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Convicted UK lawyer suspended from legal profession over client account failings

By Martin Coyle ( February 26, 2025, 16:41 GMT | Insight) -- A British lawyer convicted for tipping off a client over a criminal probe linked to Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation has been has been banned from the legal profession for 12 months and ordered to pay 50,000 pounds over anti-money laundering failures. In a separate earlier case, William Osmond was convicted in 2023 in a prosecution brought by the UK's Serious fraud Office. A British lawyer convicted for tipping off a client over a criminal probe linked to Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation has been suspended and fined over anti-money laundering failures....

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