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Assets agency freezes pupil's bank account

Assets agency freezes pupil's bank account

Riazat Butt Monday October 10, 2005 The Guardian

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A government agency has frozen the bank account of a Russian pupil at Sherborne school in Dorset.

The Assets Recovery Agency was alerted to the financial activities of Tamara Platash, 17, after an attempt was made to transfer £200,000 to an overseas bank. The cash was part of £303,730.21 in the account.

The bank alerted police, but there was insufficient evidence for an investigation. An ARA spokesman said: "We are still building a case. If there is good, arguable evidence that this money has been acquired unlawfully then we will apply for a civil recovery order through the high court."

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Bah! Kids nowadays -- they've got far too much pocket money!

Reply to
Mr X
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Was he on a John Peel Scholarship?

Reply to
bob

No BRD necessary?

Reply to
Phil Stovell

With that sort of money, she should be at Canford, not slumming it in Sherborne :-)

Brian

Reply to
bigbrian

In article , Phil Stovell writes

No. Civil case in High Court. Balance of Probabilities

Don't you just love it!

However the good news is if the money was from "Daddy" it should be easy to prove so.

The bad news comes if "Daddy" turns out to be an illegal drugs dealer

Reply to
Mr X

In article , bigbrian writes

Do you remember the discovery of that painting on the wall of the Canford tuckshop?

Reply to
Mr X

Indeed I do, although I'd left the area by then. What did it go for in the end? Something like £8 million wasn't it?

Brian

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bigbrian

In article , bigbrian writes

Yes, something like that!

Amazing story. All those years in the Tuck Shop, painted over, discovered by chance and then turns out to be worth millions.

I wonder what the school's insurers said after the discovery but before the sale?

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Mr X

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