St. Kitts & Nevis

Chapter 15 Petition for Recognition of a Foreign Main Proceeding in Saint Kitts and Nevis by Richard Fogerty and William Tacon, as Foreign Representatives of Condor Insurance Limited, at the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Mississippi.

Condor Insurance Ltd. went into liquidation at the High Court of St. Kitts and Nevis on May 18 following a petition by New York Stock Exchange-listed Infineon Technologies AG, which is registered in Germany.Richard Fogerty, of Kroll (Cayman) Limited, and William Tycon, of Kroll (BVI) Limited, were appointed joint official liquidators. Another creditor, Pro Med Reinsurance Limited, which, like Condor, is incorporated in Nevis, was granted permission to appear in the liquidation.

Two dubious groups that have featured separately in exposés by OffshoreAlert appear to be business partners and have been jointly accused of perpetrating an advance fee fraud in a civil lawsuit filed recently in the United States. Certusia Reinsurance, whose operations include a Nevis-based insurer, and Nexxus One, whose operations include a Bahamas-based ‘securities' firm and a Swiss ‘trust' firm, are defendants in a complaint that was filed at the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of California on May 1, 2007. 

Nearly three years after obtaining a default judgment for $44,143 against St. Kitts based offshore financial services provider M. Irvin BonCamper, MBNA America Bank NA has finally collected. Attorneys for MBNA acknowledged “full and complete satisfaction” of the judgment in

Several offshore-based parties have been named as defendants in two new civil lawsuits that were filed recently by alleged victims of what they claim was a $1 billion Ponzi scheme. They include legal entities and individuals based in Gibraltar, Hong Kong, the Isle of Man, Liechtenstein, St. Lucia, St. Kitts, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, and the United Kingdom.

Litigants in the British Virgin Islands who claim to have been defrauded of $11 million in an alleged offshore insurance scam masquerading as a U. S. tax avoidance scheme have turned their attentions to the United States in their search for evidence.Alleged victims recently obtained an order from the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida compelling the appearance for deposition of, and production of documents by, Michael Rosenbaum, a former employee of The Kleinfeld Law Firm, of Miami, and they have just made a similar application concerning Jerome M. Hesch, who is a Miami-based attorney with Greenberg Traurig law firm.

The web-sites of two companies whose dubious activities have been highlighted in recent editions of OffshoreAlert have been dismantled over the last few weeks; On February 12, 2007, OffshoreAlert received an email from Kristen Lawson, a “Legislative Advisor” with Miller Thomson LLP, a law firm based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Telecommunications and cable television firms in Bermuda and the Cayman Islands have been dragged into a long-running legal dispute over the ownership of a $900,000 airplane that was damaged in Hurricane Ivan; Under Prime Minister Keith Mitchell, Grenada has become the poster country for corruption and banking fraud; OffshoreAlert recently learned that U. S. Bank N.A. obtained a default judgment for $21 million against British-based alleged fraudster Sendjer Shefket and his British firm Target International Funds Ltd. at federal court in the USA on May 24, 2006; Convicted white-collar criminals who believe they are punished too severely in the United States should be thankful they don't operate in China; and While the U. S. legal system does not yet offer death as a punishment for fraudsters, it is still less than hospitable for convicted white-collar criminals, as Martin A. Armstrong can attest to.

Two companies that at one time or another have been controlled by imprisoned offshore fraudster Terry Neal are plaintiff and defendant in litigation filed recently in the United States.One of them, Crowne Gold Inc., claims that the other, Nevis American Trust Company Ltd., was involved in a conspiracy to defraud it of at least US$2.5 million.

Real Estate Professionals Insurance Company - Warning by Nevis Financial Services

Nevis-based insurer Condor Insurance Limited is being sued yet again, this time by a Hawaii-based development group that claims to have been cheated out of $491,464. The latest lawsuit against the insurers was filed by Signature Homes of Hawaii LLC and Signature Development of Hawaii LLC, both incorporated and based in Hawaii, at the U. S. District Court for the District of Hawaii on December 13, 2006.

Stipulation of Dismissal with Prejudice in Borcherding Enterprises, Inc. and Kim E. Borcherding v. Heritage Advisory Group of Southern Indiana, LLC, d.b.a. Heritage Advisory Group; Professional Benefit Trust, Inc., Professional Benefit Trust, Ltd., Handler, Thayer & Duggan, LLC, PBT Administration, LLC, First Fidelity Trust Company, Ltd., AmerUs Life Insurance Company, Mark Sims, Robert Brian Beall, Carey L. Sunderlage, Tracy L. Sunderlage, Rex A. Collins, and K B Parrish & Co., LLP at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.

Nearly six years after being forced into Receivership and then provisional liquidation, Suisse Security Bank & Trust Limited has finally gone into official liquidation in the Bahamas; MBNA America Bank NA obtained an order of garnishment at the Circuit Court for the 11th Judicial Circuit, Miami-Dade County, Florida on October 30, 2006 that allows it to garnish assets up to $44,143, plus costs of $198, at Eastern Financial Bank that are beneficially owned by St. Kitts-based financial services provider M. Irvin BonCamper; The Swedish Financial Services Authority, known as Finansinspektionen, has issued a public warning about Charterhouse Trust Credit Union, which was exposed by OffshoreAlert as long ago as May 31, 2002; An order to compulsorily wind-up International Alliance Insurance Limited was entered at the Royal Court of Guernsey on April 4, 2006, with Anthony Christian Pickford and James Robert Toynton, of Chandlers Limited, appointed joint liquidators; and The U. S. SEC announced on November 28, 2006 that the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York entered a preliminary injunction on November 14, 2006 barring Ian Scott from pursuing litigation in the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis.

The legal version of ‘Pirates of the Caribbean' is being played out in a Florida court case involving a Bahamas studio where scenes from two movies of the same name were shot. Among the cast of characters is a Bermuda Stock Exchange-listed company, a British Virgin Islands shell company that operates as an “underwriting” vehicle; a dubious Nevis-based insurer that is facing liquidation in a separate, unrelated action; and a Florida attorney who is currently suspended from practicing law for allegedly misappropriating client funds.

A New York Stock Exchange-listed creditor is attempting to wind-up a Nevis-licensed offshore insurer that cannot pay its debts despite having an audit that shows shareholders' equity of over US$250 million.Infineon Technologies AG, which is incorporated in Germany, filed an action at the St. Kitts & Nevis High Court on August 30, 2006 in which it is seeking the court's permission to present a winding-up petition against Condor Insurance Limited, which is controlled by Harvey Thompson Milam and his wife, Joycelyn T. Milam, of Ocean Springs, Mississippi.

Complaint in Gillian Payne v. Denis Kleinfeld and The Kleinfeld Law Firm, LLP at the Circuit Court of the 11th Judicial Circuit, Miami-Dade County, Florida.

Letter to the Editor of OffshoreAlert from Martin Kenney and Dan Wise regarding the Angelus Hotel.

A legal battle between two dubious offshore based insurance groups was recently fought out at courts in Nevis and the United States.The outcome is that Condor Insurance Limited has been ordered to comply with an arbitration panel's ruling that it

Dear Sir Madam Re “Nevis — More dangerous than the most any US City”Please allow us to draw your attention to the above captioned matter. In the September 30th 2006 edition of Offshore Alert we noted the following extract published

Dear Sir I read your magazine every month and I usually view your publication as accurate, insightful and current. However, in this month's issue, the story titled "Nevis Deals With High Murder Rate" made me question deeply my assumptions about

Capita Strategies, L.L.C. - Warning by Nevis Financial Services

Oxbridge International Limited - Warning by Nevis Financial Services

Tropical Paradise Enterprises, LLC - Warning by Nevis Financial Services

The head of an offshore financial services group said he is selling his group and “retiring” from the business after being asked about his criminal record by OffshoreAlert.Timothy von Kaay, a 40 year old Canadian national and resident of Ontario,

Pro Med Casualty Insurance Ltd. - Warning by Nevis Financial Services

Criminal Indictment in USA v. Charles Nolon Bush at the U. S. District Court for the Western District of Washington.

Information about Diploma Mills, St Kitts & Nevis, and Spam.

Lennox Gibbs is well-paid for his role in dubious penny stock Strategy International Insurance Group Inc.; Law firm Charles Russell and financial advisors Smith & Williamson, continue to be handsomely rewarded for their lmismanagement of the iquidation of Invaro Ltd.; and the US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations' 'Tax Haven Abuses: The Enablers, The Tools and Secrecy' is not without its humorous side.

St. Kitts-based offshore financial services provider Malchus Irvin R. BonCamper and his group of companies are the targets of a warning issued by regulators in Nevis.According to a warning issued by Nevis Financial Services Development and Marketing Department on May 22, 2006, information on a web-site at www.boncamper.com is “misleading” and BonCamper, A.F.M. Trust and Corporate Ltd., AFM Trust & Corporate Services, and A.F.M. Services Group “are not licensed to conduct international/offshore financial services business in any capacity, in and from within Nevis.

Proview Corporation - Warning by Nevis Financial Services

Trading Avenue LLC - Warning by Nevis Financial Services

Belize - Very Sad; Bahamas - IRAN; and Nevis - Nevis Mutual Fund Ordinance.

A United States national who was convicted of tax evasion-related offenses as recently as June 30th, 2006 is secretly involved with a Nevis-based trust company, OffshoreAlert can reveal. Until a few weeks ago, Charles Sigerseth, 66, of Missoula, Montana, was listed as the registrant for the domain name ‘guardiantrustcompany.com', which links to the web-site for Guardian Trust Company Ltd. 

Malchus Irvin R. Boncamper, A.F.M. Trust and Corporate Ltd., AFM Trust & Corporate Services, and A.F.M. Services Group - Warning by Nevis Financial Services.

Argus Global Equities Limited - Update by Nevis Financial Services

St. Kitts: Noel Heath and Glenroy Matthew finally extradited to USA; Costa Rica: New tax bill on its way to becoming law; Anguilla: New laws passed dealing with insurance, protected cell companies and mutual funds; Dubai: Dubai International Financial Centre issues first hedge fund license.

Indictment in USA v. Michael Enrest Zapetis, Sr., Karen Carazo Zapetis, Richard Joseph Solomon, William Allen Broughton, Clifton Fred Lees, William L. Clancy, John E. S. Kramar, Peter Ivan Greengrass, Richard William Peterson, and Anthony John Hicks at the U. S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida.

Antigua; St. Lucia; and St. Kitts and Nevis.

Article based on an application to collect evidence for a criminal investigation into alleged theft and fraud - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from Russia - that was filed at federal court in the USA on December 27, 2005. Individuals and businesses mentioned in the request for assistance include Benhurst Products LLC, Trans-West, Verta LLC, Mechmar LLC, Valentina Kirichenko, Belva Nisbett, Theodor Hobson, Anna Andreou, Alexander Georgievich Gradoboev, Pavel Arkadievich Alyashevich, Sergey Vladimirovich Zimbal, Sergey Victorovich Chirkin, Maxim Valerievich Bolshakov, Kolby Attorneys Co. Inc., and Gris LLC.

Complaint in Borcherding Enterprises, Inc. and Kim E. Borcherding v. Heritage Advisory Group of Southern Indiana, LLC, d.b.a. Heritage Advisory Group; Professional Benefit Trust, Inc., Professional Benefit Trust, Ltd., Handler, Thayer & Duggan, LLC, PBT Administration, LLC, First Fidelity Trust Company, Ltd., Amerus Life Insurance Company, Mark Sims, Robert Brian Beall, Carey L. Sunderlage, Tracy L. Sunderlage, Rex A. Collins, and K B Parrish & Co., LLP at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Russia into suspected fraud involving Benhurst Products LLC.

The IRS has asked a U. S. federal court for permission to serve a “John Doe” summons on Internet money transfer firm PayPal Inc. as part of a clampdown on tax evasion using offshore credit and debit cards.“The records requested in the summons will identify the holders of bank accounts at, or payment cards issued by banks in, the listed jurisdictions, information which is not otherwise readily available to the Internal Revenue Service,” stated the IRS in its petition.

Argus Global Equities Limited - Warning by Nevis Financial Services

Equity Credit Union - Warning by Nevis Financial Services

First Oceanic Credit Union - Warning by Nevis Financial Services

International Depositors' Reinsurance Corporation (IDIC), Caralfan Group Limited and Caralfan International Bank, Global Currency Trust, and World Wide Trust - Warning by Nevis Financial Services

Oceanic Credit Union - Warning by Nevis Financial Services

Indictment in USA v. Ian Anthony Scott and Bauduin Noel Antoon Hayen at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of California.

St. Kitts and Venezuela, another oil refinery story Venezuela is looking at a joint venture to develop a refinery in St. Kitts. The idea is to replace one state sponsored debacle, sugar, with another one - a refinery for asphalt,

Please, EU - Newt was kidding!; Bahamas - Who's on $1.00 bill?; Dominica - What is going on?; the Netherlands Antilles; Structural Warnings for Offshore Business - Grenada & Belize.

Five people in California and three others in Costa Rica were arrested in May for allegedly swindling hundreds of investors out of tens of millions of dollars from 1994 to 2002 in an offshore investment scam.The arrests followed an 83-count indictment - unsealed on May 13, 2005 - at the U. S. District Court for the Central District of California concerning an unlicensed investment fund known as the Genesis Fund.