Complaint

Complaint "brought by and on behalf of United States citizens who were murdered, maimed, taken hostage, or otherwise injured in unspeakable acts of terror perpetrated by Hamas and other terrorist groups in the State of Israel on October 7, 2023" in Judith Raanan, Natalie Raanan, Uri Raanan, Estate of Itay Glisko, Oren Glisko, Liat Rasel Glisko, Y.G., Ori Glisko, and Jeffrey Ludmir v. Binance Holdings Limited, of the Cayman Islands; Changpeng Zhao, The Islamic Republic of Iran, and The Syrian Republic at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Complaint "to recover the $10 million that they never would have transferred to All.Health, absent Defendants’ misconduct" in Polymath Holdings and Lux 2 InvCo, both of the Cayman Islands v. Christopher Farmer, of San Francisco, California, USA; SignalFire II GP, LLC, SignalFire Fund II, LP, and SignalFire Affiliates Fund II, LP, all of Delaware, USA, at the Superior Court of the State of California, for the County of San Francisco.

Forfeiture Complaint regarding the proceeds of an alleged fraud in which the alleged victim "received a call from a phone number with a Texas area code where another individual with a similar accent claimed to be with the "bank fraud department" and "that child pornography had been traced to her computer and they needed money to remove it" in USA v. Binance Account 505137746 at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois.

Complaint alleging elder abuse in Alice Lin, described as "an 80-year-old widow" who "fell victim to a so-called on-line “pig butchering” scam in the summer of 2022" and lost $720,000 v. JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. and Cheryl McMurray, described as a "Branch Manager" of JPMorgan Chase Bank, at the Superior Court of the State of California, in and for the County of Los Angeles.

Complaint alleging financial elder abuse regarding a plaintiff who "was blackmailed and scammed out of her life’s savings" of $1,846,450 in a scheme "where blackmailers target vulnerable individuals by masquerading as IRS collection officers, placing disturbing and official-sounding calls to instill fear and compliance in their victims" in Diane Artemis Yaffe, described as "a 76-year-old widow" v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. and Stephanie Casilias, who "was employed as Manager at JPMorgan Chase Bank", at the Superior Court of the State of California, in and for the County of San Mateo.

Complaint alleging "a global, crypto asset-related, multi-level marketing pyramid and Ponzi scheme that raised over $1.7 billion from victims worldwide, including millions from U.S. investors" in U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission v. Xue Samuel Lee, a.k.a. Sam Lee, described as a citizen of Australia residing in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and Brenda Indah Chunga, a.k.a. Bitcoin Beautee, at the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland.

Amended Complaint in Fanatics Collectibles Topco Inc., of Delaware, USA v. Panini SpA, of Italy, at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Complaint in Halo Mining Limited, of Birmingham, England, described as a "cryptocurrency mining" company v. Monbanc Corporation, NorthData Holdings, Inc., described as "a Canada-based cryptocurrency mining company", and Daniel Rafuse at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas.

Complaint against "predatory short sellers, led by convicted felon Daniel Yu, who illicitly profit from their rigged short-and-distort schemes" in Grifols S.A., of Spain, and Grifols Shared Services North America Inc., collectively described as "a global healthcare leader founded over 100 years ago that supplies lifesaving plasma-derived medicines to patients with rare and chronic diseases" v. Daniel Yu, Gotham City Research LLC, General Industrial Partners LLP, of England, and Cyrus de Weck, a resident of England, at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Complaint in Genesis Global Technology Limited, described as "a foreign financial technology company" based in London, England v. Frazier & Deeter, LLC, described as a provider of "accounting and advisory services", at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.

Complaint alleging "the United Arab Emirates and some of its top officials managed, directed, and bankrolled a years-long “dark” public relations campaign through the Swiss private investigative firm, Alp Services S.A.” and “leveraged a network of coconspirators - private operatives, paid “journalists,” and a professor at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., among many others - to smear dozens of innocent victims” in Hazim Nada, described as a citizen of Italy and USA residing in Italy, and "the founder and sole owner of Lord Energy SA", and Lord Energy SA, of Switzerland, described as "a crude oil and commodity trading company" v. The United Arab Emirates, c/o Ambassador of the UAE, Yousef Al-Otaiba, in Washington, D.C., USA; Ariaf Studies and Research LLC, The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Matar Humaid Al-Neyadi, all of Abu Dhabi, UAE; Alp Services SA, Diligence Sarl, Mario Brero, Muriel Cavin, Sylvain Besson, all of Switzerland; Lionel Badal, of Luxembourg; Lorenzo Vidino, of Washington, D.C., USA, and John Doe Nos. 1-25 at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

Complaint "for Defendants’ failure to pay Plaintiff millions of dollars in compensation that he earned during his five-plus-year tenure as an executive with Defendant Employer" in Peter Meyers, described as "a finance professional with nearly twenty years of experience in the investment banking, private equity, and credit fund industries" v. 777 Partners LLC and 777 Partners Management LLC at the Circuit Court of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit, in and for Miami-Dade County, Florida, USA.

Complaint for the extradition of Lee Morrell from the USA to England to face charges of bribery and misconduct while he worked as a Police Constable with the Metropolitan Police Service, in London, filed at the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. Editor's Note: The indictment was filed under seal on January 23rd, 2024 and unsealed on February 9th, 2024 - the day that Morrell was arrested in the U.S.

Complaint alleging "the defendants’ wrongful conversion of Collateral that secured a $30 million loan" in Bank Hapoalim B.M., of Israel v. Monroe Capital Management Advisors, LLC, MC Income Plus Financing SPV LLC, Monroe (NP) U.S. Private Debt Fund LP, Monroe Capital Corporation, Monroe Capital Fund Marsupial (LUX) Financing Holdco LP, Monroe Capital Fund SV S.a.r.l. - Fund III (unleveraged) Compartment, Monroe Capital Income Plus Corporation, Monroe Capital Insurance Fund Series SALI Multi-Series Fund, L.P., Monroe Capital Private Credit Fund I LP, Monroe Capital Private Credit Fund III (Lux) Financing Holdco LP, Monroe Capital Private Credit Fund III (Unleveraged) LP, Monroe Capital Private Credit Fund III LP, Monroe Capital Private Credit Fund VT LP, Monroe Capital Private Credit Master Fund IV (Unleveraged) SCSp, Monroe Capital Private Credit Master Fund IV SCSp, Monroe Private Credit Fund A LP, BCSSS Holdco UK Limited, DL2020 Holdings, LLC, H.I.G. WhiteHorse Virtus Credit, LLC, LF2020 Offshore Holdings, LLC, H.I.G. Whitehorse SMA, L.P., H.I.G. Whitehorse Trinity Credit, LLC, H.I.G. WhiteHorse TriStar Credit, LLC, Thorney Island Limited Partnership, WhiteHorse Finance Credit I, LLC, WHPL SPV I, LLC, WHPL SPV I Offshore, LLC, WHPL SPV I Class A, LLC, Arcserve Cayman Opco LP, and Arcserve Cayman Intermediate LP at the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New York.

Complaint that "seeks to recover damages for Defendants’ willful disregard of Plaintiff's prior perfected security interests in the assets of non-party Ideanomics, Inc. in connection with Osirius’s attempts as an unsecured creditor to collect on a default judgment against Ideanomics" in YA II PN, Ltd., of the Cayman Islands v. Osirius Group LLC and Canfield, Paddock & Stone Plc at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

First Amended Complaint in Imperial Pacific International (CNMI) LLC, whose "sole member" was identified as British Virgin Islands-domiciled Best Sunshine International Ltd." v. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Arnold Palacios, governor of CNMI, in his official and personal capacities; Edward C. Deleon Guerrero, Chairman of CCC, in his official and personal capacities; Rafael S. Demapan, Vice Chairman of CCC, in his official and personal capacities; Mariano Taitano, Commissioner of CCC, in his official and personal capacities; Martin Mendiola, Commissioner of CCC, in his official and personal capacities; Ramon M. Dela Cruz, Commissioner of CCC, in his official and personal capacities; Andrew Yeom, Executive Director of CCC, in his official and personal capacities, at the U.S. District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands.

Forfeiture Complaint regarding crypto seized from an account at Binance in the name of Rassul Alpyspayev Muratovich in USA v. 17,082.3565 Tether USD at the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado.

Complaint in Chaucer Insurance Company DAC, of Ireland, and Chaucer Syndicates Ltd., of England, as managing agent for Lloyd's Syndicate 1084 v. Vesttoo Bay XXIV, Limited Partnership, of Israel; White Rock Insurance (SAC) Ltd. in respect of Segregated Account T108-Chaucer, described as "a segregated account formed pursuant to the Bermuda SAC Act", and Charles Thresh and Michael Morrison, as Joint Provisional Liquidators of White Rock Insurance (SAC) Ltd., of Bermuda, at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.

Amended Complaint alleging "a fraudulent scheme by Caridi, the former chairman and chief executive of Tree of Knowledge International, Inc." in U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission v. Michael Caridi at the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut.

First Amended Class Action Complaint alleging fraud, RICO, and defamation brought on behalf of those "who have been identified by the Defendants as terrorists, and in some instances denied access to various financial websites and accounts because of the actions of the Defendants in listing Plaintiffs and the members of the proposed classes as terrorists on a subscription-only database-product, known as ‘World-Check’” based on information “generated by the Turkish government, which the U.S. government has disparaged” in Ahmet S. Yayla, Selcuk Atak, Murat Kalyoncu, Huseyin Mercan, and Mevlut Hilmi Cinar, all described as "former residents of Turkey" currently residing in the United States v. Refinitiv US LLC, Refinitiv US Organization LLC, Refinitiv Limited, of England; Global World-Check Holdings (Nominee) Ltd., of England, and London Stock Exchange Group Plc, of England, at the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

Criminal Complaint alleging the defendants defrauded an elderly client out of $34 million in USA v. Sergey Lebedenko and Galina Lebedenko, who emigrated to the USA from Ukraine, at the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon.

Shareholder Derivative Complaint against "'death spiral' or 'toxic' lenders" and "unregistered securities dealers that make unlawful, predatory loans to publicly traded companies in need of cash" in Shadwrick Vick, derivatively on behalf of Vinco Ventures, Inc. v. Hudson Bay Master Fund Ltd., of the Cayman Islands; Sander R. Gerber, Yoav Roth, BHP Capital NY, Inc., and Bryan Pantofel, as Defendants, and Vinco Ventures, Inc., as Relief Defendant, at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Writ of Summons and Statement of Claim in Madeleine Clark, described as "a London barrister and former employee of the First Defendant under a fixed 2-year contract of employment dated 1 May 2017" v. Harney Westwood & Riegels, of the British Virgin Islands, and Harneys Gill at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Amended Forfeiture Complaint regarding the alleged proceeds of fraud that were seized from accounts at Cayman Islands-domiciled crypto exchange Binance in USA v. 303,992.547258 USDT, 100.89607743 BNB, and 108,551.008 USDT at the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

Complaint in Sun Re Ltd., formerly known as Selecta Insurance and Reinsurance Company (Caribbean), Ltd., of Saint Kitts and Nevis, whose CEO was identified as Vasily Kozlov v. Cogan Capital, LLC, described as a Delaware company based in Texas, at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas.

Complaint in Stone Street Capital LLC v. Humanity International Investment LLC, of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and Marcus du Bois Dukes at the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina.

Complaint "for enabling and failing to prevent the gross mismanagement of the Receivership Entities by certain former insiders of TCA Fund Management Group Corp." in Jonathan E. Perlman, as court-appointed Receiver for TCA Global Credit Fund, LP, TCA Global Credit Fund, Ltd., TCA Global Credit Master Fund, LP, and TCA Global Lending Corp. v. Grant Thornton Cayman Islands and Grant Thornton Ireland at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Complaint alleging fraud in Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Debiex, as Defendant, and Zhāng Chéng Yáng, described as "a Chinese ntional", as Relief Defendant, at the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona.

Class Action Complaint in Mahafujur v. Golden Heaven Group Holdings Ltd., described as Cayman Islands-domiciled, China-based "offshore holding company"; Qiong Jin, and Jinguang Gong at the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

Complaint in Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Yueyu Bao, of Shanghai, China, at the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

Complaint that "arises out of Canoo’s unjustified and illegal refusal to remove restrictive legends on 17,189,210 shares of Canoo common stock owned by Champ Key" in Champ Key Limited, described as a British Virgin Islands company based in Hong Kong v. Canoo Inc. at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Complaint "to recover the amounts owed by Defendants under two substantively identical promissory notes" in FNZ Group Limited, of New Zealand v. Adam Green and Shlomo Gross at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Complaint "to recover damages and hold Defendants accountable for their deceptive and fraudulent practice of misleading investors, including Pentivm, into investing large sums of money without any intention of complying with stated investment objectives or investor redemption rights" in SCP Pentivm Group, described as "a foreign holding company based in Monaco that is owned and managed by Vicente Zaragoza" v. Next Alpha Management LLC, Next Alpha Holding LLC, Next Alpha Offshore Feeder Fund Ltd., of the British Virgin Islands", and John 'Kanan' Flowers at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Complaint in HTI Financial Solutions Limited, described as a "Hong Kong based investment manager" v. Manhattan SMI KG Properties Finance Limited, described as a British Virgin Islands-domiciled company based in New York, USA; SMI USA Group LLC, formerly known as Shanghai Municipal Investment Group USA LLC; SMI 520 Fifth Ave LLC, 520 Fifth Owner LLC, and KG Fifth Ave Investment LLC, all of Delaware, USA, at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Complaint alleging "the Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) of Future FinTech Group Inc. (“Future FinTech”), a Nasdaq-listed corporation, manipulated the stock price of Future FinTech by buying hundreds of thousands of Future FinTech shares to artificially increase the company’s stock price shortly before and after he became CEO in March 2020" in U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission v. Shanchun Huang, described as a resident of London, England, at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Complaint in Flyhopco LLC, d.b.a. Bradford Marine v. M/Y Our Way, described as a "31.49 meter Palmer Johnson Motor Yacht that is registered with the Cayman Islands Shipping Registry" v. Voile Partners LP at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Class Action Complaint in Yan Wang v. Dada Nexus Limited, described as a Cayman Islands-domiciled, China-based operator of "a platform for local on-demand retail and delivery in China"; Jeff Huijian He, Beck and Zhaoming Chen at the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

Complaint in Roger W. West v. M/V Exodus, described as an "88-foot Pershing yacht" registered in the Cayman Islands, and Mess&Sea Marine Ltd., of Delaware, USA, at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Complaint in Global Industries Holdings Ltd., which is domiciled in the Bahamas, based in Taiwan v. Edgar Mora, Elizaveta Logan, EC Cellars LLC, and Wine Flow LLC at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Complaint alleging breach of contract in Change Lending, LLC v. 777 Partners LLC and 600 Partners LLC at the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New York.

Amended Complaint alleging "the unregistered sale of investment advisory services and/or commodities as a cryptocurrency swindle that is becoming all too familiar in the United States" allegedly involving "Golden Capitals Ltd. d/b/a Golden Cap Ltd.", described as a British firm based in Iceland, in Meg Skelton, Will Skelton, Chris Parrado, Erik Henyon, Francine Loomiller, Megan Maynard, Helen Korb, Travis Manntz, Richard Corcoran, Donald Kurkowski, Colby Dolezal, Brett East, Mark Miyasaki, and William Fox v. Robert Monty, a.k.a. Mikel Huba, as alias for John Doe 1; Matthew Christopher, as alias for John Doe 2, and Sebastian Vettel, as alias for John Doe 3, at the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado.

Complaint "to remedy Defendant AJH Films’ breach of an agreement to use best efforts to complete by December 2019 a documentary film which Reel Thing paid AJH Film hundreds of thousands of dollars to finish" in Reel Thing LLC v. AJH Films Limited, of England, and Alex Holder at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Class Action Complaint that "arises out of false and misleading statements that Ledger made about the cryptocurrency hardware wallets it produces" in Edwin Cabrera, Kevin Camorlinga, Austin Richard, Andrew Skalak, and Mark Sullivan v. Ledger SAS and Ledger Technologies Inc. at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

Class Action Complaint in Gor Gevorkyan, Poonam Gupta, and Eric Molina v. Ledger SAS, of France, and Ledger Technologies Inc., of Delaware, USA, at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Criminal Complaint alleging money laundering and fraud involving NFTs known as 'UndeadApes' and 'Undead Lady Apes' in USA v. Devin Alan Rhoden at the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida.

Complaint alleging breach of contract and unjust enrichment in Coefficient Group Holding Limited, described as "an investment firm incorporated in the Cayman Islands" v. Solana Labs Inc., described as "a blockchain-technology firm incorporated in Delaware", at the Superior Court of the State of California, County of San Francisco.

Complaint that "arises out of former BDO employee Rojas’s departure to Armanino LLP - a competitor of BDO - and subsequent raiding of BDO clients and employees in violation of Rojas's restrictive covenant obligations to BDO" in BDO USA P.C. v. Justin Rojas at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Complaint alleging $223,754 is owed on the purchase of a "2019 Lamborghini Urus vehicle" whose "current value" was estimated to be $199,750 in Porsche Financial Services Inc., d.b.a. Lamborghini Financial Services v. Bitcoin Rodney LLC and Rodney Burton, a.k.a. Bitcoin Rodney, at the Circuit Court of the 11th Judicial Circuit, in and for Miami-Dade County, Florida.

Magistrate Judge Removal of Criminal Complaint from District of Maryland alleging the operation of an unlicensed money transmitting business in USA v. Rodney Burton, a.k.a. Bitcoin Rodney, at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Complaint alleging the defendants "operate an international criminal enterprise which violates the laws and regulations of the United States of America in extorting and defrauding U.S. citizens and in defrauding U.S. business enterprises, as well as Omnia’s own international investors" in Iron Horse Acquisitions Corp. and Bengochea Capital LLC v. Omnia Global, a.k.a. Omnia Schweiz GmbH, of Switzerland; Daniel Hansen, of Switzerland; Mette Abel Hansen, and James Mair Findlay at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.