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Education

Diplock Scholar of the Middle Temple
University of Warwick 2:1 (Hons) in Law

Practice

Crime, especially defending in serious fraud matters and high value confiscation as well as crime-related areas such as judicial review and case stated. Particular speciality in seeking evidence from foreign jurisdictions. Past examples include the USA (Florida, California, Washington DC), Australia, Norway, Japan and Spain.

Nathaniel Rudolf is associated with the following areas of expertise:

Crime
Extradition and Mutual Legal Assistance
General Fraud
White Collar Crime

Nathaniel Rudolf is available for public access work.

Cases

Proceeds of Crime Act/Confiscation

  • R -v- Browne - "Operation Jericho" - Leading junior counsel in large scale drugs confiscation. Confiscation on-going
  • SFO -v- Gangar – “DWC02” – £60 million confiscation arising from $100 million ‘Ponzi’ scheme based on Dobb White & Co accountancy firm. Defendant convicted after eight month trial defending himself. Confiscation ongoing.
  • RCPO -v- Dixon – “Operation Capote / Operation Medlar” – Counsel in large scale drugs conspiracy confiscation. Prosecution sought £235,000. Order made for £10,000.’
  • R -v- York – “Operation Maxim” – Leading Junior Counsel in large forgery related confiscation. Prosecution sought confiscation c.£250,000. Order made for £31.57.
  • R -v- Cullen (1) – "Operation Predator" – Successfully defeated money laundering allegation as assigned counsel at a ‘read through’ committal causing £200,000+ to disappear from confiscation. Thereafter counsel in large drugs related confiscation. Order made in a fraction of the amount sought by the prosecution.
  • R -v- Cullen (2) – "Operation Predator 2" – Counsel in serious money laundering allegation arising out of original drugs conspiracy. Case stayed as an abuse of process.
  • R -v- Reid – “Operation Mastery” – Leading Junior Counsel in £5.5 million confiscation request by the Crown following importation of six metric tonnes + of cannabis. C. £450,000 ordered.
  • R -v- Day – "Operation Agog" – Leading Junior Counsel on a large drugs related confiscation matter. Prosecution sought £660,000+. Successfully reduced amount sought to be recovered to just under £150,000 after a hearing stretching into a second week.
  • R -v- Bolton – Counsel in claim for confiscation c. £250,000. Prosecution persuaded to withdraw claim.

Fraud and Financial Regulation

  • R -v- P - £80m conspiracy to defraud and forge documents in relation to a well known identity documentation web based provider.
  • SFO -v- H - “SHK01” – Originally instructed in high profile advance fee fraud, price ramping and money laundering allegation. Case ongoing.
  • R -v- W – “Operation Slick” – £30 million "boiler room" allegation prosecuted on behalf of the FSA by the Fraud Prosecution Service. Case ongoing.
  • R -v- V – “Operation Acumen” – Allegation of misconduct in public office by civilian employee of a regional police force by procurement fraud. Case ongoing.
  • R -v- M(1) - Money laundering allegation of large sums of cash in & out of the UK. Case ongoing.
  • R -v- M(2) - Tax evasion allegation regarding large profits on property deals. Case ongoing. 
  • SFO -v- P – “SRB01” – Originally instructed in £14 million “boiler room” allegation.
  • R -v- Amin – Originally instructed as Counsel in £1 million evasion of duty on cigarettes.
  • RCPO -v- Fishwick – “Operation Bergere” – believed to be only the second prosecution ever for Gift Aid fraud by RCPO. Confiscation ongoing.
  • M Limited -v- HMRC – First Tier Tribunal. C. £2million claim for input tax refused on the basis appellant was involved in MTiC fraud. Case ongoing.
  • R -v- Wood – "Operation Sargoro" – instructed as Leading Junior Counsel in allegation of large scale 'tarmac' fraud. Defendant acquitted after prosecution do not proceed.
  • R -v- Quarashi – Fraudulent loan processing at Black Horse Finance. Confiscation ongoing.
  • R -v- Tapper – “Operation Caramel 2” Counsel in conspiracy to defraud eSure insurance. Defendant sentenced to a 4 month curfew order for attempted deception. No confiscation.
  • HMRC -v- Horton – “Operation Gelling”. Multi million pound international money laundering arising from a failed MTiC prosecution ‘Operation V959’. Case involved seeking evidence from Panama and Latvia but entire case “laid on the file” before applications could be made.
  • HMR&C -v- Johnson & others – “Operation Granada” – believed to be the first ever prosecution for Gift Aid fraud by HMRC against a co-defendant; allegation of theft of £1million + and PAYE fraud in relation to a charity designed to assist children with brain damage (Red Bag case).
  • R -v- Chavda –Complicated allegations of multi victim, high value advance fee fraud, mortgage fraud and fraudulent trading. The case involved allegations that a limited company run by the defendant defrauded many people out of significant sums of money by use of an investment scam followed by the unlawful purchase of property with the stolen monies.
  • R -v- Margaret Brophy (1) – The ‘Millennium Dome Fraud’. Large scale conspiracy to defraud, contract procurement fraud and international money laundering at the Millennium Dome principally involving the lighting department. Case involved successfully gathering and using evidence from Florida after Federal Court proceedings.
  • R -v- Margaret Brophy (2) – Public Sector allegation of corruption namely the offering to award a contract for money.
  • R -v- Vent & Others – “Operation Blossom”– Global Software Piracy on a massive scale. First case prosecuted by the (then) National Hi Tech Crime Unit based in Docklands. Case involved a ‘warez’ group ‘DrinkOrDie’ whose hierarchy caused a vast amount of software to have its privacy protections ‘cracked’, including Microsoft Windows, and placed on a website so that group members and others could use these products for free. 100+ arrests executed worldwide co-ordinated by the US Department of Justice. Case involved seeking evidence from California (a software company) and Washington DC (the US Department of Justice) after Federal Court proceedings. Defendant received sentence of 18 months imprisonment. No confiscation.

Crime

  • R -v- D - Counsel in large scale drug importation. Case ongoing.
  • R -v- Ibrahim – "Operation Lace" - Instructed in double ‘honour killing’ murder. 
  • R -v- O’Leary – “Operation Nahum” – Wide scale corruption allegations spanning 18 months against a serving police officer within the Merseyside Police involving supplying criminals with operational information.
  • R -v- E & Others – “Operation Tonne” – Counsel in conspiracy to make Child Pornography. Young defendant sentenced to supervision order.
  • R -v- Nash – Allegation of attempted murder. Defence ran that victim (only other candidate for injury) stabbed himself whilst asleep.

Health and Safety

  • R -v- Brady – "Operation Troubadour" - 'the Hednesford rail fatalities'. Defendant accused of recklessly endangering the lives of two co-workers leading to their deaths on the railway. Convicted of alternative count of a breach of health and safety law and fined £750.  

Reported Cases

  • R -v- Rayan [2010] Costs L.R. 969 SCCO
  • R -v- D [2010] Archbold Review 4 - updated guidance on discounts from sentence for assistance to the authorities under s74 SOCPA.
  • R (on the application of Gangar) -v- Leicester Crown Court [2008] All ER (D) 112 (Oct) R -v- Gangar [2008] EWCA Crim 2987; SFO v Ganger [2008] EWCA Crim 2619 – successful judicial review and leading authority in relation to a Crown Court’s decision to sentence the claimant to five months imprisonment for breach of a bail condition.
  • R -v- Scott (Casim) (2008) 172 J.P. 149 – considering whether the defence of ‘de minimis’ exists within the criminal law; appropriate interpretation of provisions of the Bail Act 1976 dealing with surrendering to the court.
  • R -v- Pervez [2007] All EF (D) 382 (Nov)
  • R -v- O'Leary [2007] 2 Cr App R (S) 51 – appropriate sentence for misconduct in public office by a police officer accessed highly confidential intelligence files
  • Taylor -v- DPP (2006) 170 J.P. 485, The Times 14 June 2006 – considering the proper interpretation of s 5(1)(a) of the Public Order Act 1986.
  • R -v- Casey [2004] All ER (D) 60 (Jun)
  • R v Copeland [2002] 2 Cr. App. R. (S) 111 – authority on the postponement of DTA confiscation hearings.

Articles & Publications

"International Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing - a UK perspective", Sweet & Maxwell

Associated Work

Lecturing

 

IIEA (The Institute of International and European Affairs) - "International Money Laundering - enforcing compliance with Anti-Money Laundering/Counter Terrorist Financing measures - a realistic goal or an impossible pipe dream?"
View the lecture here

 

Various Chambers Seminars and Seminars to Solicitors

Professional Working 

  • Assistant Secretary to the Criminal Bar Association 2010 - 2011. The CBA can be visited here.
  • Co-opted member of Criminal Bar Association Committee
  • Member of LSC Complex Crime Unit Appeals Panel
  • Member of the Criminal Procedure Rules Committee
  • Member of Bar Council VHCC Advocates Sub Group
  • Member of Bar Council RGFS Consultation Response Group
  • Member of Bar Council Electronic Service of Prosecution Evidence Group

Professional Memberships

  • Criminal Bar Association
  • South East Circuit
  • Haldane Society
  • American Bar Association
  • Proceeds of Crime Lawyers Association (POCLA)
  • Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers (ARDL)

Directories

Recommended as a leader in criminal fraud in Chambers and Partners UK and the Legal 500

"his written work is second to none."
"a real one for the detail, and pulls cases apart with ease."

 Contact

T. 020 7067 1500

E. nrudolf@25bedfordrow.com