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What is the Failure to Prevent Fraud Offence—and Why Does it Matter? Article by: Amirah Ajaz and Stefin Fenil Fraud accounts for more than 40% of all crime in England & Wales.[1] With that in mind, 1st September 2025 harkens a new chapter for corporate and economic criminal liability with the Failure to Prevent (“FTP”) […]

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Article by: Amirah Ajaz and Tomas Higginson The EU has introduced measures to ban the use of real-time data without the authorisation of the judiciary, including imposing limits on the use by the police of AI biometric surveillance. Unwarranted use of AI biometric surveillance will soon be banned in EU Member States. The European Union […]

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ABV Solicitors are proud to announce that we have been ranked for the 4th year running as one of the best law firms in The Times 2024 for: Fraud; Financial Crime; Regulatory; Crime;   Here is what The Times say about ABV Solicitors:   “In one of the largest prosecutions brought by Royal Mail, the […]

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  Article by: Claire Anderson Last year, a group of Bankers were hauled in front of a special government committee to explain why, what was meant to be an emergency lending scheme to support small/medium sized businesses caught in the grip of the Covid pandemic, turned into what was, certainly to a hugely significant extent, […]

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Benjamin Mendy and Louis Matturie Trial – Chester Crown Court – 13th January 2023 Robert Borwick and Hanisha Godhania of ABV Solicitors represented Louis Saha Matturie, the co-accused of Benjamin Mendy, in the high profile case before Chester Crown Court which began in August 2022. Mr Matturie was acquitted  of 5 counts of rape and […]

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Mel Kelemework from ABV Solicitors has secured another acquittal in a 10-handed sexual grooming case which was heard before Canterbury Crown Court and later moved to Southwark Crown Court. There were 10 Defendants in this case and ABV Solicitors represented MT who was number 7 on the indictment. One of the main reasons for the […]

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Article by: Rohit Sharma and Thekla Sorokkou The UK government has been criticised for several years about the lack of transparency in relation to economic crime which has allowed individuals to launder money through the UK. John Penrose, the prime minister’s anti-corruption “champion” acknowledged that it has taken too long for the UK government to […]

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Landmark Ruling from the Supreme Court Article by Amirah Ajaz, Partner and Tareq Munis   Privacy is an important issue which is always at the forefront of our minds when representing our clients. Many of our clients have been wrongly accused of serious fraud, bribery and corruption, money laundering or other serious crime. Reputational damage […]

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Article by Deepak Vij, Director and Head of the Fraud and Financial Crime department at ABV Solicitors.   Deepak Vij has been formally instructed by several suspects recently arrested by HMRC for their part in a Non-Fungible Token (NFT) fraud. They have all been released under investigation. The NFT market is a colossal multi-billion-pound industry […]