Serious Fraud Office directors to speak at Jersey conference on financial crime

Directors from the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) will lead a conference in Jersey next month on the latest developments in the UK on serious crime matters.

Organised by the Law Officers’ Department (LoD) and the Jersey Financial Services Commission (JFSC), the conference will feature presentations from SFO Director David Green CB QC and General Counsel Alun Milford on recent developments for the organisation and UK legislation.

Robert MacRae QC (HM Attorney General, LoD), John Harris (Director General, JFSC), Deputy Kristina Moore (Minister for Home Affairs, States of Jersey) will provide information about prosecuting financial crime locally, the formation of an Economic Crime and Confiscation Unit in Jersey, liaison between the Island’s regulator and law enforcement, and the imminent National Risk Assessment.

HM Attorney General, Robert MacRae QC commented:
“I am delighted to welcome the Director and General Counsel of the Serious Fraud Office to Jersey and I would encourage members of the finance and legal industries to attend this event as it will consider common problems and new solutions in combatting financial crime.”

JFSC Director General, John Harris added:
“The Jersey Financial Services Commission is very pleased to be part of this important event including a focus on the significant links between its own work as a supervisor and the strong impetus being given by law enforcement to the investigation and prosecution of serious economic crime in Jersey.”

The half day conference will take place at La Mare Wine Estate on the afternoon of Tuesday 10 October, 2017. The event is geared towards board members, heads of industry, senior professionals and officers engaged in combatting fraud and financial crime.

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Biographies for the Directors of SFO
David Green CB QC was appointed Director of the Serious Fraud Office in April 2012. David was called to the Bar in 1979; appointed Recorder in 1996 and took silk in 2000. After 25 years of prosecuting and defending at the Criminal Bar, he was appointed the first Director of the Revenue and Customs Prosecutions Office in April 2005 until the department was merged with the Crown Prosecution Service in January 2010. He returned to the Bar in April 2011 and was appointed CB in the Queen’s Birthday Honours that year.

Alun Milford became General Counsel at the Serious Fraud Office in April 2012. Alun joined the
Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) in 1992 after working as a solicitor in a City firm. He covered central London crime and became a solicitor-advocate in 1999. In 2004 he joined the Attorney General’s Office specialising in contempt of court and unduly lenient sentences. Three years later, he moved to the Revenue and Customs Prosecutions Office (RCPO), establishing and leading its Asset Forfeiture Division. He returned to the CPS in 2009 and was appointed as head of its Organised Crime Division following its merger with RCPO.