Alun Jenkins QC | LLB

Notable Fraud & Corruption Cases

Advising on and pursuing a civil fraud and corruption case in The Gambia. Many of the fraud cases set out involved the movement of the monies obtained into Money Exchanges, arms deals and in at least one case the purchase of diamonds from Angola.
R v. Howley – insurance and development agency fraud, £40 million loss of VAT revenue on a missing trader fraud involving computer chips.
Operation Carina - £55 million loss of excise revenue due to a diversion fraud involving the movements of an estimated 550 lorry loads of alcohol which failed to arrive at the stated bonded warehouses of destination. Cross border smuggling of tobacco and alcohol .
Operation Mamba –£9 million mobile phone importation carousel and missing trader fraud.
Operation Scirocco – tobacco and alcohol fraud involving £168 million lost excise revenue. The monies obtained by the defendants in this case were laundered by investments in Spanish holiday resorts and it was also asserted that the monies were the proceeds of illegal diamond exports from Angola. Two courts were set up in Barcelona in the course of this case to trace the monies involved.

Notable Drugs Cases

R v Woodage - importation of drugs through Dover and then to Wiltshire under the cover of the importation of flowers from Holland.
Operation Rhythm – structural alteration of a cargo vessel whilst at anchor in Malta for the purpose of the carriage of a substantial quantity of drugs.
R v. Gregory – importation of two large suitcases full of cocaine being imported from Bolivia.
R v Adiguzel – importation of heroin by Turkish immigrants into London and then to Bristol.
Operation Deride/Yardstick – Importation of drugs by conspiracy from Holland inside heavy electricity cable reels.

High Profile Murder Cases

R v. Bell – murder involving the killing of a young woman in a car park at Tunbridge Wells after which she was placed in a suitcase and found 2 weeks later still within the car park.
R v. Miles Evans – murder of a child by the step father at Warminster Army base thereafter he placed her in a badger sett which caused much national publicity as the police searched for her body.
R v. Mills & Poole – the murder of a drug dealer by other suppliers within the drug community.

Notable Health & Safety Cases

The importation of large volume low cost suites of leather furniture made in China which complied with the US regulations but failed in the UK. The death of an employee whilst loading vehicles which were badly maintained.