The Law Soc Gazette
An equity partner has been fined £20,000 and ordered to pay £10,000 costs for breaches of anti-money laundering regulations.
Jonathan Richard Maurice Gerber, of Paddington, London, firm WGS Solicitors, admitted the allegations against him. The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal found those admissions to have been properly made.
Gerber, admitted in 1991, accepted that between 3 May 2019 and 15 August 2020, he caused or allowed receipts to and payments from the firm’s client account in matters for a client or entities connected to the client, in circumstances other than in respect of an underlying legal transaction being undertaken by the firm or in respect of the delivery by the firm of normal regulated services.
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