Invaro Latest: UK SFO opens criminal investigation, victims file civil lawsuit in Japan

By David Marchant

18 years ago

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Fraud Investment Japan United Kingdom

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All Japan Liquor Merchants Association Bill Godley Chancery & Leadenhall Credit Suisse Donato Carucci

Fabio Takeshi Sunago Gary Lyons Haruo Kusakabe Henry Shinners Hideo Seki Imperial Consolidated Invaro Robert Horton Smith & Williamson Tetsuhiro Yamaguchi Tony Murphy

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The Serious Fraud Office in the United Kingdom has started a criminal investigation into the collapse of British litigation funding firm Invaro Ltd., according to two sources.
Invaro went into liquidation in June, 2004 – shortly after being exposed by OffshoreAlert – and is insolvent by approximately $145 million, according to its liquidators, Tony Murphy, Henry Shinners and Robert Horton, of British accounting firm Smith & Williamson.

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