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Mark Bryant-Heron QC and Clare Huntley secure alcohol diversion fraud convictions.
Mark Bryant-Heron QC and Clare Huntley acted for the CPS Specialist Fraud Division, in the successful prosecution after a nine-week trial, of four defendants who were convicted and sentenced to a total of nineteen years’ imprisonment for their part in a conspiracy to cheat the Public Revenue. This systematic and sophisticated fraud operated by the manipulation of the systems used for identifying loads of alcohol brought into the UK from the EU, thereby evading the payment of VAT and excise duty in the region of £3.8 million.