28 Feb 2020
R v CHAHIL and GUPTA [2020] NZHC 317
- Citation
- (2020) 29 NZTC 24
- Court
- High Court
The Court treated the tax-evasion charges as the lead offending, set a starting point equal to co-offender Ms Jain (three years three months) then uplifted nine months for linked money laundering to reach an aggregate starting point, adjusted for prior home detention and applied a 15% guilty-plea discount for Chahil producing an end sentence of three years two months' imprisonment plus a $50,000 fine; for Gupta the Court set a two-year starting point for money laundering, allowed limited discounts for good character and remorse and a 10% guilty-plea discount, then converted the resulting shor…