Crime

BakerPlatt’s Partners and Associates have expertise in both the prosecution and defence of all forms of crime from complex fraud, money laundering and terrorist financing to serious sexual and drugs offences.

We were instructed to prosecute the first anti-money laundering case in Jersey and to defend the first prosecution for a breach of anti-money laundering regulations in the Crown Dependencies.

BakerPlatt were central to the successful Jersey investigation into the alleged laundering of the proceeds of the corrupt Nigerian Dictator General Abacha’s crimes through Jersey.  This investigation has already resulted in over USD $160,000 000 being returned to Nigeria.

We have prosecuted Jersey largest drugs money laundering case involving the payment of very large sums through Jersey and Andorran accounts.