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Anu Mohindru

commercial criminal fraud, serious crime

YEAR OF CALL: 2003 England and Wales

anumohindru@lombardchambers.com
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Anu Mohindru specialises in all areas of financial crime. His practice involves money laundering, VAT fraud, bank fraud and VAT tribunal appeals. In addition, Anu also handles general criminal cases, having recently acted for a defendant indicted on terrorist charges. He also has experience in multi-track personal injury cases and was counsel for the claimant in an accident at Heathrow Terminal 5 in which one person died and another was severely injured.

Anu has a medical background which gives him an advantage when acting for clients in criminal cases in which medical experts are involved. He is a qualified Arbitrator and Mediator and is fluent in Punjabi, Hindi and Urdu. He is a keen sportsman; cricket being his main sport, which he played professionally in his earlier days. Not only does he play for the Bar team but has turned out for the famous Lashings World XI and the MCC.

  • R v Harding: Junior counsel for a defendant in the largest counterfeit pharmaceutical fraud ever prosecuted. The Defendant was accused of a conspiracy to import and distribute counterfeit medicines. The fraud caused the largest class one recall of drugs supplied, Sanofi Aventis, Astra Zenica and Eli Lilly, from the open market in history. The defendant was acquitted of all charges after a five month trial. (Operation Singapore)
  • R v Mohammed: Junior counsel for the defendant charged with three other men of murder of a takeaway delivery driver in an alley way behind his place of work. (Operation WIGAN)
  • R v Saleem and others (Terrorist): Junior Counsel for a defendant (Omar Zaheer) charged with fund raising for terrorism and for inciting murder. Case heavily publicised as involved the preacher Omar Brooks. Omar Zaheer was aquited of the charges brought against him. All other Defendants found guilty following a 4 month trial.
  • R v Hill and others: Junior counsel on a multi handed conspiracy to supply drugs with a £100 million money laundering.
  • R v Goldring: Counsel for the defendant in a multiple million pound Barclays Bank fraud where bank accounts had been hijacked using inside information obtained from bank employees. The money was then sent offshore and dissipated. The Defendant was acquitted of all charges against him.
  • R v Chahal: Junior counsel for the defendant charged with Murder using a ceremonial sword.
  • Singh v Laing O'Rourke: Counsel for the claimant in the Heathrow terminal 5 accident, where a canter lever apparatus broke killing one and seriously injuring another.
  • HMRC v Life Enterprises: Lead Counsel in a VAT tribunal appeal. Case involves the withholding of input tax, on the basis that the defendant was contra trading in mobile phones, part of an MTIC.
  • R v Dixon: Junior counsel for the defendant in a large conspiracy to supply class A drugs. The drugs were imported then shuttled around the country using coffee cans.
  • R v Buxton: Counsel for the defendant in a multimillion pound conspiracy to defraud barclays bank by hijacking accounts and withdrawing the money.
  • R v B: Junior counsel for the defendant in a share fraud. Company was floated, SFO claim that share price artificially inflated. Fraud worth £30 million.
  • R v D: Junior counsel for the defendant in a nursing home fraud, which is linked to allegations of corporate manslaughter as a result of the fraud.
  • R v K: multil handed conspiracy to import class a drugs (Operation Berlin) and (kestrel) - leading junior.

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