Insider Talking: March 6, 2006

Perhaps in an attempt to limit the negative effects of a criminal complaint and – still outstanding – arrest warrant that were issued against him for alleged investment fraud at the U. S. District Court for the District of South Carolina on March 7, 2003, British-based, Cyprus-born businessman Sendjer Shefket, 46, has started using the name ‘Sencer Sevket’ in his business dealings; 2005 was a busy year for offshore-focused attorney Nigel Scott Grant, 65, in more ways than one; and Japanese victims of the Imperial Consolidated Group are finding out first-hand just how useless the United Kingdom’s Serious Fraud Office is when it comes to investigating and prosecuting serious fraud.