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Insider Talking: September 30, 1998

September 30, 1998
Receivers of the Florida Employers Safety Association Self-Insurers Fund sue David Sanz, share price of Stirling Cooke falls to new low on NASDAQ, Elite International Services offers dubious offshore products, Marc Harris on the move, prison inmate Ronald Williams apparently continues to rip people off during his day-release program, Bahamas Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham puts both feet in his mouth during press conference for murder of foreign national.

Insider Talking: May 31, 1998

May 31, 1998
Former Cayman banker John Mathewson's sentencing hearing for helping to launder the proceeds of crime has been delayed yet again. Mathewson was due to be sentenced on April 30 by a court in New Jersey in the US but the matter was adjourned until later in the year; If figures compiled by The Wall Street Journal are to be relied upon for accuracy, the Cayman Islands is not the world's fifth largest financial center, as it claims, but is actually the eighth largest; Six months after US$9 million of its assets were frozen in British Columbia as part of an investigation into fraudulent trading, the Cayman-based broker/dealer Harris McLean Financial Group has filed a lawsuit in the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands against one of its principals, Richard Harris, and his mother, Ana Harris; and Those of you who have been following our articles on The Harris Organization of Panama might like to read a three-page article on the subject that appeared in the June 1 edition of Business Week.

Insider Talking: April 30, 1998

April 30, 1998
David Walsh, the former head of Bre X Minerals, tried to close a bank account in the Bahamas and take out his entire deposit of $25.3 million two weeks after an audit revealed concluded that the supposedly rich Busang gold

John Felderhof sued by Bre-X bankruptcy trustees

December 30, 1997
Deloitte & Touche, as trustee of bankrupt Canadian mining firm Bre-X Minerals, has brought a lawsuit in the Cayman Islands against its former chief geologist, John Felderhof; his wife, Ingrid; and a Cayman company they control called Spartacus Corporation.The lawsuit was filed in the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands on December 19 and signals the beginning of what will probably be a long legal battle between Felderhof and those who claim he was largely responsible for the massive Bre-X stock fraud that netted him millions of dollars.

USA v. Lorne Banks et al: Criminal Indictment

December 5, 1997
Indictment in USA v. Lorne Banks, Michael Bell, Howard Bidloff, Kevin Bregman, Russell Bronson, Charles Courville, Howard Dick, Walter Fantin, Michael Hamley, Joe Kelley, Thomas Laquer, a.k.a. Wayne Arnold, a.k.a. Wayne Donaldson; Steve Millgram, a.k.a. Steve Louis; Gordon Orwin, a.k.a. Gordon Thomas; Marshall Alexander (Sandy) Reid, Martin Seagal, Marvin Simon, Walter Smolarek, a.k.a. Bob Winters, a.k.a. Walter Shaw; Victor Tomasicchio, a.k.a. Victor Thomas; Brian Wilson, John Doe #1, a.k.a. Andrew Barrington; John Doe #2, a.k.a. Bill Crandall; John Doe #3, a.k.a. Gordon Sinclair; and John Doe #4, a.k.a. Andrew Noble, at the U. S. District Court for the Western District of New York.

Canadian kidnapped in the Bahamas

October 31, 1997
A 31-year-old Bahamian businessman has been charged with 25 offences following the kidnapping and robbery of five Canadian men in Nassau on October 13.

Harris McLean’s Canadian assets frozen

October 31, 1997
The British Columbia Securities Commission has frozen an estimated US$9 million held in Vancouver trading accounts on behalf of Cayman-based broker/dealer Harris McLean Financial Group Ltd. and Ana Jimenez, who is the mother of Richard Harris, one of Harris McLean's principals.

Cayman court enforces foreign judgment

October 31, 1997
In a ruling that could have implications for other offshore ‘paper' companies registered in the Cayman Islands and operated elsewhere, the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands has allowed the enforcement of a foreign judgement against a Cayman entity called Socoa International.The Grand Court rejected one of the main defence arguments that to allow the enforcement of a foreign judgement would be against the national interests of the Cayman Islands and ruled that the Canadian judgement could be enforced without the plaintiff having to prove its case all over again in Cayman.

Kruger loses Cayman extradition battle as another fugitive, John Felderhof, arrives

May 28, 1997
As one millionaire fugitive was finally forced to leave his paradise island hiding place to face the music back home, another took his place to cause further embarrassment to the Cayman Islands.Swiss businessman Peter Kruger gave up a 16 month battle to escape justice by leaving the Cayman Islands on May 15 to return to Switzerland to face charges of bankruptcy fraud involving nearly US$272 million.But his place in the public eye has already been taken by John Felderhof, the former chief geologist of Bre-X Minerals, a would-be mining firm that defrauded investors of about $4 billion through false claims of gold finds in Indonesia.

Money launderer convicted in Cayman

May 28, 1997
In a case that has triggered investigations on both sides of the US-Canadian border, Pietro Paolo Codispoti, of Montreal, was convicted in the Cayman Islands on May 22 of three counts of money laundering.

Dubious Canadian firm forms Bermuda subsidiary

November 24, 1994
A Canadian company described as "a disaster waiting to happen" has incorporated a subsidiary in Bermuda to promote the firm's interests overseas.International Hi-Tech Industries Inc, which is listed on the notorious Vancouver Stock Exchange, has a net worth of CDN$4 million.But the company's market capitalization — the value placed on it by investors in the marketplace — stands at a staggering CDN$335 million even though Hi-Tech reportedly has no sales revenue and no contracts for any sales.

Investors get stung time and again on Vancouver Stock Exchange

February 9, 1994
The saying ‘there's one born every minute' has never been more appropriate than when applied to the plethora of investors who have lost their shirts gambling on companies that prospect for diamonds and gold in ‘them thar hills' of British Columbia, Canada. DAVID MARCHANT takes a look at an industry that has attracted substantial investment from Bermuda residents and scrutinizes the performance of the notorious Vancouver Stock Exchange, which helps firms raise money and which was described in Forbes magazine in 1989 as ‘The Scam Capital of the World'.

USA v. Kenneth Rijock et al: Superseding Indictment

July 12, 1990
Superseding Indictment in USA v. Kenneth Walton Rijock, Herberto Julian Rodriguez, a.k.a. Tico Rodriguez, a.k.a. Herberto Castellano; Michael Clinton Gruener, a.k.a. Michael Rossi, and Christine Marie Dickinson at the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida.

USA v. Kenneth Rijock et al: Criminal Indictment

May 10, 1990
Criminal Indictment in USA v. Kenneth Walton Rijock, Herberto Julian Rodriguez, Michael Clinton Gruener, and Christine Marie Dickinson at the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida.

USA v. William Kilpatrick et al: Criminal Indictment

September 30, 1982
Criminal Indictment alleging tax fraud in USA v. William A. Kilpatrick, Michael Alberga, Declan O'Donnell, John Pettingill, Sheila Lerner, CS Gill, CM Smith and The Bank of Nova Scotia at the U. S. District Court for the District of Colorado.