Narcotics Trafficking

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Denmark into Ismail Deveci for suspected involvement in heroin trafficking.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Mexico into Jaime Berrones for suspected involvement narcotics trafficking.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Mexico into narcotics trafficking that may involve Vera Vines and Lynn Hawkins.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in the United Kingdom into suspected narcotics trafficking by Kenneth Roy Simmons and others.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Israel into Nathan Hanan and Ben Cohen for murder, extortion, narcotics trafficking and firearms offenses.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Mexico into alleged narcotics trafficking involving an American Airlines aircraft with the registration number of N-64AA.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Argentina into Roberto Fionna and others.

Forfeiture Complaint in USA v. Account at Banque Paribas (Suisse) SA in the name of Reath Foundation at the U. S. District Court for the District of Idaho.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Mexico into Mario Villanueva Madrid, former Governor of the State of Quintana Roo, Mexico, for allegedly laundering the proceeds of narcotics trafficking by a cartel headed by Amado Carillo Fuentes, a.k.a. "El Senor de los Cielos".

Indictment of Canadian national Corey Spencer Sniderman at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in the United Kingdom involving Ibrahim Karagozlu and others.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in the United Kingdom into Ibrahim Karagozlu and others for alleged narcotics trafficking and money laundering.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in the United Kingdom into Michael Joseph O'Brien and others for narcotics trafficking and money laundering.

The libel trial involving The Harris Organization financial services group of Panama and Offshore Business News & Research, Inc., which publishes this newsletter, has been put back to an unnamed date by the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

The US government has lost its bid to recover $7 million from banks in Antigua, Panama and Switzerland that were the proceeds of marijuana smuggling carried out in Massachusetts. Judge William Young, of the Federal District Court for the District of Massachusetts in Boston, dismissed a lawsuit brought against Swiss American Bank and Swiss American National Bank (both of Antigua), Swiss American Holding Company S.A. of Panama and Inter-Maritime Bank of Geneva.

U. S. authorities have frozen nearly $3.2 million in accounts at Antigua-based Stanford International Bank, as part of an investigation into the illicit fortune of the late Mexican drug lord Amado Carrillo Fuentes, reported The Wall Street Journal.

A battle for legal jurisdiction between the US government and four offshore financial institutions in a $7 million forfeiture case contains a number of important issues that will affect all companies and individuals who operate offshore but have US clients.Among arguments being put forward by the US government for jurisdiction over banking entities located in Antigua, Switzerland and Panama is the fact that the offshore companies sell their services over the Internet, which can be accessed in the US; that Swiss American Bank has advertised in the in-flight magazine of American Airlines; and that SAB has correspondent banking relationships with banks in the States.

Amended Libel Complaint in Marc M. Harris et Cie S.A., The Firm of Marc M. Harris, Inc., and Marc M. Harris Trust Company, Ltd. v. David E. Marchant and Offshore Business News & Research, Inc. at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Libel Complaint in Marc M. Harris et Cie S.A., The Firm of Marc M. Harris, Inc., and Marc M. Harris Trust Company, Ltd. v. David Marchant and Offshore Business News & Research, Inc. at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Offshore Alert can today disclose that Panama's most-hyped financial services group, known as The Harris Organization, is being run as a massive Ponzi scheme in which clients are being defrauded out of millions of dollars. The situation is so serious that The Harris Organization, which employs 150 people in Panama, is hopelessly insolvent, with net liabilities of at least $25 million, according to sources knowledgeable of the group's financial affairs.

Swiss American Bank Limited and Swiss American National Bank of Antigua filed on March 16 a motion to dismiss a complaint filed against them in Massachusetts by the US government alleging theft of $7 million of drugs money.

The clearest indication yet that the UK government will force its Overseas Territories to co-operate with foreign regulators investigating both fiscal and regulatory offences was given this week to Offshore Alert.Offshore centres like Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, the Turks & Caicos Islands and the British Virgin Islands are being told by the UK government to introduce within two years legislation that will be virtually identical to the UK Criminal Justice (International Co-operation) Act 1990.

Ernest Foster, a Caymanian citizen who was sentenced to 14 years in prison by a US court in 1992 for money-laundering offences, has been returned to Cayman to serve out the remainder of his sentence in Northward Prison, where he will be reunited with his former business partner, Barry Randall.

AMEX International Trust (Cayman) Limited and Cayman International Trust Company Limited were innocently used to launder the proceeds of cocaine trafficking from Mexico to the US in the early 1990s, it has been alleged in a Texas court case. Jose Jesus Echegollen and Guillermina Chavez are accused of using a string of Cayman companies to help launder $30 million in cocaine proceeds which were transferred to Cayman from banks in the US and Mexico.

The Cayman Islands has introduced another piece of anti-money laundering legislation with the passage this month of the Misuse of Drugs (International Co-operation) Law 1997, which allows foreign countries to apply for legal assistance when investigating drug-related offences.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from the United Kingdom - to collect evidence for a criminal investigation into Robert Allen Bolden and Jeanette Dean for suspected narcotics trafficking and money laundering.

Libel Complaint in R. Allen Stanford and Bank of Antigua, Ltd. v. Klaus de Albuquerque and Caribbean Communications Inc. at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Criminal Information in USA v. Jean-Jacques Handali at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Order Reducing Sentence in USA v. Kenneth Rijock at the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida.

Government's Motion for Sentence Reduction in USA v. Kenneth Rijock at the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida.

Amended Judgment in a Criminal Case in USA v. Kenneth Walton Rijock at the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida.

Criminal Judgment in USA v. Kenneth Walton Rijock at the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida.

Plea Agreement in USA v. Kenneth Walton Rijock at the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida.

Criminal Information in USA v. Kenneth Walton Rijock at the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida.

Superseding Indictment in USA v. Kenneth Walton Rijock, Herberto Julian Rodriguez, a.k.a. Tico Rodriguez, a.k.a. Herberto Castellano; Michael Clinton Gruener, a.k.a. Michael Rossi, and Christine Marie Dickinson at the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida.

Criminal Indictment in USA v. Kenneth Walton Rijock, Herberto Julian Rodriguez, Michael Clinton Gruener, and Christine Marie Dickinson at the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida.

Affidavit of David Jose Sabio in support of the extradition of Edward "Jill" Cardinal Bodden from the Cayman Islands to the USA at the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida.

Affidavit of Robert Joseph LeClerc in support of the extradition of Edward "Jill" Cardinal Bodden from the Cayman Islands to the USA, filed at the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida.

Superseding Indictment in USA v. Edward C. Bodden, a.k.a. Jill Bodden; Everett Kyle Lane, Christopher Bain, Sibert Watler, a.k.a. Bert Watler; Executive Air Services, Ltd., and Inco Bank and Trust Corporation at the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida.

Indictment in USA v. Ronald E. Hedges, Gene W. Plemons, and Everett Kyle Lane at the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida.