News Release by the Guernsey Financial Services Commission that it has imposed a fine of £35,000 on corporate service provider Gary William Jason Durkin "following his failure to meet the Minimum Criteria for Licensing".
Public Statement by the Jersey Financial Services Commission that it has imposed a fine of £498,000 on Lloyds Bank Corporate Markets Plc (Jersey Branch) for regulatory breaches.
Chapter 15 Petition for Recognition of a Foreign Main Proceeding in Jersey, in the Channel Islands, by Andrew Wood, as the Foreign Representative of Golden Sphinx Limited, described as a "passive investment-holding" vehicle whose ultimate beneficiaries are Alexander Sabadash, "formerly an elected Senator in Russia", his wife, Larisa Sabadash, and their two adult children and whose "principal assets" are a $45 million residence in Beverly Hills, California, and "certain debts from various parties", including Garry Itkin, described as a former director of the debtor who "engaged in fraudulent and unauthorized self-dealing actions", filed at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California.
Application for Seizure Warrant in USA v. Airbus A319-100 Aircraft, which was "purchased ... through a series of shell companies and trusts" in Aruba, Belize, Cyprus, and Jersey, in the Channel Islands involving accounts in England, Isle of Man, Switzerland, and USA and in which "an interest" is allegedly held by Andrei Skoch, described as "a member of Russia's State Duma" since 1999 and "a Deputy of the Duma", filed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Application by FourWorld Event Opportunities LP, of New york, and Genesis Emerging Markets Investment Company, of Guernsey, in the Channel Islands, to take discovery from Fenwick & West LLP and Morrow Sodali International LLC for use in legal proceedings in the Cayman Islands regarding "the fair value of the shares of the company 58.com", described as "China’s largest online classifieds business", filed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Public Notice by the Guernsey Financial Services Commission that Matthew Wright and Andrew Duncan, both of Leonard Curtis CI Limited, have been appointed as Joint Administration Managers of ITI Trade Limited.
Public Notice by the Guernsey Financial Services Commission that it intends to apply to the Royal Court for an "administration management order" regarding ITI Trade Limited.
Public Notice by the Guernsey Financial Services Commission that it has imposed a fine of £450,000 on Artemis Trustees Limited for "their failure to meet the minimum criteria for licensing".
Public Statement by the Jersey Financial Services Commission that it has imposed a fine of £803,661 on IQ EQ (Jersey) Limited, formerly known as First Names (Jersey) Limited, for regulatory breaches.
Letter from Bruce McNaught requesting the removal of details of regulatory penalties imposed on him by the Guernsey Financial Services Commission on the basis that they have "expired".
U.S. funder Therium Litigation Finance has applied to wind up Ron Wahid's Cayman Islands firm Magellan Asset Finance for alleged failure to repay $8 million it borrowed to fund a lawsuit in Jersey by British designer Tatiana Golovina against Moscow-based Rusal, an aluminum producer founded by Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
Winding Up Petition in Therium Litigation Finance Atlas P LLC, of Delaware v. Magellan Asset Finance Ltd., of the Cayman Islands, at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.
Complaint "to collect unpaid federal civil penalty assessments and interest" from a "sophisticated taxpayer" who "established a maze of offshore entities to conceal his beneficial ownership of entities and foreign financial accounts holding millions of dollars", including those in the Bahamas, Guernsey, and Nevis, in USA v. Raymond Galliani, of Moraga, California, at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
A federal court in New York has authorized the United States Government to seize two U.S. manufactured airplanes worth an estimated $410 million allegedly owned by Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich via "shell companies" in the British Virgin Islands, Cyprus, and Jersey.
Seizure Application for two airplanes worth $410 million allegedly beneficially owned by Roman Abramovich, a citizen of Russia, "through a series of shell companies" in the British Virgin Islands, Cyprus, and Jersey, in the Channel Islands, in USA v. Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner Aircraft and Gulfstream G650ER Aircraft at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Summons With Notice alleging professional negligence and willful misconduct in Hunnewell Partners (BVI) Ltd., of the British Virgin Islands v. Deloitte Transactions and Business Analytics LLP at the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New York.
News Release by the Guernsey Financial Services Commission that it has successfully applied for the administration of VTBC Asset Management International Limited "in order to protect the interests of investors and the reputation of the Bailiwick as a financial centre given the ongoing impact of sanctions resulting from the Russo-Ukrainian war".
Sentencing for money laundering in The Attorney General of Jersey, in the Channel Islands v. Muhiddin Umurzokov, of Uzbekistan; Anvarjon Eshonkulov, of Uzbekistan, and Batsukh Bataa, of Mongolia, at the Royal Court of Jersey.
Complaint alleging securities fraud involving individuals and entities in or from Belize, Bulgaria, Canada, Cayman Islands, Chile, Cyprus, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Italy, Jersey, in the Channel Islands; Liechtenstein, Monaco, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and USA in U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission v. Ronald Bauer, Craig James Auringer, Alon Friedlander, Massimilano Pozzoni, Daniel Mark Ferris, Petar Dmitrov Mihaylov, David Sidoo, and Adam Christopher Kambeitz at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Public Notice by the Malta Financial Services Authority that it has imposed a fine of €750 on Trireme Pension Services (Malta) Limited for a regulatory breach.
Public Notice by the Malta Financial Services Authority that it has imposed a fine of €11,000 on Dominion Fiduciary Services (Malta) Limited for a regulatory breach.
Public Notice by the Malta Financial Services Authority that it has imposed a fine of €6,950 on Aqua Trust Services Malta Limited for regulatory breaches.
Class Action Complaint in Boynton Beach Firefighters' Pension Fund v. Clarivate Plc, described as "an analytics company" that is domiciled in Jersey, in the Channel Islands, and based in London, England; Jerre Stead, and Richard Hanks at the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
Class Action Complaint alleging securities fraud bleichmarin Arkansas Teacher Retirement System v. Clarivate Plc, described as "an information services and analytics company" domiciled in Jersey, in the Channel Islands, and based in London, England; Jerre Stead, Richard Hanks, Sheryl von Blucher, Kosty Gillis, Balakrishnan S. Iyer, Nicholas Macksey, Anthony Munk, Jane Okun Bomba, Charles J. Neral, Richard W. Roedel, Christine Archbold, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., BofA Securities Inc., RBC Capital Markets LLC, Barclays Capital Inc., HSBC Securities (USA) Inc., JPMorgan Securities LLC, and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP at the U. s. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
Nebahat Evyap İşbilen, described as the 76-year-old wife of an imprisoned former member of parliament in Turkey, is seeking discovery from 11 banks in New York for a civil lawsuit in London against entities in the British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, England, Jersey, and United Arab Emirates for an alleged £40 million-plus fraud.
Application by Nebahat Evyap İşbilen, described as a 76-year-old "Turkish national resident in the United Kingdom", to take discovery from Standard Chartered Bank, Citigroup Inc. d.b.a. Citibank; Bank of New York Mellon Corporation, JP Morgan Chase Bank N.A., Goldman Sachs and Co., Bank of America N.A., Deutsche Bank A.G., Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, HSBC Bank, Société Générale, and M&T Bank Corporation for use in legal proceedings in England against entities in the British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, England, Jersey, in the Channel Islands, and United Arab Emirates regarding "a multinational fraud committed against her by Mr. Selman Turk", filed at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Fixed Date Claim Form regarding Star Charm Enterprises Limited in Zhang Chengfei, of Hong Kong v. The Registrar of Corporate Affairs at the British Virgin Islands High Court.
Writ of Summons in Jameena Limited, of Jersey, in the Channels Islands, and Hassanco SA v. Gary Spiller, of Spain; Andrew Turner, Samuel Knowles, Conrad Nunez, Richard Niguid, Ricardo Fiorilli Lozano, and Michelle Baquit, all of France, at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.
Twenty five years after OffshoreAlert exposed an estimated $1 billion fraud he oversaw with Goldman Sachs, 64-year-old British insurance boss Mark Cooke has been banned from Bermuda's insurance industry for his conduct regarding subsequent businesses whose owners have included entities in the British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, England, Guernsey, and USA.
Class Action Complaint in Kevin Parot v. Clarivate Plc, described as "an information services and analytics company" based in London, England, and domiciled in Jersey, in the Channel Islands; Jerre Stead, and Richard Hanks at the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
Public Notice by the Guernsey Financial Services Commission that it has imposed a fine of £196,000 and disqualification on Robert Archibald Gilchrist Sinclair.
Complaint in Ryan O'Dell v. Mimecast Limited, described as a Jersey, Channel Islands-domiciled, London-based company that "provides cloud security and risk management services for corporate information and email"; Peter Bauer, Aron Ain, Helene Auriol Potier, Alpna J. Doshi, Christopher Fitzgerald, Neil Murray, Robert P. Schechter, Hagi Schwartz, and Stephen Ward at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Guernsey-based corporate services provider Hansard Ltd. and five of its directors, including its chairman, Philip Blows, have been fined a total of £398,300 following an investigation in which the firm told its local regulator that 75% of its clients were "high-risk".
Public Statement by the Guernsey Financial Services Commission that it has imposed fines totaling £398,300 on Hansard Limited, Andrew Neil Parr, Alan Peter Northmore, Philip Clive Blows, David Samuel Lloyd, and Lynn Giovinazzi for regulatory breaches.
Chapter 11 Petition by Nordic Aviation Capital Designated Activity Company, of Ireland, part of a group that is "the world’s largest regional aircraft lessor and the sixth largest commercial aircraft lessor, offering leasing and lease management solutions to airlines and aircraft investors worldwide" and comprises companies in the British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Cyprus, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Guernsey, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, Singapore, South Africa, Sweden, and United States, at the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
Public Notice by the Malta Financial Services Authority that it has imposed a fine of €2,500 on Zedra Malta Corporate Services for a regulatory breach.
In a complaint filed at the British Virgin Islands High Court, Kazakhstan's BTA Bank has accused 53 defendants in the BVI, Cyprus, Germany, Guernsey, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Panama, Russia, Seychelles, Singapore, Switzerland, and USA, including its former chairman, Mukhtar Ablyazov, of defrauding the bank of $231 million.
Judgment granting an application to remove Carey Olsen as legal representatives of four of the five defendants due to a conflict of interest in a case regarding allegations of fraud involving the valuation of Sanne Holdings Limited and Sanne Fiduciary Services Limited in Hunters Investments Limited v. Geoffrey Crill, Simon Young, Peter Machon, Sanne Holdings Limited, Sanne Fiduciary Services Limited, formerly known as Sanne Trust Company Limited, at the Royal Court of Jersey, in the Channel Islands.
A businessman and former government member in the Channel Islands, James Baker, is being criminally investigated by police in the Bailiwick of Jersey on suspicion of laundering £240,000 from an alleged investment fraud, OffshoreAlert can reveal.
Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence from Bank of America - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from Jersey, in the Channel Islands - for a criminal investigation into James Patrick Gorton Baker for suspected money laundering involving the proceeds of an "investment scam".
Application by JSC BTA Bank, of Kazakhstan, to take discovery from The Clearing House Payments Company LLC and "thirteen intermediary banks", namely Bank of America NA, Bank of China, The Bank of New York, BNP Paribas USA, Citibank NA, Commerzbank AG, Deutsche Bank Trust Company, HSBC Bank USA NA, JPMorgan Chase Bank NA, Société Générale AG, Standard Chartered Bank, UBS AG, and Wells Fargo Bank NA regarding Saint Vincent and the Grenadines-domiciled Panolos Limited for use in legal proceedings in England "against BTA Bank's former chairman, and primary shareholder, Mukhtar Ablyazov, upon BTA Bank's discovery that Ablyazov had illegally misappropriated as much as $7.5 Billion of BTA Bank’s assets and subsequently laundered the proceeds through multiple financial institutions all over the world", filed at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Public Notice by the Malta Financial Services Authority that it has imposed an administrative fine of €2,500 on Sarnia Yachts (Malta) Limited, which is owned by a company in Guernsey, for failure to submit its "Audited Financial Statements and Auditor’s Management Letter within the regulatory deadline".
Complaint for damages of £353,002 alleging professional negligence involving 'Inheritance Tax' liabilities of a trust settled by Lance Uggla, described as a "UK resident but foreign domiciled for income and capital gains tax purposes", in Apex Financial Services (Trustees) Ltd., of Jersey, in the Channel Islands v. Wiggin Osborne Fullerlove, a law firm based in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, at the High Court of Justice for England and Wales.
Originating Application alleging insolvency in Albion Energy Limited v. Energy Investments Global Ltd., described as "the holding company for a Jersey company, Heritage Oil Limited", at the British Virgin Islands High Court.
Complaint seeking damages "in excess of $300 million" against entities in Guernsey, Luxembourg, Qatar, and the USA in Catherine E. Youngman, Litigation Trustee for ASHINC Corporation et al, as successor to the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of ASHINC Corporation and its Affiliated Debtors v. Yucaipa American Alliance Fund I LLC, Yucaipa American Management LLC, American Airlines Master Fixed Benefit Pension Plan Trust, American Private Equity Partners II LP, Automotive Machinists Pension Trust, Board of Fire and Police Pension Commissioners of the City of Los Angeles, California Public Employees’ Retirement System, Carpenters Pension Trust Fund for Northern California, Coller Partners 702 LP Inc., Clouse S.A., Consolidated Retirement Fund, Lam Private Equity LLC, ILGWU Death Benefit Fund 4, International SIF SICAV SA, Locals 302 & 612 of The International Union of Operating Engineers - Employers Construction Industry Retirement Trust, Los Angeles City Employees’ Retirement System, National Retirement Fund, New Mexico State Investment Council, New Mexico State Investment Council Land Grant Permanent Fund, New Mexico State Investment Council Severance Tax Permanent Fund, New York City Employees’ Retirement System, New York City Fire Department Pension Fund, New York City Police Pension Fund, Northeast Carpenters Pension Fund, Pacific Coast Roofers Pension Plan, Sanba II Investment Company, State Street Bank and Trust Company (as Trustee on behalf of American Airlines Master Fixed Benefit Pension Plan Trust), Steamship Trade Association of Baltimore Inc. - International Longshoremen’s Association (AFL-CIO) Pension Fund, Teachers’ Retirement System of the City of New York, United Food and Commercial Workers International Union Pension Plan for Employees, and Western Conference of Teamsters Pension Trust at the U. S. District Court for the District of Delaware.
Complaint alleging fraud involving an "illegal" $200 million loan in Roger W. Kirby, individually and as sole Trustee of The Augustus R. A. Kirby 2020 Revocable Trust and The Jane A. Kirby 2020 Revocable Trust v. David W. Zalaznick, described as a resident of Florida; John W. Jordan II, of Illinois; JZ Capital Partners Ltd., of Guernsey, in the Channel Islands; JZCP Realty Fund Ltd., of the Cayman Islands; Jordan/Zalaznick Advisors Inc., JZ 184-204 Bedford LLC, Red Zky JZ Fulton Holdings LLC, RS JZ Greenpoint LLC, and RS JZ Wynwood Holdings LLC at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Claim Form alleging conspiracy to commit fraud, dishonest assistance, breaches of fiduciary duty, and unjust enrichment against defendants in the British Virgin Islands, Cyprus, Germany, Guernsey, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Panama, Russia, Seychelles, Singapore, Switzerland, and USA 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.
Administrative Order by the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission imposing penalties totaling $22.5 million on WPP Plc, described as "the world's largest advertising group" that is domiciled in Jersey, in the Channel Islands; headquartered in London and New York City, and whose shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange for alleged violations of "the anti-bribery, books and records, and international accounting controls provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act" involving its subsidiaries in Brazil, China, India, and Peru.