18 Mar 2015 – Two staff members have been arrested in St Peter Port, in connection with an investigation into a suspected £21m vat and money laundering fraud. They were arrested at an address registered to several companies, and will be interviewed today. Its part of an investigation called operation bannock that spans the British […]

Officers from the Manx police force’s financial investigation team are today executing six warrants in and around Douglas as part of an investigation into multiple fraud and money laundering offences. This is part of an investigation involving UK HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), the Manx police, Cheshire Constabulary and Guernsey Border Agency. Four of the […]

Two men and a woman arrested at Lincolnshire on suspicion of £200,000 Income Tax, VAT and Tax Credit fraud. Three people from Ingham near Lincoln have been arrested on suspicion of being involved in an estimated £200,000 Income Tax, VAT and Tax Credit fraud. The two men, aged 48 and 40, and a  30-year-old woman […]

“We hope that this case serves as a warning to others that VAT fraud and the laundering of criminal profit is an extremely serious offence.  HMRC is committed to catching those businesses and individuals who make false claims and who attempt to defraud the government. A West Yorkshire woman, who funded a celebrity lifestyle with […]

A businesswoman who holidayed in Greece and the Canary Islands with the proceeds of a VAT fraud has been ordered to pay back more than £40,000 or face returning to jail. Last August Katherine Devlin, who had been the director of three Halifax-based companies, was jailed for 15 months after she admitted offences of VAT […]