Robert Whitney

Atlas Financial Group KPMG sued in TCI, another suit planned for U. S.

April 30, 2004

Accounting firm KPMG is facing two multi-million dollar lawsuits over its involvement in a failed offshore investment group.The actions concern KPMG's provision of auditing and other services for the now-defunct, Turks & Caicos Islands-based Atlas Financial Group. 

KPMG (TCI) sued by Atlas Financial Group clients

January 31, 2003

A civil complaint has been filed in the United States against failed Turks & Caicos Islands-based Atlas Financial Group, its auditor, KPMG, and several current or former officers. Among the defendants are the Managing Director of KPMG (TCI), Gary Brough, 40, who is British; and the accounting firm's former Director of Corporate Finance,Robert Gass, 38, who is Canadian. AFG founders Wayne Turner and his son, Scott Turner, who are both Canadian nationals, are also defendants.

Third arrest warrant issued in investigation of Atlas Financial Group

May 31, 2002

An arrest warrant has been issued in the Turks and Caicos Islands against a third person suspected of fraud involving Atlas Financial Group (in liquidation), namely Robert D. Whitney, who is AFG's former Chief Operating Officer. It follows arrest warrants that

Scott Turner hits out ahead of meeting of Atlas Securities creditors

November 30, 2001

Canadian businessman Scott Turner, who is subject to an arrest warrant in the Turks & Caicos Islands for suspected fraud, has issued a letter attacking other members of his failed stockbroker Atlas Securities Inc.Nowhere in the five page letter, which

Police investigate collapse of Atlas Securities

June 30, 2001

Police are investigating Wayne Turner and his son, Scott, for allegedly misappropriating an estimated $8 million from clients of Atlas Securities Inc., of the Turks & Caicos Islands.TCI police began an investigation after a KPMG audit apparently turned up evidence that the Turners had used client funds to cover margin calls relating to their personal trading accounts.