Zacharias Miah

To be completed – largest international pharmaceutical generic drugs fraud involving dark net organisations and money laundering via cryptocurrency exchanges. The value of the fraud is excess of £20m. The litigation involves cross border evidence  from the USA and Europe.

34 million international money service bureau fraud. Zacharias lead counsel for the main defendant of four defendants made extensive submissions Zacharias and argued there had been  "catastrophic disclosure failures" on the part of the crown forcing the prosecution to accept they had not prepared their case properly.

In what was almost a week of legal argument after 6 weeks of the trial process and following extensive cross-examination by Mr Miah, the prosecution conceded that the questioning of their witnesses had exposed significant evidential issues, disclosure failures across the investigation and information from the MSB software operating systems which meant the case had to stop. The crown offered no evidence and not guilty pleas entered on all counts for all 4 defendants.

News report here.

Allegations that a uniformed sergeant in the West Midlands Police who was a dishonest policeman was passing criminal intelligence to the co defendant. He knowingly and deliberately abused his unique position as a trusted police officer to help his personal friends and acquaintances who were civilians. They did this by accessing sensitive and highly confidential data held on police computers to research internal police information about incidents that his friends and acquaintances were involved. They targeted sensitive data for their own criminal purposes.

Contrary to s.993 to Companies Act 2006 and Business Regulation Offences it was alleged that  Wemba Akobola was knowingly a party to the carrying on of the company Tshovo Accountancy Services Limited for a fraudulent purpose, namely, to defraud clients and prospective clients of the firm, and misrepresenting that the junior accountants would be trained, earn income whilst training and earn between £20,000 plus income to that extent that for every employee they had offered a job would require a minimum business net profit of over 1.4m and offering audit services to city companies when they were not qualified to do so.

News report here.

Large scale cyber fraud investigation and purchase of hacked and stolen cards in secret websites through access points on the internet pending

Application to recuse trial judge who conducted major drugs trial involving large scale supply of drugs across Wales and North West. Application to recuse Trial Judge involving second Trial involving money laundering charges- Judge made significant findings in drugs trial – Judge recused himself after filing of legal submissions and case law.

Multi-handed money laundering trial involving cyber fraud and hacking of high profile victim and layering of funds through complex web of companies.

19 Year old Bangladeshi student kills man after one punch during a verbal racist assault towards the student by man in 50’s who unknown to the Defendant was suffering symptoms of stroke. Exposed a series of unrelated events not related to the D that resulted in a tragic event.

The Defendant was charged with conspiracy to handle motor vehicles in the West Midlands area valued in excess of £1m. The evidence in the case covers 3 years of investigation and over 25,000 pages of documents and electronic evidence. The Defendant was regarded as an expert in radio frequency and using special electronic techniques. Exposed prosecution experts knowledge in RF and systems operating in wider car market comparing new and old electronic and computer systems. The Defendant was found not guilty of all counts by unanimous jury acquittal.

Advised in claims in the BVI and London against Grant Thornton (UK) and Kaupthing bank (Iceland)

A portfolio of Hilton hotels bought by Vincent Tchenguiz, leased back to Hilton and eventually put into administration upon default of a loan scheme hedged by Bayerische Landesbank in circumstances where the value of assets were believed to be undersold. Story here

A Ponzi scheme fraud by a Swiss registered company using the Hong Kong branch of the Singapore based bank DBS.

Multi jurisdictional case of corruption in the global oil industry. Representing Ahsani family and UNAOIL in US, UK and elsewhere. See here and here for full story

Embezzlement and fraud involving a Liechtenstein trust of high value with litigation in Cayman Islands, US, Israel, Switzerland, UK, Liechtenstein. See Mark Hollingsworth , Independent, Thursday 8 March 2018 Liechtenstein: The mysterious tax heaven that's losing the trust of the super-rich.

Represented and advised on misfeasance in public office v SFO officers. Settled.

Advised on SFO allegations and Kaupthing Bank Iceland.

Libor/ Swaps claims v banks – settled 2014/2015. Review of USA cases involving above claims

West Midlands £50m metals fraud involving an international metals business exporting worldwide and Scandinavian countries

Court of Appeal found “Scrappy conduct by Judge” - duty of a Judge when referring to a Defendant’s police interview.

Quashing of a 1999 conviction on fresh evidence inherent genetic and brain damage expert evidence. Exposed failures in imaging and scanning capabilities and reporting by experts whereas new expert evidence and techniques demonstrated the changes in the brain abnormality (CT/MRI) confirmed inherent brain abnormalities.

Judicial Review, procedure, disclosure, verdict statement of Coroner over turned.

Maximum sentence and reduction of sentence for early guilty plea.

Duty of professional care of Government Services.

Ancillary relief disclosure.

Jurisdiction Arguments India (Court of Appeal)

Disclosure ordered of all police officers uniforms for forensic investigation resulted in identifying key suspects and claim for damages.

Microsoft Hacking. Advised on one of first reported major hacking cases in the UK and advised on prosecution. Technical evidence and trial of alleged hacker. Hacker convicted. St Albans Crown Court.