5 St Andrews Hill

Dee is a leading criminal barrister who defends & prosecutes in serious criminal cases.

Dharmendra (Dee) is a leading criminal barrister who defends and prosecutes with an established practice in serious crime. He has significant experience as leading junior and led junior.

Dee has extensive experience in organised crime, financial crime, and POCA proceedings. He is a specialist in cybercrime. In addition, he is also a specialist in Consumer and Trading Standards law.

Dee is a Grade 4 prosecutor (highest grade) and is frequently instructed by the Complex Casework Units of the CPS across the UK, dealing with cases of the utmost seriousness.

He is recognised in the Legal 500 in Crime.

Dee is a cybercrime specialist, having extensive knowledge of all cyber-dependent offending (i.e. Computer Misuse Act 1990), such as hacking, ransomware/malware attacks affecting individuals or large corporations.

In 2023 he was instructed by the CPS London Complex Casework Unit in Operation Ulex (also known as Lapsus$) involving a notorious hacking collective proven responsible for serious hacks on multi-billion-dollar companies such as Rockstar Games (Grand Theft Auto) Uber, Nvidia etc. The case involved close liaison with specialist officers from the FBI and the City of London Police. Furthermore, he has significant experience in cases of cyber-enabled offending, typically fraud and money laundering enabled through the Dark Web.

Dee is known for defending in business crime cases against companies and/or their directors. For example, he is currently instructed to defend a company director of a large money service business (MSB) in a multi-million-pound fraud.

Dee has developed a keen eye for detail and is often instructed on cases with complex issues of fact and law, with tens of thousands of served pages of evidence. He is experienced in the disclosure and deployment of internationally obtained material. Many of his cases involve an international dimension and cross-border issues.

Seminars

Dee regularly gives talks and seminars to legal professionals on crypto assets within the context of cybercrime offending and has been involved in several crypto-related cases surrounding confiscation, account forfeiture and restraint proceedings

Dee speaks Spanish

Professional Panel Appointments Grade 4 CPS Prosecutor Grade 3 on Serious Crime Panel Professional Memberships Criminal Bar Association (CBA). Fraud Lawyers Association (FLA).