Rebecca Chalkley KC instructed in prosecution of steel magnate Sanjeev Gupta

Rebecca Chalkley KC (leading Jessica Tate of Foundry Chambers) has been instructed in the prosecution of Steel Magnate Sanjeev Gupta who has been charged over his alleged failure to file accounts in the UK for more than 70 companies.

The charges relate to 76 companies including Liberty Commodities, the trading firm founded by Gupta in the 1990s, and a number of businesses comprising his Liberty Steel group of metals plants.

GFG, which stands for Gupta Family Group, is a non-legal entity and has never filed a single set of consolidated accounts. The group instead comprises of hundreds of separately audited companies, many of which have different end-of-year dates.

Rebecca specialises in all areas of corporate crime, corporate wrongdoing and financial regulation.
She has been instructed by Companies House.

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