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September 17,
2002 |
OBNR To Hold Conference On Offshore Scams In Miami
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OffshoreAlert, a newsletter from www.offshorealert.com, is
well-known in the offshore world for its relentless pursuit of
scams. Now OffshoreAlert and its publisher, David Marchant, are
holding a conference in Miami at which delegates will be able to
share in the firm's accumulated knowledge of how to detect, avoid
and remedy fraudulent offshore investment and banking operations.
OffshoreAlert's 1st Due Diligence & Asset Recovery Symposium will
take place on November 18, 2002, at the Hotel Inter-Continental, in
Miami, Florida. Says the organiser:
' Our one-day Symposium will SHOW you the tools to carry out basic
and extended due diligence, including how to comply with the USA
PATRIOT Act and other Know Your Customer legislation, and how to go
about trying to recover your assets if you have been defrauded.
'The Due Diligence section will include a live demonstration of
information databases that can help you research individuals and
businesses around the world and other tools used by professional
investigators, including the authentication of documents such as
passports and resumés.
'The Asset Recovery section will show you what to do after your Due
Diligence has failed and will take you through a step-by-step guide
to recovering assets, including looking at legal and practical
issues. This will cover everything from a private investigator
rummaging around in a suspected crook's garbage taken from outside
his house to obtaining asset freeze orders in multi-jurisdictions.
'Attorney Martin Kenney is one of the world's leading authorities on
the legal aspects of freezing and seizing assets in multiple
jurisdictions and, in 1999, his team successfully froze
approximately $200 million in simultaneous actions in several
countries against Canadian crook Blair Down, who helped to rip off
thousands of elderly people in a telemarketing scam. Mr. Kenney's
widely-publicized attempts to recover funds for creditors led to him
being interviewed on the investigative U.S. television show - '60
Minutes'.
'He will be joined in his presentation by John Boaden, a private
investigator and former policeman - he helped investigate BCCI in
Cayman - who specializes in tracing assets and providing ammunition
so attorneys like Mr. Kenney can go to court.
'Case Studies will be provided by Marcus Wide, a Partner of
PricewaterhouseCoopers (Canada), who is currently the liquidator or
controller of 24 Caribbean offshore banks, including Overseas
Development Bank & Trust and British Trade & Commerce Bank, of
Dominica; Imperium Bank and the First International Bank of Grenada,
in Grenada; and New Bank and Nano and Sons Private Bankers, of St.
Vincent.
'Many of these banks have collectively defrauded international
clients of many hundreds of millions of dollars. Mr. Wide will
explain his efforts to recover assets in remote countries such as
Uganda and how he overcomes money issues when the crooks leave
behind insufficient cash to fund a recovery effort.
'Mr. Wide will be joined by David Marchant, publisher of
OffshoreAlert, an investigative newsletter which exposed several of
the offshore banks that Mr. Wide ended up liquidating - long before
they collapsed.'
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