Tyrone Belger

Business Crime & Financial Services

Tyrone is currently instructed for the CEO and director of a number of bio fuel companies eligible for EU grants and subsidies to develop an important alternative fuel source and who is alleged to have defrauded professional investors out of millions of pounds.

He is currently instructed for an employee and son of the director of a building company said to have defrauded customers by false claims as to the necessity for and quality of work completed.

Cases

R v C

London – Blackfriars: 10 handed £14 million conspiracy to commit bank account, computer and email fraud on companies including multi nationals, solicitors and targeted wealthy individuals; acting for nurse accused of laundering money from the conspiracy across 4 years.

R v S

Tyrone and Lewis MacDonald represented an ex-employee of the Metropolitan Police accused of defrauding the Met of six-figure sums. The prosecution alleged that whilst working in a senior role in the Met’s procurement department the defendant awarded fake IT contracts to sham companies created by members of his family. His brother ran a parallel fraud in his role in the procurement department of an international company, again awarding what the prosecution allege to have been non-existent contracts to the same sham companies.

R v Hoque

Tyrone appeared on behalf of the prosecution.

Prosecuted senior accountant at Office of Fair Trading for large-scale fraud on the OFT.

Operation Rust

Tyrone appeared on behalf of the defence.

Junior defence counsel instructed to represent owner of a bonded warehouse in one of the largest-ever alcohol diversion frauds prosecuted by HM Revenue and Customs.

R v Bashir

Tyrone appeared as leading defence junior.

Conspiracy to defraud the Revenue: VHCC multi handed large scale tax evasion case prosecuted by QC and 2 juniors based on company fraud over many years.

R v Iqbal

Tyrone appeared as leading defence junior.

Conspiracy to defraud immigration service and social security system: Multi-handed trial prosecuted by QC and 2 juniors; large scale systematic abuse of asylum seeker claims in Thames Valley: largest prosecution of its kind at the time.