The Island’s chief prosecutor, Advocate Robert MacRae, told delegates at a conference on combatting terrorist financing yesterday that the Royal Court had aided foreign jurisdictions to investigate one particular bank account. No other details have been disclosed.
He later confirmed after the conference that it was not the only case where Jersey accounts had been investigated, but stressed it was not a common occurrence. Speaking at the event at the Radisson Blu Hotel, Mr MacRae said that counter-terrorism work in Britain and around the world relied on ground-level employees reporting anything suspicious.
Jersey uses two laws in order to help combat the flow of money that is used to fund terrorist activities – the Terrorism Law 2002 and the Terrorist Asset-Freezing Law 2011.
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