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Corporate manslaughter charges brought against recycling firm

October 1, 2013

The Criminal Prosecution Service have today announced that a Rotherham-based firm should be charged with corporate manslaughter following the death of an employee of the business. The employee – Mr Michael Whinfrey – died in an incident which occurred on 11 January 2011. Mr Whinfrey was working at Sterecyle (Rotherham) Limited’s factory on an autoclave  – a device […]

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Nine people charged over A4E fraud

October 1, 2013

The Crown Prosecution Service has reported that nine people are to be charged over allegations of fraud at welfare-to-work company Action 4 Employment (“A4E”). The charges were brought after the nine A4E employees were accused by their employer of defrauding it of incentive payments relating to putting unemployed persons in work. Under their contracts of […]

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Man with alleged links to Triads to stand trial over money laundering

August 15, 2013

A man with alleged links to the notorious Chinese Triad organisation is to stand trial, accused of moving more than £200,000 money for the criminal gang. Wen Zyang, 23, appeared before the Belfast Magistrates’ Court on 13 August 2013, accused of a total of nine charges, including possessing, transferring and concealing criminal property and having […]

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Businessman ordered to hand over almost £200,000 by Crown Court

August 13, 2013

A Leicestershire business has been ordered by the Leicester Crown Court to hand over almost £200,000 that he illicitly obtained through money laundering cash. The Leicester police started a criminal investigation into Mr Harish Patel, 56, in 2010 when they started to suspect that Mr Patel was laundering vast amounts of money for an international […]

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Sixty-foot fall from flat window results in gross negligence charges

August 5, 2013

The Criminal Prosecution Service has confirmed that a man will face charges of gross negligence after a toddler fell to her death in June 2012. Ryaheen Banimuslem, who was just two years old at the time of the accident, was playing with her brother on the third floor of her block of flats when she […]

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