Billionaire’s Daughter Fined $1,000 for Withholding Files
- SFO alleged woman failed to comply with documents demand
- Anna Machkevitch said she followed lawyer’s advice in case
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A London judge fined the daughter of a billionaire mining mogul 800 pounds ($1,042) for failing to comply with a demand from prosecutors to hand over documents as part of an investigation into her father.
The U.K. Serious Fraud Office had pressed charges against Anna Machkevitch because she didn’t share all of a decade’s worth of documents, including calendar entries and correspondence, she held related to her father, Alexander. Her lawyer had argued that she had a “reasonable excuse,” because the 37-year-old was acting on legal advice.