Anwar practices in all areas of serious crime as an advocate and advisor.
Financial Crime
Anwar is regularly instructed in high value and complex cases of fraud, money laundering and corruption, often with a multi-jurisdictional aspect. He is an expert on the use of trust and corporate structures for criminal purposes, particularly in low-tax jurisdictions, and has advised public and private clients in relation to international co-operation. He has lectured upon the use of trust and corporate structures to evade tax and launder the proceeds of crime.
Anwar is frequently instructed at an early stage of complex international enquiries, for both public and private clients. He has advised upon and conducted many compulsory interviews of senior executives in such cases. He has been instructed to advise a company director invited to attend a cautioned interview by BERR on suspicion of Companies Act offences.
General Crime
Anwar has many years of trial experience acting for the prosecution and defence. He appears in cases across the spectrum of serious crime, including murder, manslaughter and other serious violence, offences of dishonesty, Class A drug trafficking and death by dangerous driving.
Key cases
- Instructed by the Attorney General of Jersey to investigate a Kenyan public official for corruption and money laundering worth millions of pounds;
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Instructed by Mishcon de Reya for a Middle Eastern aluminium producer to advise in relation to an international investigation into allegations of corruption and money laundering involving tens of millions of dollars;
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AG of Jersey v Michel and Gallichan. Instructed by the Attorney General of Jersey to investigate and prosecute a financial services provider for multi-million pound tax evasion and money laundering.This was Jersey’s most extensive, complex and high-profile prosecution for a financial crime;
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R v Basra, R v Choudhary [Wolverhampton Crown Court]: multi-million pound money laundering by hawala banking;
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R v Varty [Nottingham Crown Court] – instructed to defend a company director accused of embezzling funds from his company in a variety of ways;
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R v Ali [Leicester Crown Court] – prosecution for trade-mark and copyright offences arising from a pirate business;
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R v O’Toole [Luton Crown Court]– instructed in a fatal shaken baby case.
Contact Anwar Nashashibi
Phone: +44 (0) 20 7242 3555
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7242 2511
Email: clerks@7br.co.uk