Crime Solicitors

***Operation Overt (Terrorism)**

Operation Overt was the largest operation to infiltrate what prosecutors said was a plot to murder people using liquid bombs on planes by using distilled concentrations of Hydrogen Peroxide masked as “Fizzy Drinks”. The seriousness of the facts surrounding the incident is evident as in relation to all domestic and international flights liquids are no longer permitted for security reasons as a direct result of this case.

There were 3 trials, the last of which is currently seeking to leave from the Supreme Court.

***Operation Swale**

An Immigration scam which helped at least 120 people come to, and stay in, the UK illegally. Bogus companies were set up to supply wage slips and ‘incomes' to potential immigrants in order to facilitate their entry in to the country. Our clients were duped but accepted their criminality albeit to a lower degree and received
We negotiated a basis of plea to minimise our client's involvement resulting in just under 6 months sentence of imprisonment.

***Trident (Black on Black specialist Police Unit) Shooting **

White City Gangland shooting of a drug dealer on Christmas Eve 2008 motivated by a fight in which the defendant had part of his ear bitten off.
There were three other defendants but the prosecution placed our client as the organiser and the leader as well as the “shooter”.
The client was unanimously acquitted after 6 weeks.

***Operation Rise**

500 officers in flak jackets used warrants, to open 6,717 boxes took 11 days to empty, each Safe Deposit premises being turned into a makeshift evidence room as officers, with diamond-tipped drills and angle-grinders, broke into every box.
Yet the true story of Operation Rize reveals something far more chilling - a virtually un-noticed change in the law that strikes at the very heart of the British justice system. Under the Proceeds of Crime Act of 2002 (known as POCA), valuables and cash above £1,000 are presumed by the police to be the proceeds of crime, unless you can prove otherwise, a total reversal of the presumption of innocence. Aside from those three dozen or so people found guilty, the vast majority of the 3,500-plus box owners have turned out to be innocent. Yet their money was confiscated, and in many cases is still being held, by the Metropolitan Police or the Inland Revenue. The owners have spent nearly three years and thousands of pounds in uncompensated legal fees having to justify why they kept their personal belongings in safety deposit boxes and how they came by them in the first place. Worse still, when people have had their belongings returned, in some cases cash and jewellery has been missing.

Represented a client who had a safety deposit box broken into and was subsequently charged.
By Rubin Italia