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A female friend of mine sold a property back in Oct 2013. She had no mortgage on that property so all the proceeds from the sale went into her bank account as you would expect. She then proceeded to buy a new property. Everything was going well regarding the buying of the new property. The conveyancing company accepted her bank money transfer to pay outright for the new property. She was expecting to collect the keys to her new property. However, the conveyancing company said that she had to prove that the money she paid for the new property wasn't obtained by criminal means in order to prevent money laundering. My lady friend was fuming angry and had to prove that she obtained the money from the sale of her previous property. She did that and all went through ok. I was angry over this issue for two reasons. Firstly, the conveyancing company accepted all her money into thier bank account and then wanted her to prove that the money wasn't obtained by criminal means. Secondly, I thought that it was up to the accuser to prove guilt rather than the accused having to prove their innocence. I therefore assume that the law has completely changed. A person is now guilty until they prove themselves innocent even though the accusing party has no evidence to to support their accusations.
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Recently my partner replied to a job advert "Financial Services Officer". Basically the job was about receiving money trough Giro transfer into personal account and transfer them further using Western Union. The company issued all terms and conditions, invoices for transactions, they have a website which is still online and they are registered in the UK. My partner did two transactions for this company, for £1600 total. After that Santander locked her account due to suspicious activity. The company ceased contact after finding that out and Santander started investigation. No one ever contact my partner in regards to this investigation, no one asked for any documents nor details of her employer. It was just decided that her account will be closed and that she will need to pay a 'readjustment fee' of £1600 as the money was fraudulent. The bank recognises that she might not have been knowingly committing fraud but from their point of view she is held responsible. We appealed from the decision however the bank did not agree to re-investigate. No one seems to be interested, Police, Action Fraud, no one. Only Revenues registered a complaint against the fraudulent company, however their website and job advert still stands (tech-inserviceltd.com - beware!). What can we do?
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