Money Laundering prosecutions (FOI)Money Laundering prosecutions (FOI)
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21 October 2021.Prepared internally, no external costs.
Request
I wish to know how many Money Laundering prosecutions under Part 3 of the Proceeds of Crime (Jersey) Law 1999 (the 1999 law) there have been, sine the inception of the 1999 law.
Currently PART 3 - Money Laundering shows:
29 Criminal property
30 Offences of dealing with criminal property
31 Concealment, and so on, of criminal property
In consideration of the above I would like the answer to reflect any changes to the PART 3 [or equivalent] and articles between 1999 and 2021
And in knowing the number of Money Laundering prosecutions I wish to know the breakdown between successful and non-successful prosecutions.
Response
The information tabled below relates to records held since 2014. Please note that some individuals were charged with multiple offences.
Information held prior to 2014 would require manual extraction from over 2000 records. It is estimated that this would take more than 12.5 hours to complete and therefore Article 16 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.
Article 29 of the Proceeds of Crime (Jersey) Law 1999 simply provides a definition of criminal property and does not constitute an offence in itself.
| | Article 30 – Offences of dealing with criminal property | Article 31 – Concealment, and so on, of criminal property |
No. individuals pursued through court | No. of offences with guilty verdict | No. of offences withdrawn or with not guilty verdict | No. individuals pursued through court | No. of offences with guilty verdict | No. of offences withdrawn or with not guilty verdict |
| 2014 | | | | 2 | 5 | |
| 2015 | 2 | 2 | | 1 | 2 | |
| 2016 | 10 | 14 | 4 | | | |
| 2017 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 4 |
| 2018 | 2 | 2 | | 1 | 2 | |
| 2019 | 10 | 17 | | 3 | 9 | |
| 2020 | 2 | 2 | | 2 | 3 | |
Total | 36 | 44 | 10 | 14 | 25 | 4 |
Article applied
Article 16 - A scheduled public authority may refuse to supply information if cost excessive
(1) A scheduled public authority that has been requested to supply information may refuse to supply the information if it estimates that the cost of doing so would exceed an amount determined in the manner prescribed by Regulations.
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