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Anthony Herschel Blok, birth Feb 1937 Londen, Stepney, died Jan 2013 Korfoe, Griekenland, occupation: Solicitor, son of Mozes Blok and Sylvia Swirsky http://www.solicitorstribunal.org.uk/sites/default/files-sdt/10395-2009%20-%20Blok.pdf The Respondent was born in 1937 and was admitted as a solicitor on 1 December 1960. On 11 December 2006 his practising certificate for the year 2005/06 was terminated and on 3 June 2009 his name was removed from the Roll of Solicitors. http://www.lawsociety.org.uk/support-services/advice/articles/money-laundering-and-paying-bail/ Blok was convicted on 1 July 2009 of a section 327 money laundering offence for taking hold of two bags containing ¹75,000 in ¹50 notes and paying them into court as bail security for his client. Blok was representing a client who was on charges for fraud in relation to an international money laundering ring. Blok applied for bail for this client on a Friday, which was set at ¹75,000 in cash. During the hearing he called the client's daughter as a witness to provide evidence about the limited funds available to the family to meet the bail requirements. On the following Monday, Blok deposited the ¹75,000 with the court cashier. The next day, police seized the cash from the bank where it had been deposited. When questioned about the origins of the funds, Blok said he was given the funds outside the court by a man he did not know and he understood that the funds were raised by family and friends over the weekend. However, CCTV footage at the court showed Blok meeting with the client's daughter and another woman. They handed him two bags of money which he then took to the cashier's office. The court accepted that in the circumstances it was not reasonable for that amount of money to have been raised legitimately in such a short time, and that the false story provided by Blok demonstrated that he knew or suspected that the funds wer e from a criminal source. Blok was sentenced to 4 years jail on this and other money laundering offences. to: Loretta Frances Loftus http://goldfinch.gidsgoldberg.com/familytree/ef_130.shtml |
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| 2) Katharine Blok |
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