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Jailed lawyer has nothing left of £1m gains
Paisley Daily Express
|September 09, 2025
JAMES MULHOLLAND
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A disgraced lawyer serving time for financial crime has nothing left of the £1 million fortune he acquired through breaking the law, a court has heard.
Alistair Blackwood, 70, made a total of £1,086,581 from his life of crime while working as a solicitor for a Paisley law firm.
But on Monday, at a hearing at the High Court in Edinburgh, prosecutors and defence lawyers agreed that Blackwood has nothing of that amount which can be recovered.
The news emerged during a hearing into a proceeds of crime action brought against Blackwood and his accomplices - corrupt solicitors Iain Robertson, 72, and David Lyons, 74.
The three dodgy lawyers acted alongside Mohammed Aziz, 63, and Robert Ferguson, 69, in a £1.5 million money laundering scam which operated from the Robertson & Ross firm in Paisley.
Prosecutor Bryan Heaney said during a short hearing yesterday that Blackwood's personal benefit from the crime was £1,086,581 but there was nothing of that available to be seized.
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