A message from David Marchant, Publisher, OffshoreAlert.

Due diligence is the single most important aspect to any significant business transaction. With it, you secure your principal and reputation. Without it, you could easily face a future of fines, unwanted stress, and possibly prison.

The plethora of financial scandals of recent years teaches us that no person or business should be trusted at face value, no matter their size or credentials. Therefore, you must educate and train yourself and your employees in the art of independently gathering and analyzing information so that you know who, and what, you are dealing with at all times.

The experts coming together at our 4th Annual OffshoreAlert Due Diligence Conference will equip you with the best tactics and intelligence to fight back against a class of criminals who have no conscience or ethics. As you’ll discover in the pages that follow, you can walk away from this Conference with ideas and strategies proven to thwart those who are ruthless in their pursuit of taking for themselves what rightfully belongs to you.

Please join us.

Best regards,

David Marchant

David Marchant, owner of KYC News Inc., is an investigative journalist who has exposed numerous international, white-collar crimes during his career, leading to four libel lawsuits against him – all of which were unsuccessful. Mr. Marchant is regularly referenced for financial crime stories by the world’s media, including The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, Miami Herald, CBS News, Bloomberg Business News, The Times of London, the Independent on Sunday, and BBC Radio.

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OffshoreAlert is a world leader in the production and distribution of credible due diligence information, and the host of the 4th Due Diligence Conference.

Since being launched in February, 1997, OffshoreAlert's relentless pursuit of white-collar criminals has established it as one of the world's leading financial investigative newsletters, a must-read for law enforcement officers, regulators, private investigators, bankers, investors and anyone else conducting international business.

So successful is it at detecting and exposing financial crime that, in four months from November, 2003 to February, 2004 alone, 11 officers from three fraudulent business groups which had all brought failed libel actions against OffshoreAlert's publisher were convicted, indicted, or arrested for money laundering and/or fraud in the United States and the United Kingdom. Collectively, they are believed to have defrauded more than $600 million from over 5,000 individuals living in dozens of countries.

They were:

• Marc Harris: This Panama-based offshore provider was exposed as a money launderer and fraudster in the March 31, 1998 edition of OffshoreAlert. On May 21, 2004, Harris was sentenced to 17 years in prison, fined $20 million and ordered to pay restitution of $6.5 million after being found guilty six months earlier of 16 counts of money laundering and tax evasion at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
• Lincoln Fraser, Jared Brook, David Willerton, Masao Imadzu and one other: Their onshore/offshore Imperial Consolidated Group was exposed by OffshoreAlert starting on January 29, 1999 until it collapsed in the summer of 2002 with more than $345 million of liabilities and negligible assets. These five former officers were arrested in the United Kingdom in February, 2004 on suspicion of fraud and were released on police bail pending further investigations by the U.K. Serious Fraud Office.
• Gilbert Ziegler, a.k.a. Van Brink; Douglas Ferguson, Robert Skirving, Larry Barnabe and Rita Regale: Their First International Bank of Grenada scam was exposed in the January, 1999 edition of OffshoreAlert and in subsequent editions. Two years later, the bank collapsed with more than $200 million of liabilities and negligible assets. Criminal indictments against these five former officers and/or promoters on more than 140 counts of fraud and money laundering were unsealed at the U. S. District Court for the District of Oregon in January, 2004.

The newsletter is published in Miami, Florida by KYC News, Inc., a leading news content provider covering offshore financial centers and the residents of major countries who do business offshore. Its aggressive and straightforward pursuit of truth has made it an internationally-known and respected source for due diligence information and KYC research, exposing countless securities and investment frauds while they are in progress and those who launder the proceeds of such schemes.

You’ll walk away with a deeper understanding of due diligence—and solid tactics to put it into place—from the 4th OffshoreAlert Due Diligence Conference.

Join us! Register now at http://www.kycnews.com/conferences/register.asp!