Preserving Evidence, Tracing Funds, Urgent Steps, Defence and Prosecution
Financial Fraud
Handling a fraud from its discovery and the preserving of evidence, through tracing the funds and taking urgent steps, to the defence or the prosecution.
/ The Practice
We treat financial fraud as a legal, investigative and financial matter at the same time, from discovering the event and preserving the evidence to tracing the funds, taking urgent steps, and defending or prosecuting.
/ Practice Area Details
Scope: Handled by the financial fraud team, with the corporate and governance team joining where the event touches a contract or a partnership.
Serves: Individuals and establishments harmed by fraud, companies facing embezzlement or misuse of authority, and those accused in fraud cases
Focus: Fraud in bank transfers, electronic fraud, fraud in contracts and partnerships, embezzlement, misuse of accounts and authority, tracing funds, and defending the accused.
Engagement: Containment, preserving evidence, tracing, urgent action, advocacy.
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/ The Reading
“I gave out the code and my bank account was breached. What do I do?” Time is the decisive element here; what is preserved as evidence and what is done in the first hours is what sets the chance of recovering the money later.
/ Scope of Services
Fraud in Bank Transfers
We handle fraud tied to unlawful or fraudulent bank transfers, from analysing the event and the documents through to the legal steps available.
We focus on moving quickly, documenting the event, and tracing the path of the money to protect the client's rights.
Electronic Financial Fraud
We handle fraud carried out through electronic means, digital platforms, accounts and technical channels.
The service covers analysing the relevant digital evidence, establishing legal responsibility, and taking the steps needed to recover the rights and pursue those responsible.
Fraud in Contracts and Partnerships
We deal with cases where a contract or a partnership is used to take money or rights, or to conceal material information.
We review the documents, the relationships and the transactions to establish the breaches and to build a legal strategy to recover the rights or defend them.
Embezzlement
We handle the legal investigation and the defence or prosecution in cases of embezzlement of funds or assets, or their misuse by employees, managers or partners.
We work to establish the path of the money, the responsibilities and the evidence, and to support the appropriate legal steps.
Misuse of Accounts and Authority
We deal with the misuse of bank accounts, electronic systems or administrative authority to obtain an unlawful benefit.
We help the client contain the damage, preserve the evidence, establish responsibility, and take urgent legal steps.
Tracing Funds Domestically and Across Borders
We give legal support in tracing the movement of money and assets connected to fraud, covering both domestic and cross-border transactions.
We focus on building the evidential path of the money and tying it to the people, transactions and documents the legal steps require.
Taking Urgent Legal Steps
We intervene at once when fraud is discovered, to take the legal steps available to protect the money, the assets and the evidence.
Time is the decisive element in this service, so we focus on rapid assessment, setting priorities, and coordinated legal action.
Defending the Accused in Financial Fraud Cases
We represent the accused in financial fraud cases and analyse the evidence, the facts and the legal characterisation of the charges.
We build a defence resting on the evidence, the procedure and the soundness of the characterisation, while holding to professional confidentiality.
/ Method
We contain the damage first and preserve the evidence, then trace the path of the funds and establish the responsibilities and the legal step the facts will carry. then we identify the possible options.
/ What We Focus On
The first hour
We move the moment it is reported, to preserve evidence and stop the loss, because the chance of recovery falls with every hour.
The path of the money
We build the evidential path of the funds from the account to their destination, because that is what ties the event to the people before the competent authority.
One matter with three faces
We handle the event legally, investigatively and financially together, since separating them is usually what loses the right.
