June 13, 2013 - Bermuda Chief Justice Ian Kawaley has taken the extraordinary step of holding prominent offshore law firm Conyers Dill & Pearman and one of its attorneys, Ray DeSilva, liable for costs in a legal action after neither the law firm nor its client turned up for a trial.
June 12, 2013 - Butterfield Bank (Cayman) Ltd. has been dragged into litigation arising from the theft by David Self of approximately $1 million from clients of his Cayman Islands-based captive management firm Monkton Insurance Services Ltd.
June 09, 2013 - An insolvent firm - CIL Limited, f.k.a. CEVA Investments Limited - that anonymously petitioned for liquidation two months ago in the Cayman Islands is the holding company for an international conglomerate with 50,000 employees worldwide and reported revenues of $9.5 billion in 2012, OffshoreAlert can reveal.
June 08, 2013 - U. S.-based hedge fund manager Fredrick Scott has been charged with defrauding investors in his ACI Capital Group, which has offshore structures and accounts in the British Virgin Islands and Cayman Islands,
June 02, 2013 - Insolvent Ashton Fox Solicitors owes failed Cayman Islands-domiciled Axiom Legal Financing Fund "approximately £60.8 m" but that is only an estimate "due to the paucity of the Company's accounting records", reported the law firm's joint administrator on May 15.
May 31, 2013 - Released from prison three years ago and with judgments of $60 million against him still outstanding, convicted investment fraudster Eric Resteiner, 54, is back in business, operating from the Seychelles and Singapore.
May 29, 2013 - Maryland resident Larry Parrish has pleaded guilty to committing a $9 million investment fraud through offshore structures in Nevis and a bank account in Bermuda.
May 25, 2013 - Part-time Bahamas residents Duane Crithfield and Stephen Donaldson, Sr. have been criminally charged in the United States with operating a tax fraud scheme involving trust, insurance and other offshore companies in Anguilla, Nevis and the Bahamas.
May 19, 2013 - Cayman Islands resident Dave Clark has been accused of transferring $1.7 million from a bank account in Cayman to one in Honduras in an attempt to keep it from the SEC, which is suing him for allegedly perpetrating a $300 million investment fraud.
May 14, 2013 - A client of Bodden Corporate Services Ltd. in the Cayman Islands claims to have been defrauded of US$439,300 by one of the firm's employees.
