Posts by Deepak Vij
ABV Success: UK-US Extradition
Deepak Vij, Director and Amirah Ajaz, Partner of ABV solicitors successfully defend and prevent their client Jabir Siddiq, referred to in court as Jabir Motiwala, from being extradited to the U.S on charges of Narcotics Importation, Extortion and Money Laundering. Read more here.
Read MoreABV Win: UK-US Extradition
Press Release: Deepak Vij, Director and Amirah Ajaz, Partner of ABV solicitors successfully defend and prevent their client Jabir Siddiq, referred to in court as Jabir Motiwala, from being extradited from the U.K to the U.S on charges of Narcotics Importation, Extortion and Money Laundering. This was a long, complex and high- profile extradition case…
Read MoreEncroChat Acquittal
Article by Deepak Vij and Rohit Sharma R v S & Oths – Operation Salesperson & Operation Soku – Snaresbrook Crown Court Deepak Vij, Partner and Rohit Sharma, Senior Solicitor of the Fraud and Complex Crime department at ABV Solicitors successfully obtain an acquittal on a large Conspiracy to Import Class A drug case concerning…
Read MoreEncrochat: Acquittal
Deepak Vij, Partner at ABV Solicitors and Senior Solicitor Rohit Sharma successfully induce the CPS to offer no evidence on a multi-million-pound EncroChat case concerning a conspiracy to import a vast amount of class A drugs. Challenges were made to the attribution evidence of an EncroChat handle which was linked to the defendant. Counsel instructed…
Read MoreBounce Back Loans Fraud
Article by: Deepak Vij, Partner at ABV Solicitors Bounce Back Loans Scheme (BBLS) Fraud ABV Solicitors are currently advising and representing a number of suspects in respect of alleged fraudulent applications for Bounce Back Loans. The NCA (The National Crime Agency), working in conjunction with NATIS (The National Investigation Service) and other law enforcement agencies…
Read MoreEncroChat Phones – Hacked
Deepak Vij, Partner at ABV Solicitors, discusses the events so far in an Article and with the Mail Online following raids carried out by the NCA and the Met Police.
Read MoreEncrochat Phones Hacked
Article by: Deepak Vij In June 2020, it is believed that the National Crime Agency (NCA) and other international law enforcement agencies including Europol have successfully hacked into the Encrochat encrypted phones culminating in a large scale and coordinated operation across Europe resulting in a wave of arrests of many suspects involved in serious and…
Read MoreCOVID-19 and Prisons. Is there a way out for vulnerable prisoners?
Article by: Deepak Vij and Katherine Higgs As the ongoing panic about the spread of COVID-19 continues across the globe many people are working from home and self-isolating with friends and family. Perversely ‘isolation’ is playing out rather differently inside UK prisons. The virus is spreading at an alarming rate, with 247,806 confirmed cases in…
Read MoreThe Bribery Act: Commercial Organisations
Article by: Deepak Vij and Taimoor Tarafdar. On 1st July 2011 the Bribery Act 2010 came into force. Under section 7 of the Act a company is liable to prosecution if any associated person engages in bribery, unless the company can show that it had in place adequate procedures to prevent such conduct. But what…
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