If you or your business is under investigation for money laundering, or you’re suspicious of a client’s activity, call our expert solicitors right away to find out how we can help. We can advise and direct you through each step of an investigation, and get you the best outcome for you or your organisation.
Being convicted of money laundering can lead to lengthy prison sentences, and even just being investigated can have a negative impact on your or your business. Our expert team can help protect you and give you the strongest possible defence throughout the investigation.
If you run a business, it’s important to get specialist regulatory advice regularly, to make sure your compliance procedures comply with UK regulations. This will make sure your business is protected. If you’re unsure or you’d like advice about complying with UK regulations, our solicitors can help.
If you’re facing criminal charges relating to money laundering, it’s best you get in touch with a specialist money laundering solicitor as soon as possible. We can represent you and prepare your defence from the outset to get you the best outcome possible.
We know you may need us at any time, so we’re available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week on 0808 291 3945.
What Is Money Laundering?
Money laundering is when money made through crime is put through the financial system and made to appear to be clean money from a legitimate source.
Money laundering can be split into two distinct areas:
- Failure to comply with the Money Laundering Regulations 2017
Certain kinds of regulated businesses must put measures in place to help prevent money laundering. Businesses also have to report any suspicious activity in a Suspicious Activity Report to the National Crime Agency (NCA). When a business fails to do this, the NCA can conduct a regulatory enforcement investigation, impose regulatory penalties or prosecute the business. If your business is being investigated by the NCA, we can offer thorough and effective legal representation.
- Criminal offences related to money laundering
These include concealing, converting, transferring or removing money that was gained illegally. Money laundering offences can relate to both money gained from your own criminal conduct or someone else’s.
Typically there are three stages of money laundering:
- Placement – This is when illegally made money (“dirty money”) is disguised by being placed into a legitimate financial system, such as an off-shore account.
- Layering – This is when someone creates a complex web of transactions to move dirty money within the financial system, usually via various off-shore accounts. This makes it difficult for authorities to detect as the criminal strategically moves the money around to cover the trail of where the money originally came from.
- Integration – The dirty money is then absorbed into the economy through a legitimate transaction to create a plausible explanation for where the money came from. The criminal can now use the dirty money because it appears to have come from a legal source.
How Can We Help?
We can help you if you run a business or if you’re an individual under investigation for money laundering.
If you run a business, we can advise you on whether your business is regulated and what you need to do comply with the Money Laundering Regulations 2017. We can also defend your business in any regulatory or criminal investigation. If the police or regulatory body have accused you of money laundering or inadequate compliance with the 2017 Regulations, we can help.
If you are an individual accused of money laundering, we can defend you in any criminal investigation or prosecution.
Our experienced solicitors can help you through any of these events. We’ll make sure you’re kept informed and well represented throughout your case, giving you greater confidence and control during the investigation.
We’ve been involved in some of the largest money laundering investigations in the UK and we can also advise on cases with an international element. No case is too complex for us, so whatever your circumstances, you should contact our expert team.
We have experience in advising and representing clients through various kinds of money laundering investigations, including:
- NCA suspicious activity reports
- Interviews under caution or compulsion
- Compulsory document or information requests
- Execution of search warrants in offices and homes
- Seizure of property, restraint orders, and property and account freezing
- Criminal charges
- Prosecution in Magistrates’ or Crown Court
- Judicial Review.
We understand that you may need us at any time, so we make sure we’re available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week on 0808 291 3945.
Why Choose Us?
As UK money laundering regulations are so broad and complex, you stand a much better chance of a positive outcome if you get advice from a specialist money laundering solicitor. Our expert team can give you clear advice that’s free from jargon and tailored to you and your business, no matter what sector you work in.
Our advice is realistic, cost effective and backed up by years of experience of complex money laundering cases. Working with our experienced solicitors gives you more control. If you’re being prosecuted, investigated, or you’re under threat of an investigation, you’ll want the best legal team defending you.
We understand that funding your case may be an issue if you’ve been affected by money laundering or you’re under investigation. We offer flexibility in our fees to help you get the legal representation you need.
We have offices across the UK, as well as an extensive international network of other law firms we can liaise with, so we’re on hand to help wherever you’re based.
If you or your business is facing charges relating to money laundering, or if you’re already under investigation, we could help right away. Give us a call on 0808 271 2602 or get in touch online.
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