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April
2021
‘One thing I’m not is a fraudster,’ writes convicted fraudster Sencer Sevket
Third letter in 11 years from Sencer Orhan, a.k.a. Sendjer Shefket, a.k.a. Sencer Sevket, a citizen of the United Kingdom who is a convicted fraudster, requesting the removal of articles and documents about him from OffshoreAlert’s website.
August
2020
Released from prison, British fraudster now operates under new name (Sencer Orhan)
Notorious British fraudster Sencer Sevket has changed his name after being released from prison and seemingly gone into business with a member of the ruling family in Abu Dhabi, OffshoreAlert can reveal.
October
2010
Sencer Sevket established Cayman fund despite arrest warrant and $21M judgment
A British citizen was able to form a mutual fund in the Cayman Islands despite an outstanding warrant for his arrest in the United States for alleged investment fraud and an unpaid $21 million civil judgment for a separate fraud
September
2010
‘Remove inaccurate, defamatory information’, writes Sencer Sevket
April
2007
Sendjer Shefket: Order of Dismissal
March
2007
USA v. Sendjer Shefket: Motion to Dismiss & Order of Dismissal
Motion to Dismiss and Order of Dismissal in USA v. Sendjer Shefket at the U. S. District Court for the District of South Carolina.
March
2007
Insider Talking: March 9, 2007
The web-sites of two companies whose dubious activities have been highlighted in recent editions of OffshoreAlert have been dismantled over the last few weeks; On February 12, 2007, OffshoreAlert received an email from Kristen Lawson, a “Legislative Advisor” with Miller Thomson LLP, a law firm based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Telecommunications and cable television firms in Bermuda and the Cayman Islands have been dragged into a long-running legal dispute over the ownership of a $900,000 airplane that was damaged in Hurricane Ivan; Under Prime Minister Keith Mitchell, Grenada has become the poster country for corruption and banking fraud; OffshoreAlert recently learned that U. S. Bank N.A. obtained a default judgment for $21 million against British-based alleged fraudster Sendjer Shefket and his British firm Target International Funds Ltd. at federal court in the USA on May 24, 2006; Convicted white-collar criminals who believe they are punished too severely in the United States should be thankful they don’t operate in China; and While the U. S. legal system does not yet offer death as a punishment for fraudsters, it is still less than hospitable for convicted white-collar criminals, as Martin A. Armstrong can attest to.
May
2006
U.S. Bank NA v. Sendjer Shefket et al: $21M Default Judgment
Default Judgment for $21 million in U.S. Bank N.A. v. Sendjer Shefket and Target International Funds Ltd., both of England, at the U. S. District Court for the Western District of Washington.
March
2006
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.
August
2005
Another fraud action brought against UK investment promoter Sendjer Shefket
British national Sendjer Shefket, who has been subject to an outstanding U. S. arrest warrant for two years concerning an alleged investment fraud, has been accused of perpetrating another alleged scam.Shefket is one of several parties in civil litigation that was initially filed at the U. S. District Court for the Western District of Washington on September 23, 2004.
January
2005
Insider Talking: January 31, 2005
Search the Internet for ‘Caledonian Offshore Ltd.’ and you will receive a plethora of hits for web-sites containing allegations that the firm engages in wholesale illegal activity, specifically that it takes money from residents of third-world countries on the false promise that they will be offered jobs in the offshore oil industry; Tthere is still no sign of the US Postal Service taking any action against another up-front-cash-for-non-existent-jobs fraudster – Rommy Kriplani, a few years after OffshoreAlert handed them more than enough evidence to bring a prosecution for mail fraud; Ten months after the closure of Canada-based OFC Publications Inc., which published Offshore Finance Canada and Offshore Finance USA magazines, another publisher of news about offshore financial centers and issues that affect them has closed down; The Financial Services Authority in the United Kingdom has refused an application for ‘permission to carry on regulated activities’ by Target Asset Management Limited, whose links with accused fraudster Sendjer Shefket were first revealed by OffshoreAlert on June 30, 2003; The Office of the Public Prosecutor of the Second Circuit in Panama has allowed a request from former employees of the now-defunct Harris Organization to freeze US$800,000 of its assets on the grounds that they were fired illegally, according to a report in El Panama America newspaper on December 27, 2004; Bermuda hotelier and former Minister of Tourism David Dodwell has settled litigation with a former business partner that lasted more than 12 years, spanned courts in three countries and was notable for its acrimony; British solicitor Mark Agombar, who was banned as a company director for six years in the United Kingdom last year for his part in a timeshare scam, was named as a defendant in a civil complaint filed by Johnston International Limited at the Turks & Caicos Islands Supreme Court on April 30, 2004; and The Securities Commission of the Bahamas announced on November 16, 2004 that it was “monitoring” a criminal investigation in Switzerland into suspected investment fraud and money laundering by Dieter Behring and “assessing any possible connections Mr. Behring may have with existing licensees or registrants of the Commission.
April
2004
Target Asset Management Limited: Refusal of License
Summary of Contents of Final Notice by U. K. Financial Services Authority of Refusal of Application Submitted by Target Asset Management Limited.
January
2004
Insider Talking: January 31, 2004
Lines Overseas Management has filed a lawsuit against the Bermuda Monetary Authority in an attempt to prevent the SEC in the United States from receiving information about LOM’s clients; Two alleged participants in a massive investment fraud involving Evergreen Security, which was registered in the British Virgin Islands and managed in Florida, are to be re-tried after their trial for grand larceny in the first degree ended in a hung jury; How much does failed offshore hedge fund boss and accused $600 million fraudster Michael Lauer hate Christopher Byron, the New York Post columnist who exposed his activities at the Lancer Offshore Group?; Imperial Consolidated administrator Mazars Neville Russell has reported receipts of $6.48 million and payments of $4.57 million in the five months from June 10, 2003 to December 9, 2003 for the group’s principal UK company, Imperial Consolidated Financiers Ltd.; On January 19, 2004 at the British Virgin Islands High Court, Allen Wheatley, former Financial Secretary of the BVI Government, and three accomplices pleaded guilty to corruption-related charges concerning the misappropriation of funds for telecommunications projects at the Terrance B. Lettsome International Airport; Canadian television firm CBC broadcast a fascinating documentary on convicted money launderer Martin Chambers on January 13, 2004, including hidden camera footage of the undercover sting operation that led to his arrest in the ‘Bermuda Short’ operation conducted by the FBI and RCMP a few years ago; A liquidator of First Cayman Bank, of the Cayman Islands, announced in December 2003 that he had paid out a third interim dividend of 15 cents in the dollar on November 21, 2003 to all admitted creditors in a distribution of approximately US$4.4 million; Eduardo Masferrer, former Chairman and CEO of the now-closed Hamilton Bank N.A., of Miami, Florida, has agreed to pay $960,000 in restitution for the benefit of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and $40,000 in penalties and stay out of banking for an indefinite period; Grenada-domiciled IBC Joie de Vie Ventures Inc. closed for business after taking in millions of dollars from the public by offering returns of up to 100 per cent per year; U.K. attorney Christopher Stenning’s Regalia Offshore Fund Ltd., which has an affiliate in the British Virgin Islands called The Regalia Fund Ltd., did not last long; A Canadian regulatory agency has issued a warning against a sham bank doing business as “Bermuda Credit Re-Insurance Bank Ltd.”; The California Division of Corporations might want to look a little more closely at Gamboa Properties Inc. before renewing its status as an ‘Active’ company in the state; and Two Cayman Islands law firms announced they were merging with firms in other jurisdictions during January.
December
2003
Sendjer Shefket: Data Protection Act Response
July
2003
UK firm denies business relationship with Target Group
A UK-based forex trading and spread betting firm has denied that it entered into a business partnership with the Target Group of Companies, two of whose principals are subject to arrest warrants in the United States.”A number of months ago IFX did have discussions with Target with regard to entering in to a business relationship,” said Alex Hartley, Compliance Director of IFX Markets. “However, nothing came of this. The relationship has now ceased.”
June
2003
Arrest warrants issued for directors of UK/offshore-based investment group
Two businessmen whose investment group includes an offshore IBC that was held out to the public as an investment fund have had arrest warrants issued against them in the United States. British national Sendjer Shefket, 43, and U. S. citizen Yen Lung Chen, 51, have been accused of operating a high yield investment scam.
March
2003
Dozens arrested as FBI targets investment fraudsters at home and abroad
Dozens of people in the United States and six other countries have been targeted in a massive police clampdown on alleged perpetrators of high yield investment frauds.
Some of the people targeted in the clampdown were: Charles Ellis Halvorsen, Christopher Michael Taylor, William Joseph “Bill” Herisko, Leonard Kalish, Seymour “Sy” Taub, Mario Piccolino, Elson Quon Lui, Nicholas Roblee, a. k.a. Nicholas Richmond, Linda June Eaton, Joseph Lawrence Finney, Raj Mallick, Ronald Gaopalelwe Mokwena, Jack Louis Schrold, William Bruce Harper, John Cocoman, Gregory Smith, Larry Taylor, Rebecca Taylor, James “Doc” McCall, Victor Carl Vaccaro, Robert Downing II, Thomas Patterson, Antonius Maria Heijnen, Rudolfo Nieto, Henry Young, Charles Judson “Judd” Strader, Marion “Bowden” Atherton, James Joseph Honse, Harry Livingston, Alexander Moorehead Sr., Mark Scott Petkovich, Kenneth Samuel Harrison, Rosemary O’Connor, Garrett Oldhouse, Pamela Weeks Clark, Kitten Otto, William Patrick Bailey, Peter Johnson, Harmondev “Hardev” Bal, George Rieg, Alok Basudev, Kevin McKee, Sendjer Shefket, Yen Lung Chen, Tom Hauser, Karl Kortmeyer, and Marius Vermaak.
March
2003
USA v. Yen Lung Chen: Criminal Complaint & Arrest Warrant
Criminal Complaint and Arrest Warrant in USA v. Yen Lung Chen at the U. S. District Court for the District of South Carolina.
March
2003
USA v. Sendjer Shefket: Criminal Complaint & Arrest Warrant
Criminal complaint and arrest warrant against Sendjer Shefket for alleged investment fraud at the U. S. District Court for the District of South Carolina.