Jersey
Jersey agrees to return money laundering assets to Kenya
Jersey chief minister Ian Gorst has signed an agreement to allow the return of over £3m ($3.65m, €3.46m) of stolen assets to Kenya.
UK officials visit crown dependencies to discuss ‘Crexit’
A team of UK politicians have been touring the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man as part of a fact-finding mission to establish what effect Britain’s exit from the European Union will have on the crown dependencies.
Tax & Regulation | 19 Jan 17
Former MD of Lumiere Wealth makes further court appearance
The founder and managing director of defunct Jersey-based IFA firm Lumiere Wealth, Christopher Byrne, has appeared in court for a fourth time and been granted bail.
People Moves | 19 Jan 17
Jersey’s assistant chief minister resigns over fund failings
Philip Ozouf, assistant chief minister of Jersey, has stepped down following the publication of a report highlighting a catalogue of failings in how the island’s Innovation Fund awarded more than £2m ($2.5m, €2.3m) of taxpayers’ money to start-ups.
Gibraltar ‘well prepared’ for hard Brexit despite jobs warning
Gibraltar has said it is “well prepared” to handle the fallout from a hard Brexit, adding it could provide “significant opportunities” for the British overseas territory, after UK prime minister Theresa May confirmed on Tuesday that the country will pull out of EU single market.