Fraud

Application by Moussy Salem to take discovery from JPMorgan Chase Bank NA for use in legal proceedings in England regarding "allegations by Applicant that Freddy Salem, Monline UK Limited, Salim Levy, and Ezra Aghai engaged in a wrongful pattern of conduct that includes breaches of fiduciary duty, conspiracy, and fraudulent transfers", filed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Application by Moussy Salem to take discovery from UBS AG for use in legal proceedings in England in which Salem, "on behalf of Monline International Limited ... asserts claims against one of Monline International’s directors, Freddy Salem, and Monline UK Limited and Monline UK’s sole directors and shareholders, Salim Levy and Ezra Aghai", filed at the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut.

Superseding Indictment alleging corruption by a U.S. Senator and his wife "to benefit the Arab Republic of Egypt and the State of Qatar" in USA v. Robert Menendez, described as "the senior U.S. Senator from the State of New Jersey"; Nadine Menendez, a.k.a. Nadine Arslanian; Wael Hana, a.k.a. Will Hana; Jose Uribe, and Fred Daibes at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Public Statement by the Isle of Man Financial Services Authority regarding the prohibition of Anthony Thomas Cooke.

Judgment rejecting the defendant's application to discharge a freezing injunction in Maarit Ovaskainen, a citizen of Finland residing in London, England v. Jari Ovaskainen, a citizen of Finland residing in the Cayman Islands, at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Forfeiture Complaint regarding the proceeds of a fraud involving a "Fraudulent Investment Platform" at sundell-fx.com in USA v. $541,953 seized from an account in the name of Jiawig Trade Inc. at JPMorgan Chase NA at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Complaint in Luc Despins, as Chapter 11 Trustee for Ho Wan Kwok and Genever Holdings LLC v. Ace Decade Holdings Ltd., of the British Virgin Islands; Yanping Wang, a.k.a. Yvette Wang, and Rui Hao at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Connecticut.

Forfeiture Complaint regarding the alleged laundering of the proceeds of a "Business Email Compromise" fraud in USA v. 32.68342694 Bitcoin at the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington.

Opinion and Order granting, inter alia, SEC's motion for summary judgment "involving defendants’ unregistered offers and sales of LUNA and MIR in violation of Sections 5(a) and (5c) of the Securities Act" in U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission v. Terraform Labs Pte Ltd., of Singapore, and Do Hyeong Kwon, described in the complaint as a resident of South Korea and Singapore, at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Complaint for $237,248 alleging negligence and aiding and abetting fraudulent conveyances in Baoping Liu, Changyue Liu, Daqin Weng, Feng Guo, Li Zhang, Ling Li, Liyan Feng, Min Cui, Qingyun Yu, Shaoping Huang, Shaoqing Zeng, Tingting Sun, Tonghui Luan, Xiao Sun, Yawen Li, Yi Zhao, and Zheng Yu, described as "immigrant investors seeking green cards through the federal EB-5 Program" v. Trident Trust Company (BVI) Ltd. at the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New York, USA.

Complaint alleging "a diabolical scheme orchestrated by ED&F to take advantage of the tax-exempt status in foreign countries of pension plans managed by Tew, including Bluegrass, to make fake securities trades, issue fake tax vouchers to a host of European governments, and steal hundreds of millions of dollars in tax refunds, all the while falsely assuring Tew that it was engaged in a legal trading strategy for his benefit, and then pinning the whole thing on Tew as soon as the tax authorities sought to recover their money" in Bernard V. Tew, individually and as Trustee on behalf of Bluegrass Retirement Group Trust, and Bluegrass Retirement Group Trust v. MCML Limited, formerly ED&F Man Capital Markets, Ltd., of London, England, at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky.

SEC's Emergency Ex Parte Motion for Asset Freeze in U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission v. Rishi Kapoor, Location Ventures LLC, Urbin LLC, Patriots United LLC, Location Properties LLC, Location Properties LLC, Location Development LLC, Location Capital LLC, Location Ventures Resources LLC, Location Equity Holdings LLC, Location GP Sponsor LLC, 515 Valencia Sponsor LLC, LV Montana Sponsor LLC, Urbin Founders Group LLC, Urbin CG Sponsor LLC, 515 Valencia Partners LLC, LV Montana Phase I LLC, Stewart Grove 1 LLC, Stewart Grove 2 LLC, Location Zamora Parent LLC, Urbin Coral Gables Partners LLC, Urbin Coconut Grove Partners LLC, Urbin Miami Beach Partners LLC, and Urbin Miami Beach II Phase 1 LLC at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Complaint for $20 million under a loan agreement alleging the defendants "engaged in sham, self-dealing transactions" in Bridge Financial Pty Ltd., of Australia v. Republic Financial Corporation and RPE Investor I LLC, both of Colorado, at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Petition to Vacate Arbitral Award in the Dominican Republic v. Michael Anthony Lee-Chin:, described as a citizen of Canada and Jamaica who "claims to own, through a series of companies incorporated in Panama and the Dominican Republic, 90% of Dominican company Lajun Corporation, S.R.L.", at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

Complaint "to recover the over $5 million in damages caused by Defendants’ fraudulent scheme, which Defendants perpetrated through a series of lies to JPMS regarding a securities trading account opened at JPMS that they controlled" in J.P. Morgan Securities LLC v. ATIF Holdings Limited, of the British Virgin Islands; ATIF Inc., ATIF-1 GP LLC, Jun Liu, Zhiliang Zhou, a.k.a. Ian Zhou, and John Does 1-10 at the Superior Court of the State of California, County of Orange.

Public Notice by the Guernsey Financial Services Commission that GBG Insurance Limited has gone into administration, nine months after its directors informed the FSC that "they had discovered that assets shown in the accounts representing many millions of pounds did not actually exist".

Consolidated Second Amended Class Action Complaint alleging "a fraudulent scheme and course of conduct that operated as a fraud or deceit on purchasers of Qiwi’s publicly traded securities by disseminating materially false and misleading statements and concealing material adverse facts" in Moset International Company Limited, as Lead Plaintiff v. Qiwi Plc, described as a Cyprus company that "provides online, mobile, and physical payment services to consumers and merchants primarily in Russia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Belarus, Romania, the United Arab Emirates, and other overseas markets"; Boris Kim, Sergey Solonin, Andrey Protopopov, Alexander Karavaev, Varvara Kiseleva, Vladislav Poshmorga, and Pavel Korzh at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Complaint alleging "Defendants’ fraudulent schemes to induce loans from, and enter contracts with, Plaintiffs with no intent to pay" in Beluga Capital LLC, Craig Hordlow, Jeremy Gardner, Catherine Yip, Jerry Wu, Judy Wu, Neil Kay, Anjou Ahlborn Kay, Paul Chen, and Jimmy Ku v. Michael B. Rothenberg, Rothenberg Ventures LLC, Jefferson R. Eppler, Burke Robinson, River Ecosystem LLC, River Studios LLC, River Accelerator LLC, Michael B. Rothenberg Irrevocable TR, Rothenberg Group LLC, Rothenberg Ventures 2013 Fund LLC, Rothenberg Ventures 2014 Fund LLC, Rothenberg Ventures 2015 Fund LLC, Rothenberg Ventures 2016 Fund LP, Rothenberg Ventures 2016 Feeder Fund GP Ltd., of the Cayman Islands; Rothenberg Ventures 2016 Fund GP LLC, and Rothenberg Ventures 2016 Accredited Fund LP at the Superior Court of the State of California, for the County of San Francisco.

Another Cayman Islands mutual fund - SPI Investment Fund SPC - affiliated with Miami Beach-based Swedish national Dennis Klemming's Prudent Group has gone into liquidation - 21 months after its independent directors were removed after uncovering evidence of fraud.

Class Action Complaint alleging securities fraud in Jasmine Wu v. Farfetch Limited, described as a publicly-listed Cayman Islands firm based in London, England that "operates a global platform for the luxury fashion industry"; José Neves, Elliot Jordan, and Stephanie Phair at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Complaint "halt an ongoing fraud carried out by three related companies" in U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission v. Mmobuosi Odogwu Banye, a.k.a. Dozy Mmobuosi, described as a resident of London, England; Tingo Group Inc., described as a Delaware company based in New Jersey; Agri-Fintech Holdings Inc., f.k.a. Tingo Inc., described as a Nevada company based in Utah, and Tingo International Holdings Inc., described as a Delaware company based in Stamford, Connecticut, at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

First Amended Complaint in Higround Co. Ltd., of South Korea, and Higround Pte. Ltd., of Singapore v. Henry Han-Woong Lee, described as a U.S. citizen residing in New York, USA; Genesis Digital Assets Pte. Ltd., of Singapore; Genesis Group Partners LLC, Neon Partners LLC, and Genesis-Neon Group LLC at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

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Superseding Information alleging "a scheme to fraudulently obtain approximately $9 million worth of cryptocurrency from a decentralized cryptocurrency exchange" in USA v. Shakeeb Ahmed, described as "a United States citizen who was residing in Manhattan, New York", at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

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Judgment setting aside an order to serve defendants ADM Asia-Pacific Trading Pte. Ltd., ADM Germany GmbH, Grove Services Inc., Bunge SA, Bunge CIS LLC, Dauren Bekbergenov, Ekaterina Kuzmicheva, Mukhtar Ablyazov, Roman Solodchenko, and Zhaksylyk Zharimbetov out of the jurisdiction in JSC BTA Bank, of Kazakhstan v. Timur Sabyrbaev, Dilara Dyusembayeva, Assel Zhaxybayeva, Asel Suindikova, Marina Aitzhanova, Janelle Utemuratova, Svetlana Chvanova, Veronika Efimova, Saduakas Mameshtegi, Dina Abdykalykova, Akzholtay Mukanovna Kalenova, Kairat Sadykov, Irina Kanaphina, Madina Nurgozhina, AEG Systems Inc., Calernen Finance Inc., Zathen Holding Investments Limited, formerly Carsonway Limited; Comwork Ltd.,Kinmate Trading Limited, Estar Developments Limited, Lingard Industry Limited, Daniels Tradecorp Inc., Mabco Inc., Klostrade Financial Group Ltd., Dana Trade Corp., Global Team Company, Tramlanes Investments Limited, formerly Bergtrans Contracts Corp.; Moranta Invest (Cyprus) Limited, John Wortley Hunt, Luis Davis, Stan Gorin, Vasiliki Argyrou, Labonte Elisana Marie-Antoinette, Diego Jacinto Batista Valdes, Carlos Alberto Mendoza Murillo, Suseth Walthia Parris, Kellee France, Geoffrey Taylor, Belinda Lanyon, Christopher Blythe, Roger Alberto Santamaria, Nicholetta Christodoulidou, ADM-ACTI Trade Resources Inc., ADM Asia-Pacific Trading Pte. Ltd., formerly Toepfer International Asia Pte. Ltd.; ADM Germany GmbH, formerly Alfred C. Toepfer International GmbH; Eric Richardson, Grove Services Inc., Bunge SA, Bunge CIS LLC, Dauren Bekbergenov, Ekaterina Kuzmicheva, Mukhtar Ablyazov, Roman Solodchenko, and Zhaksylyk Zharimbetov at the British Virgin Islands High Court.

First Amended Complaint in Vitaly Ivanovich Smagin, described as a citizen and resident of Russia v. Compagnie Monégasque de Banque, a.k.a. CMB Bank, of Monaco; Ashot Yegiazaryan, a.k.a. Ashot Egiazaryan, described as "a Russian criminal on the Interpol “Red” list living amongst us in a luxury estate in Beverly Hills as a citizen of California"; Suren Yegiazaryan, a.k.a. Suren Egiazarian; Artem Yegiazaryan, a.k.a. Artem Egiazaryan; Stephan Yegiazaryan, a.k.a. Stephan Egiazaryan; Vitaly Gogokhia, described as a resident of London, England; Natalia Dozortseva, described as a citizen of Russia residing in France; Murielle Jouniaux, described as a resident of France; Alexis Gaston Thielen, described as a resident of Luxembourg; Ratnikov Evgeny Nikolaevich, and H. Edward Ryals, described as a lawyer residing in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, at the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

Judgment in The Family (Global Godfathers) SPC, on its own behalf and on behalf of The Family (Freya) SP, The Family (Odin) SP, and The Family (Vidhar) SP v. Oussama Ammar, of Paris, France; Fabuleo Limited, of Hong Kong, and Aletheis, The First Limited, of Hong Kong, at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Complaint alleging professional negligence, negligent misrepresentation, and fraud in Cannell Capital, LLC, Tristan Partners, L.P., Tonga Partners, L.P., Tristan Offshore Fund, Ltd., Dugong, LLC, Frontier Capital, Ltd., Drake Enterprises, Ltd., Philip Drake, Motus Advisors, Inc., Turner Momentum Investments, LLC and Michael Piper v. Baker Tilly US LLP and Ernest Miranda, described as "a partner with Baker Tilly US, LLP in the account / advisory / audit firm’s Orange County, Office" at the Superior Court of the State of California, for the County of Orange.

Class Action Complaint in Damien Pujo v. EHang Holdings Limited, described as a Cayman Islands-domiciled, China-based entity that "describes itself as an "autonomous aerial vehicle technology company""; Huazhi Hu, Conor Chia-Hung Yang, and Richard Jian Liu at the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

Complaint alleging securities fraud in Safety Shot Inc. v. Capybara Research, described as "a short selling research firm with an unknown principal place of business"; Igor Appelboom, described as a resident of Brazil, and Accretive Capital LLC, d.b.a. Benzinga, at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Criminal Information alleging conspiracy to defraud the United States in USA v. Banque Pictet & Cie S.A., described as "a privately held Swiss financial institution, headquartered in Geneva", at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Complaint alleging "breach of duty, negligence, including gross negligence, deceit, fraud and concealment by a trustee of its fiduciary and other obligations to The Loving Trust’s beneficiaries" in Crawford Trust Company LLC v. Citco Group Limited, of the Netherlands; Citco Group (Monaco) SAM, of Monaco; Citco Global Custody (N.A.) N.V., of Curaçao; TorTrust Corporation Company Limited, of the British Virgin Islands; Citco Trustees S.A., of Switzerland; Citco B.V.I. Limited, of the British Virgin Islands; Citco Bank BVI Limited, of the British Virgin Islands;Citco Bank & Trust Company Limited, of the Cayman Islands; Citco Banking Corporation N.V., of Curaçao; Securitias Management Services Corp., of the British Virgin Islands; Citco Fund Services (Cayman Islands) Ltd., of the Cayman Islands; Credit Suisse S.A., of Switzerland; Ermanno Unternaehrer, described as a resident of Monaco, and Christopher Smeets, described as a resident of the Netherlands, at the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles.

Class Action Complaint in Michael Lynn Gabriel v. Block Assets LLC, which "operates a cybercurrency company at the website Blockas.com", at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Criminal Information alleging conspiracy to commit securities fraud involving two unidentified co-conspirators in Vietnam and Switzerland who were described as "co-founders and co-operators of Blacklight S.A.m a purported asset management firm in Switzerland" and entities in Anguilla, Hong Kong, Seychelles and USA, in USA v. Steve M. Bajic, described as a resident of Canada, at the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

Complaint alleging "fraudulent misrepresentations" arising from "Plaintiff’s acquisition from the Defendants and other sellers of their shares of Clearview Risk Holdings LLC" in TAG Agency Holdings Inc. v. Greenhill Capital Partners III L.P., Greenhill Capital Partners (Employee) III L.P., Greenhill Capital Partners (Cayman Islands) III L.P., Greenhill Capital Partners (GHL) III L.P., GCP III ECI Blocker Clearview Risk LLC, GCP Managing Partner III GP LLC, GCP Managing Partner III L.P., GCP Capital Partners Holdings LLC, Parker W. Rush, John L. Garner, and Boris Gutin at the Superior Court of the State of Delaware.

Forfeiture Complaint regarding crypto associated with a "pig butchering" fraud that was seized from an account at Binance in USA v. Approximately 120,084.5390 Tether at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.

Class Action Complaint “for a sum exceeding one billion dollars” for allegedly promoting unregistered securities issued by the FTX crypto group in Edwin Garrison, Brandon Orr, Leandro Cabo, Ryan Henderson, Michael Livieratos, Alexander Chernyavsky, Gregg Podalsky, Vijeth Shetty, Chukwudozie Ezeokoli, Michael Norris, Shengyun Huang, Vitor Vozza, Kyle Rupprecht, Warren Winter, and Sunil Kavuri v. Wasserman Media Group LLC and Dentsu McGarry Bowen LLC at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Class Action Complaint “for a sum exceeding one billion dollars” for allegedly promoting unregistered securities issued by the FTX crypto group in Edwin Garrison, Brandon Orr, Leandro Cabo, Ryan Henderson, Michael Livieratos, Alexander Chernyavsky, Gregg Podalsky, Vijeth Shetty, Chukwudozie Ezeokoli, Michael Norris, Shengyun Huang, Vitor Vozza, Kyle Rupprecht, Warren Winter, and Sunil Kavuri v. Major League Baseball, Major League Baseball Enterprises Inc., Major League Baseball Properties Inc., Major League Baseball Promotion Corporation, and MLB Players Inc. at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Class Action Complaint "for a sum exceeding one billion dollars" for allegedly promoting unregistered securities issued by the FTX crypto group in Edwin Garrison, Brandon Orr, Leandro Cabo, Ryan Henderson, Michael Livieratos, Alexander Chernyavsky, Gregg Podalsky, Vijeth Shetty, Chukwudozie Ezeokoli, Michael Norris, Shengyun Huang, Victor Vozza, Kyle Rupprecht, Warren Winter, and Sunil Kavuri v. Mercedes-Benz Grand Prix Limited, d.b.a. Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team, at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Class Action Complaint "for a sum exceeding one billion dollars" on behalf of "consumers who purchased unregistered securities offered or sold by Binance" that were allegedly promoted by the defendant in Michael Sizemore, Mikey Vongdara, and Gordon Lewis v. Cristiano Ronaldo at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Chapter 15 Petition for Recognition of a Foreign Main Proceeding in England by Nicholas Nicholson, Prashan Patel, and Kevin Hellard, all of Grant Thornton, as the Foreign Representatives of Isak Henry Gabay, described as a citizen of Switzerland and co-founder of Hong Kong-domiciled, England-based Duet Group Ltd. - a "global investment holding company" that managed "over $4.4 billion of equity" - who has been criminally charged in Germany with tax-related offenses regarding "Duet Group’s involvement in “Cum-Ex” transactions", filed at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.

Well-known distressed crypto investor Thomas Braziel swindled shareholders of an entity he controlled - Fund.com Inc. - out of more than $7 million, engaging in conduct that "meets the elements of crimes that include theft, forgery, and tax evasion", a U.S. court's Special Master has found.

Complaint alleging the defendant "failed to provide" a Bitcoin mining facility "at an 'Uptime of 98% or better” in Hung Infrastructure Ltd., formerly known as Mamoru Mining Ltd., described as a Cayman Islands company thaty it owned by a British Virgin Islands company that is "wholly-owned by Chiu Yu Hung, an individual citizen of Hong Kong SAR" v. Blockware Mining Inc. at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

First Amended Complaint alleging fraud in Pan Digital Network Limited, described as an English company that "assists clients in finding credit/debit card processing solutions" v. 2069913 Ontario Limited, d.b.a. AzulPay, of Canada; Frank Cristaudo, Cristaudo Holdings LLC, and Maxwell Dean Morgan at the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

Notice of Thomas Braziel's Exceptions to Special Master's Final Report and Recommendation, including that "Braziel takes exception to the Report to the extent it draws conclusions or makes references, express or implied, regarding Braziel’s actual or potential criminal liability", in B.E. Capital Management Fund L.P. v. Fund.com Inc. at the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware.

Complaint alleging "Plaintiffs, longstanding lenders for Defendant Cohen’s boxing business, are victims of an elaborate and long-running fraudulent scheme" in Barry Honig and GRQ Consultants Inc. v. Gregory D. Cohen and Bulldog Boxing Promotions LLC at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Complaint in Celsius Mining LLC, described as a Delaware "cryptocurrency mining" firm v. Mawson Infrastructure Group Inc., described as a Delaware-domiciled "publicly traded digital infrastructure provider"; Luna Squares LLC, which "develops and operates hosting facilities designed for digital asset mining", and Cosmos Infrastructure LLC, which "owns and operates digital asset mining equipment and infrastructure", at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.

Complaint alleging the defendant "has failed and continues to fail to comply with the Commission’s "Custody Rule", which, to ensure the safety of client assets, requires an annual report from an independent public accountant of Brite Australia’s internal controls" in U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission v. Brite Advisors USA, Inc. at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Forfeiture Complaint regarding funds allegedly associated with "Pig Butchering" fraud that were seized from accounts, at least one of which was "accessed by Thailand, Singapore, and Hong Kong-based IP addresses", in the names of Lim Hock Seng and Yicheng Wang at Binance crypto exchange in USA v. 193,169.0653 USDT, 11,146.8079 USDT, and 18.9649 BTC at the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.