A criminal probe into a disgraced lawyer who brought false claims against Iraq War veterans has a number of “lines of inquiry”, the National Crime Agency (NCA) has said.
A file on Phil Shiner, who was struck off last month for dishonestly pursuing torture and murder claims against British troops, has been passed to the agency by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA).
It comes after 60-year-old Mr Shiner, from Birmingham, was declared bankrupt on Tuesday, according to the Insolvency Service.
The NCA, the UK’s equivalent of the FBI, took the unusual step of confirming its investigation after the Daily Telegraph reported its director general, Lynne Owens, had written to a former Conservative minister to say there were a “number of …
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