Anita Clifford features as Financial Crime Expert in Al Jazeera Documentary

Anita Clifford features in the latest documentary by Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit “The Minister’s Millions.”

The documentary follows the trail of Saifuzzaman Chowdhury, a close ally of former Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who allegedly built a half-billion-dollar property empire while earning a salary of just $13,000.

Bangladeshi authorities have since frozen his accounts and launched an investigation into claims of money laundering. Anita was approached as an expert to comment on the potential for UK money laundering laws to also apply:

“If there is any suspicion that a person is “benefitting from dealing in criminal conduct” and is bringing that benefit here ( to the UK) then that potentially is an offence of money laundering- even if that criminal conduct has happened in another country”

Anita Clifford offers commentary from 20:25 [YouTube]

Anita Clifford specialises in financial crime, anti-money laundering investigations and regulatory requirements, suspicious activity reporting and account freezing and is a ranked junior for POCA work in both Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners. Earlier this year she successfully represented the World Uyghur Congress in The Court of Appeal (Civil Division) in a challenge brought against the NCA’s decision not to investigate suspected breaches of POCA to do with cotton imports from Xinjiang, China. Read more: [Anita Clifford Profile]