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British intelligence has scored what appears to
be an own goal in a remote part of the Caribbean. An MI6 scheme to
penetrate organised crime has instead enabled the defendants to walk
free in a big money laundering trial in the Cayman Islands.
It has also led to the exposure of MI6's own supposedly highly
secret intelligence operation there, codenamed Victory, and to a
very public attack on Britain's spies by the tax haven's chief
justice. Four defendants, believed to be expatriate Britons, were
cleared and released by the chief justice Anthony Smellie on Tuesday
after it emerged that MI6 had ordered the island's money-laundering
officer to destroy evidence in an unsuccessful attempt to keep the
agency's activities dark. |
