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Suspected Money Launderer Loses £10 million to Unexplained Wealth Order

21 December 2020 by Wells Burcombe

Suspected Money Launderer Loses £10 million to Unexplained Wealth Order

A suspected major money launderer surrendered around £10 million worth of property after being served with an Unexplained Wealth Order (UWO) by investigators from the National Crime Agency (NCA). Leeds businessman Mansoor Mahmood Hussain is believed to have acted closely with gangsters and criminals, laundering their profits through a property empire that has been operating […]

Filed Under: Crime Tagged With: crime, money laundering, Proceeds of Crime, proceeds of crime and confiscation (POCA)

Unexplained Wealth Orders explained

7 March 2019 by Jo McMillin

Unexplained Wealth Orders explained

Unexplained Wealth Orders (UWOs) became law in the UK in January 2018 as part of the Criminal Finances Act 2017. It is a court order compelling an individual to reveal the source or sources of their ‘unexplained wealth’. The first use of a UWO in the UK hit the headlines recently. As the National Crime Agency (NCA) looks […]

Filed Under: Crime Tagged With: money laundering, national crime agency, politically exposed person, Proceeds of Crime, serious crime, unexplained wealth order, UWO

Financial remedies in the Family Court and the impact of criminal proceedings

1 February 2017 by Wells Burcombe

Financial remedies in the Family Court and the impact of criminal proceedings

Circumstances can arise whereby there is something of an interaction between proceedings in the Crown Court and financial remedy proceedings being pursued in the family Courts. This can prove problematical if for example a restraint or confiscation order is imposed by the Crown Court, usually under the provisions of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 […]

Filed Under: Crime, Family Tagged With: Confiscation, criminal, Family Court, Matrimonial Causes, POCA, Proceeds of Crime

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