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Banakor Swisse insider Ted Chadwick charged with fraud in Canada

November 9, 2006
A senior officer with the Bahamas based Banakor Swisse financial group has been criminally charged with fraud in his native Canada concerning an alleged high yield investment scam.Ted Chadwick, a 77 year old Canadian national residing in Beeton, Ontario, was

Italy: Giovanni Cristalli

October 2, 2006
Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Italy into Giovanni Cristalli for alleged tax evasion and bankruptcy fraud regarding Cristalli Motors.

Mount Real Corporation: Chapter 15 Petition (Canada)

August 9, 2006
Chapter 15 Petition for Recognition of a Foreign Main Proceeding in Canada by Jean Robillard, of Raymond Chabot Inc., as the Foreign Representative of Mount Real Corporation, filed at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Minnesota.

Bahamas attorney plays key role in group accused of securities fraud

August 8, 2006
Bahamas-based attorney Anthony Thompson has emerged as a key player in another securities scheme by a group whose allegedly fraudulent activities were exposed in the previous edition of OffshoreAlert. Thompson is the sole officer and director of two offshore companies that beneficially own 43.8% of the common stock of Reliant Home Warranty Corporation, a Florida-registered, Canada-based “mortgage banking” firm whose shares are currently trading for six cents each on the Over-The-Counter Bulletin Board in the United States.

Canada investigates New York resident for tax fraud

August 8, 2006
Article based on an application to collect evidence for a criminal investigation into alleged tax fraud by Clifford Siegel - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from Canada - that was filed at federal court in the USA on July 31, 2006.

Canada: Clifford Siegel

July 31, 2006
Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Canada into alleged tax fraud by Clifford Siegel.

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.

Bermuda insurance license reject goes to Barbados, teams up with dubious group

July 11, 2006
A wannabe Bermuda insurer whose license application was turned down in 2004 has resurfaced in Barbados, where it has teamed up with a group whose principals include a convicted criminal. The Barbados Supervisor of Insurance issued an insurance license to River Reinsurance Limited on December 16, 2005. 

Parent of offshore insurer accused of $50 m securities fraud

July 10, 2006
A publicly-listed company in the United States whose subsidiaries include an offshore insurer is being sued in New York by investors who claim they were victims of a $50 million securities fraud. Strategy International Insurance Group Inc., whose shares are currently trading on the Over-The-Counter Bulletin Board at just six cents per share, misrepresented its assets and concealed “material negative facts” about some of its “principal executives and directors” in a private placement memorandum, according to the plaintiffs, who include investment funds in the British Virgin Islands and Cayman Islands. 

Insider Talking: June 7, 2006

June 7, 2006
A British company that is at the heart of a liquidation scam being perpetrated against creditors of failed litigation funding firm Invaro Ltd. has missed a statutory deadline for filing its first accounts and is now subject to penalty fees; Former Panama-based, offshore financial services provider Marc Harris, 41, has lost his appeal against his November 24, 2003 conviction in the United States on multiple tax fraud, tax evasion and money laundering charges and May 21, 2004 sentencing to 17 years in prison, a fine of $20.3 million, and restitution of $6.6 million; and An unlicensed Canada-based forex dealer with a checkered past appears to be behind a purported offshore investment provider that was the target of a warning by the Bermuda Monetary Authority earlier this year, OffshoreAlert can disclose.

Shady forex dealer behind sham ‘Bermuda’ investment firm

June 7, 2006
An unlicensed Canada-based forex dealer with a checkered past appears to be behind a purported offshore investment provider that was the target of a warning by the Bermuda Monetary Authority earlier this year, OffshoreAlert can disclose. Dominic Longpré, of Montreal, Canada, was fined CDN$90,000 at the Court of Quebec, Criminal and Penal Division, on September 7, 2004 after he pleaded guilty to 42 counts of illegal acts, stated a press release issued a day later by the Autorité des marches financiers, which brought the charges.

Norshield Asset Management (Canada) Ltd. et al: Chapter 15 Petition (Canada)

May 30, 2006
Chapter 15 Petition for Recognition of a Foreign Main Proceeding in Canada by Eric Rodier, of RSM Richter Inc., as the Foreign Representative of Norshield Asset Management (Canada) Ltd., Norshield Investment Partners Holdings Ltd., Olympus United Fund Holdings Corporation, Olympus United Funds Corporation, Olympus United Bank and Trust SCC, Olympus United Group Inc., Norshield Capital Management Corporation, and Honeybee Software Technologies Inc., filed at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Minnesota.

NRG Victory Reinsurance Ltd.: Chapter 15 Petition (England)

May 12, 2006
Chapter 15 Petition for Recognition of a Foreign Main Proceeding in the United Kingdom by Alan Boyce, as the Foreign Representative of NRG Victory Reinsurance Limited, at the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.

Insider Talking: May 5, 2006

May 5, 2006
A United States court has ordered former insiders of British Virgin Islands incorporated Evergreen Security Ltd. to repay $10.4 million that they received in fraudulent transfers from the unregistered offshore mutual fund before it collapsed in 2001. In a judgment

Bermuda insurers sued in $350 m-limit policy dispute

May 5, 2006
A New Jersey based manufacturer has sued several insurers, including two that are incorporated in Bermuda, in an attempt to enforce a $350 million limit insurance policy.Formosa Plastics Corporation USA claims they have breached the terms of the contract concerning

Canada would not tolerate LOM behavior, says securities attorney

May 5, 2006
If a Canadian stock broker had provided the same type of allegedly sham services to the collapsed Canada based Portus Group of hedge funds as those provided by the Cayman Islands operation of Bermuda based investment firm Lines Overseas Management

LOM says it has started turning over client records to SEC

February 23, 2006
Bermuda-based investment firm Lines Overseas Management Ltd. claims to have started turning over client records to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission after losing yet another court ruling. In a filing at the U. S. District Court for the District of Columbia on February 21, 2006, LOM stated that it “has begun producing documents to the SEC” pursuant to four SEC administrative subpoenas that were served on its Managing Director, Scott Lines, as long ago as April, 2004.

Pandora Select Partners LP, et al v. Strategy International Insurance Group Inc., et al: Complaint

February 6, 2006
Complaint filed by Pandora Select Partners LP, Pandora Select Advisors, LP, JMG Capital Partners, LP, JMG Triton Offshore Fund, Ltd.,  Aviator Fund Management, LP, Aviator Overseas Fund II, Ltd., Aviator Master Fund, Ltd., Whitebox Hedged High Yield Advisors, LP, Whitebox Hedged High Yield Partners, LP, Whitebox Convertible Arbitrage Advisors, LLC, and Whitebox Convertible Arbitrage Partners, LP against Strategy International Insurance Group Inc., Strategy Real Estate Investments, Ltd., John Hamilton, Sandro Sordi, and Stephen Stonhill at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Insider Talking: February 4, 2006

February 4, 2006
A U. S.-based professional organization for private investigators has revoked the membership of Cayman Islands-based PI William Claude C. Myles for “professional misconduct” and violations of its code of ethics; What is the going rate for climbing into bed with crooks to ‘throw' a liquidation so the bad guys can continue to profit at the expense of true creditors? Try £1,624 (US$2,870) per day!; A victim of 72-year-old serial fraudster Keem Kalfon, a.k.a. Chaim Kalfon, a.k.a. Chaim Chalfon, has set up a web-site at www.chaimchalfontaxevader.com following the collapse of his latest scheme, known as LifeStyle Master Inc.; Once again proving that there is no hiding place for financial criminals, no matter which country they flee to when looking for a rock to hide under, the U. S. Government recently arranged the deportation from Panama of accused fraudster David Alan Struckman, a co-founder of the Global Prosperity Group; and If Bahamas-based investment scam group Banakor Swisse is indeed behind several menacing telephone calls that have been anonymously made to OffshoreAlert's publisher over several months, as evidence indicates, it would not be the first time that the group has reacted crudely to an investigative journalist writing negatively about its fraudulent activities.

Belgium: Jean-Philippe Pecoraro et al

February 1, 2006
Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Belgium into Jean-Philippe Pecoraro, Jean-Noel Meinard, Guy De Backere, Albert De Bleecker, Carine Carpin and others for suspected involvement in narcotics trafficking and money laundering.

SEC accuses LOM chairman Donald Lines of lying

January 25, 2006
Prominent offshore businessman Donald Lines has been branded a liar by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. Lines, the 73-year-old Chairman and President of Bermuda-based investment firm Lines Overseas Management Limited, is adamant that he was not served with a securities-fraud related subpoena while he was in the U. S. in November, 2005 for emergency heart surgery. After the SEC first made the allegation in a filing at the U. S. District Court for the District of Columbia in late December, LOM denied it in a court filing of its own and Donald Lines, a former CEO of the Bank of Bermuda, even went so far as to take out a full-page advertisement in the Bermuda Sun newspaper in which he claimed: “I have never been served a subpoena by the SEC”, adding that: “There has been no contact from the SEC to even notify me that they ever intended to serve any subpoenas or that they, however incorrectly, believed they had served me.”

Offshore provider Martin Tremblay accused of laundering $1 b

January 23, 2006
The head of a Bahamas-based investment firm has been arrested in the United States after being charged with laundering $1 billion in proceeds from narcotics trafficking and fraud. Canadian national Martin Tremblay, 43, allegedly laundered the funds through Dominion Investments Ltd., of which he is Managing Director.

MuscleTech Research and Development Inc.: Chapter 15 Petition

January 18, 2006
Chapter 15 Petition for Recognition of a Foreign Main Proceeding in Canada by Peter Farkas, as the Foreign Representative of MuscleTech Research and Development Inc., at the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.

LOM secures stay of order requiring compliance with SEC subpoenas

January 17, 2006
Bermuda-based stockbroker Lines Overseas Management Limited has secured more time in its increasingly desperate battle to avoid co-operating with securities fraud investigations being conducted by the SEC. In an order on January 13, 2006, the U. S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit temporarily stayed a lower court's order that LOM and its Managing Director, Scott Lines, comply with four SEC administrative subpoenas by January 17. The ruling was in response to an emergency motion for a stay, pending an appeal, filed that same day by LOM and Lines.

LOM ordered to comply with SEC subpoenas by Jan. 17

January 3, 2006
Bermuda-based investment firm Lines Overseas Management Ltd. and its Managing Director, Scott Lines, have been given until January 17, 2006 to comply with four administrative subpoenas concerning securities fraud investigations by the SEC. The deadline for the provision of testimony and documents was set by U. S. District Court Judge Richard Roberts, sitting at the U. S. District Court for the District of Columbia, on December 30, 2005 when he turned down an application that was filed almost 12 months by LOM and Lines to stay a Magistrate Judge's ruling that it must comply with the subpoenas.

Canada: Davinder Singh Deol et al

December 9, 2005
Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Canada into Davinder Singh Deol, Ravinder Singh Deol and Kamaljeet Singh Gill for alleged attempted murder and assault.

Onshore-Offshore battle for control of failed hedge fund

December 5, 2005
A Cayman Islands judge has put back a key ruling in a battle for control of an offshore hedge fund that is part of a failed North American group whose losses are estimated at US$179 million.Justice Henderson, sitting at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands, must decide whether to grant a petition to liquidate Philadelphia Alternative Asset Fund Limited by five investors who claim to have collectively invested $32 million in the Fund.

Offshore attorney accused in alleged Haiti kickback scheme

December 5, 2005
An offshore attorney has been accused of helping Jean-Bertrand Aristide misappropriate millions of dollars through fraud and corruption while he was president of Haiti.British national Adrian Corr, a 41-year-old partner with Miller Simons O'Sullivan, in the Turks & Caicos Islands, established and administered a shell firm - Mont Salem Management Ltd. - that received and distributed kickbacks and bribes paid by U. S. and Canadian telecommunications carriers to Aristide and his accomplices, it has been alleged. Corr also allegedly wrote at least one letter in which he “falsely represented” that Mont Salem was “a telecommunications carrier” with operations in the U. S. and Canada.

USA: Computer hacking into NASA computer

November 3, 2005
Motion for the issuance of a letter rogatory to Slovenia for a criminal investigation in the USA into an alleged illegal intrusion into a Unites States Government computer located at the Goddard Space Flight Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Maryland.

Operation ‘Bermuda Short’: Conviction Statistics

October 31, 2005
An analysis of Operation 'Bermuda Short', including which defendants were convicted or acquitted and length of sentences. These defendants were Serdar Kalaycioglu, Martin Chambers, Anthony Damato, Kevan Garner, Walter Dorow, Bruce Bertman, Michael Reiter, Geoffrey Gazda, James Cary Parrish, Jeffrey Senger, Melvin Levine, Jerry Poole, Charles Cini, Lawrence Gallo, Bruce Cowen, Daniel Charboneau, Thomas Steinbach, Gordon Novak, Harold Joliffe, Howard Kerbel, Greg Balk, Barry Berman, Vincent Barone, Dax Ross, David Rich, George Doumanis, Michael Puorro, Blair Valentine, Ray Hutchison, Frank Dickey Jr., Daniel Bender, Paul Lemmon, Bruce Biddick, John Purdy, Ronaldo Horvat, Mark Valentine, Joseph Huard Jr., Cris Sagnelli, Michael Vlahovic, Douglas Rasberry, Richard Greene, Tim Rice, Ashley Sosner, Andrew Proctor, Marshall Klein, Mario Turcotte, Sheldon Mickelson, Richard Carson, Dennis Epstein, Kenneth Liebscher, Michael Hepburn, Charles Arnold, Les Price, James Kelly, Justyn Feldman, Robert Wilder, and Paul deRome.

Canada seeks extradition of suspected sex offender David Cote

September 4, 2005
Canada is seeking the extradition of a 43 year old suspected sex offender from the United States.Details are contained in an extradition complaint that was filed against David Emmanuel Cote at the U. S. District Court for the Middle District

Insider Talking: August 3, 2005

August 3, 2005
Banc Caribe liquidator & National Bank of Dominica settle litigation with Cash 4 Titles receiver; former house painter Russell Cline enters into plea agreement in Oregon concerning fraud and money laundering charges; and US authorities continue with attempt to seize assets of former Ukraine Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko.

Ambassadors of the Dominion of Melchizedek: July 10, 2005

July 10, 2005
Ambassadors of the Dominion of Melchizedek, namely George Harlley, Fortunato P. Aguas, Nikolai Bougaenko, Nathan Obasi, Dewey Painter, Rodny Daniel, Renzo Pampalon, Carlos Alberto Rosa Machado, Peter Feher, Charles W. Price, Sr., Melchizedek Maquiso, Berno Mendiola Atalig, Joalbert S. Kapalong, Charles Balas, Ron Roger Adams, Hans von Grunwald, George Carter, Ross Masao Harano, Louis Lesser, Edward Allen Artis, M.E. Evans, Tain Bodkin, Skip Wills, Larry Madrigal, James Gentry Laws, Jason Gentry Laws, and Joseph Anton Walter.

Offshore firms sued by Canadian receiver

July 5, 2005
Offshore companies in Belize and Panama were used by a group of fraudsters as part of a Canada-based scheme to commit fraud and money laundering, it has been alleged.Details are contained in a civil complaint filed on April 15, 2005 - and amended on June 7, 2005 - at the U. S. District Court for the Central District of California by A. Farber & Partners Inc., of Ontario, Canada, in its capacity as Canadian court-appointed Interim Receiver over the assets of Salim Damji, Strategic Trading Systems Instant White, a.k.a. STS Instant White, a.k.a. Strategic Trade Systems, a.k.a. STS Inc., JEM Holdings, a division of 1289629 Ontario Inc., Izmo Investments Inc., Shaffin Damji and Hanif Damji.

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.

Canada requests evidence from US prisoner for tax fraud hearing

June 5, 2005
Article based on an application to transfer a prisoner to testify at a criminal hearing into alleged tax fraud by RJR Nabisco - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from Canada - that was filed at federal court in the USA on May 11, 2005. Individuals and businesses mentioned in the request for assistance include RJR Tobacco International, Inc., JTI MacDonald Corp., RJ Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Delaware), Northern Brands International, Inc., Edward Lang, Paul Neumann, Roland Kostantos, Stanley Smith, Peter MacGregor, Jaap Uittenbogaard, Dale Sisel, Larry Miller, Leslie Thompson, Robert Tavano, Pierre Brunelle, Janice Carswell, Jeremy Harris, Anthony Butterworth, Robert Miron, Robert Sheets, James Johnston, Stonemarker Enterprises Inc., David Beazley, Jeanne Schlottman, Perry Alwyn Horne, and Keith MacCulloch.

Globe-X Management Ltd.: Section 304 Petition (Bahamas)

June 3, 2005
Section 304 Petition for Assistance in Insolvency Proceedings in the Bahamas by Clifford Johnson and Wayne Aranha, as the Foreign Representatives of Globe-X Management Limited and Globe-X Canadiana Limited, at the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.

Canada: RJR Tobacco International Inc.

May 11, 2005
Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Canada into JTI-MacDonald, Corp. (previously known as RJR Macdonald, Inc.), Northern Brands International, Inc., RJ Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Delaware), RJ Reynolds Tobacco International, Inc., Dale Sisel, Jaap Uittenbogaard, Edward Lang, Pierre Brunelle, Paul Neumann, Roland Kostantos, Stanley Smith and Peter MacGregor for alleged tax evasion.

Insider Talking: April 30, 2005

April 30, 2005
The biggest creditor in the bankruptcy of Christopher Davy, who was once a senior officer of the tax evasion group The Harris Organization, is none other than the IRS; the dubious liquidation of Imperial Consolidated spin-off Invaro Ltd.; and Canadian Timothy Ryan Babuin receives an eight-year prison sentence for a telemarketing scam against mainly elderly people that ended up causing huge losses for the Bank of Bermuda and Bermuda-based credit card processor First Atlantic Commerce.

SEC v. Z-Par Holdings Inc. et al: Complaint

April 14, 2005
Complaint in U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission v. Z-Par Holdings Inc., Z-Par Investment Fund II, Larry Michael Parrish, and Michael Edward Zimmerman, as defendants, and Edward Akopian and Capital Ban Corp., as relief defendants, at the U. S. District Court for the District of Maryland.

USA v. Gilbert A. Ziegler et al: Third Superseding Indictment

April 8, 2005
Third Superseding Indictment in USA v. Gilbert A. Ziegler, a.k.a. Van A. Brink; Rita L. Regale, a.k.a. Rita Brunges; Douglas C. Ferguson, Robert J. Skirving, and Laurent E. Barnabe, a.k.a. Larry Barnabe, at the U. S. District Court for the District of Oregon.