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March
PCB Litigation has been retained to make an application to the European Court of Human Rights in a substantial international fraud case.
On 9 March Anthony Riem appeared on BBC News to discuss how the bringing of financial charges against Terry Adams reflected a growing trend in targeting the assets of organised crime to successfully combat fraud.
On 7 March Steven Philippsohn was quoted by the BBC as saying that the latest fraud estimates provided by the Association of Chief Police Officers did not reflect the true scale of the problem. This was because incidents of fraud were under-reported which was in part caused by the low priority assigned to fraud by governments in recent years, and a steady slide in the number of police available to deal with it.
PCB Litigation has been instructed in relation to the removal of a fraudulent banking website.
February
On 16 February Anthony Riem presented a paper on International Aspects of Money Laundering.
On 14 February Anthony Riem appeared on BBC News to discuss the fine of £980,000.00 imposed by the Financial Services Authority upon the Nationwide following the theft of a laptop computer containing confidential information.
In the February issue of The In-House Lawyer Anthony Riem wrote an article on the subject of Identity Fraud. Please see the attached article.
Also in the February issue of The In-House Lawyer Steven Philippsohn was quoted on the subject of electronic investigation of fraud.
PCB Litigation have been retained to advise a European criminal prosecutor on the merits of seeking Interim Orders eg Freezing, Search Orders