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Mary Elsa Sonia Echavarria Lince v. Rothschild Trust Guernsey Limited et al

May 17, 2011
Originating Summons filed by Mary Elsa Sonia Echavarria Lince against Rothschild Trust Guernsey Limited, Daniel Echavarria Arango, Valentina Echavarria Arellano, Camila Echavarria Arellano, Paula Echavarria Arango, Salvador Vidal Echavarria and Bautista Vidal Echavarria at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands on May 17, 2011.

Fairfield Sentry Limited (in Liquidation) et al v. SG Hambros et al: First Amended Complaint

January 10, 2011
First Amended Complaint filed by the liquidators of Fairfield Sentry Limited, Fairfield Lambda Limited, and Fairfield Sigma Limited against Hambros Guernsey Nominees, a.k.a. Hambros (Guernsey Nominees) Limited; SG Hambros Nominees (Jersey), a.k.a. SG Hambros Nominees (Jersey) Limited; SG Hambros Bank (Channel Islands) Limited; and SG Hambros Bank & Trust (Guernsey) Ltd. at the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.

RBC Trust Company (Jersey) Limited et al v. Roberta S. Edgar et al

December 15, 2010
Amended Originating Summons filed by RBC Trust Company (Jersey) Limited and Regent Capital Trust Corporation Limited against Roberta S. Edgar, Holly Holbrook Samuel Jiminez, Jemima Holbrook Samuel Edgar, Maximilian Holbrook Samuel Edgar, Gaia Edgar (nee Geddes), Zena Holbrook Samuel Glenday, Samuel Benjamin Holbrook, Shem Isaac Jiminez, Asia Thebeth Jiminez, Thebez Tafara Jiminez, Hebe Sophie Edgar, William Edgar Glenday, Sarah Edgar, Elizabeth Stevens (nee Lloyd Johnes), Geoffrey Fynes-Clinton-Stevens, Alexander Stevens, Georgina Ruthven (nee Stevens), Pelham Stevens, Anne Robertson, Duncan Robertson, Jacquetta Robertson, and Tara Paterson (nee Goldsmid) at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Sextant Strategic Hybrid2Hedge Fund Ltd.: Chapter 15 Petition

November 10, 2010
Chapter 15 Petition for Recognition of a Foreign Main Proceeding in the Cayman Islands by Kenneth Krys and Timothy Le Cornu, as the Foreign Representatives of Sextant Strategic Hybrid2Hedge Fund Ltd., at the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Hiscox Insurance Company Ltd.: Chapter 15 Petition

October 14, 2010
Chapter 15 Petition for Recognition of a Foreign Main Proceeding in the United Kingdom by Toby Wooldridge, as the Foreign Representative of Hiscox Insurance Company Limited, Baloise Insurance Ltd., City International Insurance Company Limited, Dowa Insurance Company (Europe) Limited, East West Insurance Company Limited, Fuji International Insurance Company Limited, KX Reinsurance Company Limited, Metropolitan Reinsurance Company (UK) Limited, Moorgate Insurance Company Limited, Nippon Insurance Company of Europe Limited, Polygon Insurance Company Limited, Swiss Re International SE, UK Branch, and Tower Insurance Limited, at the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.

Ascot Corporate Name Limited et al v. Embassy Investments Limited: Writ of Summons

May 5, 2010
Writ of Summons in Ascot Corporate Name Limited, on behalf of Lloyd's Syndicate 1414; Faraday Capital Limited, on behalf of Lloyd's Syndicate 435; Simon King, on behalf of Lloyd's Syndicate 2010; Wurttembergische Versicherung AG, Ecclesiastical Insurance Office, Simon White, on behalf of Lloyd's Syndicate 1200; Richard Harries, on behalf of Lloyd's Syndicate 609; Talbot 2002 Underwriting Capital Ltd., on behalf of Lloyd's Syndicate 1183; Catlin Syndicates Ltd., on behalf of Lloyd's Syndicate 2003; Brit Underwriting Ltd., on behalf of Lloyd's Syndicate 2987; and Catlin Underwriting Agencies Ltd., on behalf of Lloyd's Syndicate 2020 v. Embassy Investments Limited at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Russia: Texcontrol Limited

June 12, 2009
Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Russia for suspected tax fraud involving Texcontrol Limited.

Insider Talking: December 8, 2008

December 8, 2008
US Senator John Kerry intends to look into offshore tax evasion; First Curacao International Bank to "start repatriating" frozen assets; UK Government commissions review of offshore financial centers' Condor Insurance sued in California; and US criminally indicts Raoul Weil, Chairman and CEO of UBS Global Wealth Management and Business Banking and a member of the Swiss bank's Group Executive Board.

Jersey-based directors accused of defrauding investors in alleged Ponzi scheme

October 7, 2008
More details have emerged about a criminal investigation into two Channel Islands-based companies and their directors, including an Acting Magistrate, who are suspected of defrauding local investors of approximately £2.5 million in an alleged Ponzi scheme that involved property in the United States and a British Virgin Islands-domiciled shell company that was administered in Switzerland.

Jersey, Channel Islands: De Lec Limited et al

September 26, 2008
Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Jersey in the Channel Islands into Ian Michael Christmas, John Lewis, Eric Sydney Evans, James Cameron, Russell Foot, De Lec Limited, Sunstone Holdings Limited and Goldridge Stone Ltd. for suspected investment fraud.

Europlan Financial Services, Ltd. et al v. Rene Hamouth et al: Complaint

July 9, 2008
Complaint in Europlan Financial Services, Ltd., as Trustee for Ormond Trust, and Deborah Richdale v. Rene Hamouth, True Product ID, Inc., Hamouth Family Trust, William R. Dunavant, Richard Specht, and Wilson W. Hendricks III at the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Security expert was ‘double agent’, claims former employer

June 5, 2008
A Virginia-based investigation and security consulting firm turned its resources on one of its own senior officers - a Guernsey-based former British paratrooper - in order to expose his activities as a 'double agent' who was working on behalf of a British Virgin Islands-domiciled competitor he had secretly set up, it has been claimed. Vance International Inc., a.k.a. GardaWorld, claims its internal investigation discovered that, while serving as Vance's Managing Director, International Security Operations, Paul Wood was conspiring with two of his Vance colleagues, Dennis Trussler and John Lee, to steal Vance's trade secrets, poach key staff and solicit its clients - all for the benefit of Vida Elan Limited, which they had established in the BVI.

Insider Talking: July 12, 2007

July 12, 2007
James Fontanetta, a former director of Cayman Islands-based SEGOES Services Ltd., f.k.a. SEGOES Securities Ltd., has been so helpful to the company's liquidators that they have agreed to apply to set aside a default judgment that they obtained against him at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands; and Regulatory warnings around the world.

Australia: Brian Millwood Smith et al

June 28, 2007
Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Australia into Brian Millwood Smith and Stuart Adrian Corp. for alleged fraud regarding their holdings in two public companies, Welcome Stranger Mining Company NL and Hallmark Gold NL.

USA applies to seize $9 m ‘fraud proceeds’ from Bank Julius Baer (Guernsey)

June 10, 2007
The United States Government has applied to seize $9.75 million in allegedly criminal proceeds from two accounts at the Guernsey branch of Bank Julius Baer.The Government claims the money represents the proceeds of insider trading conducted by an employee of Credit Suisse in New York and an accomplice.

Insider Talking: December 7, 2006

December 7, 2006
Nearly six years after being forced into Receivership and then provisional liquidation, Suisse Security Bank & Trust Limited has finally gone into official liquidation in the Bahamas; MBNA America Bank NA obtained an order of garnishment at the Circuit Court for the 11th Judicial Circuit, Miami-Dade County, Florida on October 30, 2006 that allows it to garnish assets up to $44,143, plus costs of $198, at Eastern Financial Bank that are beneficially owned by St. Kitts-based financial services provider M. Irvin BonCamper; The Swedish Financial Services Authority, known as Finansinspektionen, has issued a public warning about Charterhouse Trust Credit Union, which was exposed by OffshoreAlert as long ago as May 31, 2002; An order to compulsorily wind-up International Alliance Insurance Limited was entered at the Royal Court of Guernsey on April 4, 2006, with Anthony Christian Pickford and James Robert Toynton, of Chandlers Limited, appointed joint liquidators; and The U. S. SEC announced on November 28, 2006 that the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York entered a preliminary injunction on November 14, 2006 barring Ian Scott from pursuing litigation in the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis.

Tri-Continental Exchange Ltd. et al: Chapter 15 Petition (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines)

July 20, 2006
Chapter 15 Petition for Recognition of a Foreign Main Proceeding in St. Vincent and the Grenadines by Malcolm Butterfield, Brian Glasgow, and Simon Whicker, as the Foreign Representatives of Tri-Continental Exchange Ltd., Combined Services Ltd., and Alternative Market Exchange Ltd., at the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of California.

U. S. indicts offshore gaming operators

May 18, 2006
A 13 month old criminal indictment against two individuals and two corporations involved in offshore gaming has been unsealed in the United States. Defendants William Paul Scott, 65 Jessica Pauline Davis Dyett, 35 Soulbury Ltd., a “bearer share” corporation formed

Insider Talking: April 6, 2006

April 6, 2006
Nicolas Eugene Grant St. James charged with cannabis possession in UK, a look at the record of criminal-friendly judge Jon Isaacs in the Bahamas, liquidator of Suisse Security Bank and Trust charges creditors extra if they want to receive his creditors' reports, long after denying it, Marcus Queree acknowledge's fraudster Robert Raven's involvement in the group of companies known as 'Sidera'; and a look at CFTC Chairman Reuben Jeffery III's role in one of the biggest insurance frauds in history.

John G. Pitman et al v. Seed International, Ltd. et al: Amended Complaint

March 30, 2006
Amended Complaint in John G. Pitman and Susan Pitman v. Seed International, Ltd., Ocean International Marketing, Ltd., Architects of Wine, Ltd., A.V.E. International, Kensington Corporation, Ltd., Paradigm Holdings Limited, OptiDisc International Limited, CD Fender, Churchill Associates, Ltd., Heros Global Marketing Services, Ltd., Paradigm Wine Services, Ltd., New Fine Wines International, Ltd., Paul Freeman, Robert John Middlemiss, Denver Andersson, David Wilcock, Phillip Beasley, Fred Hagelberg, Trevor Burroughs, Giles Cadman, Craig Garrett, Desmond Jackson, Anil Kohli, Jadon Schmidt, and Robin Loxton at the U. S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.

Czech Republic: Alexandr Nestera et al

March 30, 2006
Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in the Czech Republic into Alexandr Nestera, Jakub Dolezal, Svetlana Klimova, Milos Luka and Zdenek Jezek for alleged fraud.

Ex-Imperial Consolidated officer jailed for contempt of court

March 15, 2006
Former Imperial Consolidated Group money-raiser Robert Raven was today sentenced to four months in prison for contempt of court in the United Kingdom. Raven, a 45-year-old British national who was Imperial's International Sales & Marketing Director, received the punishment in a civil action at the High Court for refusing to co-operate with the administrators/liquidators of five Imperial companies in the U. K. and the Caribbean, in the hunt for defrauded assets.

Russia: VN Daginov (Florida)

March 6, 2006
Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Russia into Vitali Nicolaevich Daginov for alleged theft from Kalmneft JSC, Glencoe International AG and Briarwise International Ltd.

British accountants charged with offshore scam

November 17, 2005
Two British nationals have been charged with defrauding clients of companies in the Bahamas and England in a high yield investment scam.Shinder Gangar, 44, and Alan White, 47, were each charged with two counts of conspiracy to defraud at Leicester

Russia seeks evidence in Delaware regarding Kester Trade LLC

November 4, 2005
Article based on an application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation into alleged tax fraud - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from Russia - that was filed at federal court in the USA on October 11, 2005. Individuals and businesses mentioned in the request for assistance include Kester Trade LLC, Belinda Lanyon, Koksokhimmontazh-Kemerovo ZAO, Vladimir Mezer, Alexander Shaposhnikov, and UAB Lietuvos Avialinijos Cargo.

PayPal records targeted by IRS in offshore tax evasion investigation

October 26, 2005
The IRS has asked a U. S. federal court for permission to serve a “John Doe” summons on Internet money transfer firm PayPal Inc. as part of a clampdown on tax evasion using offshore credit and debit cards.“The records requested in the summons will identify the holders of bank accounts at, or payment cards issued by banks in, the listed jurisdictions, information which is not otherwise readily available to the Internal Revenue Service,” stated the IRS in its petition.

Belarus: Belarusian Steel Works

August 6, 2005
Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Belarus into corruption, bribery and fraud involving Belarusian Steel Works, including an alleged bribe by SP Klemantovich to VV Fillippov while the latter was Director General of the Belarusian Steel Works.

Here we go again: Citco accused of distributing false NAVs

August 3, 2005
An offshore fund administrator in the Netherlands Antilles has been caught up in a second hedge fund scandal in less than two years.Citco Fund Services (Curacao) NV is a defendant in a civil lawsuit filed on June 9, 2005 by investors in Dobbins Offshore, which was registered in the British Virgin Islands. KPMG (Netherlands Antilles), as the Fund's auditor, is also a defendant. The plaintiffs include companies in the Cayman Islands, France, Luxembourg and Switzerland.

Offshore compliance services firm stops operating

July 5, 2005
An offshore company that provided Know Your Customer services to the financial industry has stopped operating."KYCOS Limited has announced today that they will cease local operations here in the Isle of Man, the Channel Islands and the Republic of Ireland effectively 30th June 2005," stated the firm in a press release issued on July 1, 2005.

British law firm rakes in fees for helping fraudster with Invaro scheme

July 5, 2005
A top British law firm helped a serial fraudster client - Bill Godley - set up an investment scheme that wiped out a Japanese pension fund, OffshoreAlert can reveal. Charles Russell solicitors drew up contracts, attended a planning meeting in Portugal, helped with an offshore bank account, and was even asked to help prepare a "due diligence" report to give credibility to the scheme, known as 'Invaro'. The law firm has received more than £2 million ($3.5 million) in legal fees from Godley-related parties, including a Bahamas IBC, said a source.

Missing in Action: Halliburton’s disappearing offshore subsidiaries

June 5, 2005
In the space of four or five years, Halliburton, the international oil services and construction conglomerate that is under attack for overcharging and underperforming in Iraq, has gone from reporting approximately 70 to 80 offshore subsidiaries in its annual SEC filing to just two, both in the Cayman Islands.Offshore networks had become a central part of Halliburton's management and financial strategy. When current United States Vice President Dick Cheney was CEO of Halliburton from 1995 to 2000, the company's offshore subsidiaries increased from nine to 44. By the year 2001, that had nearly doubled. Now most of them have gone missing!

United Kingdom: Simon Brophy et al

April 5, 2005
Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation into Simon Brophy, Margaret Brophy and others in the United Kingdom.

Lancer Offshore Receiver sues parties from nine countries

February 22, 2005
Civil complaints have been brought against parties from nine countries, including former Sotheby's Chairman Alfred Taubman, in an attempt by the Receiver for the failed Lancer Offshore group of hedge funds to recover allegedly fraudulent transfers. Among the defendants in two actions filed at the U. S. District Court for the District of Florida this month are companies from Bermuda, Canada, Isle of Man, Netherlands Antilles, Jersey, Kuwait, Switzerland, the United States and the United Kingdom.

US Gov’t applies to seize funds at Julius Baer (Guernsey)

January 31, 2005
The United States Government has applied to seize funds held at Bank Julius Baer in Guernsey that are believed to be the proceeds of health care fraud. A forfeiture application was filed at the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas on December 10, 2004 against approximately $3.4 million of funds held in an account in the name of AsiaTrust Limited as Trustee of The Cyreal Trust (formerly known as The Big Train Irrevocable Trust) located at Bank Julius Baer & Company (Guernsey), and four associated investment portfolio accounts.

Ex-Imperial Consolidated officer sued for $120 m

January 10, 2005
A British national who was arrested on Christmas Eve as part of an investment fraud investigation has now had a civil lawsuit filed against him in which $120 million is being sought on behalf of alleged victims. The action was filed at the U. K. High Court on January 5, 2005 by the liquidators/administrators of five corporate members of the Imperial Consolidated Group, which operated in England and offshore centers before collapsing in 2002 owing approximately US$400 million.

Lithuania: JSC Sidabrine Menke

December 30, 2004
Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Lithuania into fraud involving Jonas Disleris and JSC Sidabrine Menke.

Utah church-goers claim scam after being offered returns of 100% per month

November 30, 2004
Church-goers in Utah are among investors who claim they were defrauded out of $2.5 million after being promised "guaranteed minimum" returns of 100 per cent per month.The "promised" returns should have come to more than $300 million in a 12-month period, according to a civil lawsuit that was filed at the U. S. District Court for the District of Utah on November 15, 2004.

John G. Pitman et al v. Seed International, Ltd. et al: Complaint

November 19, 2004
Complaint in John G. Pitman and Susan Pitman v. Seed International, Ltd., Ocean International Marketing, Ltd., Architects of Wine, Ltd., A.V.E. International, Disney Limited, Kensington Corporation, Ltd., Paradigm Holdings Limited, OptiDisc International Limited, Churchill Associates, Ltd., Heros Global Marketing Services, Ltd., Paradigm Wine Services, Ltd., New Fine Wines International, Ltd., Paul Freeman, Robert John Middlemiss, Denver Andersson, David Wilcock, Phillip Beasley, Fred Hagelberg, Trevor Burroughs, Giles Cadman, Craig Garrett, Desmond Jackson, Anil Kohli, and Robin Loxton at the U. S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.