Preston Legal Masterclass 1

Comsure’s expert speakers in this first of 2 Masterclass seminars considere the following cases illustrating the recent focus of Economic Crime and Confiscation Unit [ECCU]:

1. Christopher Byrne – financial advisor – fraudulent inducement to invest money and providing false information to the JFSC - guilty
2. Kevin Manning - lawyer – fraud and money laundering - guilty
3. Joanne Jones – a local business owner - hiding and laundering drugs money - not guilty
4. Michelle Yuksel – a local business owner - fraudulent conversion – not guilty

Delegates who attended learnt about the cases above, and took away the following

• The wide variety of “fraud” offences within the Crown’s armoury
• The perception of an increase in the Crown’s appetite to pursue such cases.