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Luxembourg’s Polaris Financial Investments touts ‘success’ of Cayman ‘ancestor’ fund SPI (even though it failed amid allegations of fraud and ‘$118M+ missing’)

Insolvent Cayman Islands fund SPI, which collapsed in 2023 amid allegations of fraud and its liquidators claiming over $118 million has "disappeared", is being held out as a success in promotional material for a successor Luxembourg scheme operated by two of its former principals, Swiss asset manager Marc-André Pepin and British fund director Gareth Williams, via their Luxembourg firm Polaris Financial Investments.

Eric White v. Brooge Energy Ltd. et al: First Amended Class Action Complaint (‘Securities Fraud’)

First Amended Class Action Complaint in Eric White v. Brooge Energy Limited, formerly known as Brooge Holdings Limited, formerly known as Twelve Seas Investment Company, domiciled in the Cayman Islands, based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Nicolaas L. Paardenkooper, Saleh Yammout, Syed Masood Ali, Lina Saheb, Dimitri Elkin, Neil Richardson, Stephen N. Cannon, Paul Ditchburn, Ernst & Young, and PricewaterhouseCoopers Limited Partnership, Dubai Branch at the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

Brooge Energy Ltd. et al: $5.2M Fines & Prohibitions (USA)

Administrative Order by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission imposing fines of $5 million, $100,000, and $100,000, respectively, on Brooge Energy Limited, formerly Brooge Holdings Limited, described as a Cayman Islands-domiciled, United Arab Emirates-based company; Nicolaas Lammert Paardenkooper, described as a citizen of the Netherlands, and Lina Saheb, described as a citizen of Iraq, and industry prohibitions on Paardenkooper and Saheb regarding "an accounting and offering fraud".

B&C KB Holding GmbH v. Teachers’ Retirement System of Louisiana: Discovery Application (Austria)

Application by B&C KB Holding GmbH to take discovery from Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana "or use in a criminal investigation currently pending in Austria" that "centers on suspicion of aggravated fraud, manipulation of financial statements, and other criminal misconduct by former executives at European-based Schur Flexibles group of companies, which induced B&C to acquire a controlling interest in Schur at an artificially inflated price", filed at the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana.