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TERROR CASH COURSE
networks both at an international and regional level, and preventing the importation of illegal substances into our jurisdiction.
“This represents a significant seizure of drugs and underscores the effectiveness of HMC’s ability to curtail illicit drugs trafficking through Gibraltar’s waters.”
Payas added that it ‘serves as a stark reminder to organised criminal groups that their activities will not go unchecked’.
Chief Minister Fabian Picardo echoed his words in his own congratulations to the law enforcement branch.
“HM Customs Officers work tirelessly to keep drugs off Gibraltar’s streets and I’d like to take this opportunity to thank and congratulate them on this interception.
“[It] is just one example of the tangible impact of their stellar efforts on our community.”
POLICE and financial crime experts from Gibraltar, Guernsey, Isle of Man and Jersey took part in a threeday course to learn how to spot terrorist bank accounts. The course at the University of Gibraltar looked at ‘case studies, and the most recent typologies and trends employed by international and domestic terrorist organisations’, the government said. UK experts imparted the course material, making sure it was up to date and covered every corner.
The Gibraltar Financial Intelligence Unit (GFIU) organised and hosted the Terrorist Financing Course through the Quad Island Forum.
The financial jurisdictions of Gibraltar, Guernsey, Isle of Man and Jersey make up the Quad Island Forum.
It shares knowledge and experience, working together to achieve their aims and objectives.
The course is the fruit of the forum’s contact with the National Terrorist Financing Investigation Unit (NTFIU).
JADE Jagger is in the doghouse after being fined for resisting arrest, but could end up in the jailhouse if a police union lawyer has his way.
The 51-year-old daughter of Mick Jagger and his first (and legally speaking only) wife Bianca appeared at a fast-track hearing in an Ibiza court alongside her 31-year-old lover Anthony Hinkson.
Police were called to La Oliva restaurant in Ibiza’s Old Town when Hinkson was being abusive to staff and customers.
He refused to identify himself to officers and Jagger was reported to have intervened to ‘defend her partner’, and in doing so ‘assaulted’ and insulted a female officer.
After two nights in the cells the pair appeared