Reply #25: Naming Guernsey banks: from today's Times Online:

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Times snip:
Coup drama plays on in a Guernsey court
By Simon de Bruxelles in St Peter Port

THE hunt for the conspirators behind an alleged attempt to depose the dictator of a small African republic led up the sweeping spiral staircase of a courthouse in Guernsey yesterday.............

At yesterday’s hearing a local advocate acting on behalf of Mann was seeking to overturn an order requiring the Royal Bank of Scotland International to disclose the contents of bank accounts and safe deposit boxes belonging to two companies he owns. Mann’s two companies, Systems Design ltd and Logo ltd, have offices in Guernsey. The bank accounts will reveal who contributed to the estimated $7 million coup kitty. The safe deposit boxes in a vault beneath a St Peter Port bank, the court heard, are believed to contain contracts signed by the co-conspirators and other vital documents. Any coup plot was foiled before it began when an aircraft with Mann and 67 alleged South African mercenaries on board was seized in Harare in Zimbabwe last March................

The disclosure order was originally granted in the same court in April. The bank released five pages of accounts to lawyers for Equatorial Guinea that identified a number of deposits, including a payment of $190,000 from one J H Archer, before Mann’s companies obtained an ex-parte injunction. Lord Archer denies any knowledge of or involvement in the coup plot. Advocate Nick Barnes told the Lt Bailiff Chris Day, presiding over the hearing, that the application for disclosure should have come through “official” government channels. He suggested that the information obtained under the disclosure order would be used to bring criminal charges against the conspirators, who could ultimately face the death penalty in Equatorial Guinea.
From:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,172-1251804,00.html