The Government says it notes, “with disappointment”, the European Parliament’s objection, today, to the entry into force of the European Commission’s decision to remove certain jurisdictions, including Gibraltar, from the EU’s list of ‘high-risk’ third-countries with strategic deficiencies as regards anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (“AML/CFT”).
The Government says that, following intensive lobbying by Minister Albert Isola and the team at Gibraltar Finance, Bulgaria “has definitively removed Gibraltar from its ‘tax haven’ list.”
A total of 500kg of Cannabis Resin have been seized following the recovery of a collar from a Rigid Hull Inflatable Boat found floating in British Gibraltar Territorial Waters about a mile west off the Detached Mole.
Gibtelecom will be carrying out maintenance works to its mobile network starting at 08:00 on Tuesday 29March 2016 and expected to be completed by 14:00 on Thursday 31 March 2016.
LCpl Alec Spooner from the Royal Gibraltar Regiment has disarmed an incendiary mortar round that was found in a wooded area near RAF Northolt in West London.