{"id":21982,"date":"2013-08-30T07:44:21","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T06:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=21982"},"modified":"2013-08-30T07:44:21","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T06:44:21","slug":"jerseys-finance-industry-has-now-taken-control-of-its-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/08\/30\/jerseys-finance-industry-has-now-taken-control-of-its-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Jersey&#8217;s finance industry has now taken control of its police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I've long argued that Jersey is a captured state - indeed, I suggested programme on that theme to an independent television company in 2002, before knowing just how involved in tax campaigning I would one day be.<\/p>\n<p>The evidence that the hypothesis is right grows by the day. <a href=\"http:\/\/stuartsyvret.blogspot.co.uk\/2013\/08\/the-ogier-group.html\" target=\"_blank\">Yesterday Jersey's home affairs minister<\/a>, Ian Le Marquand, announced he had \u201cchosen\u201d a new chairman for the Jersey Police Authority. The person in question is Advocate Jonathan White. He's a former partner at the law-firm Ogier, and is now Chairman of Jersey Finance Ltd.<\/p>\n<p>So Jersey Finance now seem to be running the police.<\/p>\n<p>When financial crime is by far the most likely serious crime in Jersey by a long way it is quite simply staggering that the chair of the organisation promoting the finance industry now also chairs the police authority. \u00a0State capture has reached new heights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve long argued that Jersey is a captured state &#8211; indeed, I suggested programme on that theme to an independent television company in 2002, before<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/08\/30\/jerseys-finance-industry-has-now-taken-control-of-its-police\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jersey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}