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<p>HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is not a prosecuting authority. All prosecutions
have to be authorised by the relevant independent prosecuting authority, which for
England and Wales would be the Crown Prosecution Service; for Scotland, the Crown
Office and Procurator Fiscal Service; and for Northern Ireland, the Public Prosecution
Service for NI.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC’s record does not differentiate between the forms
of fuel fraud it investigates and so they cannot identify Prosecution and Convictions
for fuel laundering. Prosecutions and Convictions instigated for oils offences since
2014 were as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>Up
to September 2016</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Prosecutions</p></td><td><p>34</p></td><td><p>37</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Convictions</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>23</p></td><td><p>12</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p>The figures for prosecutions and convictions in any particular year do not
correspond as investigations and prosecutions do not always reach conclusion in the
year that they commence.</p>
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