Jersey
Date set for former Lumiere MD’s fraud trial
The former managing director of defunct Jersey-based IFA firm Lumiere Wealth, Christopher Paul Byrne, will face a six-week trial in Jersey’s Royal Court starting next August.
Offshore chiefs bid to avoid EU blacklist
Island jurisdictions including Bermuda, Jersey, Guernsey and Cayman have been making last ditch efforts to avoid being blacklisted by the EU.
Two charged in $150m Providence scam
The chief executive of Providence Companies Group has been federally indicted, along with its chief operating officer, for orchestrating a $150m (£112.5m, €125.8m) fraud that saw the firm’s operations in Guernsey and a Jersey-based IFA firm shut down in 2016.
Italian princess to appeal $200m trust fund ruling
An Italian princess is disputing a Jersey Royal Court judgement that she conspired with her film-star mother to secretly direct $200m of family wealth away from her sister.
Appleby family law head exits to found own firm
The head of family law at Appleby, the firm at the centre of the Paradise Papers, has left the business and set up her own firm in Jersey.