Richard Crump

An engineering company boss imprisoned for a £5.9 million ($6.6 million) tax fraud sought on Friday to block attempts to recover the stolen money, arguing at an appeals court that the illicit gains cannot be attributed to him personally.

A British businessman convicted of stealing £35 million ($42 million) from a software company was spared further imprisonment on Friday for using secret bank accounts to splash out tens of thousands of pounds on an extravagant lifestyle in breach of a restraint order.

A London court’s recent decision to let a claimant use a nonfungible token, or NFT, to serve his lawsuit seeking to recover $2.1 million in stolen cryptocurrency has opened the door to the service of other legal proceedings by distributed ledger technology.

A lawyer and financial adviser made secret profits “hand over fist” while allegedly pocketing £24.6 million ($29.5 million) of investors’ money from an offshore fund, a prosecutor said Monday during closing arguments in the London trial of three men charged in the fraud.

A property developer has hit back at a Dubai businessman suing him for £7.9 million ($10 million) in England’s High Court for allegedly fraudulently inflating the costs of a construction project, accusing his business partner of “unconscionable conduct.”

An Abu Dhabi-based shipbuilder urged an English appeals court on Wednesday to halt Mozambique's lawsuit accusing it of bribing government officials to secure maritime contracts in a $2 billion corruption scandal, arguing that the claims belonged in arbitration.