Brenda Laverty

The United States has filed a forfeiture complaint against $2.3 million in cash and 38 luxury watches that were seized in 2021 from the Cyprus home of 63-year-old Swiss banker Urs Meisterhans as part of an investigation into an alleged $6 million international investment fraud and money laundering scheme for which Meisterhans and nine citizens of Cyprus, Ireland, and the United Kingdom were criminally indicted in 2021.

Ninth Superseding Indictment alleging "a sophisticated international mass-marketing investment fraud scheme to defraud English-speaking investors from around the world of millions of dollars" in USA v. Nicholas Russell James Gillie, a citizen of the United Kingdom; Neophytos Georgiou, a citizen of Cyprus and the United Kingdom; Urs Meisterhans, a citizen of Switzerland; Scott Steven Neilson, a citizen of the United Kingdom; Liam James Smout, a citizen of the United Kingdom; Daniel Nielsen, a citizen of the United Kingdom; Brenda Laverty, a citizen of Ireland; Andrew Georgiou, a citizen of Cyprus and the United Kingdom; Thomas Andrew Kenny, a citizen of the United Kingdom, and Jake Mardell, a citizen of the United Kingdom, at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.