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Equitable Settlement AG - Second Addendum to Offering Prospectus - December 22, 2009 [In German]

Cash Group AG - Unauthorized Institutions - Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Peru into Carlos Alberto Delgado Zegarra Ballon, Luis Augusto OlivaresOtero, Pablo Alejandro Delgado Zegarra Ballon, Adolfo Gustavo Gygax Zegarra Ballon, Roberto Horacio Jesus Delgado Zegarra Ballon, Roberto Horacio Jesus Delgado Zegarra Ballon, Manuel Eduardo Delgado Zegarra Ballon, Claudio Miguel Pizarro Bosio, Claudio Samuel Tomas Pizarro Davila and International Managers Agency SA, a.k.a. IMAGE Peru, for alleged tax evasion, specifically concealing revenues obtained from the transfer of soccer players to foreign clubs.

Complaint for the extradition of Frank Schaefer from the USA to Germany to face allegations of investment fraud concerning his Caviar Creator Group.

Complaint to extradite Matjaz Ruzic from the USA to Slovenia to face charges of narcotics trafficking and money laundering.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Russia into alleged customs fraud by Yanna Borisovna Radzhabova, Sergey Victorovich Nosov and Edward Nickolaevich Kurbakhovskih.

HONDURAS Past of violence and corruption, Present too If the de facto government of Roberto Micheletti remains in power in Honduras after ousting Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, the Central American right may be encouraged to stage further coups against the

Fourteen reinsurers, including four based in Bermuda, has brought a legal action against a New York Stock Exchange listed chemicals manufacturer and its captive insurer in an attempt to avoid paying claims totaling more than $30 million arising from Hurricane

Plaintiff's Motion to File Exhibits From Plaintiff's Opposition to Defendants's Motion to Dismiss Under Seal in The Cascade Fund LLLP v. Absolute Capital Management Holdings Limited, Absolute General Partner Limited, Florian Homm, Sean Ewing, John A. Fleming, Ronald E. Tompkins, and Ullrich Angersbach at the U. S. District Court for the District of Colorado.

Equitable Settlement AG - Prospectus - March 31, 2009

First Amended Complaint in The Cascade Fund LLLP v. Absolute Capital Management Holdings Limited, Absolute General Partner Limited, Florian Homm, Sean Ewing, John A. Fleming, Ronald E. Tompkins, and Ullrich Angersbach at the U. S. District Court for the District of Colorado.

Two US based insurers have filed a petition to confirm an arbitration award against reinsurers domiciled or based in Bermuda, France, Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the USA.The petition was filed by Clearwater Insurance Company, formerly known as Skandia

Chapter 15 Petition for Recognition of a Foreign Main Proceeding in the United Kingdom by Thomas Freudenstein, as the Foreign Representative of GLOBAL General and Reinsurance Company Limited and GLOBALE Ruckversicherungs-AG, at the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.

Chapter 15 Petition for Recognition of a Foreign Main Proceeding in Iceland by Olafur Gardarsson, as the Foreign Representative of Kaupthing Bank hf., at the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation into alleged fraud, theft and money laundering involving Roger Bryer, Yulia Bryer, Herbert Austin, Susan Austin and others.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Ukraine into alleged value added tax fraud.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation into alleged fraud to the detriment of Roberto Carlos Villena Lincoln.

A Bermuda-domiciled shipping firm is being sued for $3.1 million in the United States by a German transport company.Industrial Maritime Carriers (Bermuda) Ltd. is a defendant in a civil complaint that was filed by HHL Heavy Lift & Load Transport GmbH & Co. KG at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on July 29, 2008.

Article based on an application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation into alleged tax evasion - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from Germany - that was filed at federal court in the USA on August 1, 2008. Individuals and businesses mentioned in the request for assistance include Dierk Ernst, Friedrich-Wilhelm Patt, Klaus-Werner Sebbel, Josef Hobl, Hubert Benger, Georg Fritz, Stefan Volk, Andreas Ahlmann, Philip Prior, Tolkien Enterprises, Saul Zaentz, The Saul Zaentz Company, Hannover Leasing GmbH & Co. KG, Dia Productions GmbH & Co. KG, Sam Productions GmbH & Co. KG, Magical Productions GmbH & Co. KG, Shallow Hal Filmprodduktion GmbH & Co., KG, Kinofilmproduktion "Unfaithful" GmbH & Co. KG, Lord Zweite Productions Deutschland Filmproduktions GmbH & Co. KG, Lord Dritte Productions Deutschland Filmproduktions, GmbH & Co KG, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., Pico Film Inc., Twentieth Century Fox World Wide Productions Inc., Deluxe Laboratories Inc., Shooting Star Communications Inc., Emerald City Productions, FotoKem, Katja Motion Picture Corp., New Line Productions, Inc., New Line Distribution Inc., New Line Corp., Juno Pix Inc., Avery Pix Inc., Babcock & Brown Try Ltd., d.b.a. CineRaria Film Advisors; Nicolas Laboratories Inc., Andrew Matthews, Paul Prokop, Carolyn Nooan, Sarah Frith, Susannah R. Juni, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Lawrence J. Ulman, Shooting Star Holdings Inc., Patricia Murphy, Richard Reiner, Stankevich-Gochman LLP, Barrie M. Osborne, Jane Waxman, Raymond L. Parrish, John Amussen, Steven P. Kaplan, Holland Ealum, Carole McCall, Law Office of Peter Levitan, Peter Levitan, Hamet Verwaltungs GmbH, Astrato Verwaltungs GmbH, Lopan Beteiligungs GmbH, Landesbank Hessen-Thueringen Girozentrale, HypoVereinsbank, Deutsche Bank, Helaba Dublin Landesbank Hessen-Thueringen, Cadmus Verwaltungs GmbH, Orion Verwaltungsgesellschaft & Co. Beteiligungs KG, Hannover Leasing Treuhand-Vermoegensverwaltung GmbH, Delta Vermietungs GmbH, Industrie- und Verkehrstreuhand, and Accontis GmbH Finanzanlagen and Beteiligungen.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Bulgaria into Mario Alexiev Nikolov, Mariana Stefanova Nikolova, Petia Borissova Hadjiivanova, Anna Yurieva Sharkova, Radmil Ventsislavov Petrov, Ivan Hristov Ivanov and Liudmil Danailov Stoykov for suspected fraud and money laundering.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Germany into Dierk Ernst, Friedrich-Wilhelm Patt, Klaus-Werner Sebbel, Josef Hobl, Hubert Benger, Georg Fritz, Stefan Volk, Andreas Ahlmann and Philip Prior for alleged tax evasion.

A 58-year-old resident of Cape Coral, Florida has agreed to be extradited to his native Germany to stand trial on charges of defrauding banks in a property scam.Hans-Alfons Bauer filed a waiver of extradition at the U. S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida on June 6, 2008. A complaint for his extradition was filed at the court on May 23 and kept sealed until he was arrested on May 27 pursuant to an arrest warrant that was issued by the District Court of Dresden, Germany, on October 10, 2005.

Complaint in The Cascade Fund LLLP v. Absolute Capital Management Holdings Limited, Absolute General Partner Limited, Florian Homm, Sean Ewing, John A. Fleming, Ronald E. Tompkins, and Ullrich Angersbach at the U. S. District Court for the District of Colorado.

Article based on an application to collect evidence for a criminal investigation into alleged fraud - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from Germany - that was filed at federal court in the USA on May 2, 2008. Individuals and businesses mentioned in the request for assistance include Javier Anthony Rodil, Jr., Andis Bankovics, Ralf Kramer, Stanislav Dmytrenko, Martins Knipsis, Michael Peter Voss, Edward Budrich, Jorg Honer, Wadie Zacca, Jan Amelsberg, Martins Knipsis, Transatlantic Bank, Transportation MotorsMiami, Intercredit Bank, Pinnacle Management, SunTrust Bank, DYI Media, Bank of America, Washington Mutual Bank, and Marc Floman.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Germany into Javier Anthony Rodil, Edward Budrich, Andis Bankovics, Stanislav Dmytrenko, Martins Knipsis, Michael Peter Voss and others for alleged computer fraud.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Switzerland into Edgar Beck for suspected fraud and forgery.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Latvia into Subterranean Lake Group LLC, Yves Vuillot-Choux, Theresia Sophie Lussem, Elena Musuroi and Aleksandrs Razvadovskis for suspected fraud.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Germany into Andy Joseph Nathaniel Natta for failure to pay child support.

Chapter 15 Petition for Recognition of a Foreign Main Proceeding in Germany by Dieter Kloth, as the Foreign Representative of Ecomares Inc., at the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Nevada.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Russia into fraud involving the sale of Mercedes Benz cars.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in the British Virgin Islands into IPOC International Growth Fund Ltd., Jeffrey Galmond, Michael Ludwig Rudolf North, Lapal Limited, Albany Invest Limited and Mercury Import Limited for allegedly laundering the proceeds of corruption by Russia's Minister of Telecommunications, Leonid Reiman.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Austria into Dietmar Bohmer and others for alleged fraud. Underlying documents regarding this case were filed under seal.

Reinsurers in Bermuda and elsewhere are seeking to force a Vermont based captive and its NYSE listed parent to arbitrate a dispute involving claims from a fire at a chemical manufacturing plant.A motion to compel arbitration was filed against International

Five years after legal action was started in the United States, a trial date has finally been set for a $75 million breach of contract dispute concerning the sale in 1999 of Clarendon Insurance Group Inc. to Hannover Re. January 7, 2008 is the scheduled start date at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York for claims and counter-claims between former Clarendon principals Robert D. Ferguson and Ralph Milo, on the one side, and Lion Holding Inc., a Delaware corporation, on the other. Ferguson and Milo initiated the action on June 6, 2002. A second defendant, Hannover Re, was dismissed from the case on September 25, 2002.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Denmark into Nigerian nationals Eugene Odianosen Oriaifo and Michael Ekpenike for alleged fraud.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Russia into Magellan Invest LLC for suspected involvement in smuggling.

Article based on an application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation into alleged tax evasion - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from Germany - that was filed at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida on February 13, 2007. Individuals and businesses mentioned in the request for assistance include Hans-Jurgen Kliebenstein, Henning Wackernagel, TCI Television Creativ Internacional SA, Filmhaus GmbH, Creativ Television Fernsehproduktions GmbH, and Barnett Bank.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Germany into Hans-Jurgen Kliebenstein for alleged tax evasion.

Article based on an application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation into alleged fraud - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from Germany - that was filed at federal court in the USA on January 10, 2007. Individuals and businesses mentioned in the request for assistance include Shoukat Hayat Piracha, Moazzam Piracha, Global Telekommunikation Service GmbH, Alpha Omega International Inc., Jabbeen Zeurs, nee Quarashi; Shahabuddin Saadi, Munir Afzal, and Chase Manhattan Bank.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Germany into Shoukat Hayat Piracha and others for alleged fraud.

A Bahamas-based business operated by Mohamad Harajchi and his son, Michel Harajchi, that was exposed in the October 31, 2006 edition of OffshoreAlert has stopped accepting new business; Andreas Ihrke has agreed to be extradited from the United States to Germany, where he has been charged with fraud and falsification of documents; British newspaper The Daily Telegraph reported on December 23 that the U. K. Government “is set to announce within weeks an amnesty scheme for tax evaders who have stashed money in offshore bank accounts"; OffshoreAlert has uncovered a securities fraud complaint that was filed - and later dismissed - at the U. S. District Court for the District of Nevada in 2003 against a company that has featured prominently in the newsletter in recent months, Bermuda-based River Capital Limited; A Costa Rica-based brokerage firm has reached a settlement with the British Columbia Securities Commission after admitting to unregistered trading to B. C. residents; and Bancafe International Bank Ltd., which is the fifth largest unsecured creditors of bankrupt commodities broker Refco, with a claim for $204 million, had its operations closed by the Central Bank of Barbados, effective October 23, 2006.

German police are investigating two individuals who allegedly advertised Hummer motor vehicles over the Internet and then misappropriated buyers' deposits without delivering the product.Details are contained in an application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence - pursuant

A 51 year old German national misappropriated approximately 4.6 million Euros (US$5.86 million) in an investment scam, it has been alleged.Details are contained in an application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence - pursuant to a request

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect  evidence for a criminal investigation in Germany into Michael Pohle, Paul Winter and Fine Automobiles for alleged fraud.

Article based on an application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation into alleged tax fraud - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance by Germany - that was filed at federal court in the USA on September 14, 2006.Individuals and businesses mentioned in the request for assistance include ACG Aktiengesellschaft, Oliver-Christoph Jansen, Gerd-Oliver Martens, Norbert Albert Georg Wilkat, Bernd Hans August Hofferbert, Marion Müller, née Ostermeier; Regina Maria Ostermeier, American IC Exchange, Avatar Technology Inc., Bold Data Inc., Datec North America Inc., TNT Technologies, Ipex Infotech Inc., Maxus Group, Wintec Industries, Vitech America, NECX, Real World, UME, and Universal Microelectronics.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Italy into Giovanni Cristalli for alleged tax evasion and bankruptcy fraud regarding Cristalli Motors.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence from Turnberry Bank - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from Germany - for a criminal investigation into Josef Muller, a.k.a. Leon Deane, for suspected investment fraud.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Germany into Oliver-Christoph Jansen, Gerd-Oliver Martens, Norbert Albert Georg Wilkat, Bernd Hans August Hofferbert and Regina Maria Ostermeier for suspected tax evasion in their capacity as employees of ACG Aktlengesellschaft.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Ukraine into alleged smuggling.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Switzerland into Esther Iris Weber for alleged embezzlement.