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CLOSE WINDOW http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-546933,00.html January 18, 2003 Cayman trial falls apart over MI6 link >From James Doran in New York THE leader of the Cayman Islands� Government accused Britain last night of conducting a �cold war� against the dependent territory after the collapse of a routine money-laundering trial revealed allegations of espionage, wire taps and obstruction of justice by alleged MI6 agents. The bizarre case has revealed that an unnamed agent of the British Government � described in court documents as �John Doe� � has been receiving secret information about companies and banks that are based on Cayman from one of the island�s top anti-money- laundering officials. It is understood that operations by the secret UK government agency on tax havens such as Cayman have stepped up since money-laundering laws were tightened as part of the War on Terror. The transcript of the Cayman court case, which reads like the pages of a Graham Greene novel, is now being used to try to force David Ballantyne, the islands� Attorney-General, to resign, along with the whole of the islands� financial services unit. McKeever Bush, leader of the Cayman Islands� Government and Father of the House of its legislature, said: �The secret intelligence service of the UK has interfered with the course of justice on Cayman. How can the UK Government conduct this kind of cold war, this espionage against Cayman? We are an overseas dependent territory.� He added that the alleged spying and the collapse of an important money-laundering trial could cost Cayman dearly. �We are vehemently opposed to money-laundering,� Mr Bush said. �The UK Government must pay for what it has done. It must pay for the trial and it must pay for the fallout this will cause.� It is feared that companies will stay away from Cayman now it is known that they are being watched by government agencies, thus depriving the island of its main income. Anthony Smellie, the Chief Justice of Cayman, threw out a long- running money-laundering case against Euro Bank, a company that operates on the tax haven, on January 14 after allegations that Brian Gibbs, a senior anti-fraud officer, had passed information about the case to an unnamed agency of the UK Government, understood to be MI6. Mr Gibbs, a former UK police officer, was director of the Cayman Islands Financial Reporting Unit and, as such, responsible for upholding financial law on the territory and preventing money- laundering. He had been set to appear as a witness in the case as he was said to have an informant within Euro Bank who blew the whistle on an alleged money-laundering scam. During the trial, it was revealed that Mr Gibbs had been sending details about the whistleblower to John Doe. Chief Justice Smellie claimed in his 20-plus page judgment that Mr Gibbs had been ordered by John Doe to destroy much of the evidence submitted by the whistleblower because it could reveal the identity of other so-called �agents of the UK government agency�. The Chief Justice also said that Mr Gibbs had been accused of trying to bug the telephones of the Cayman Island�s judiciary as part of his work for the UK government agency. �Gibbs has since testified,� Chief Justice Smellie wrote in documents obtained by The Times, �that he destroyed evidence on the instructions of a controlling agent of the UKG.� Mr Gibbs, who is thought to have fled the island, denies any involvement in the plan to interfere with the judiciary�s telephone system. Forwarded for your information. 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