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 […]

A – Michel (2010) (third party laundering) Peter Wilson Michel was convicted in 2007 of 9 counts of money laundering contrary to Article 32(1) of the Proceeds of Crime Law. A confiscation order was made for £9.7 million. An appeal against this conviction was dismissed by the Court of Appeal, on one ground, unrelated to […]