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KB-2024-001295 - [2025] EWHC 3000 (KB)
Fecha: 14-Nov-2025
The evidence
The evidence
The Claimant’s claim was supported by three witness statements from David Chave, a Senior Financial Investigator, dated 5 April 2023, 3 April 2024 and 13 March 2025, in particular the second of these statements (“Chave 2”), with its detailed exhibits, DC/1 and DC/2.
Procedural issues from the Claimant’s perspective were addressed in four witness statements from Shahzary Mustafa, a Specialist Crown Prosecutor with the Crown Prosecution Service (“CPS”), dated respectively 4 April 2024, 26 November 2024, 28 May 2025 and 13 October 2025.
The First Defendant relied on witness statements from himself and his mother, Sandra O’Connor, dated 30 June 2025; and a witness statement from Roger Burlingame, solicitor, dated 28 August 2025.
- Heading
- Introduction
- The evidence
- The factual background in overview
- (ii): D2 and D3
- More detail on the source of the funds in the accounts
- The legal framework
- The procedural history prior to the 9 June 2025 hearing
- The Case Management Conference (“CMC”) on 18 March 2025
- Events between the CMC and 9 June 2025
- The 9 June 2025 hearing
- Proceeding in the absence of D2 and D3
- Service of the hearing papers on D1
- Events after the 9 June 2025 hearing
- The 11 November 2025 hearing
- Analysis and decision
- (ii): The location of the Property
- (iii): “Recoverable property”
- (a): The nature of the Property itself
- (b): The way the Property is held
- (c): Additional efforts undertaken to conceal the origin of the Property and its connection to the D1
- (d): The US offences
- (f): The lack of any evidence in response to the Claimant’s case
- Conclusions