Business Crime & Financial Services
Daniel has extensive experience defending company directors and business professionals facing the full range of financial misconduct, with an enviable record of success.
Commercially astute, tactical and with a talent for getting to the very core of even the most complex and voluminous of cases with ease, Daniel has represented clients charged with large-scale MTIC and boiler room frauds, mortgage fraud, money laundering and fraudulent trading as well as in associated confiscation proceedings. A number of his cases have had an international dimension.
Notable cases:
R v PS
Carbon credit fraud (Operation Toll; Operation Liquid) Instructed on behalf of a company director alleged to have masterminded the laundering of the proceeds of more than 20 ‘boiler room’ frauds.
R v DR
International money-laundering operation involving the transfer of millions of pounds through front companies purporting to import alcoholic drinks. Acquitted following successful submission of no case to answer.
R v MB
Cheating the Revenue. Acted for the first defendant in a multi-million pound case arising from the non-payment of capital gains tax.
R v VE
Six-handed trial for conspiracy to launder money through a money service bureau in the West End. Complete acquittal.
R v GH
Multi-million-pound confiscation proceedings stayed as an abuse of process on the ground that the prosecution had failed to act within the spirit of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002.