August 03, 2021 - Butterfield Bank has agreed to forfeit $4.8 million and turned over client records as part of a Non-Prosecution Agreement with the U. S. Department of Justice in which the bank admitted "criminal conduct" by fraudulently helping U.S. taxpayers evade taxes via its Bermuda and Cayman Islands operations.
July 27, 2021 - Belgium's tax collector is seeking combined damages of at least €44.9 million in seven complaints filed in New York against seven pension plans and their operators for an allegedly fraudulent tax refund scheme.
July 13, 2021 - British serial investment fraudsters Paul Segal and Minette Coetzee who have been raising funds for their latest scheme, known as Symtomax, by pretending it has a license in Portugal to cultivate, sell, and export cannabis are about to be given a real one by the country's regulator, INFARMED.
July 10, 2021 - Briton Anthony Constantinou has been criminally charged regarding an alleged £50 million Ponzi scheme known as CWM that, inter alia, involved entities in the British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, and England.
July 09, 2021 - The U.S. SEC has charged three people, including a Canadian former resident of the Cayman Islands, Oliver-Barret Lindsay, and a New Zealander residing in England, Eric Watson, with fraud involving publicly-listed Long Blockchain Corp., formerly Long Island Iced Tea Corp.
July 09, 2021 - A would-be borrower that claims to have lost $5 million in an advance fee fraud involving companies and individuals in or from Barbados, Canada, Panama, Saint Lucia, UAE, and the USA, including SION Trading, says it has complained to law enforcement and regulators about the alleged scheme.
July 07, 2021 - Former France and Manchester United professional soccer player Mikaël Silvestre has gone into business with British fraudsters Richard Fagan and Stuart Coles, OffshoreAlert can reveal.
July 01, 2021 - Directors in the Bahamas and British Virgin Islands - Boisy Roberts and Trevor Liburd - signed a declaration of solvency for an apparently insolvent Cayman Islands mutual fund so it could go into voluntary liquidation despite its assets being frozen one day earlier after the Fund was sued by the U.S. SEC for allegedly perpetrating a $106 million fraud, say the Fund's liquidators.
June 25, 2021 - In a lawsuit filed in Florida, investors are suing Cayman Islands-domiciled cryptocurrency start-up Crowd Machine and others, including two crypto exchanges in the Seychelles, Australian Craig Sproule, and American Charlie Shrem, alleging they are victims of "a massive investment fraud".
June 23, 2021 - United Kingdom national Jonathan Ellis has sued cryptocurrency firms domiciled in the Cayman Islands, Estonia, Lithuania, Seychelles, Switzerland, and United Kingdom, including cryptocurrency exchange Binance.
