Mountford Chambers has a developed fraud and white-collar crime practice, with members acting in money laundering, commercial fraud, and asset recovery cases. Edward Henry KC acted for the second defendant in the Fowler Oldfield prosecution, one of the largest money laundering cases brought in the UK, involving allegations of a £266 million laundering enterprise. Alexandra Scott acts for a defendant accused of fraud and associated money laundering arising from commercial transactions involving land, a brewery business, and residential property.Richard Furlong acts as sole counsel in a private prosecution concerning alleged £30m property fraud, involving complex asset tracing and parallel civil and criminal proceedings.
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