Money Laundering

(asked on 16th November 2016) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any UK citizens has been prosecuted for acting as a nominee director for a company which has been found to have laundered illicit funds.


Answered by
Ben Wallace Portrait
Ben Wallace
This question was answered on 23rd November 2016

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does not maintain a central record of the nationality or occupation of defendants. This information could only be obtained by examining CPS case files, which would incur disproportionate cost. The number of people prosecuted, convicted and given a custodial sentence for money laundering offences, in England and Wales, from 2010 to 2014 (the latest data available), can be viewed on the Ministry of Justice website at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2014

under “Criminal justice statistics outcomes by offence data tool”.

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