What Are The Stages Of An Investment Fraud Prosecution? Investment Fraud Solicitors

Specialist legal defence solicitor Correna Platt talks about the stages and process of an investment fraud prosecution, highlighting the importance of expert legal advice from the earliest possible opportunity.

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Video transcript

What is the process of an investment fraud case and how long does it last?

Correna Platt
In respect of investment frauds there is no typical length of time that a case will take because in respect of investigations they can take years, many years where the authorities are trailing through paper trails, looking through computers, ceasing computers, ceasing telephones, obtaining witness statements, looking at bank accounts, bank statements, in respect of many cases and regarding land banking fraud. Those cases take place abroad, so it's in liaising with other countries to try and find out information. The essential point though is that it is necessary even though it may take years to instruct a solicitor to be involved from the outset. Generally as well, there's a police investigation at the early stages or the prosecuting authority where they'll ask a client's comments be spoken to and that evidence or that interview if charged will form part of the evidence and therefore again it is necessary to obtain legal advice.

If at that point they are then charged, it falls into the court process and that does have more timelines and is governed by the criminal procedure rules. But again, the actual length of the trial, the time to get into trial is all case dependent. There isn't a typical case and then following on from that if convicted there will be a sentence and generally in these cases then follows proceeds of crime applications as well. And there are also other applications that fall within those investigations in respect of restraint orders. An assurance is, the whole process can have a damming effect on a client and in respective restraint, they may restrain assets, they cease businesses that affect people's personal lives. So again, I reiterate that even though there's no specific timescales, it is important that you do get legal advice from an early stage.

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