David Egglishaw

New Zealand investment fraudster Kelly Tonkin disqualified by Cayman regulator

November 30, 2021

Five months after pleading guilty to investment fraud in his native New Zealand, fund manager Kelly Tonkin has been disqualified as a company director in the Cayman Islands, where two of his Penrich Capital group companies were domiciled.

Penrich Global Macro Fund: Directors

November 30, 2021

Director Details for Penrich Global Macro Fund, obtained from the Cayman Islands General Registry on November 30th, 2021.

Cayman Islands Monetary Authority v. Brighton SPC: Liquidators’ First Report

November 12, 2015

First Report of Joint Official Liquidators in Cayman Islands Monetary Authority v. Brighton SPC at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Nicolaas Faure & Drake Fund Advisors – An embarrassment to the BVI

September 15, 2015

The measure of any person or business is not whether they become involved in controversy but the actions they take when such controversy occurs.Within hours of OffshoreAlert exposing Belvedere Management Group as a "massive criminal financial enterprise" on March 17th,

Cayman regulator applies to liquidate Belvedere’s Brighton SPC, cites ‘fraud’

September 14, 2015

Nearly six months after an OffshoreAlert exposé, the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority has petitioned to wind up Belvedere Management Group investment vehicle Brighton SPC, citing evidence of fraud "from inception" in which at least US$83 million of investors' funds has disappeared.

BUSTED: British & Irish expats who help Belvedere Group swindle investors

May 22, 2015

One day after new directors were appointed to 'ensure' that Cayman-domiciled Brighton SPC would be operated legally, the Fund illegally acquired a Gibraltar firm with bogus assets of $125 million, OffshoreAlert can reveal. The transfer allowed Belvedere and its accomplices in Britain, Dubai, Gibraltar, Spain and elsewhere to continue securities frauds involving firms listed on stock exchanges in Denmark, England and Germany.

Mauritius regulator closes down RDL Management after OffshoreAlert exposé

March 30, 2015

The Mauritius Financial Services Commission today closed down a third company that was exposed by OffshoreAlert 13 days ago as being part of a massive investment fraud perpetrated by Belvedere Management Group. RDL Management Ltd. had its 'Collective Investment Scheme Manager License' suspended and was placed into administration.

Cayman hedge fund Brighton SPC suspended in aftermath of Belvedere Management Group exposé

March 22, 2015

Cayman Islands-domiciled hedge fund Brighton SPC has been suspended by its directors, David Egglishaw and John Cullinane, after OffshoreAlert revealed it was part of a criminal financial enterprise operated by Mauritius-based Belvedere Management Group.

Brighton SPC: Suspension Announcement

March 18, 2015

Letter to Shareholders of Cayman Islands-domiciled Brighton SPC from Nicolaas Faure, on behalf of the Fund's Administrator, British Virgin Islands-domiciled Drake Fund Advisors Ltd., announcing that the Fund was suspended on March 18th, 2015 by its directors, David Egglishaw and John Cullinane.

EXPOSED: Belvedere Management’s massive criminal enterprise

March 17, 2015

Offshore fund group Belvedere Management, which claims to have $16 billion of assets under administration, management and advisory, appears to be one of the biggest criminal financial enterprises in history, headed by David Cosgrove, Cobus Kellermann and Kenneth Maillard, OffshoreAlert can reveal.

Cayman judge removes Bear Stearns fund liquidators, criticizes Walkers SPV director

March 10, 2008

Investors in two Bear Stearns-operated offshore hedge funds which have a combined insolvency estimated at more than $550 million have won a legal battle in the Cayman Islands to name their own liquidators. In a verbal opinion rendered on February 22, 2008 at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands, Chief Justice Anthony Smellie ordered the removal of Simon Whicker and Kris Beighton, of KPMG, as Joint Voluntary Liquidators of Bear Stearns High-Grade Structured Credit Strategies Enhanced Leverage (Overseas) Ltd. and Bear Stearns High-Grade Structured Credit Strategies (Overseas) Ltd.

Bayou Offshore Master Fund Ltd.: Section 304 Petition

September 9, 2005

Section 304 Petition for Assistance in Insolvency Proceedings in the Cayman Islands by Gordon MacRae and James Cleaver, as the Foreign Representatives of Bayou Offshore Master Fund Ltd., at the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Connecticut.