Fraud Act 2006

Offences under the Fraud Act 2006

Ilyas Siddique specialises in defending individuals who are involved in fraud related investigations with organizations who investigate such specialised crimes. Such investigations lead to interviews under caution. They are subject to restraint orders or property freezing orders, seizure of property, execution of search warrants etc. Such investigations may lead to being charged with the offence of fraud and requiring representation in the Magistrates and Crown courts.

There are a number of fraud enforcement agencies. For example, Police Fraud Squads and Economic Crime Units, The Financial Service Authority, Asset Recovery Agency and the Serious Organised Crime Agency.

Ilyas Siddique defends individual clients to larger corporate business sector clients involved in a vast range of fraud investigations by the above enforcement agencies.



Bank Fraud

My representation has involved representing both type of clients including the retail banking industry and the wholesale industry of United kingdom employers or employees. It is essential that a fraud solicitor fully understands the financial industry involving such clients.


Conspiracy to Defraud

I have represented individuals who have involved themselves in a large group enterprise in major fraud cases. This involved acting for company directors, and employees who have been involved in such complex and large enterprises.


Benefit Fraud

I have acted for clients who have obtained state benefits on fraudulent information provided to the relevant authorities to obtain such benefits. This would include housing benefit, job seekers allowance benefit, carers allowance benefit, disability allowance benefit, incapacity benefit including other benefits


Mortgage Fraud

My representation has involved defending clients who have obtained mortgages directly with a bank or building society and have simply supplied or misrepresented the financial institution with inaccurate financial information to obtain such a mortgage.

Additionally, I have vast experience in defending those clients who have instructed a broker to obtain a mortgage on their behalf with self certified account and allegations of fraud by deception by deceiving the broker or the broker deceiving the financial institution to obtain such a mortgage for the client


HMRC cases including VAT, Tax and Duty Evasion

My main area of expertise within HMRC cases involve defending individuals prosecuted by HMRC. I have specialised in defending clients involved in tax evasion and VAT fraud cases as well as MTIC offences.

Additionally, I have acted for clients involved in tobacco and alcohol importation allegations of smuggling as well as distribution into the United Kingdom


Money Laundering under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002

The Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 has developed vastly over the years. I have acted and defended many clients who have alleged to have committed such offences under this act where the authorities have attempted to wrongly establish the benefit figure at a high value to obtain such an amount from the client.

Additionally, the realisable assets have to be considered in establishing the benefit figure of the amount alleged to be part of the overall confiscation amount. I have represented client with very high value figures amounting to millions of pounds and successfully proved the benefit figure to be substantially low than the overall amount alleged by the prosecution. Thus, a substantially reduced amount or a nil amount as payable to the prosecution