Ex-Lumiere CEO may get light sentence in Providence case
Byrne cooperating with Guernsey police on its investigation into failed Providence scheme
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Sipp providers must check offshore investments, UK rules
FCA warns Sipp providers to notify regulator of any financial strains due to claims from ruling
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‘Bizarre’ court ruling nets UK taxman £300,000 in IHT case
Ruling leaves ‘a complex, nonsensical web of rules which risk layering on extra worry for beneficiaries’
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Challenge to very first unexplained wealth order dismissed
UK’s National Crime Agency investigating properties worth £22m in south-east England
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Defendant pleads guilty in Beaufort Securities case
A British citizen has also been extradited to the US to stand trial
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Brits take fight for post-Brexit rights to Dutch court
A court case in the Netherlands involving five UK nationals could decide if 1.2 million British expats can keep their EU citizenship rights post-Brexit.
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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.
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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.
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Asset manager vindicated in mammoth £1bn Guernsey court case
US-based The Carlyle Group has won a civil case against claims it was in breach of its duties in the management of a Guernsey fund leading to total investment losses in the 2008 global financial crash.
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US rapper faces 44 years in jail for $1.7m tax fraud case
US rapper DMX, facing 44 years jail for a massive tax fraud, has been ordered to check into a rehabilitation facility to seek treatment after violating bail conditions.
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Axa Life Singapore ordered to pay $3m over bad reference
Axa Life Insurance Singapore has been ordered by the country’s High Court to pay compensation to a former employee for providing an unflattering reference to the Monetary Authority of Singapore (Mas) and his prospective employer, Prudential Assurance Company Singapore.
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Gay man wins for equal pension rights in landmark UK court case
The UK Supreme Court has ruled that same-sex couples have the same rights to pension death benefits as heterosexual couples in a landmark case involving a final salary scheme.