Andrew Sackey

Oct 17, 2023 | pinsentmasons.com | Andrew Sackey

Andrew Sackey, a white collar crime expert at Pinsent Masons and former HMRC official, said: “HMRC will view Bernie Ecclestone’s plea as a very significant victory. It has invested heavily into the OCW team over the last decade and highly public successes like this are a major return on that investment.”“This result shows that HMRC is more than willing to take on the most complex cases involving high net worths.

Oct 13, 2023 | pinsentmasons.com | Andrew Sackey

The SFO is planning to recruit between 100 and 150 investigators, prosecutors, accountants and case workers; potentially pushing the total number of full-time staff at the multi-disciplinary agency to around 600. The statement was made by the SFO’s joint head of fraud, bribery and corruption Sara Chouraqui during the American Bar Association’s annual London White Collar Crime Institute conference.

Jul 20, 2023 | pinsentmasons.com | Andrew Sackey |Steven Porter

The CDF allows tax fraud suspects to make full and complete disclosures of all deliberate and non-deliberate behaviours to HMRC officials with the understanding that they will not be criminally investigated for those disclosures. In exchange, however, suspects must pay their tax and fines. Tax expert Steven Porter of Pinsent Masons said: “The CDF has always been an attractive option for those with deliberate tax irregularities to come clean to HMRC without facing criminal repercussions.

Jul 3, 2023 | pinsentmasons.com | Andrew Sackey |Fiona CAMERON

On Tuesday last week, peers voted in favour of an amendment to the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill that has the effect of adding money laundering to the list of proposed new ‘failure to prevent’ offences, which also includes fraud and false accounting. Andrew Sackey of Pinsent Masons said: “The amendment to include money laundering is potentially very significant. The government had sought to argue that the Money Laundering Regulations adequately covered this.

Jun 27, 2023 | pinsentmasons.com | Andrew Sackey |Fiona CAMERON

The proposal follows an 18-month consultation by the Law Commission on reforming corporate criminal liability. It is proposed that a member of an organisation’s senior management would be any person who plays a “significant role” in the making of decisions about how the entity’s relevant activities are to be managed or organised, or in the actual managing or organising of those activities.