According to The Law Society Gazette, Malcolm Grumbridge was “found guilty of a string of rule breaches” in December 2020. According to James Hurley in The Times this week, Grumbridge “has been a mysterious figure during his more than four-decade legal and business career… [who has been] at the heart of the Maxwells’ opaque finances, setting up and owning companies on behalf of the brothers Kevin and Ian Maxwell.”
A solicitor since 1978 but now removed from the roll, former sole practitioner Grumbridge – whom established around 150 companies in total – transferred a cash gift from a client to his personal account, “without the client being advised to take any independent legal advice.” He also was slammed for not accurately maintaining books, making inter-client loans without proper written authority and took cash withdrawals from client bank accounts in favour of himself.
Though the Solicitors Regulation Authority deemed Grumbridge’s conduct “serious enough to merit a fine of between £25,000 and £50,000,” this was “reduced to £2,000 [plus £1,350 in costs) on the basis of the admissions made at an early stage, Grumbridge’s ill health and his co-operation with the investigation.”
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Summing up, “the SRA found [the solicitor] had ‘failed to behave in a way that maintains the trust the public places in him,’ which they described as ‘reckless,’” The Chiswick Calendar this week remarked.
Listed on the same page as a number for Scotland Yard in the infamous Ghislaine Maxwell – Jeffrey Epstein ‘little black book’ with a total of seven phone numbers – indicating his clear importance to the pugnacious pair – London, W4 based Grumbridge also “acted as a custodian of the house where Prince Andrew allegedly had sex with one of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims” and “set up multiple companies for the Maxwell family,” The Times also reported.
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They will ALL burn in HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!! Mark my words!!!!!!!!!! Do NOT send these filthy people Down Under – we’ve had enough criminality to last a lifetime ten times over!!!!!!!!!!!! Lock ’em up!!!!!!!!!!! NOW!!!!!!!!!!!
This guy as the Trustee of a “well connected” peer2peer financing (now bond) company was a massive red flag back in late 2013.
My colleague and I were told to “look away” at the time… Funnily enough, he appeared on my LinkedIn suggestions shortly afterwards.
In short, Gumbridge is a shell company specialist and money launderer. Greasy Ghislaine certainly had an eye for identifying the easily corruptible and morally degenerate within the circles she moved in, from this ‘legal practitioner’ to Prince Andrew.