Memorandum submitted by Lorna Harris,
Judicial Cooperation Unit, Home Office
FURTHER INFORMATION
Following my appearance before the Committee
yesterday, I undertook to provide you with further information
relating to money laundering prosecutions, and links between these
and suspicious transaction reports.
The latest figures relating to money laundering
prosecution and conviction are as follows:
| 1987 | 1988
| 1989 | 1990 |
1991 | 1992 | 1993
| 1994 | 1995 |
1996 | 1997 | 1998
| 1999[17]
|
| Prosecutions | 8 | 18
| 11 | 10 | 15 |
11 | 16 | 15 | 29
| 32 | 76 | 52 |
112 |
| Convictions | 0 | 7
| 3 | 5 | 4 |
8 | 7 | 5 | 3
| 13 | 43 | 26 |
38 |
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These figures are compiled from Magistrates Courts Returns
and as such there is no direct link between them and the submission
of suspicious transaction reports.
However, the Economic Crime Unit of the National Criminal
Intelligence Service maintains their own figures in this area
as detailed below:
| 1995 | 1996
| 1997 | 1998 |
| Number of disclosures received | 13,710
| 16,125 | 14,148 | 14,129
|
| Number of cases resulting in prosecution |
135 | 226 | 88 |
136 |
| Number of cases judges to be of intelligence value
| 5,460 | 4,951 | 3,900
| 4,678 |
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It will be noted that prosecution figures for equivalent
years are higher for the NCIS data. This relates to the fact that
prosecution figures submitted for any given year increase over
time, as due to the complex nature of the cases many investigations
initiated by disclosures take a number of years to conclude, and
the figures are retrospectively revised by NCIS.
I hope this additional information is adequate for the Committee's
needs.
Lorna Harris
Judicial Cooperation Unit
November 2000
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