This update follows the first-two-ever prosecutions of financial institutions in Jersey for the offence of INTERMEDDLING under the Probate (Jersey) Law 1998 (“the Probate Law”) By Article 23(1) of the Probate (Jersey) Law 1998, a person guilty of an offence is liable to a fine or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding twelve months […]

Speed read Standard Bank Jersey Limited was found guilty in the Jersey Royal Court after it admitted allowing a woman to use her deceased partner’s bank account to pay her rent and shopping bills. Standard Bank Jersey Limited was sentenced for allowing the woman to access the account – which it accepted should have been […]

The Ghana International Bank has responded to media enquiries in respect of the sacking of a bank worker for lodging money in the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II UK bank account and said the Asantehene’s diplomatic passport “had in fact expired” in August 2016 at the time of the incident.   The former employee of […]