R v El-Kurd
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Year | 2001 |
| Date | 2001 |
| Court | Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) |
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18 cases
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R v Suchedina (Hasnain) and Others
...conclusions, are supported by a line of authority. The possibility of such an either/or count was raised, obiter, by this court in El Kurd 199901848/Z3 (26.7.2000); noted in [2001] Crim LR 234. It was expressly upheld in Hussain & Bhatti [2002] EWCA Crim 6; 2 Cr App R 26 at 363. In the ca......
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R v Harmer (Roy Peter)
...which had been obtained illicitly whether by way of drug trafficking or other criminal activity, as Latham LJ said in R v El-Kurd [2001] Crim L R 234, para 47. The suggestion that the appellants' construction will put the Crown in an impossible position is not convincing. The problem appear......
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The Assets Recovery Agency v Gheorghe Virtosu and Another
...the way in which cash is dealt with and it is not necessary to prove the underlying offence which generated the cash: R v El Kurd [2001] Crim. L.R. 234; and R v L,G,Q and M [2004] EWCA Crim 1579. As Mr Eadie submitted, if money is handled in a manner consistent only with money laundering, “......
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R v El-Kurd (No 2) ; R v K ; R v S ; R v X
...Before those decisions, in part as a result of that understanding, appeals in the cases before us had been dismissed by this court: see R v. El Kurd [2001] Crim. L. R. 234; R v Rana Singh [2003] EWCA Crim 3712; and R v Sakavikas and Reichwald [2004] EWCA Crim. 2686. 4 In a number of substan......
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1 firm's commentaries
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Is There A Requirement To Prove Property Derived From Crime To Prosecute An Offence Of Money Laundering?
...to prove that the property was the proceeds of drug trafficking or of criminal activity. These were (i) the decision in R v El- Kurd [2001] Crim L R 234, in which the Crown accepted that it had to establish that the money had come from drug trafficking or other criminal conduct, (ii) the te......
4 books & journal articles
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Configuring criminal proceeds in money laundering cases in the UK
...1 WLR 2,272), Rv. K (I) ([2007] 1 WLR 2,262), Rv. Craig ([2007]EWCA Crim 2,913) and the Court of Appeal’s approach in Rv. El-Kurd ([ 2001] Crim LR234). However, the Court refused to follow Rv. NW and Others [2008] EWCA Crim In Rv. NW and Others [2008] EWCA Crim 2, four defendants were charg......
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DOES TAX EVASION GENERATE CRIMINAL PROCEEDS?
...5, providing for the confiscation of the proceeds of drug trafficking. 11 Palermo Convention Art 2(e). 12 R v El Kurd (Ussama Sammy) [2001] Crim LR 234 at [30]; Ang Jeanette v Public Prosecutor [2011] SGHC 100 at [32]; Oei Hengky Wiryo v HKSAR (No 2) [2007] 1 HKLRD 568 at [105]. 13 Although......
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Banker as victim: an approach to money laundering prosecutions
...2686, [2007] EWCA Crim 1888.5. BVI Criminal Case No 12 of 2008.6. Paragraph 75 of the 2007 judgment.7. Judgment paragraph 10.8. El Kurd [2001] Crim LR 234.9. Montilla.Figure 2.PROCEEDS OF CRIMEPROPERTY IN RETURN FOR HIS MONEY$BankBank Deposit: OffencesKYC CDD$Right to RecoverDebtFALSEACCOUN......
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MONEY LAUNDERING OFFENCES UNDER THE
...4 SLR 1 at [30]. 66Ang Jeanette v Public Prosecutor[2011] 4 SLR 1 at [32], per V K Rajah JA, citing R v El Kurd (Ussama Sammy)[2001] Crim LR 234 CA (Crim Div) and Oei Hengky Wiryo v HKSAR (No 2)[2007] 1 HKLRD 568. In addition, the Vienna Convention specifically provides in Art 24 that a Sta......