Sussex International Ltd.

Former Bermuda-based underwriter John McGarrity has disappeared in the middle of several investigations into him for alleged fraud. McGarrity, who was President of the now-defunct Amberco Brokers Ltd. in the 1980s, had most recently been working in the Bahamas.

Regulators might want to take a close look at Bermuda-based insurance management firm Sussex International Ltd. following the collapse by fraud over the last six months of an Antigua-registered insurer and another company based in Nevada.All three were run by Charles Gordon-Seymour, a discredited British businessman and former Bermuda resident whose ventures frequently collapse in suspicious circumstances with debts of millions of dollars.