the

Their new investigation is the most expansive exposé of financial secrecy yet. Coming tomorrow at 12:30 p.m. EDT, 4:30 p.m. GMT., it features reporting from more than 600 journalists from 150 media outlets in 117 countries across the globe.

“Are you ready for the ? This new investigation is our most expansive exposé of financial secrecy yet. Coming tomorrow at 12:30 p.m. EDT, 4:30 p.m. GMT., it features reporting from more than 600 journalists from 150 media outlets in 117 countries across the globe. https://t.co/Ew0Cn...

17/08/2021

Fraudsters occupy this space because we do

Kafui Okpattah investigates how cyber scammers use social media to promote fraud.

21/06/2021

Money Laundering costs lives

The Financial Action Task Force Plenary gets underway today. Delegates from around the world will meet for five days of virtual meetings. Follow Financial...

18/05/2021

Post Office Horizon- Sir Wyn Williams Inquiry gets placed on a statutory footing.
Witnesses will be compelled to give evidence and cross-examined.
Finally some teeth

Reporting the High Court class action against the UK Post Office

12/05/2021

Things are not looking good for Greensill and Cameron

Financial regulator announces move as 56 of ex-PM’s messages to Rishi Sunak, Michael Gove and others are released

27/04/2021

Where there's fear, there's money

If someone is charging you for a vaccine, it's probably fake.

23/04/2021

This is the most astonishing thing I have read in this trial to date
The Post Office Ltd Disclosure Officer felt it appropriate to withhold evidence 'because it might help the Defence'.
Shocking .....who trains these clowns?
Deliberate ....not error

23/04/2021

One of the most shameful episodes in British legal history has reached a milestone.
Convictions quashed.
Now to deal with those who were corrupt.....

Judges quash convictions of 39 former postmasters after the UK's most widespread miscarriage of justice.

11/04/2021

Probably the greatest scandal in British legal history.....shocking

The extraordinary story of a campaign to uncover a massive scandal at the Post Office.

10/03/2021

Its only ever one step away.

Eight warrants were executed today as part of an ongoing joint operation between Operation Remedy at Avon and Somerset Police and Operation Orochi in the Met Police.

10/03/2021

Covid, Students and Money Laundering

There were 17,157 cases of suspected money muling activity involving 21 to 30-year-olds in 2020, a 5% increase on 2019 (figures from Cifas)

Promises via social media to make "quick cash" are attracting those struggling for work, banks say.