Over £50,000 held in a Jersey account by the convicted mastermind of an “elaborate” international fraud, involving stealing the assets and identities of more than 250 people, has been seized. The confiscation was made possible thanks to the efforts of Jersey’s Attorney General and Law Officer’s Department working in tandem with international authorities to enforce […]

AN IDENTITY thief – who launched an unusual legal battle in Jersey from his cell at New Jersey’s Fort Dix prison – has failed to stop the confiscation of £50,000 he had stashed in a local bank. Michael David Reid, who is currently serving a 14-year sentence in the US, was part of a sophisticated […]

Tom Wise, ex-MEP for the UK Independence Party, jailed for two years in November for expenses fraud, has some claim to gratitude from future defendants in money laundering cases. The Crown had sought to charge him not only with false accounting but also with using criminal property. Jonathan Fisher QC, defending, argued for dismissal of […]