Money Laundering

(asked on 27th April 2016) - View Source

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.


Answered by
John Hayes Portrait
John Hayes
This question was answered on 4th May 2016

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

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