• R v NA & others
• Birmingham Crown Court
• Money laundering

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• Operation Patton
• R v AY & others
• Newcastle Crown Court
• Money laundering

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• Operation Heartland
• R v RJ & others
• Lincoln Crown Court
• Conspiracy to import legal highs
• Conspiracy to Supply legal highs

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• R v IP & others
• Preston Crown Court
• Conspiracy to supply Class A drugs (heroin and cocaine), contrary to section 1(1) of the Criminal Law Act 1977

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• R v AS & others
• Cardiff Crown Court
• Money Laundering

Converting Criminal Property contrary to Section 327 (1) (c) of the proceeds of Crime Act 2002

Acquisition of Criminal Property Section 329 (1) (a) of the proceeds of Crime Act 2002

Transferring Criminal Property contrary to Section 327 (1) (d) of the proceeds of Crime Act 2002

• Total value of money involved being 5.1 Million
• 10 defendants laundered the proceeds from numerous online frauds which targeted people abroad. As a result of these frauds, victims would transfer money to bank accounts held by these defendants or through Western Union. This money would then be transferred to the banks account of the three lead defendants.
• Money would be transferred from the accounts of defendants to other defendants, each time the amounts would be minus 7%.
• Defendants based in Manchester, Liverpool and Cardiff.
• All victims lived abroad. Victims included people living in U.S, Canada, Germany, Spain, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Far East.
• Types of fraud include Online dating, Spanish Lottery, Advance fee and others.
• Investigation began August 3011, when a victim of dating fraud from New York complained to South Wales Police.

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• Operation Barber
• R v JN & others
• Southwark Crown Court

Fraudulent trading contrary to Section 458 of the Companies Act 1985.

• Prosecuting Authority being The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
• A vast amount of stock here was acquired by each of the 9 companies involved in the fraud within a relatively short period of time. The total estimated losses to creditors in respect of the 7 companies that we are dealing with in this case amounted to £3,437,000.

• The 7 companies span a period which runs from the middle of August 2000 until the end of July 2007.

• The goods ordered by the company will be goods with a high turnover and therefore easily disposable. In this case they included building materials, but also toys, wines and spirits, computers, furniture, petrol and diesel, and mobile phones. Evidence you might think of a planned fraud from the outset as many of the ordered items had no connection with the trade of the ordering company.

• There are 6 defendants on the indictment. It is our case that they were involved in running 7 of the 9 fraudulent companies used in this fraud.

• • You will see that some defendants are involved in one company [Sukhi Samrai, Williams and Eric Harris], others are involved in 2 [Noon], 3 [Calvin Harris], and 4 [Ludgate].

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