Paul Raudnitz QC is instructed to provide charging advice in an SFO investigation into a suspected fraudulent trading operation involving the appropriation of £107m invested into a legal services financing fund. The case material is very extensive (over 50,000 pages) and highly technical and involved. The allegations are multi-jurisdictional, embracing the obtaining of funds from hundreds of investors worldwide, the fraudulent dissipation of assets through a complex web of offshore companies and accounts, and the suspected complicity of numerous individuals. Mr Raudnitz is engaged as junior counsel to the SFO to advise on all aspects of the case.