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Dubai bank seeks U.S. records in attempt to collect on $100M judgment against UAE’s ‘wealthy Al Sari family’

September 10, 2024
The Commercial Bank of Dubai has applied to take discovery from banks in the United States as part of a long-running battle to collect on a judgment for approximately $100 million that was entered in the United Arab Emirates in 2016 against Abdalla Al Sari, his sons Mohamed Al Sari and Majid Al Sari, and related parties in a dispute that, inter alia, involves entities in the British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, and UAE.

Britons Simon Hooper, Martin Kelly & Ryan Allen convicted of fraud involving Rationale Asset Management

September 5, 2024
British nationals Simon Hooper and Martin Kelly, both of whom have been previously exposed by OffshoreAlert, are in custody pending sentencing after being found guilty of fraud in England regarding Rationale Asset Management Plc, which raised more than £2 million from investors before the U.K. Government petitioned it into liquidation in 2021. A third defendant, Ryan Allen, was also convicted and was released prior to being sentenced.

Mexican billionaire Ricardo Salinas takes legal action over ‘$290M stock loan fraud by U.S.-based Val Sklarov’

August 25, 2024
One of Mexico's richest people, billionaire businessman Ricardo Salinas, has applied to take discovery in New York for a lawsuit in London in which he has accused Chicago-based Val Sklarov and entities with addresses in the Bahamas, Canada, England, Monaco, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Seychelles and Ukraine of swindling him in a stock loan fraud whose damages "could exceed $290 million".

Trader ‘owed over $21M’ applies to wind up Bybit crypto exchange in BVI

August 23, 2024
An application to wind up the operator of "a large, international online cryptocurrency exchange" known as Bybit has been filed in the British Virgin Islands by a trader who claims to be owed more than $21 million and has accused the group of 'playing a jurisdictional shell game' involving several countries, including the BVI, England, Seychelles, and Singapore.

U.S. firm sues Tether for release of ‘$160M of crypto frozen to satisfy $180K Chinese criminal judgment’, alleges extortion attempt

August 7, 2024
Tiger Mines New York, Inc., which appears to be operated by New York businessman Hassan Miah, is suing crypto stablecoin Tether's British Virgin Islands and Hong Kong companies for "improperly" freezing crypto "worth about $160 million" allegedly at the request of police in China investigating a '$180,000 online gambling case'. Tiger Mines alleged that people claiming to represent the "Chinese government" have attempted to extort half of the frozen funds.

Private investment firm 777 Partners faces eviction from Miami HQ for ‘unpaid rent of $144K’

July 30, 2024
The landlord of a prestigious 40-story office skyscraper in downtown Miami has taken legal action to evict the private investment firm 777 Partners from its $76,000 per month, 25,138 sq. ft. office space on the 19th floor that serves as the group's headquarters for non-payment of rent. 777 Partners owns several professional soccer clubs, including Genoa C.F.C., in Italy; Sevilla Fútbol Club, in Spain; Standard de Liège, in Belgium; Red Star F.C., in France; Hertha Berlin, in Germany; Club de Regatas Vasco da Gama, in Brazil, and Melbourne Victory Football Club, in Australia.

British fugitive fraudster Anthony Constantinou ‘died of a heart attack in Mexico’, claims source

July 24, 2024
British fugitive fraudster Anthony Constantinou, who fled England last year during his trial for fraud and money laundering regarding a £70 million Ponzi scheme known as CWM that involved entities in the British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, and England, 'died of a heart attack in Mexico earlier this month', an anonymous source has told OffshoreAlert, providing a copy of a 'death certificate' as 'proof', although it's possible that Constantinou - a notorious conman - may have faked his own death and is still alive.

Switzerland requests bank records of U.S. firm for money laundering investigation into ‘caterer’ Maria Magali Ribeiro Martignoni

July 23, 2024
Switzerland has requested the bank records of U.S. firm Trading Core Investment LLC, which has an affiliate in the Cayman Islands, for a criminal investigation into purported "caterer" Maria Magali Ribeiro Martignoni for suspected money laundering involving accounts and entities in Andorra, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, and USA.

Bankrupt crypto lender Celsius sues 1,300+ individuals and entities that ‘each received preferential transfers of more than $100K’

July 5, 2024
Clawback complaints for hundreds of millions of dollars have been filed in New York over the last five days against more than 1,300 individuals and entities around the world, including investment funds and companies in Australia, British Virgin Islands, Canada, Cayman Islands, Finland, Hong Kong, Italy, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Mexico, Portugal, Spain, and United States, that allegedly each received "preferential transfers" of more than $100,000 from U.S.-based crypto lender Celsius Network in the 90 days before it filed for bankruptcy in 2022.

U.S. files forfeiture complaint against $4.1M that DEA seized from ‘illegal BVI money transmitter’ Smart Focus International Fund

July 3, 2024
The United States has filed a forfeiture complaint against $4.1 million that the Drug Enforcement Administration previously seized from a U.S. bank account belonging to Argentina-based, British Virgin Islands-domiciled Smart Focus International Fund Ltd., which allegedly operated as an unregistered money transmitter for two months in 2021, during which it allegedly transmitted $37 million.

Letter purports to link cyber attack on OffshoreAlert’s website to British fraudster David Kennedy

May 12, 2024
OffshoreAlert has received a bizarre 'Cease and Desist' letter that purports to link last week's prolonged cyber attack on our website to British investment fraudster David Kennedy, who was criminally convicted in England on May 3rd for his involvement in a £121 million investment fraud perpetrated by Cayman Islands-domiciled Axiom Legal Financing Fund, which collapsed after being exposed by OffshoreAlert in 2012.

Convicted fraudster & former Cayman resident Robert Christopher Girvan dies in U.S. ‘amid new probe’

February 15, 2024
Jamaican national Robert Christopher Girvan, whose past included a criminal conviction in the Cayman Islands for a $19 million investment fraud, has died in the United States, apparently from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the backyard of his girlfriend’s house in Alpharetta, Georgia, amid what a source said was a criminal investigation into another of his schemes.

Bankruptcy Trustee of indicted Chinese ‘$1B fraudster & launderer’ Ho Wan Kwok sues Ogier BVI for $350K & others for $28M

February 12, 2024
The U.S. Bankruptcy Trustee of New York-based, Chinese national Ho Wan Kwok, who is in custody awaiting trial for allegedly laundering more than $1 billion of fraud proceeds, has sued British Virgin Islands law firm Ogier in an attempt to recover $350,000 in 'unauthorized transfers', one of 23 recently-filed complaints against entities in Australia, BVI, England, Italy, Japan, and U.S. seeking to recover a total of $28.7 million in 'unauthorized or fraudulent' transfers.