Counterfeiting & Forgery

Article based on two applications to collect evidence - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from Switzerland - that were granted at federal court in the USA on December 19, 2002 and March 10, 2003. Individuals and businesses mentioned in the request for assistance include Jean-Claude Lacote, Robert Sullivan, Bo Krusell, Pierre Baudry, Roger Baudry, Aldus Finance Ltd., Kredietbank, Banque Bruxelles Lambert, Glen Tiney, Detroit International Investment Inc., Basellandschaftliche Kantonalbank, and David Dubowski.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Bulgaria into Boyka Dimitrova Yanoucheva for suspected fraud.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Switzerland into Claudio Boscaro and Santo Maesano for alleged fraud, forgery and money laundering

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Mexico into Roberto Cortez for alleged forgery and fraud while an employee with Kvaerner E&C.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Switzerland into Lothar Trinks and Christina Kaiser for alleged fraud, embezzlement, disloyal management of business, forgery of documents, and money laundering.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Switzerland into Jean-Claude Lacote and others for suspected fraud, forgery and money laundering.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Turkey into Deborah Anne Deakter for alleged forgery.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Belgium into Jozef Lernout, Pol Hauspie and Lernout & Hauspie for alleged fraud.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in France into Jean-Paul Roca, Bernard Mathieu and others for alleged fraud and forgery.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Belgium into Jozef Lernaut, Pol Haupsieof Lernaut & Hauspie and Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products for alleged fraud, forgery, insider dealing and price manipulation.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Spain into Nicolas Spaccapietra, a.k.a. Jorge Morasso, for alleged fraud and forgery.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Brazil into Nelson Sakaguchi for allegedly stealing over $240 million from his employer, Banco Noroeste.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal prosecution in the Turks and Caicos Islands into Dwight Rigby for alleged forgery, theft and money laundering while employed by Temple Securities.

An application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation by Andorra into Wolfgang Rabe and Marcel Claudiu Oteanu for alleged forgery.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in France into Henri Duval, Jean Fouquet, Annie Delettre, Jean-Yves Secher, Pascal Cornu, Eric Abgrall, Gilles Berthon, Emmanuel Malfaisan and others for the "illegal practice of the profession of auditor, forgery and the use of forgeries, and breach of trust".

A defunct company controlled by British businessman Keith Leslie King has failed in an attempt to have a former client imprisoned in the Isle of Man. City & International Securities Ltd. had petitioned the High Court of Justice to hold

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Turkey into Alfred Richard Ernst Jr., Jeffrey Paul Julien, Berrin Elmaagaclioglu, Kamil Melih Onder, Terence William Bedford and Mehmet Arkent for alleged fraud.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in the Czech Republic into Richard Dzukey, Martin Mankos and Karel Hofmann for alleged fraud.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Belgium into Barthold Gobbens for alleged fraud, forgery and theft.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from Finland - for a criminal investigation into Elena Skorodumova for alleged tax fraud.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from Bulgaria - for a criminal investigation into Mariela Borissova Guergovska for suspected fraud.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Italy into Daniel Pludwinski and Laurent Formisano for alleged involvement in the counterfeiting and smuggling of works of art.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Israel into Moshe Orenstein, an attorney, and his father Aron Orenstein, a.k.a. Aaron Orenstein, for suspected fraud and forgery.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in France into Jean-Pierre Chariou and others for the alleged production and circulation of counterfeit currency.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in the Slovak Republic into Henry Pregmar for alleged check forgery.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Ukraine into Vadim Devi Vakhtangov and Iryna Volodymyrivna Sydelnykova for alleged fraud, forgery and corruption.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Belgium into Robert Bockweg and Alida Nuyens for allegedly defrauding Bank Max Fischer of more than $2 million with the assistance of Bank Max Fischer manager Andre Zucker.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Turkey into Ridvan Kilic, Besir Tan and Sabahattin Tan for alleged forgery.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Spain into Pedro Morillas Casas and others on suspicion of forging documents and committing tax offenses.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Poland into Artur Stradomski for alleged check forgery.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in France into Henri Duval, Jean Fouquet, Annie Delettre, Jean-Yves Secher, Pascal Cornu, Eric Abgrall, Gilles Berthon, Emmanuel Malfaisan, The Association of Auditors Commission and others for "illegal practices in the auditor profession, forgery and the use of forgeries, and breach of trust.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from Aruba - for a criminal investigation into Pursi Jie-A-Swie and Farley Jie-A-Swieet for suspected money laundering and forgery.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from Aruba - for a criminal investigation into Pursi Tjew San Jie-A-Swie, Farley Hon Ping Jie-A-Swie, Gerrit de Rouw, Hon Wo Choy, Kong Hing Supermarket NV, Kong Hing Supercenter NV and Kong Hing Freezone NV for suspected money laundering.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from Aruba - for a criminal investigation into Pursi Tjew San Jie-A-Swie, Farley Hon Ping Jie-A-Swie, Gerrit de Rouw, Hon Wo Choy, Kong Hing Supermarket NV, Kong Hing Supercenter NV and Kong Hing Freezone NV for suspected money laundering of the proceeds of narcotics trafficking and forgery.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Brazil into Paulo Salim Maluf (former Mayor of Sao Paulo), Caio Fabio D'Araujo Filho and Lafaiete Coutinho regarding the alleged sale of a counterfeit document known as the 'Cayman Dossier' in an attempt to discredit the President of Brazil, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, and other politicians.  

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Trinidad & Tobago for Judicial Assistance into an allegedly fraudulent request to transfer US$373,000 from an account controlled by the Ministry of Education Secondary Modernization Programme at the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago to an account in the name of Resource Pioneer in Education (RESPECT) at Wells Fargo Bank in Reno, Nevada.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Monaco into William Fogwell, Shelley Fogwell and Guillaume Losada y Padilla for alleged fraud regarding the Hobbs Melville Group.

A client of the First International Bank of Grenada, Teddy Wayne Solomon, has been sentenced to 293 months in prison after a jury in Texas found him guilty on multiple charges of fraud and swindling. Solomon was also fined $150,000 and ordered to pay restitution of $2.4 million when he was sentenced on October 20, 2000 at the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Israel into Dov Fichman, Joseph Goldenberg, Trudi Goldenberg, Yigal Aloni, Benno Ganot and others for allegedly operating a scheme to defraud property owners.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in the United Kingdom into Michael Stanley Buchanan and Stanley George Mole for suspected theft, forgery and conspiracy to steal.

Complaint for the arrest of Klaus Peter Weyers and extradition from the USA to Germany to face charges of forgery of securities, theft and fraud.

The Mannin Foundation vs. City & International Securities Limited - Plaintiff's Closing Submissions - Isle of Man High Court of Justice - July 13, 2000

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Switzerland into Magda Medina Perez for alleged forgery and money laundering.

Motion for issuance of a letter rogatory to Taiwan to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in the USA into Chen Sun, President of CIF Group International, for allegedly causing the production and distribution of more than six million counterfeit music CDs.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Poland into the alleged importation of foreign cars and customs clearance based on allegedly forged documents.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation into unknown persons for fraud and falsification of documents.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in the United Kingdom into John Nte Anwana Esin and Cornelis Van Aken for allegedly defrauding Barclays Bank.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Switzerland into Fritz Allemann for allegedly perpetrating an advance-fee fraud involving International Bancorp for Investment and Credit, Inc.

Further information came OffshoreAlert's way recently about the nature of the allegations that led to the South African authorities issuing an arrest warrant against Keith Leslie King, the senior principal of First Nevisian, a Nevis-based stockbroking/corporate services group.We have obtained a document that originated from the Director of the Office for Serious Economic Offences in Pretoria dated May 15, 1996 that states: "This office is presently conducting an investigation into alleged fraudulent transactions in South African gilts (government and municipal stocks). The alleged falsification of stock certificates is an important element of the investigation.

UBS (Bahamas) Limited has obtained a seldom-granted court order allowing its representatives to enter a Bahamian attorney's premises without notice and take away documents and other movable assets. The order - known as an Anton Piller order - was granted by the Bahamas Supreme Court on December 11 against attorney Leslie Vernon Rolle, who operates from Nassau, and Esson Securities and Investments Ltd. and Weybridge Properties Ltd.