Belgium

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation into Raymond Burraway in the United Kingdom for allegedly defrauding the Bank of Nova Scotia and laundering the proceeds.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Belgium into the unsolved disappearance of Belgian national Marc Bogaert during a trip to the United States in 1996 to visit his friend, Wendy Matthes, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in the United Kingdom into Shinder Gangar and others for alleged investment fraud.

Article based on an application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation into alleged forgery, fraud, and computer hacking - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from Belgium - that was filed at federal court in the USA on October 4, 2004. Individuals and businesses mentioned in the request for assistance include Jean Kouda, Alain Kouda, Marilyn Smith, Edward Wagner, David Trapp, Mishra Sarbojit, Jo Wilder, Andrew Pollard, and Charles Schwab.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Belgium into Jean Kouda for alleged fraud, forgery and computer hacking.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation into alleged investment fraud and money laundering by Shinder Gangar and others.

Article based on an application to collect evidence for a criminal investigation - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from Belgium - that was filed under seal at federal court in the USA on July 30, 2004.

Warnings on suspect or bogus companies claiming to have ties to the Island are being posted to the website of investor watchdog, the Bermuda Monetary Authority.

Article based on an application to collect evidence - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance by Belgium - that was granted at federal court in the USA on April 22, 2004. Individuals and businesses mentioned in the request for assistance include Didier Meimoun, a.k.a. Didier Meimoun Santerre, a.k.a. Didier Santerre, a.k.a. Didier Abaroudi, a.k.a. Daida Meimoun; Silvia Lescure, Anita Winckler, M&M International, M&M Distribution or M&M Interest, SPRL M&M Distributions, SPRL DMS Market Globus, M&M Group, M&M Europe, M&M Helvetia, M&M Diffusions, M², M³, M&M Swisswatch, Black Stone Services SA, Lucky Invest SA, N&N SA, Bank Vontobel AG, UBS AG, BNP, Chase Manhattan, Mellon Bank, Sanwa Bank, Bank of America, Bank of New York, Citibank, Salomon Smith Barney, KeyBank, Gilles Benisti, Frederic Toussaint, Michel Pallacci, Eddie Levon, Stephane Noel, Claude Hec, and Simon Bretholz.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in the Netherlands into Johannes Christiaan Matthijssen, Didier Hoet, Johan Swinnen and others for alleged narcotics trafficking.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Belgium into Didier Meimoun for alleged fraud.

Several offshore reinsurers have been implicated in an alleged $45 million health insurance scam in the United States. The reinsurers, formed in Aruba, Belgium, the Cook Islands, Cyprus, and Ireland, have allegedly failed to pay claims to small businesses and

Article based on an application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation into alleged bank fraud - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from Belgium - that was filed at federal court in the USA on March 15, 2004. Individuals and bsinesses mentioned in the request for assistance include Patrick Delcour, a.k.a. Patric Delcour; Belsag AG, Salzburger Kredit-Und Wechselbank AG, Christian Sailer, Richard Peters, Kredietbank, Moonstone Trading, Ltd., and M. Helmut Konig.

Article based on an application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation into alleged narcotics trafficking - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from Belgium - that was filed at federal court in the USA on February 17, 2004. Individuals mentioned in the request for assistance include Alexandy Burgos Espino and Ruth Belliard Gonzalez.

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 Belgium - that was filed at the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York on December 29, 2003. Individuals and businesses mentioned in the request for assistance include Antoine Mekri, OXET Corporation Ltd., Cilag International, FJ Tytherleigh, STC Trading Company, Finel Express Truckline, and Container Care International Inc.

Criminal Indictment in USA vs. Michael Arthur Reeve, John Anthony Claro, Jack H.M. Ferguson, Milton Doke Wilkinson, Gary I. Hoskie, James Arthur Glidewell, and Euan David McNicoll at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Belgium into alleged fraud by Patrick Delcour.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in the Netherlands into Jonathan Abernathy, Jeffrey Scott Grueninger, Petrus Leonardus Franciscus Tervoort, Cornelis Hendrik De Jongh, Robert Christiaan Schutte and Krishnedath Mangal for suspected narcotics trafficking.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Belgium into alleged narcotics trafficking by Alexandy Burgos Espino and Ruth Belliard Gonzalez.

An offshore fund administrator has been accused of "impeding" the investigation in the United States into the $600 million collapse of the Lancer group of hedge funds. Citco Fund Services (U.S.A.) Inc. has refused to turn over records concerning BVI-registered Lancer Offshore Inc. and The OmniFund Ltd., which its Netherlands Antilles affiliate administered.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from Belgium - for a criminal investigation into Patrick Delcour and others for suspected fraud.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Belgium into Antoine Mekri and OXET Corporation Ltd. for alleged fraud.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in the Netherlands into Frans Petrus Johannes Van Laarhoven for alleged attempted murder and extortion by way of product contamination.

Article based on an application to collect evidence for a criminal investigation into alleged fraud - pursuant to a request for assistance from Switzerland - that was filed at federal court in the USA on December 19, 2002. Individuals and businesses mentioned in the request for assistance include Lothar Helmar Wilfried Trinks, Christina Kaiser, Detlef Spiess, a.k.a. Detlef Brettschneider; Rudolf Steiger, Menno Fischell, a.k.a. Wolfgang Fluck, Wolfgang Schlesinger, Wolfgang Burg, Wolfgang Fischell, Hans-Jurgen Nero, Wolfgang Zuburg, Rudi Dillmann, Sabine Doerre, Peter Bucher, Raoul Rossbach, a.k.a. Mike Foster, Louis Mayer, Dr. E. Mankwald, Philippe Le Boustier, Marco Barbieri, Iva Kampke, Jan Zwarts, Rudolf Steiger, Enrico Raimundi, Marina Zivkovic, a.k.a. "Maja"; Thierry Hurthin, Renate Josephs, Nezir Lekaj, a.k.a. Alberto; Jesenko Kresic, Joseph Reis, Corner Bank, Western Sierra National Bank, ABN AMRO, LZB Munchen, Liechtensteinische Landesbank, Migros Bank, US Overseas Bank & Trust Alliance Inc., US Overseas Private Investment Corporation, Bank of America, Banque IPPA & Associates, Hanover Investment and Management Corporation, Hanover Trust International Inc., Hanover Manufactures, Vermogensverwaltung Lothar Trinks, New York Investment Banking Corp., Hamilton International Capital Management Inc., MAAF Assurances France SA, AXA Assurances Luxembourg, MAAF Assurances France SA, and Internet Conten Service AG.

A United States law firm accused of lining its own pockets by cutting an illegal deal with a telemarketing fraudster to the detriment of one of its clients - an asset recovery firm - has been ordered by a court to produce all of its financial statements and tax returns from 2000 to the present; Three men who were accused of kidnapping an offshore investment fraudster in Kingston, Ontario, Canada in 2001 have pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of common assault; David Ballantyne, who became one of the most despised people in the Cayman Islands, finally agreed to resign as Attorney General, effective March 15, 2003, in the aftermath of the collapse of the Euro Bank money laundering trial; A letter to the editor that was published in the Caymanian Compass on February 26, 2003 spoke volumes for the level of animosity among locals towards the people widely believed to be primarily responsible for the Euro Bank fiasco, which is likely to cost Cayman's taxpayers many millions of dollars in legal fees, costs and damages; Bermuda company director Paul Lemmon has been sentenced to 21 months in prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to defraud the United States; A dispute involving two offshore entities and two Canadian firms has arisen over the rights to the domain name 'poker.com'; Thirteen days after OffshoreAlert's article last month about a lawsuit filed at federal court in Miami by Florida-registered Growth Fund Partnership Inc. against Nevis-registered Condor Insurance Ltd., both of whose operations raise red flags, the action was dismissed with prejudice; Three firms have been ordered to pay tens of millions of dollars of restitution for their part in a massive investment fraud; Florida-based crook Rommy Kriplani, who specializes in ripping off residents of Third World countries by taking their money on the promise of jobs in the United States that never materialize, is at it again, once more in partnership with his favorite law firm of Spiegel & Utrera, of Coral Gables, Florida; and James Michael Dwyer, who until last year owned the White Sands Hotel in Bermuda, was criminally indicted for bank fraud on March 4, 2003 in his native New Jersey.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Belgium into Global Security Management Association Inc. for alleged fraud.

Christopher Stone, ex-Managing Director of now-defunct, Dominica-based Investors Bank and Trust Ltd. was released from custody in Belgium in February on bail of 125,000 Euros, said a source; A default judgment for $130 million was entered against Bahamas-registered Vavasseur Corp. at the U. S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia on February 21, 2003 for its part in an international Ponzi scheme; Grenada Supreme Court issued a $125 million judgment against Van Arthur Brink, a.k.a. Gilbert Allen Ziegler, former head of the First International Bank of Grenada; Allen Wheatley, former Financial Secretary of the British Virgin Islands, was sentenced to serve five months in prison on February 17 after being found guilty of corruption charges; Cayman Islands-based businessman Kenneth Dart has acquired a 5.7 per cent stake in financially crippled, Bermuda-based insurance firm Mutual Risk Management; British trader Sean Alexander Quinn, 36, was released from prison in Barbados on December 5, 2002 after pleading guilty to an amended charge of money laundering; Receivers for the fraudulently-operated asset planning group Merrill Scott & Associates have found $1.03 million of assets in the Cayman Islands; The Bahamas Ministry of Finance expects to receive a report on the status of the financially-troubled Bahamas International Securities Exchange in the first week of March, 2003; The number of companies incorporating in the Cayman Islands has steadily decreased over the last three years, according to a report by Cayman Net News based on information provided by the Registry General; Florida-based Briton Edward Myles Chism Jr., 63, was taken into custody in Florida on February 7, 2003 - one day after being criminally indicted on three counts of tax evasion at federal court in Miami; Bermuda may be about to lose its grip at the top of the offshore world; and The Irish Minister for Justice has applied to Ireland's High Court for an order directing the Cayman Islands branch of Ansbacher International to pay US$3.1 million to cover the costs of a long-running inquiry into corruption and tax evasion.

A business associate of the now-closed Overseas Development Bank & Trust Ltd., of Dominica, has pleaded guilty to 20 felony charges, including securities fraud, money laundering and wire fraud.The charges relate to a multi-million dollar fraudulent trading program that Terry L. Dowdell operated through his Bahamas-registered firm, Vavasseur Corporation, starting in 1998.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Switzerland into Lothar Trinks and Christina Kaiser for alleged fraud, embezzlement, disloyal management of business, forgery of documents, and money laundering.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Switzerland into Jean-Claude Lacote and others for suspected fraud, forgery and money laundering.

The British Columbia Securities Commission has scheduled a hearing for December 10 11, 2002 to consider applications to vary asset freeze orders relating to accounts at the Bank of Montreal in Vancouver that were frozen in 2000 as part of

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Belgium into Robert John Hart for alleged fraud and money laundering.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Belgium into Samih Ossaily, Aziz Nassour, Nora Vlasselaerts, Abbas Macky and others for suspected participation in a criminal organization involved in money laundering, arms dealing and illegal diamond trading.  

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in the United Kingdom into Neil Edward Walker, James George Thomas Brooman, Ian David Cale, Irnraan Abid Karim, Barrie John Connor, Timothy Theobald, David Hodgson, Simon Morley, Craig Mark Ireland and Iftekhar Ahmed for alleged tax fraud.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Belgium into Jozef Lernout, Pol Hauspie and Lernout & Hauspie for alleged fraud.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Belgium into Jozef Lernaut, Pol Haupsieof Lernaut & Hauspie and Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products for alleged fraud, forgery, insider dealing and price manipulation.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Belgium into Alyona Sidorenko and George Sergeev regarding the theft of paintings from a residence in Deerlijk.

Basic details of warnings and actions by regulators around the world.

Hendrik Rienstra, 73, the principal of sham Panama-registered insurer New England International Surety Co. Inc., has died.; OffshoreAlert has uncovered three new names associated with the business activities of crooked financial services provider Marc M. Harris, who has moved his operations to Nicaragua after running up massive debts in Panama, leading to an application from a creditor to wind up his company and an eviction notice issued by his commercial landlord; Police in the UK have charged a fourth person, Francois M. Verkaeren, with conspiracy to commit fraud in connection with an investigation into the business practices of Merrion Reinsurance Company, which is located in Dublin, Ireland; The Royal Canadian Mounted Police has announced that two residents of the Turks & Caicos Islands - Michael Witt, 45, and his partner, Tina Grenier, 41 - have been arrested and charged with various narcotics, money laundering and possession of crime offenses and their US$1 million property restrained in an operation codenamed 'Oilsheik'; and Local newspapers in the Bahamas have suddenly become excited over a criminal indictment that was issued in the United States as long ago as June 15, 1999.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Switzerland into Jean-Claude Lacote and others for alleged fraud.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Luxembourg into Koenraad Spitaels, Cesare Baudouin Bruzzese and others regarding armed robbery and theft.

An arrest warrant has been issued in Las Vegas for 46 year old former Bermuda based insurance officer Simon John Samuels.The warrant was issued at the U. S. District Court for the District of Nevada on February 21, 2002 -

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Belgium into Wazir Hussain Khan for alleged money laundering by assisting illegal aliens to obtain employment contrary to Belgium law.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Belgium into Barthold Gobbens for alleged fraud, forgery and theft.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in France into Jean-Pierre Chariou and others for the alleged production and circulation of counterfeit currency.

Recently-filed warnings from securities regulators around the world.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Belgium into Robert Bockweg and Alida Nuyens for allegedly defrauding Bank Max Fischer of more than $2 million with the assistance of Bank Max Fischer manager Andre Zucker.

Recently-filed warnings from securities regulators around the world.

Recently-filed warnings from securities regulators around the world.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Belgium involving Volodis Asatjrans and others. This action was filed under seal. Although the action was unsealed by the court on September 26, 2006, the court filings have gone missing. The court informed OffshoreAlert on October 14, 2010 that the file was being held not by the court but by the U. S. Attorney and, therefore, was not available.