Mark Holdsworth

Background

About Mark Holdsworth

I am an Associate Member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and a fellow member of The Association of Accounting Technicians (FMAAT). I am also a Practicing Member of The Academy of Experts (MAE). I have over 18 years’ experience as a Forensic Accountant and, in the last 7 years, I have worked exclusively on financial crime matters assisting defence teams with criminal investigations and related proceeds of crime and confiscation proceedings. I undertake anywhere between 15 to 30 criminal assignments per annum and examples of notable cases that I have been involved in are as follows: R v E (2012) Conspiracy to defraud and commit money laundering via a plethora of different scams. At that time, one of the largest serious category advanced fee frauds. R v D (2013) Multi-handed, multi million pound advertising/charity fraud. R v R (2014) £176 million mobile phone VAT fraud (MTIC). R v C (2015) Conspiracy to control prostitution for gain and possessing criminal property. R v L (2016) Conspiracy to commit mortgage fraud. £1.2M benefit. R v K (2017) NCA led investigation. Conspiracy to defraud, possession of articles for use in fraud and concealing, disguising, converting and transferring criminal property. R v N (2018) High-profile manufacturing, supplying and selling unlicensed medicine and money laundering (£10 million). R v M (2019) High-profile £3.5 million fraud and money laundering case. R v S (2020) Large criminal conspiracy to defraud UK banks. R v K (2021) Conspiracy to defraud and money laundering. £20M pension fraud.