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United Kingdom: Wilson-Smith & Co. et al

March 5, 2001
Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in the United Kingdom into alleged fraud by Martin Brian Tobias-Gibbins, Jimmy Barnard Sanchez, William Deluce, Imdad Ullah, Carl Tessier, Michael Wilson-Smith, Peter Barnett, Minesh Ruparelia, Wilson-Smith & Co., Rhodes Barlow and Ruparelia Thaker.

Norway: Christian August Mohr

March 2, 2001
Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Norway into Christian August Mohr and Carmelo Salvatore Firetto for alleged investment fraud.

Bahamas-registered TAC International in $11 million judgment

February 28, 2001
TAC International Ltd., which was registered in the Bahamas, and two of its principals have been ordered to disgorge $10.9 million and fined $770,000 in the United States.Default judgments were entered against TAC International, Douglas R. Walker and Craig Southwood at the US District Court for the Western District of North Carolina on January 31, 2001.

Stock Generation case goes to US Appeals Court

February 28, 2001
An appeals court has overturned a US District Court judge's decision to unfreeze millions of dollars of frozen assets of a Dominica-based Internet gaming firm known as Stock Generation.In a decision on February 5, 2001, the Court of Appeals ordered that a preliminary injunction and asset freeze against the Stock Generation group will remain in effect until further order.

Victims sue Melvin Ford and The Forum

February 28, 2001
A civil lawsuit has been filed in the United States by victims of a failed Antigua-based investment scheme known as 'The Forum'.The lawsuit was filed at the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas on January 24, 2001 by 64 individual plaintiffs.

Fidelity Low-Priced Fund becomes big investor in Stirling Cooke

February 28, 2001
A mutual fund that has accumulated a ten per cent stake in financially distressed Stirling Cooke Brown Holdings has one of the best reputations in its peer group. The Fidelity Low-Priced Stock Fund (Ticker: FLPSX) returned 25.74 per cent over the 12 months ended February 23, 2001, greatly outperforming the S&P500, which lost 7.37 per cent.

Lines Overseas Management sued by Rubin Investment Group

February 28, 2001
Bermuda-based investment firm Lines Overseas Management has been named as one of several defendants in a civil lawsuit filed in California relating to an alleged $5 million stock fraud.The lawsuit was filed by Los Angeles resident Dan Rubin, d.b.a. Rubin Investment Group, on December 26, 2000 at the United States District Court for the Central District of California.

Imperial Consolidated files lawsuit against OBNR, seeks injunction

February 28, 2001
Imperial Consolidated PLC has followed in the footsteps of The Harris Organization and the First International Bank of Grenada and filed a libel lawsuit against OBNR and its principal, David Marchant. While the previous two lawsuits were filed at federal court in Miami, Imperial Consolidated filed its complaint at state court, specifically the Circuit Court of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit for Miami-Dade County, Florida, on February 21, 2001.

Imperial Consolidated Plc’s first audit reveals little about health of entire group

February 28, 2001
UK-based Imperial Consolidated PLC filed its first-ever audit with Companies House in early February but it shed little light on the financial status of the overall group. Although the firm is described as the "Imperial Consolidated PLC Group of Companies" in its audit, the results of none of its overseas affiliates are included, nor are some of the group's UK companies.

Bahamas regulators place restrictions on Fortis mutual fund license

February 28, 2001
The Bahamas Securities Commission has placed conditions on the mutual fund license of Fortis Fund Services (Bahamas) Limited over apparent negligence in its administration of a failed investment fund.The action, which was announced in a Public Notice dated January 23, 2001, forms part of an investigation into Bahamas-registered Oracle Fund Ltd., which invested in US tax liens.

Canadian exchange suspends shares linked with Grenada bank

February 28, 2001
The Canadian Venture Exchange has suspended trading in the shares of two companies that are linked to insolvent Grenada-registered Cambridge International Bank & Trust. It is the latest regulatory action to be taken involving the now-defunct First International Bank of Grenada group, whose activities have been filling pages of newspapers all over the world recently.

Regulators take action against Caruba International

February 28, 2001
The latest Pyramid scheme run by 28-year-old Damon Westmoreland, called Caruba International, seems to be headed the way of his last, which was shut down by regulators in the United States.Caruba International, which claims to be operated "entirely in Aruba" but appears to be run from Florida and California, has been subject to two enforcement actions in the US.

Irvin BonCamper enters defense in New York lawsuit

February 28, 2001
St. Kitts & Nevis-based offshore provider M. Irvin BonCamper has entered an eleventh-hour defense to a civil complaint filed in New York just as a default judgment was about to be entered against him.

Bahamas firm settles SEC lawsuit

February 28, 2001
Bahamas-registered St. Barth Ltd. and H. D. Inc., which was registered in New Jersey, have agreed to be penalized in the amount of US$1.7 million to settle a civil lawsuit filed in the US by the SEC.

Grenada bank with dignitaries as directors implicated in fraud

February 28, 2001
A bank whose directors include an ex-Prime Minister, a former Governor-General and two Justices of the Peace has become Grenada's latest offshore financial institution to be implicated in fraud. A promoter and 'Honorary Director' of Windsor International Bank & Trust, Douglas E. Castle, is being sued in the United States for allegedly defrauding a client of $244,636.

Imperial Consolidated Plc vs. David Marchant et al: Libel Complaint

February 20, 2001
Complaint alleging defamation and Motion for Preliminary Injunction in Imperial Consolidated Plc, of the United Kingdom vs. David Marchant and Offshore Business News & Research Inc. at the Circuit Court of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit, in and for Miami-Dade County, Florida.

Imperial Consolidated files audit

February 9, 2001
Imperial Consolidated PLC, the British holding company for the Imperial Consolidated financial services group, whose operations include a Grenada-based bank and offshore mutual funds in Grenada and the Bahamas, has finally submitted its first ever statutory audit to Companies House in England & Wales.

Imperial Consolidated threatens to sue OBNR

February 8, 2001
A Miami-based attorney representing the British-based Imperial Consolidated financial services group sent a letter to Offshore Business News & Research on February 7, 2001 stating that a lawsuit will be filed against OBNR and its principal, David Marchant, on Thursday, February 15, 2001 unless we retract "a plethora of libelous and slanderous statements" allegedly made against the group.

Imperial Consolidated financials did not contain auditor’s statement, says Companies House

February 6, 2001
Companies House for England and Wales told OffshoreAlert today that it rejected the statutory financial statement submitted a few days ago by the British holding company of the Imperial Consolidated group because "there was no auditor's statement". Why Imperial Consolidated PLC would submit an unaudited financial statement when the law clearly requires it to file an audited statement is anyone's guess.

Imperial Consolidated audit rejected by UK regulators

February 5, 2001
A spokesman for Companies House for England & Wales told OffshoreAlert today that the first ever audited financial statement for Imperial Consolidated PLC, which is the British holding company for the Imperial Consolidated financial services group, has finally been submitted to regulators - and rejected. The audit was due to have been submitted to Companies House on or before December 30, 2000 and had officially been listed as 'OVERDUE' at Companies House until today, when its status was changed to 'PENDING'.

FIBG crook Van Brink marries young woman in Uganda

January 31, 2001
American conman Van A. Brink, the founding chairman and CEO of the First International Bank of Grenada, recently married a considerably younger local woman in Uganda, where he fled just before FIBG collapsed in 2000 with an estimated $150 million stolen from depositors.

Cayman-based SEGOES acts to protect its reputation

January 31, 2001
Cayman-based on-line brokerage firm SEGOES Ltd. acted quickly this month after OffshoreAlert tipped it off to apparent misuse of its name over the Internet. Omnicorp Bank Inc., of St. Vincent; and Business Builders LLC, of California, all made apparently false claims on their web-sites about a relationship with SEGOES.

Lawsuit pits ‘Unity-States’ against United States

January 31, 2001
The battle between the US authorities and a group of suspected fraudsters allegedly led by American John Wayne Zidar, whose scheme was heavily promoted in Bermuda, becomes more bizarre by the month.On November 30, 2000, an action was filed in the US District Court for the Central District of California on behalf of something calling itself the 'Unity-States' against several parties, including the United States, the FBI, the SEC, the US Marshals Service, judges in the US and Western Samoa, the Western Samoan Attorney General, several banks and others, including Zidar himself.

Lawsuit filed by victims of Antigua-based Accord group

January 31, 2001
A civil lawsuit has been filed in the United States against Antigua-based Accord Trading Ltd., which was run by Britons Leslie Wingham and Graham Carr.Plaintiff Milton Shoong Corporation claims that it lost $1.2 million with Accord after being promised monthly returns of 100 per cent per month for ten months, according to its complaint.

Suisse Security Bank & Trust has $4.5M frozen & seized

January 31, 2001
Bahamas-based Suisse Security Bank & Trust is fighting two lawsuits in the United States which have resulted in $1.47 million of its assets being seized and another $3 million frozen. The bank is currently waiting for the outcome of an appeal against a default judgment in Florida in 1998 which will determine whether the seized $1.47 million has been lost forever.

Manager of Liberty International Bank answers allegations

January 31, 2001
The manager of a Nauru-registered bank that appears to be operated illegally from Nevis said he did not realize he was doing anything wrong and will take steps to correct the matter. Dennis L. Shollenburg also said that a lawsuit that has been filed against him and others in the US by plaintiffs alleging investment fraud involving his previous bank had not been served on him.

CBS News’ ’48 Hours’ exposes Global Prosperity

January 31, 2001
A group that has held highly dubious offshore seminars in Bermuda, the Bahamas and other offshore centers was exposed by CBS News' television program '48 Hours' on January 25. The program, which included an interview with OffshoreAlert's publisher, David Marchant, focused on the activities of the Global Prosperity Group, now known as the Institute of Global Prosperity.

David Finzer trial scheduled for May

January 31, 2001
A four-week jury trial to hear multiple allegations of fraud and money laundering against Nevis-based offshore provider Raymond David Finzer is scheduled to start on May 7, 2001 in the United States.

Details of $50 m lawsuit re. Cambridge International Bank

January 31, 2001
In one of the latest lawsuits to be filed as part of the on-going Grenada banking scandal, creditors of Cambridge International Bank & Trust claim to have been defrauded of $50 million.Cambridge, which began life as a sub-bank of the First International Bank of Grenada, offered annual interest rates of up to 51 per cent per annum, according to the complaint.

FIBG put into liquidation, founder weds Ugandan woman half his age

January 31, 2001
A petition to wind-up the First International Bank of Grenada was filed by the Grenada government on January 12, with PricewaterhouseCoopers appointed as liquidator. In the petition, the government announced that US$206 million of clients' principal went into FIBG and that an additional US$266 million of interest is owed to creditors.

Bank of Bermuda takes $10 m charge

January 31, 2001
The Bank of Bermuda has taken a $10 million charge in its latest quarterly results to reflect the collapse of its investment in e-commerce firm, First Ecom.com.

Unregistered offering in the name of Bahamas mail-drop firm

January 31, 2001
Bahamas-based A.S.A.P. Services Ltd., which provides mail-drop and 'virtual office' services, is conducting an unregistered share offering that values the four-year-old firm at $45 million.Investors are being solicited to invest in a "pre-IPO" offering of five million shares - said to represent 11 per cent of the firm's common stock - at $1 per share.

Fortis Fund Services (Bahamas) Limited

January 23, 2001
Public Notice 'In the Matter of The Oracle Fund Ltd. and In the Matter of Fortis Fund Services (Bahamas) Limited' issued by the Securities Commission of the Bahamas.

Offshore Alert editor to be featured on CBS News’ 48 Hours

January 21, 2001
CBS News' television program '48 Hours', which is hosted by Dan Rather and averages approximately 11 million viewers per show, has filmed Offshore Alert's editor, David Marchant, for a television program on Cybercrime that is due to be aired on the evening of Thursday, January 25, 2001.

Spanish newspaper reveals Imperial Consolidated’s relationship with arms dealer

January 15, 2001
The Spanish newspaper El Mundo published several articles yesterday and today about a business relationship (turned sour) between the Imperial Consolidated Group, which has offices in the UK, the Bahamas, Grenada and other countries, and Monzer al-Kassar, a Syrian national who has been described in various media articles over the years as one of the world's largest arms dealers and whose clients, according to El Mundo, include suspected terrorist Osama Bin Laden, whom the US believes was involved with the World Trade Center bombing.

Leon Brener v. Malcolm Alan Novack et al: Complaint

January 11, 2001
Complaint in Leon Brener v. Malcolm Alan Novack, Marilyn Novack, Watermark (International) Holdings Ltd., Buckingham Holdings International Ltd., Pembroke Trading Company Ltd., and Gabelle Holdings Ltd. at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Terry Neal lawsuit concludes with settlement by last defendant

December 31, 2000
The civil fraud lawsuit filed by the SEC against Nevis-based offshore provider Terry Neal and five others ended on December 15 when the last defendant settled. Michael T. Baer was ordered by the U. S. District Court for the District of Oregon to disgorge $1.4 million in "ill-gotten gains" and barred from serving as an officer or director of a public company. The disgorgement was waived and no civil penalty was imposed "based on his demonstrated financial condition".

FIBG client Teddy Wayne Solomon sentenced to 24 years in prison

December 31, 2000
A client of the First International Bank of Grenada, Teddy Wayne Solomon, has been sentenced to 293 months in prison after a jury in Texas found him guilty on multiple charges of fraud and swindling. Solomon was also fined $150,000 and ordered to pay restitution of $2.4 million when he was sentenced on October 20, 2000 at the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas.

Galanis, Ernst & Young (Bahamas) sued for alleged investment fraud

December 31, 2000
Ernst & Young (Bahamas), its former Managing Partner, Philip Galanis; and a current partner, Paul Clarke, are being sued in the United States for their role in an alleged $9.95 million investment fraud. The complaint, which was filed on November 30, 2000 at the U. S. District Court for the District of Arizona, relates to the same events that led to Galanis being fired from Ernst & Young in 1997.

First Ecom.com share price falls below $1, jeopardizes NASDAQ listing

December 31, 2000
Electronic credit card processing firm First Ecom.com, whose plight was highlighted in the previous edition of Offshore Alert, officially became a penny stock during December. On December 27, 2000, the company's share price fell to just 59 cents on the full NASDAQ system, compared with a high of $34 on the over-the-counter market just ten months earlier.