Financial Fraudster News has seen evidence that HMRC Officer Lucy Craig is accused of perverting the course of public justice and fraud by abuse of position by lying to Ipswich Magistrates’ Court that a party in an Asset Freezing Order hearing was married to a convicted fraudster.
Financial Fraudster News has spoken to Hurtt Sparrow and Partners LLP [not its real name] a multimillion-pound private equity commercial company specialising in finance brokerage and consulting whose spokesperson stated “..the evidence is overwhelming that an HMRC Officer is trying to link our client to criminality to taint commercial funds borrowed from us to grow her business…we carried out extensive due diligence prior to agreeing to lend funds..our client told us that Starling Bank had restricted access to funds we had loaned…we took precautions to protect our position knowing this was an abuse of the Proceeds of Crime Act regarding AFO application processes…we have seen the evidence as interested party and when we saw evidence submitted by a corrupt HMRC Officer we had little choice but to act and pursue a private criminal prosecution.”
Financial Fraudster News investigations and crime reporter and former HMRC Officer A. Smith stated, “…that AFOs are a powerful tool against proceeds of crime and kleptocrates who attempt to use the banking system to hide and launder proceeds of crime… the revision of the POCA 2002 force Banks to nod to HMRC customer money held in accounts that they believe were or could be used for criminal conduct or might be the proceeds of crime…but this can be misused and caught in misinterpretations by banking staff...I cannot comment on this particular case, but if HMRC employees are caught fabricating evidence or submitting false statements verified by statement of truth to bolster cases in exercising their duties…this will invariably come to light...it appears that on 13 March 2024 in a witness statement by a HMRC Officer that stated that a party in an AFO ongoing matter before the Courts was the wife of a convicted criminal and that the criminal was linked to a company to a similar name years before it was incorporated, the company is owned by a US based trust…if found to be false, the HMRC officer could be personally liable and find themselves in a US Court having been extradited by the very nature of their conduct, it doesn’t get anymore serious than that...in truth the best policy for HMRC Officers is the truth…HMRC Officers cannot be accused of acting ‘unjustly’ or behaving like ‘bandits’...”
Financial Fraudster News has asked HMRC to comment on this article.
