Month: May 2018

Laurent Anselmi, Monaco’s Director of Judicial Services and President of the State Council, took part in the International Legal Forum in St Petersburg from May 15 to 17, which brought together many figures from the legal world. At the end of the event, an international private law prize was awarded.

On the sidelines of this event, Mr Anselmi also met with Maxim Travnikov, Deputy Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation.

In addition to formal presentations, the interview provided an opportunity for the Director of Judicial Services to explain the specificities of the Monegasque administration and judicial organisation, as well as to discuss various aspects of the justice system of common interest, including the state of play of negotiations on a draft bilateral agreement on cooperation on the adoption of children.

More general themes were also discussed, related to international standards as well as sports law among others.

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Singer, actress, sulphurous icon of the 80s New York, queen of disco, muse of Andy Warhol … Grace Jones has lived a thousand lives, SBM says.

After twenty years of silence, she released a new album recorded in her home country, Jamaica, in 2008 with reggae legends Sly & Robbie. The public and critical reception was so positive that the pop diva has been touring the world ever since with a spectacular show highlighting her avant-garde look and extravagant headdresses, which continue to work wonder, the casino and hotel operator says.

As part of the Monte-Carlo Sporting Summer Festival 2018, Grace Jones will come to Monaco on August 6 to dance the Libertango on the stage of the Salle des Etoiles.

Tickets are on sale at €300, including dinner. Info on montecarlolive.com.

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Jean-Luc Nguyen has been appointed Director of Public Works. He will also retain the Directorate of the “Mission for Urbanisation at Sea” in charge of the Portier Cove land reclamation project.

Mr Nguyen succeeds Olivier Lavagna, who has joined the management of the Monaco Ports Operating Company (SEPM).

Born in 1965, Jean-Luc Nguyen is an engineer, having graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées. He also holds an MBA from the College of Engineers.

During his career he has held positions in the public service as well as in the private sector. He worked for the French Ministry of Equipment as district manager in Calais, then at the Public Establishment of the new city of Cergy-Pontoise.

He later managed several subsidiaries of the Nexity Group, one of the French leaders in real estate development, and headed the branch devoted to urban planning, environment and energy for the engineering group Setec.

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Nearly one hundred guests celebrated the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle over the weekend at Stars’n’Bars and planted more than 400 trees in the process. The event was sponsored by the new non-profit Association Monaco Challenge whose goal is to  plant a tree, over time, for every  resident of Monaco – roughly 38,000 people.

On Saturday, May 19, guests watched the wedding and related festivities on a giant TV screen, re-creating a traditional “knees up” party ambiance for which the British are famous, complete with cucumber sandwiches and Pimms. An entrance fee included  a ‘tree kit’ to plant a tree and a chocolate bar which benefits the project. The Association plans to create additional “challenges” to sell tree kits and the chocolate bars will be available for sale at the Monaco bar ‘Slammers’ with the goal of having commitments to plant up to 1,000 trees in a very short time.

The challenge supports Plant for the Planet’s campaign to plant a trillion trees globally. For each tree kit sold Forest Nation will plant another tree.  Plant for the Planet has been planting trees globally since its formation by nine-year-old Felix Finkbeiner in 2008, in locations from the Philippines to Namibia.

Sponsors of the weekend event included Landmark Trust – an independent provider of trust and fiduciary services – providing the Monaco Tree Challenge tree kits and chocolate; and the St Tropez House, a leading operator in luxury villa rentals in St Tropez, and Relevance, a full service digital marketing agency expert in luxury brands – hosting the Prosecco marriage toast at the event.

Monaco has continued its close cooperation with the MONEYVAL anti-money laundering organisation by participating in a week-long training session for evaluators in Larnaca, Cyprus.

The seminar brought together nearly sixty participants from many countries, including Estonia, Poland, Cyprus, Andorra, Guernsey, France, United Kingdom, Liechtenstein, Israel, Jersey, Georgia, Italy, the Netherlands, but also from the European Commission.

MONEYVAL, the Committee for the Fight against Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (LCB-FT), held the event to train experts to evaluate the policies implemented and the actions carried out by the different countries belonging to the MONEYVAL Committee.

During the seminar, representatives from Financial Intelligence Units such as Monaco’s SICCFIN, but also from Police and Prosecution Services (General Prosecutor’s Office), learned how to evaluate existing anti-money laundering and  financing of terrorism policies already in place.

The seminar was attended by Jean-Marc Gualandi, Technical Advisor to SICCFIN. The sessions was also attended by Lia Umans, FATF, Michael Stellini, Deputy Executive Secretary of MONEYVAL Committee, Yehuda Shaffer, former Deputy Attorney General of Israel John Ringguth, an eminent British jurist, former member of the London Crown Prosecution Service and former Executive Secretary of the Moneyval Committee, and Richard Walker, Director of Financial Crime Policy, Guernsey.

By taking part, SICCFIN, Monaco’s own financial control organisation, demonstrated the Principality’s commitment to the fight against money laundering and the financing of terrorism.