Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many requests for mutual legal assistance have been made to foreign jurisdictions to recover criminal assets laundered abroad in each year since 2009; and what the jurisdictions are to which those requests were made.
Outgoing requests for restraint and confiscation transmitted via the Home Office are set out in the tables below. The data does not include requests transmitted directly under Council Framework Decisions 2003/577/JHA (Freezing Orders) and 2006/783/JHA (Confiscation Orders).
These figures only show countries where 5 or more requests have been made for restraint or confiscation. This is because disclosure of figures where 5 or fewer requests have been made may lead to the identification of an individual Mutual Legal Assistance request.
Please note that these figures are taken from local management information, and have not been quality assured to the level of published National Statistics. As such it should be treated as provisional and therefore subject to change.
2009
Country | Requests |
Spain | 11 |
Other | 47 |
Total | 58 |
2010
Country | Requests |
Spain | 22 |
Cyprus | 11 |
Jersey | 8 |
Other | 51 |
Total | 92 |
2011
Country | Requests |
Spain | 9 |
Cyprus | 9 |
Other | 61 |
Total | 79 |
2012
Country | Requests |
Spain | 11 |
Jersey | 7 |
Other | 53 |
Total | 71 |
2013
Country | Requests |
Spain | 10 |
Other | 45 |
Total | 55 |
2014
Country | Requests |
Spain | 13 |
Isle of Man | 7 |
Other | 47 |
Total | 67 |
2015
Country | Requests |
Spain | 9 |
United Arab Emirates | 6 |
Jamaica | 6 |
Other | 62 |
Total | 83 |