Region: Guernsey

Guernsey’s newly-created financial crime agency, led by a former SFO chief investigator, has its sights set on tackling international criminals seeking to launder funds through the island’s financial system.

29 June 2021

The former chief investigator at the UK’s anti-fraud agency has been unveiled as the first director of Guernsey’s new economic crime unit, and the head of the National Security Division is leaving the DOJ.

15 June 2021

23 April 2021

19 March 2018

07 March 2018

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Financial authorities in both Singapore and Guernsey are investigating UK bank Standard Chartered after the bank self-reported potential issues connected to US$1.4 billion in transfers made on behalf of Indonesian clients.

06 October 2017

A Guernsey company accused of obtaining mining rights in Guinea through bribery has been refused permission to use confidential documents produced in a lawsuit against it as evidence in a related LCIA arbitration.

26 April 2016

A trustee for Robert Tchenguiz will seek to appeal against a High Court ruling preventing him from using documents disclosed to him by the UK’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) in separate litigation, a source told the Financial Times.

11 February 2015

The Court of Appeal of England and Wales has ruled that the interactions between the SFO and foreign authorities are “inherently confidential”.

05 November 2014

A Guernsey-based company has made good on its threat to bring an ICSID claim against Guinea over the revocation of mining rights in the wake of a bribery investigation. By Douglas Thomson.

11 September 2014