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Keith Wood
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Position
Specialisation: serious fraud; serious organised crime; asset confiscation; money laundering. Has defended many high-profile and complex prosecutions, brought by SFO; FSA; special casework CPS; SOCA; City of London Fraud Squad. Regularly ranked as a leading individual in ‘Chambers UK’. VHCC supervisor. Cases of note: R v P & ors – Ponzi fraud, value in excess of £100m, described as being the UK’s equivalent to the Madoff scheme; R v B & ors – complex, multi-handed money laundering/kidnap prosecution involving central plot to defraud the London clearing banks; R v H – substantial tax credit fraud; R v A & ors – ‘Operation Eaglewood’, money laundering/drugs prosecution to the value of £100m; R v H – particularly complex fraud confiscation proceedings, Crown sought the recovery of £4m, proceedings spanned over four years, which were eventually discontinued; R v P – multi-handed murder trial, only defendant to be acquitted; R v Y – very high-profile class A drugs conspiracy re-trial; R v G – defended one of Baybasin organisation (extortion); R v M – defended a director of QPR concerning allegations of kidnap of Paladini – acquitted; R v Cash – conviction overturned in Court of Appeal, fresh evidence; R v W – enforcement of outstanding POCA suns stayed as an abuse of process.
Career
Qualified 1996. Joined Lewis Nedas & Co in 2002. Partner 2008.
Member
LCCSA
Education
Educated at Hull University and College of Law.
Leisure
Married with two children.