Urs Meisterhans

The United States has filed a forfeiture complaint against $2.3 million in cash and 38 luxury watches that were seized in 2021 from the Cyprus home of 63-year-old Swiss banker Urs Meisterhans as part of an investigation into an alleged $6 million international investment fraud and money laundering scheme for which Meisterhans and nine citizens of Cyprus, Ireland, and the United Kingdom were criminally indicted in 2021.

Forfeiture Complaint regarding assets allegedly derived from "a sophisticated international mass-marketing investment fraud scheme to defraud English-speaking investors from around the world of millions of dollars, and to launder the fraud proceeds and distribute those proceeds among the conspirators" in USA v. $2.3 million in cash and 38 "luxury-brand watches" seized from the residence of Swiss national Urs Meisterhans in Cyprus at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Ninth Superseding Indictment alleging "a sophisticated international mass-marketing investment fraud scheme to defraud English-speaking investors from around the world of millions of dollars" in USA v. Nicholas Russell James Gillie, a citizen of the United Kingdom; Neophytos Georgiou, a citizen of Cyprus and the United Kingdom; Urs Meisterhans, a citizen of Switzerland; Scott Steven Neilson, a citizen of the United Kingdom; Liam James Smout, a citizen of the United Kingdom; Daniel Nielsen, a citizen of the United Kingdom; Brenda Laverty, a citizen of Ireland; Andrew Georgiou, a citizen of Cyprus and the United Kingdom; Thomas Andrew Kenny, a citizen of the United Kingdom, and Jake Mardell, a citizen of the United Kingdom, at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Motion for Temporary Restraining Order in Absolute Activist Value Master Fund Ltd., Absolute East West Fund Limited, Absolute East West Master Fund Limited, Absolute European Catalyst Fund Limited, Absolute Germany Fund Limited, Absolute India Fund Limited, Absolute Octane Fund Limited, Absolute Octane Master Fund Limited, and Absolute Return Europe Fund Limited, all of the Cayman Islands v. Susan Elaine Devine, a citizen of Brazil and the United States, at the U. S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida.

Complaint alleging the defendant "has been engaged in a criminal enterprise with her notorious former husband and father of her two children, Florian Wilhelm Jürgen Homm , knowingly concealing, transferring, and using for her own benefit tens of millions of dollars fraudulently taken from the Plaintiff Funds" in Absolute Activist Value Master Fund Ltd., Absolute East West Fund Limited, Absolute East West Master Fund Limited, Absolute European Catalyst Fund Limited, Absolute Germany Fund Limited, Absolute India Fund Limited, Absolute Octane Fund Limited, Absolute Octane Master Fund Limited, and Absolute Return Europe Fund Limited, all of the Cayman Islands v. Susan Elaine Devine, described as a citizen of Brazil and the United States, at the U. S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida.