French Court Sentences Former Brazilian Mayor to Three Years in Prison A French court sentenced deputy and former São Paulo mayor Paulo Maluf, his wife Sylvia Lutfalla Maluf, and his son Flávio Maluf, to prison for “organized money laundering”, the Attorney General’s Office reported on Wednesday (2). In the case of Maluf and his son […]

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has handed down a landmark judgment (1) concerning the doctrine of tracing, which confirms the approach taken by the Royal Court and the Jersey Court of Appeal regarding the previously unsettled question of whether so-called ‘backwards tracing’ is permissible under Jersey law. Facts The Federal Republic of Brazil and […]