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Indosuez Eastern Europe Fixed Income Fund Ltd.: Section 304 Petition

July 6, 2004
Section 304 Petition for Assistance in Insolvency Proceedings in the British Virgin Islands by Stephen Akers and Terry Carson, as the Foreign Representatives of Indosuez Eastern Europe Fixed Income Fund Ltd., Clariden Eastern Europe Debt Fund, Ltd., and Safra Eastern Europe Fixed Income Fund, Ltd., at the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.

USA v. Funds on Deposit at Bank Julius Baer & Co. et al: Complaint

May 14, 2004
Complaint in USA v. All Funds on Deposit at Bank Julius Baer & Company, Ltd., Credit Suisse (Guernsey) Limited, and Eurofed Bank Limited in the names of Pavlo Lazarenko, Pavel Lazarenko, Samante Limited, and Alexander Milchenko at the U. S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

Legal problems for Alexei Golubovich in Switzerland

December 31, 2003
Alexei Golubovich, longtime partner of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, is the target of legal action in Switzerland by his former associate Yelena Collongues-Popova and is being investigated by a Geneva judge on a charge of forgery. Golubovich has not been indicted by Russian prosecutors, though they are interested in talking to the former Yukos finance director who has reportedly fled to London. However, he could be indicted by the Swiss.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky: ‘The richest crook in Russia’

November 30, 2003
A business group headed by Russia's richest man, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who was arrested in October for allegedly defrauding the state of $1 billion, stashed money in offshore centers, including Switzerland, Luxembourg, the British Virgin Islands, the Seychelles, Panama and the Bahamas, according to Yelena Collongues-Popova, who worked for one of Khodorkovsky's associates. Lucy Komisar, a New York investigative reporter who is writing a book about the offshore banking and corporate secrecy system, interviewed Collongues-Popova. This is her story.

Switzerland: Markus Erich Haueter et al

September 10, 2003
Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Switzerland into Markus Erich Haueter, Ulrich Habedank, Eyk Himmel and Stefan Jutz for alleged commercial fraud.

US Gov’t obtains order to freeze assets of couple suspected of bankruptcy fraud

July 31, 2003
A United States court has issued an order allowing the U. S. government to seize $660,000 held in an account at Credit Suisse First Boston in Switzerland.In an order dated May 12, 2003, the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington ruled that the funds came from bankruptcy fraud by Robert Wayne Kersey and Vickie A. Kersey.

Endurance Specialty announces $200 million IPO

December 31, 2002
Almost 12 months to the day after it began operations, Bermuda-based Endurance Specialty Holdings Ltd. filed a registration statement with the SEC to raise up to $200 million in an initial public offering.Endurance Specialty, which provides property and casualty insurance and reinsurance, intends to list on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker 'ENH'.

Former Imperial Consolidated insiders set up new investment scam

August 31, 2002
A new investment scam that has arisen out of the ashes of the failed Imperial Consolidated Group is being run along virtually identical lines, OffshoreAlert can reveal. Potential investors in a British Virgin Islands-registered firm doing business as 'Property International' are being offered annual interest rates of 18 per cent by Imperial's former management and promoters.

Brazil: Improver International Fund Ltd.

June 14, 2002
Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Brazil into British Virgin Islands-domiciled Improver International Fund Ltd. for suspected involvement in corruption, securities fraud, tax evasion and money laundering.

France: Jean-Pierre Chariou et al

March 4, 2002
Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in France into Jean-Pierre Chariou and others for the alleged production and circulation of counterfeit currency.

Ex-partner of Bermuda businessman accused of fraud

February 28, 2002
An ex-business partner of Bermuda-resident John Grant Marshall has, like Marshall himself in the 1990s, been implicated in an offshore reinsurance fraud. Frank C. Blunt Jr. has been named as a defendant in a civil lawsuit filed in Miami on January 18, 2002 in which the plaintiffs claim to have been defrauded of $550,000.

Cayman Reinsurance Group accused of fraud

February 28, 2002
A civil complaint has been filed in the United States by plaintiffs claiming to have been defrauded by a Cayman-registered group whose advisors allegedly included former British MP Geoffrey Dodsworth. The action was filed at the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida on January 18, 2002 by Anne W. Hvide and Raymond B. Vickers, who are Trustees for the Hans J. Hvide Trust.

PlusFunds sues Bermuda Stock Exchange

July 31, 2001
Plans by the Bermuda Stock Exchange and a New York-based partner to develop a facility for the secondary market trading in the shares of hedge funds have ended in litigation.PlusFunds Ltd. filed two civil lawsuits at Bermuda Supreme Court on June 8, 2001, one against the BSX itself and another against a joint venture firm called BSX-PlusFunds Group Ltd.

Offshore firms sued after family trust was alleged defrauded

November 30, 2000
Some of the biggest names in offshore finance have been named as defendants in a civil lawsuit filed in the United States by investors who claim to have been defrauded of $5 million. Defendants are Matheson Trustees (BVI) Limited, Matheson Trust Company (BVI) Limited, Bank of Bermuda, Credit Suisse, of Switzerland; UBS, of Switzerland; and KPMG, of the British Virgin Islands.