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Mohamed Naleemudeen

BCL Solicitors LLP
Mohamed is an Australian-qualified solicitor, who joined BCL from a leading white-collar crime firm in Australia. Mohamed has experience representing high-net-worth individuals and corporates regarding sanctions, extradition, cross-border investigations, tax disputes, fraud, cybercrime, INTERPOL and regulatory matters. He has also acted for clients in transnational and international crime matters, including advising States and individuals on national security, foreign bribery and crimes against humanity matters. While in Sydney, Mohamed was also a casual academic at the University of New South Wales, teaching an LLM subject about the common law to foreign-qualified lawyers and academics.

Mohamed previously interned at the International Prosecutor’s office at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia in 2020, the international tribunal responsible for prosecuting senior leaders of the Khmer Rouge for their roles in Cambodian Genocide. 

Mohamed obtained a Master of Public and International Law (Honours) from the University of Melbourne in 2022. He completed his Bachelor of Laws (Honours)/Bachelor of International Relations from La Trobe University in 2020. Mohamed has published two journal articles and contributed to several legal publications regarding sanctions, data protection, extradition and white-collar crime.

Practice Area

Panel

  • Contributing Author

Qualified Year

  • 2021

Experience

  • Nyman Gibson Miralis (2021 - 2024)

Membership

  • Young Fraud Lawyers Association
  • International Law Association
  • Defence Extradition Lawyers Forum

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Law (Honours)/Bachelor of International Relations, La Trobe University (2020)
  • Master of Public and International Law, University of Melbourne (2022)

Education

  • La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia (2015-2020)
  • University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia (2021-2022)

1 Contributions by Mohamed Naleemudeen

UK mutual legal assistance for asset restraint and confiscation under POCA 2002 and SI 2005/3181: non‑EU and EU‑TCA requests, orders, enforcement, appeals and cryptoasset civil recovery
PRACTICE NOTES
UK mutual legal assistance for asset restraint and confiscation under POCA 2002 and SI 2005/3181: non‑EU and EU‑TCA requests, orders, enforcement, appeals and cryptoasset civil recovery
Mutual legal assistance in restraint and confiscation proceedings Mutual legal assistance treaties (MLAT) typically oblige signatory states to help with the restraint and confiscation of criminal proceeds. In the UK, the MLAT restraint/confiscation framework sits in Part 11 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA 2002), which also contains the domestic restraint/confiscation schemes in POCA 2002, Parts 2–4. Sections 444 and 445 of POCA 2002 empower UK law enforcement bodies to make secondary legislation so that requests from foreign authorities for help with identifying, recovering, investigating, freezing, confiscating and forfeiting the proceeds of crime can be acted upon, and to give effect to such requests. For an overview of the power to craft secondary legislation under these provisions, and of the secondary legislation implemented pursuant to them, see Practice Note: POCA 2002—external investigations, requests and orders—introduction. Exercising the power in POCA 2002, section 444, the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (External Requests and Orders) Order 2005, SI 2005/3181 (the 2005 Order) establishes the route for domestic enforcement within the UK of overseas restraint and confiscation orders, or their equivalents, and provides the mechanism for doing so...
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