Keith Mitchell

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Widely recognised as the 'go to' specialist in all types of major fraud, including business, financial and regulatory white-collar crime. A renowned jury advocate, it is said -“His ability to sift through heavy paperwork and present a cogent argument in court is the envy of many”, and “He is just superb. He’s always involved in the biggest cases in the country and he has a great touch with the clients.” He led in a HMRC £29million Dubai based Research and Development Fraud. Successful cases concluded include, ‘Operation Cactus Hent’ the North West SIPP fraud (involving an unsuccessful appeal by the prosecution to the LCJ see [2015] EWCA Crim 5380), a successful submission of no case to answer in Operation Galion [2016], the only director to be acquitted in PCS LTD Fraud Investigation [Feb/June 2017] and successfully concluded Operation Holt £1.7 billion Insider dealing inside Logica. He secured acquittal of Solicitor client/Law Society panel member and former president over an allegation of Fraud [2017]. In 2018 completed one of the largest cyber net frauds ever prosecuted, ‘Operation Dougal’ which netted more than £36million. In 2018 acted for the accountant who was acquitted in Operation Lester, a human slavery fraud. In 2022 led in Operation Aspen, successfully completed an HMRC investigation into the tax affairs of Gentlemen's Clubs, Tantric and Fuzzy Bear, resulting in no confiscation or immediate custodial penalty and most recently successfully led in Operation Maple Lodge [2023] £81 million postal fraud, securing an acquittal after a 4 year delay.