British Virgin Islands

British Virgin Islands-domiciled crypto "stablecoin" group Tether has been fined $41 million for fraud by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which also fined BVI crypto exchange Bitfinex $1.5 million for unlicensed activity and other offenses.

Administrative Order by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission imposing a fine of $41 million on Tether Holdings Limited, Tether Operations Limited, and Tether International Limited, all of the British Virgin Islands, and Tether Limited, of Hong Kong, for alleged fraud with its "virtual currency stablecoin".

Administrative Order by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission imposing a fine of $1.5 million on iFinex Inc., BFXNA Inc., and BFXWW Inc., all of the British Virgin Islands, a crypto group collectively doing business as Bitfinex, for regulatory breaches.

A purported blockchain company - DappTricity Plc - transferred its assets to an entity in the British Virgin Islands and closed down while it was failing to comply with an inspection by the Isle of Man Financial Services Authority, according to the regulator.

Public Statement by the Isle of Man Financial Services Authority regarding the de-registration of DappTricity Plc, an Isle of Man company whose "whitepaper" identified its product as "blockchain-based systems for finance and gaming" and whose assets, according to the Isle of Man FSA, were transferred to "a company in the British Virgin Islands" after failing a regulatory inspection in the Isle of Man in March, 2021.

The British Virgin Islands Government intends to add three more US citizens - Scott Weisman, Jerry Willoughby, and Bruce Bradley - as defendants to a lawsuit it filed against "now-suspended" US lawyer Lester Hyman alleging fraud and corruption involving plans to operate an air service between the BVI and Miami.

Liquidators in the Cayman Islands and United Arab Emirates who are investigating the alleged misappropriation of at least $43 million from a Cayman investment vehicle for six Kuwaiti brothers have filed for Chapter 15 bankruptcy recognition in the United States.

Application by the British Virgin Islands Attorney General to take evidence from Signature Bank for use in legal proceedings in the British Virgin Islands "against Lester S. Hyman", described as "a now-suspended member of the District of Columbia and Massachusetts Bars" for "for fraud and deceit and breaches of trust and loyalty and of his contractual obligations owed to the BVIG", filed at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Complaint alleging fraud involving the purchase of a property at 837 Harbor Island, Clearwater Beach, Florida for $7 million in Limitless Ventures II LLC, of Ohio v. ICAT Services Ltd. A.T.O. The Ppal Trust Dated December 12, 2006, described as a British Virgin Islands entity whose principal was Andrew Johnson, at the Circuit Court of the Sixth Judicial Circuit, in and for Pinellas County, Florida.

Application by the Attorney General of the British Virgin Islands to take discovery from Pauline E. Jones for use in legal proceedings in the British Virgin Islands against Lester S. Hyman, described as "a now-suspended member of the District of Columbia and Massachusetts bars", for "fraud and deceit and breaches of trust and loyalty and of his contractual obligations owed to the BVIG", filed at the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Chapter 15 Petition for Recognition of a Foreign Main Proceeding in the Cayman Islands by Eleanor Fisher, of the Cayman Islands, and Hani Bishara, of the United Arab Emirates, as Foreign Representatives of Universal Enterprises Ltd. (in Official Liquidation), described as "an investment vehicle for six brothers [from Kuwait] for the purpose of making investments in the United States", filed at the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.

Against a backdrop of more than $3 billion of investor losses, investor litigation, and regulatory "inquiries" in the US and Bermuda, four Bermuda firms affiliated with the US-based Markel Corporation insurance group have gone into provisional liquidation as part of an attempted restructuring.

Judgment that the British Virgin Islands Court of Appeal was wrong to overturn a decision known as "Black Swan" regarding the jurisdiction’s authority to issue freezing injunctions in support of foreign proceedings in Convoy Collateral Ltd., of Hong Kong (Appellant) v. Broad Idea International Ltd., of the British Virgin Islands, and Cho Kwai Chee, of Hong Kong, (Respondents) at the Privy Council of the United Kingdom.

Winding Up Petition in Safe Castle Limited, of the British Virgin Islands v. China Silver Asset Management Limited at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Class Action Complaint against defendants in or from the British Virgin Islands, Czech Republic, England, Hong Kong, Poland, Scotland, Thailand, Ukraine, and USA alleging "Defendants orchestrated a massive international scheme to defraud Plaintiffs and similarly situated investors by soliciting them to deposit money or cash equivalents with ROFX, a “robotically operated foreign exchange trading” platform that purportedly utilized algorithms to trade on behalf of investors" in Ryan Birmingham, Roman Leonov, Mitchell Parent, Jonathan Zarley, and Steven Hansen v. ROFX.net, described as "an unincorporated entity providing unregulated financial services through its web-based platform to investors around the world" with "registered addresses" in England, Hong Kong, and the USA; Auro Advantages LLC, Aware Choice Ltd., Boonruk Ruamkit Co. Ltd., Brass Marker s.r.o., Easy Com LC, Epayments Systems Ltd., Ester Holdings Inc., Global E-Advantages LLC, Grovee LLC, Igoria Trade S.A., IT Outsourcing Co. Ltd., Notus LLC, Shopostar LLC, VDD-Trading Ltd., Wealthy Developments LP, Andrei Fetin, Anna Shymko, Anton Bilous, Borys Konovalenko, Dmytro Fokin, Jorge Luis Castillo, Manuchar Daraselia, Mikhail Rymanov, Natalia Los, Nattpemol Krinara, PapahraTsor Nrviratporn, Peter Mogilniy, Stanislav Khomenko, and Youras Ziankovich at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Opinion and Order Granting in Part and Denying in Part Defendants' motions to dismiss a class action complaint known as "Tether and Bitfinex Crypto Asset Litigation" in which "a group of individual investors who purchased cryptocommodities - a class of crypto-assets that includes bitcoin - detailed a wide-ranging conspiracy to artificially inflate the price of those cryptocommodities" by entities in or from the British Virgin Islands, Hong Kong, Italy, Netherlands, Panama, and USA in Pinchas Goldshtein et al v. iFinex Inc., BFXNA Inc., BFXWW Inc., Tether Holdings Limited, Tether Operations Limited, Tether Limited, Tether International Limited, DigFinex Inc., Giancarlo Devasini, Ludovicus Jan van der Velde, Philip Potter, Reginald Fowler, Crypto Capital Corp., Bittrex, Inc., and Poloniex, LLC at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Criminal actions against six foreign nationals, a Swiss financial services firm, and a client regarding an alleged offshore tax evasion scheme known as the "Singapore Solution" involving entities in the British Virgin Islands, Hong Kong, Liechtenstein, Panama, Singapore, and Switzerland have been unsealed at federal court in New York.

An unidentified Swiss "wealth advisory firm" in Zurich helped Mark Gyetvay - the criminally indicted CFO of one of Russia's biggest gas producers, LSE-listed Novatek - evade taxes on over $40 million of income in a scheme also involving firms in Belize, British Virgin Islands, and Cayman Islands, it has been alleged.

Criminal Indictment alleging tax evasion involving companies or accounts in Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Russia, and Switzerland in USA v. Mark Gyetvay, the Chief Financial Officer of Russian gas producer Novatek who is apparently a citizen of Italy, Russia, and the United States, at the U. S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida.

Petition for the Court's sanction of a Scheme of Arrangement in the matter of Luckin Coffee Inc. (in Provisional Liquidation), described as "an investment holding company with its direct and indirect subsidiaries located in the British Virgin Islands, Hong Kong, the United States and the PRC", at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Re-Amended Complaint alleging fraud involving Gable Holdings Inc., of the Cayman Islands, and Gable Insurance AG, of Liechtenstein, in Kevin Alcock, Corita Metelerkamp, both of Surrey, England; Oak Trust (Guernsey) Limited, of Guernsey; Baytree Group Holdings Limited, Morvale Company Limited, Aggaris Investments Limited, all of the British Virgin Islands; Christopher Lawrance, Roy Campbell, both of South Africa, and CriSeren Investments Limited, of Wales v. William Dewsall, of London, England, at the High Court for England and Wales.

Criminal Indictment alleging "a fraudulent scheme referred to by the conspirators as the 'Singapore Solution'" involving entities in the British Virgin Islands, Hong Kong, Liechtenstein, Singapore, and Switzerland in USA v. Evo Bechtiger, Bernhard Lampert, Peter Rüegg, Roderic Sage, Rolf Schnellmann, Daniel Wächli, and Allied Finance Trust AG, described as "a financial services company in Zurich", at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Fixed Date Claim Form regarding Super Ocean Trademarks Limited in Li Heng v. Registrar of Corporate Affairs at the British Virgin Islands High Court.

Three men have been indicted in New York for allegedly perpetrating a $155 million fraud and money laundering scheme involving entities in or from Argentina, Bahamas, Belgium, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Ecuador, Germany, Switzerland, Uruguay, and the United States.

Originating Application alleging "a dishonest scheme to defraud the Applicants" in PJSC National Bank Trust and PJSC Otkritie Bank Financial Corporation v. Coniston Management Limited at the British Virgin Islands High Court.

Application by China Medical Technologies Inc. (in Liquidation), described as a Cayman Islands-domiciled "holding company of a group of companies incorporated in Hong Kong, Mainland China, the British Virgin Islands and Singapore", and CMED Technologies Ltd., of the British Virgin Islands, to take discovery from KPMG LLP for use in legal prceddings in Hong Kong, filed at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Originating Application in the matter of Yingli Green Energy (International) Holding Company Limited at the British Virgin Islands High Court.

Fixed Date Claim Form regarding Debonair Company Limited in Lam Kim Phung, of Hong Kong, as Executrix and Trustee of the Estate of the late Eav Yin v. Registrar of Corporate Affairs at the British Virgin Islands High Court.

Fixed Date Claim Form in D.D.H.S. Holdings Ltd. v. The Registrar of Corporate Affairs at the British Virgin Islands High Court.

Fixed Date Claim Form in The Federal Republic of Nigeria v. Vistra (BVI) Limited at the British Virgin Islands High Court.

Originating Application regarding an arbitration award for $318 million in Samsung Heavy Industries Co. Limited, of South Korea v. Pacific Drilling VIII Limited at the British Virgin Islands High Court.

Criminal Indictment alleging conspiracy to commit wire fraud, bank fraud and money laundering involving entities in or from Argentina, Bahamas, Belgium, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Ecuador, Germany, Switzerland, Uruguay, and the United States in USA v. Roberto Gustavo Cortes Ripalda, described as a citizen of Ecuador and the U.S.; Fernando Haberer Bergson, described as a citizen of Germany and Uruguay and a resident of Argentina, and Ernesto Heraclito Weisson Pazmino, described as a citizen of Ecuador and the U.S., at the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Amended Judgment for $97 million in Zhang Rui Kang, of Singapore, and Le Huan-Hsin, of China v. Tunghsu Venus Holdings Limited, of the British Virgin Islands, and Tunghsu Group Co. Ltd., of China, at the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New York.

Judgment on motions to dismiss allegations of fraud and negligence in Techview Investments Limited, which was incorporated in the Bahamas and later moved to the British Virgin Islands, and Prime Overseas Investments and Enterprises Limited, of Cyprus v. Amstar Poland Property Fund I LP, Amstar Poland Property Fund I GP LP, Amstar Poland Fund I GP LP, all of the Cayman Islands; Amstar Global Partners Limited, of Bermuda, and Amstar Group LLC, a Delaware-domiciled, Colorado-based company, at the Superior Court of the State of Delaware, County of New Castle County.

Fixed Date Claim Form in Lam Chi Man v. Smart Radiant Holdings Limited at the British Virgin Islands High Court.

Originating Application to set aside a Statutory Demand in TIBIT Ltd. v. Collas Crill LP, a law firm, at the British Virgin Islands High Court.

Fixed Date Claim Form regarding Byrony Investment Holdings Ltd. in Ileana Josefina Zavala Colome, of Mexico v. The Registrar of Corporate Affairs at the British Virgin Islands High Court.

Fixed Date Claim Form regarding divorce proceedings in Venezuela in Vilma Maria Dominquez de Alaimo, by her representatives, Maria Grazia Alaimo Dominguez and Carla Maria Alaimo Dominguez v. Sacred Family Limited and S.F. Inc. at the British Virgin Islands High Court.

Fixed Date Claim Form regarding Kendale Business Ltd. in Agavni Jeannine Ztoutitian Shamal v. Registrar of Corporate Affairs at the British Virgin Islands High Court.

Fixed Date Claim Form regarding West Farson Ltd. in Daria Bakaeva v. Registar of Corporate Affairs at the British Virgin Islands High Court.

Claim Form in Moises Khafif, of Uruguay v. Daniella Gabbay, of Israel, as admininstrator of the Estate of Samuel David Katz, deceased, and Worthing Properties Limited, of the British Virgin Islands, at the British Virgin Islands High Court.

Registration of a $10 million Judgment from the District of Delaware in Caroleng Investments Limited, of the British Virgin Islands v. Bluestone Resources Inc. Judgment Registration at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Fixed Date Claim Form in Credorax Inc. v. Israeli VC Partners LP and IZIT Management Limited, as General Partner of Israeli VC Partners LP, both of the Cayman Islands, at the British Virgin Islands High Court.

Fixed Date Claim Form regarding GLF Holdings Limited in Richmond Partners Master Limited, of the Cayman Islands v. Registrar of Corporate Affairs at the British Virgin Islands High Court.

Stop Notice by Victory Sky Holdings Limited, of the British Virgin Islands, regarding one share in ICG I owned by LC Capital Limited, filed at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Fixed Date Claim Form regarding Kentville Group Inc. in Mikhail Zakharov, of Moscow, Russia v. The Registrar of Corporate Affairs at the British Virgin Islands High Court.

Claim Form in Liao Chen Toh, of Taiwan v. Loyal International Enterprises Co. Ltd., of the British Virgin Islands; Liao Hwang-Hsiang, and Liao Wen Toh, both of Taiwan, at the British Virgin Islands High Court.

Claim Form in Liao Chen Toh, of Taiwan v. Triple Dragon Limited, of the British Virgin Islands; Liao Hwang-Hsiang, and Liao Wen Toh, both of Taiwan, at the British Virgin Islands High Court.

Fixed Date Claim Form regarding High Step Limited and Oshima Developments Limited in General Good Investment Hong Kong Limited, of Hong Kong v. Registrar of Corporate Affairs at the British Virgin Islands High Court.

Fixed Date Claim Form regarding High Step Limited and Oshima Developments Limited in General Good Investment Hong Kong Limited, of Hong Kong v. Registrar of Corporate Affairs at the British Virgin Islands High Court.