David Holukoff

Application by Mark McDonald and David Holukoff, as Joint Official Liquidators of REDS Caribbean Ltd. to take discovery from RBC Royal Bank regarding individuals and entities in the British Virgin Islands, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, and the United Kingdom for use in legal proceedings in Trinidad and Tobago, filed at the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Application by Mark McDonald and David Holukoff, as Joint Official Liquidators of REDS Caribbean Ltd., to take discovery from Wells Fargo Bank, Bank of Baroda, and The Federal Reserve Bank of New York regarding individuals and legal entities in the British Virgin Islands, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, and the United Kingdom for use in legal proceedings in Trinidad and Tobago, filed at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

In another example of the extraordinary inability of Grenada to oversee and regulate its banking industry in anything other than a manner that appears to be suspiciously incompetent to many in the outside world, a local judge has vacated  the appointment of a Receiver for a local bank, Capital Bank International, on a technicality, notwithstanding overwhelming evidence that it is hopelessly insolvent and awash with financial irregularities and improprieties, and Grenada's Director of Public Prosecutions has dropped fraud charges against the bank's controlling shareholder and CEO, Finton DeBourg, only a few weeks after he was charged; Cayman Islands Monetary Authority Chairman Tim Ridley has warned local directors that they may face an increased risk of being served with subpoenas while traveling in the United States in the coming months, such is the political climate in the U. S.; A federal court in Pensacola, Florida has entered a preliminary injunction barring Pinnacle Quest International and its principals from publicizing tax fraud schemes that have been promoted to customers throughout the United States, the U. S. Department of Justice announced on May 16, 2008; and Mark Watson, CEO of Argo Group International Holdings Ltd., was the highest-compensated executive officer of any Bermuda-based, publicly-listed insurer in 2007, receiving a package valued at $15 million, according to a compensation review conducted by OffshoreAlert's sister newsletter, InsideBermuda.

Section 304 Petition for Assistance in Insolvency Proceedings in Grenada by Marcus Wide, as the Foreign Representative of Imperium Bank Ltd., at the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.