Ross Fuller

Information casting further doubt about the credibility of Bahamas domiciled Condor Guaranty Inc. was recently filed at the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California.Law firm Humphrey Berger & Associates filed a motion to withdraw as counsel

The liquidators of St. Kitts & Nevis-domiciled Condor Insurance, Ltd. have suffered a setback in their attempt to recover assets with a face value of US$313 million they claim were fraudulent transferred to a Bahamas-domiciled mirror company so that they could not be used to satisfy creditors' claims.

A public hearing is scheduled to be held before the Colorado Banking Board on January 17, 2008 at which a challenge will be heard to the "emergency order of involuntary liquidation and order for possession" that were entered by the Board on November 19, 2007 against the state's sole remaining offshore bank, American Intercapital Holding LLC., d.b.a. American Intercapital Depository & Trust, f.k.a. American International Depository & Trust; Grenada Prime Minister Keith Mitchell, along with his wife, Marietta Mitchell, was dismissed as a defendant in a civil action at the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York on December 5, 2007 after all parties agreed that he is entitled to "head-of-state immunity"; Visitors to the "Warnings" page of a web-site operated by the Nevis Financial Services Regulation & Supervision Department will no longer see a warning that the regulatory agency issued on October 19, 2007 against Global Consultants and Services (Nevis) Limited; and The legal validity of Condor Insurance Limited's Amory-assisted continuance from St. Kitts to Nevis was challenged by Condor's principal, Harvey Milam, in a filing at the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Mississippi on December 21, 2007.

Former Bahamas-based money manager Martin Tremblay receives a 48-month prison sentence for money laundering, Richard E. Busch, Jr. is extradited from the Republic of Panama to Alabama to face securities charges, clients of Julius Baer Holding AG are being investigated by German tax authorities after a former employee in the Cayman Islands stole data and turned it over to the authorities, and Bermuda Stock Exchange-listed Ashby Corporation announces collapse of deal to sell Bahamas Film Studio to Bahamas FilmInvest International.

Bermuda Supreme Court has ruled that Finance Minister Paula Cox acted lawfully in assisting U. S. tax authorities in an investigation into California-based offshore trust advisor Terence Michael Coxon; On January 10, 2007, the Central Bank of the Bahamas issued warnings against Caribbean International Bank and Deltec Financial & Trust Services; and a look at the dubious background of Ronald Rudman, Compliance Officer for Colorado-based American International Depository & Trust.

The legal version of ‘Pirates of the Caribbean' is being played out in a Florida court case involving a Bahamas studio where scenes from two movies of the same name were shot. Among the cast of characters is a Bermuda Stock Exchange-listed company, a British Virgin Islands shell company that operates as an “underwriting” vehicle; a dubious Nevis-based insurer that is facing liquidation in a separate, unrelated action; and a Florida attorney who is currently suspended from practicing law for allegedly misappropriating client funds.