May 16, 2021 - A British Virgin Islands company that is part of the Dubai-based Exential Group of forex trading companies that perpetrated a $200 million Ponzi scheme has applied for Chapter 15 bankruptcy recognition in the United States.
May 13, 2021 - Intertrust Corporate Services has been fined CI$4.2 million by the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority for breaching the jurisdiction's Anti-Money Laundering Regulations. Separately, Maples Group law firm announced it was seeking a judicial review of CIMA's "interpretation and application" of the regulations.
May 11, 2021 - Liechtenstein is investigating Manfred Fent, Franco Seren Gay, Gerald Hoop, and Robert Seaman III for "serious fraud and money laundering" involving investment firms Monument Group AG and Monument Foundation, OffshoreAlert can reveal.
May 05, 2021 - Uzbek-Russian-Belgian businessman Patokh Chodiev intends to sue British financial data and information provider Refinitiv Limited, formerly known as Reuters Limited, over "a poorly supported and damaging report" about him in its risk and compliance database known as World-Check.
May 04, 2021 - A petition by Luxembourg-based accused fraudster Nicholas Martin to wind up the Cayman Islands holding company of the Circumference Group of corporate service providers has been dismissed "on the grounds that it is an abuse of process".
May 04, 2021 - Canadian penny stock broker Andrew McAlpine has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit securities fraud at federal court in California and received permission to return to his home in the Cayman Islands pending sentencing. Prosecutors have recommended that he serve between six and 12 months in prison and he also faces restitution of "at least $270,689".
April 23, 2021 - Cayman Islands hedge fund VR Global Partners is seeking evidence from U.S. lawyer Stuart Newberger for litigation in the Isle of Man in which it claims to have not received its share of $28.7 million of alleged proceeds from legal claims against the Pakistan Government.
April 19, 2021 - Investigative firm Diligence Global Business Intelligence is seeking a declaration from a Swiss court that it did not act illegally when conducting surveillance on British firm Cornerstone Global Associates for an investigation into suspected corruption regarding the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, it has emerged in a New York discovery application
April 15, 2021 - The registration of investment fund Remus Horizons PCC Limited, which is part of a group that includes individuals and companies in or from Australia, England, Guernsey, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Italy, Texas, and the United Arab Emirates, has been suspended by the Guernsey Financial Services Commission less than five months after it was granted.
April 09, 2021 - Insolvent payment processor Wirecard AG has applied for U.S. recognition of its German insolvency proceeding in an attempt to stay a class action complaint against it in Pennsylvania.
