A March 2013 judgment[1] of the Royal Court casts light on the Island’s conviction-based confiscation regime at a time when the States of Jersey is busy sharpening the claws of Jersey’s investigatory and prosecutorial authorities in relation to its civil, non-conviction based, asset forfeiture framework. The judgment contains an interesting tale of a cross-border, multi-million […]

Speaking on 4 April 2019, the head of enforcement for the UK FCA, Mark Steward, warned those subject to the UK’s anti-money laundering regulations that ‘it is time that the FCA gave effect to the full intention of the Money-Laundering Regulations which provides for criminal prosecutions’. He added: ‘[The FCA is] now conducting ‘dual track’ […]

Mozambique’s Former Finance Minister Indicted Alongside Other Former Mozambican Officials, Business Executives, and Investment Bankers in Alleged $2 Billion Fraud and Money Laundering Scheme that Victimized U.S. Investors A four-count indictment was returned on Dec. 19, 2018, by a grand jury in the Eastern District of New York, charging two executives of a shipbuilding company, […]

ISLAMABAD: The purpose of Asia Pacific Group (APG) deliberation with Pakistan was to gauge the country’s compliance on key Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) framework. In a statement issued here, Ministry of Finance stated that Pakistan is passing through two separate processes one is FATF Action Plan and another is regular […]

The following was posted by the Netherlands Public Prosecution Service on 4 September 2018 ING Bank N.V. (ING) in Amsterdam has accepted and paid a settlement of EUR 775,000,000 offered by the Netherlands Public Prosecution Service (Openbaar Ministerie, hereinafter referred to as NPPS). The NPPS has accused ING in the Netherlands of having violated the […]

  The Jersey Financial Crime Strategy Group (JFCSG)– comprising representatives from the Government of Jersey, Jersey Financial Services Commission, States of Jersey Police and Jersey Customs and Immigration Service – have [27 July 2018] launched a public consultation on the implementation of the 2012 Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Recommendations on Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and […]

  Another damning report has been released highlighting the extent to which the UK’s rules around company formation aren’t fit for purpose. Last week’s report from Global Witness exposes how criminals and the corrupt are exploiting the gaping loopholes in the UK company register. The UK introduced the world’s first publicly available register of beneficial […]

The Jersey Financial Crime Strategy Group (JFCSG) – comprising representatives from the Government of Jersey, Jersey Financial Services Commission, States of Jersey Police and Jersey Customs and Immigration Service – have launched a public consultation on the implementation of the 2012 Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Recommendations on Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Countering the Financing […]