SRC International

1MDB Energy Holdings Ltd. et al: Originating Application (‘Foreign Assistance’)

July 24, 2024

Originating Application for the Court's sanction to provide "assistance" in "foreign proceedings" in the matter of Muraset Limited (in Liquidation), Affinity Equity International Partners Limited (in Liquidation), Pacific Rim Global Growth Limited (in Liquidation), Vasco Investment Services SA (in Liquidation), Selune Limited (in Liquidation), Blackstone Asia Real Estate Partners Limited (in Liquidation), 1MDB Energy Holdings Limited (in Liquidation), Tanore Finance Corp. (in Liquidation), Aabar Investments PJS Limited (in Liquidation), SRC International (Malaysia) Limited (in Liquidation), SRC Strategic Resources Limited (in Liquidation), Bright Oriande Limited (in Liquidation), Brazen Sky Limited (in Liquidation), Aabar International Investments Limited (in Liquidation), Blackrock Commodities (Global) Limited (in Liquidation), Alsen Chance Holdings Limited (in Liquidation), and Platinum Global Luxury Services Limited (in Liquidation) at the British Virgin Islands High Court.

1MDB liquidators sue Amicorp Group & CEO Toine Knipping in BVI for ‘dishonest assistance to $7B fraud’

July 16, 2024

Hong Kong-based corporate services provider Amicorp Group's operations in Barbados, British Virgin Islands, Curaçao, Hong Kong, and Singapore and its Dubai-based CEO, Toine Knipping, are being sued in the BVI for allegedly helping to launder some of the $7 billion that was misappropriated from the Malaysian sovereign wealth fund 1MDB.

Global Diversified Investment Company Ltd. et al v. Amicorp B.V.I. Ltd. et al: Claim Form (‘1MDB Dishonest Assistance’)

June 23, 2024

Claim Form in Global Diversified Investment Company Limited, formerly known as 1MDB Global Investments Limited; Aabar Investments PJS Limited (in Liquidation), SRC International (Malaysia) Limited (in Liquidation), and Brazen Sky Limited (in Liquidation) v. Amicorp B.V.I. Limited, of the British Virgin Islands; Amicorp Management Limited, of the British Virgin Islands; Artemas Wealth Management (Barbados) Ltd., formerly known as Amergeris Wealth Management (Barbados) Ltd., of Barbados; Amicorp Fund Services N.V., of Curaçao; Amicorp Singapore Pte. Ltd., of Singapore; Amicorp Hong Kong Limited, of Hong Kong; Amicorp Limited, of Hong Kong; Amicorp Bank and Trust Limited, of Barbados, and Antonius Rudolphus Wilhelmus Knipping, a.k.a. Toine Knipping, of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, at the British Virgin Islands High Court.

Angela Barkhouse et al v. Muraset Ltd. et al: Originating Application (‘1MDB Fraud’)

June 10, 2024

Originating Application in Angela Barkhouse, Colin Wilson, and Carl Jackson, as Joint Liquidators v. Muraset Limited (in Liquidation), Affinity Equity International Partners Limited (in Liquidation), Pacific Rim Global Growth Limited (in Liquidation), Selune Limited (in Liquidation), Blackstone Asia Real Estate Partners Limited (in Liquidation), 1MDB Energy Holdings Limited (in Liquidation), Tanore Finance Corp. (in Liquidation), Aabar Investments PJS Limited (in Liquidation), SRC International (Malaysia) Limited (in Liquidation), SRC Strategic Resources Limited (in Liquidation), Bright Oriande Limited (in Liquidation), Brazen Sky Limited (in Liquidation), Aabar International Investments Limited (in Liquidation), Blackrock Commodities (Global) Limited (in Liquidation), Alsen Chance Holdings Limited (in Liquidation), Platinum Global Luxury Services Limited (in Liquidation), Brightstone Jewellery Limited (in Liquidation), and Abu Dhabi-Kuwait-Malaysia Investment Corporation (in Liquidation) at the British Virgin Islands High Court.

Liquidators of BVI-domiciled ‘1MDB fraud participants’ hunt for assets in the US

April 6, 2022

The liquidators of three British Virgin Islands companies that were involved in the $8.5 billion 1MDB fraud have applied for recognition in Florida as they hunt for assets that were, among other ways, allegedly siphoned off via investment funds in the Cayman Islands and Curaçao.

SRC Strategic Resources Ltd. et al: Chapter 15 Petition (‘1MDB Fraud’)

April 5, 2022

Chapter 15 Petition for Recognition of a Foreign Main Proceeding in the British Virgin Islands by Helen Janes, Angela Barkhouse, and Carl Jackson, as the Foreign Representatives of SRC Strategic Resources Limited, Bright Oriande Limited, and SRC International (Malaysia) Limited, all in Voluntary Liquidation, collectively described as being "part of the fraud perpetrated against 1 Malaysia Development Berhad, a sovereign wealth fund owned by the Malaysian Ministry of Finance, in which numerous entities and individuals formed a network to divert and distribute funds to the fraudsters who orchestrated the fraud and to individuals and/or entities connected to them", at the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Circumference Group removes Stuart Brankin from website after $212M fraud allegation

February 20, 2022

Stuart Brankin appears to have left Cayman Islands corporate services provider Circumference FS after OffshoreAlert revealed allegations of fraud against one of their clients. All references to Brankin, including his name, photo, and profile, were removed from Circumference's website one day after we reported that Asia Momentum Fund, of which Brankin was a director and to which Circumference provided services, had been accused of swindling Malaysian citizens out of more than $212 million as part of a wider $4.5 billion fraud involving 1MDB.

Cayman Fund ‘swindled Malaysian citizens out of $212M as part of 1MDB fraud’

February 16, 2022

A Cayman Islands fund allegedly swindled a British Virgin Islands investment vehicle whose ultimate investors were "citizens of Malaysia" out of more than $200 million as part of the 1MDB fraud, all while its directors, Stuart Brankin (pictured), Desmond Campbell, and Christine Godfrey, collectively received fees and expenses "totaling more than US$100,000", it has been claimed in a lawsuit.

SRC International (Malaysia) Ltd. et al: ‘Barbados Recognition’ Application

February 14, 2022

Originating Application by Angela Barkhouse, Carl Jackson, and Helen Janes, as Joint Official Liquidators of SRC International (Malaysia) Limited (in Liquidation) and Bright Oriande Limited (in Liquidation), regarding foreign recognition at the High Court of Barbados, filed at the British Virgin Islands High Court.

SRC International (Malaysia) Ltd. et al: Originating Application (‘Hong Kong Recognition’)

January 26, 2022

Application by Angela Barkhouse, of Quantuma (Cayman) Limited, of the Cayman Islands; Carl Jackson, of Quantuma Advisory Limited, in Southampton, England, and Helen Janes, of Hyperion Risk Solutions Limited, of the British Virgin Islands, as the Joint Liquidators of SRC International (Malaysia) Limited and SRC Strategic Resources Limited, at the British Virgin Islands High Court.

SRC International (Malaysia) Ltd. v. Asia Momentum Fund (SPC) Ltd.: ‘Court Supervision’ Petition (‘1MDB Fraud’)

January 11, 2022

Petition for Court Supervision of a Voluntary Liquidation in SRC International (Malaysia) Limited (in Liquidation), a British Virgin Islands-domiciled company whose ultimate parent was 1Malaysia Development Berhad, a.k.a. 1MDB, until 2012, when its ownership was transferred to "the Malaysian Ministry of Finance" v. Asia Momentum Fund (SPC) Ltd. (in Voluntary Liquidation) at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.