Best-In-Class Specialist HMRC Tax Investigation Money Laundering Solicitors at Bark & Co Law Firm Act for Client and his HMRC Employee Wife Charged with Cheating The Revenue by Improperly using a Web of Multiple Company Registrations & Bank Accounts
Operation Nightgown
We are acting for RR who has been charged together with this wife following an HMRC investigation into substantial money laundering over the period 2015 to 2018.
The defendants are said to have laundered some £3.3m, which has been facilitated by the registering of companies and the opening of numerous personal and business bank accounts. RR’s wife was employed by HMRC from May 2000 until she was suspended and dismissed due to the investigation, and RR claimed on several applications to open bank accounts that he worked either for HMRC or the Ministry of Defence.
The defendants operated a substantial network of companies and bank accounts, with the accounts all following the same modus operandi of bank transfer credits being received followed by cash withdrawals on the same day or the following day. Total receipts into the accounts amounted to nearly £4m, with c. £3.3m being received from seven source companies and then redistributed.
