What evidence does the government of Spain have to back up their accusations concerning money-laundering and drugs-smuggling in Gibraltar?
A3: None, by their own admission. The Foreign Affairs Committee of the British government (HMG) also described the claims as “almost wholly without substance”, (i.e. lies) and an EU investigation (instigated by Spain) into our finance centre found no evidence of illegal activity. Gibraltar has been held up by HMG as an example to other Overseas Territories of how a finance centre ought to operate. The US State Department gives us a better rating than Spain, and Interpol recently described us as “clean”. The CIA World Factbook 1999 has this to say about Spain: “Illicit drugs: key European gateway country for Latin American cocaine and North African hashish entering the European market; transhipment point for and consumer of Southwest Asian heroin”. There is no corresponding entry under Gibraltar. The Guardia Civil web-site has no mention of Gibraltar in its News section, in which tonnes of drugs and millions of laundered euros/pesetas have been seized. The FATF (Financial Action Task Fo
