Time Ladies & Gentlemen Please

A private client of ours entered into a verbal agreement with a colleague at a dinner party to open a music bar in Venice. Over a period of 6 months our client transferred funds in excess of £170,000 into a business account for the refurbishment work. A few months later he visited to see how the work was going. The bar was closed and the partner had vanished.

We took the case on and appointed local lawyers Geoffrey Leaver to work with us in an attempt to recover the money.

We travelled to Italy and by using field based tracing enquiries we managed to locate the subject. Shortly after this there followed a 4 day covert surveillance operation which helped us to identify assets valued at €350,000.

Geoffrey Leaver then obtained a judgement in the High Court for in excess of £200,000 plus costs which led to an order being registered in Venice to freeze all assets. The assets were later sold by the Italian Judiciary.