British Virgin Islands

Ukraine's Platinum Bank, which collapsed in 2017 while under the alleged control of Gryhoriy Gurtovy and Boris Kaufman, has applied for Chapter 15 bankruptcy recognition in the United States as its administrator seeks to recover at least $265 million that was allegedly misappropriated by insiders.

Complaint in Shaun Folpp, as The Plan Administrator of Pacific Andes Resources Development Limited, of Bermuda, et al v. United Overseas Bank Limited, Hong Kong Branch, at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.

Chapter 15 Petition for Recognition of a Foreign Main Proceeding in Ukraine by Victor Novikov, as the Foreign Representative of PJSC Platinum Bank, described as "an insolvent Ukrainian bank", at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Complaint alleging securities fraud in Measure 8 Ventures LP, Gron Ventures Fund I LP, Zola Global Investors Ltd., of the British Virgin Islands; Anson Advisors Inc., of Canada, on behalf of Anson East Master Fund LP, AC Anson Investments Ltd., Anson Investments Master Fund LP, and Anson Opportunities Master Fund LP; Serendipity SPC – Trimble Fund SP, of the Cayman Islands, on behalf of Emerald Spur Limited; Lapid US Investments LLC, and Hadron Healthcare and Consumer Special Opportunities Master Fund, of the Cayman Islands v. Nitin Khanna, Karan Khanna, Angelo Lombardi, Sam Knapp, David Thompson, Nicholas J. Slinde, Benjamin C. Stoller, and Allan Goodman, of Canada, at the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New York.

Judgment in Oasis Investments II Master Fund Ltd., Attestor Value Master Fund LP, Maso Capital Investments Limited, Star V Partners LLC, Blackwell Partners LLC - Series A, Citco Trustees (Cayman) Limited, as Trustee of the Allard Growth Fund; DMS UCITS Platform ICAV, on behalf of its sub-fund, Allard Asia UCITS Fund; Allard Partners Australia Pty Limited, as Trustee of the Allard Investment Fund; Alpine Partner (BVI) LP, acting through its General Partner, Alpine Global Management LLC; 405 ACM Ltd., Athos Special situations Fund SPC, on behalf of its segregated account, Athos Global Opportunities SP-1; FMAP ACL Limited, Athos Asia Event Driven Master Fund, Citadel Equity Fund Ltd., C+F NV, Portus NV, Value Square Fund NV, Cedar SA, AVI Global Trust Plc, Norges Bank, Wakeland Securities LP, Wakefield Securities LLC, FourWorld Global Opportunities Fund Ltd., FourWorld Event Opportunities LP, Boothbay Absolute Return Strategies LP, Boothbay Diversified Alpha Master Fund LP, Integrated Core Strategies (Asia) Pte Ltd., PWCM Master Fund Ltd., Pentwater Equity Opportunities Master Fund Ltd., Pentwater Merger Arbitrage Master Fund Ltd., Crown Managed Accounts SPC, Pentwater Metric Merger Arbitrage Fund LP, through its General Partner, Pentwater Metric Merger Arbitrage CP LLC; Pentwater Unconstrained Master Fund Ltd., Helium Fund, on behalf of its sub-funds, Helijm Selection and Helium Performance; Helium Opportunities, Merlin Fidelis Emerging Markets Fund, Hildene Opportunities Master Fund II Limited, Stonehill Master Fund Ltd., Stonehill Institutional Partners LP, APS Holdings Corporation, Sunrise Partners Limited Partnership, The Funicular Fund LP, Shay Capital LLC, One68 Global Master Fund LP, Golden Chance Goldsmith Pte Ltd., Qube Master Fund Ltd., QRT Master Fund SPC - Torus Fund SP; Lakeville Capital Investors (enhanced) Master Limited, Lakeville Capital Investors Limited, Prelude Opportunity Fund LP, Davidson Kempner Partners, M.H. Davidson & Co., Davidson Kempner International Ltd., Davidson Kempner Institutional Partners LP. Schonfeld IR Master Fund Pte Ltd., Schonfeld Global Master Fund LP, Samson Rock Event Driven Master Fund Limited, Pictet TR - Diversified Alpha, Alphanatics Master Fuind Limited, Indus Select Master Fund Ltd., Vitruvius - Asian Equity, a sub-fund of Vitruvius SICAV; Cambridge University Endowment Fund, FMI International Fund, FMI International Fund II - Currency Unhedged, Man Funds XII SPC-Man 1783 II SP, Man GLG Credit Multi Strategy Master Fund, Graham Leigh Collins, Beral Holdings Pte Ltd., Wong Hong Yen, Hong Sun Wong, Clifford Cheah King Mun, Stephanie Vanessa Ling-Tsu Cheah, Albert Neo Po Soon, Lau Mei Leng, The Gabelli Small Cap Growth Fund, The Gabelli Equity Income Fund, The Gabelli Asset Fund, Gabelli Associates Limited, Gabelli Associates Fund, Gabelli Associates Ltd. II E, The Gabelli Multimedia Trust Inc., GGCP Inc., Gabelli Associates Fund II LP, The Gabelli Global Rising Income and Dividend Fund, The Gabelli Global Global Utility & Income Trust, The Gabelli Equity Trust Inc., The Gabelli Dividend and Income Trust, Gabelli Arbitrage Holdings, and Gabelli Global Small and Mid Cap Value Trust v. Jardine Strategic Holdings Limited and Jardine Strategic Limited at Bermuda Court of Appeal.

Complaint alleging securities fraud involving PG&E Corporation in Orbis Capital Limited, of the British Virgin Islands; Orbis Global Balanced Fund, of Australia; Orbis Global Equity Fund, of Australia; Orbis Global Equity LE Fund, of Australia; Orbis Global Equity Fund Limited, of Bermuda; Orbis Institutional Global Equity (OFO) Fund, of Bermuda; Orbis Institutional Global Equity Fund, of Bermuda; Orbis Institutional Global Equity L.P., of Delaware; Orbis Institutional U.S. Equity L.P., of Delaware; Orbis OEIC Global Balanced Fund, of England and Wales; Orbis OEIC Global Equity Fund, of England and Wales; Orbis Optimal Global Fund LP, of Delaware; Orbis Optimal SA Fund Limited, of Bermuda; Orbis SICAV Global Balanced Fund, of Luxembourg; Orbis SICAV Global Equity Fund, of Luxembourg, and Allan Gray Australia Balanced Fund, of Australia v. Geisha J. Williams, Nickolas Stavropoulos, Julie M. Kane, Patrick M. Hogan, Barbara L. Rambo, David S. Thomason, Lewis Chew, Fred J. Fowler, Richard C. Kelly, Roger H. Kimmel, Richard A. Meserve, Forrest E. Miller, Rosendo G. Parra, Anne Shen Smith, and Eric D. Mullins, described as officers and directors of PG&E Corporation, at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

First Amended Complaint "to remedy numerous breaches concerning public warrants issued by Getty Images and misrepresentations made about those warrants" in CRCM Institutional Master Fund (BVI) Ltd., of the British Virgin Islands, and CRCM SPAC Opportunity Fund LP, of the Cayman Islands v. Getty Images Holdings Inc. at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Complaint in M/Y Water Jump II, described as "a 2015 70’ Baia Motor Yacht" described as "a documented vessel of the British Virgin Islands"; Water Jump Ltd., of the British Virgin Islands; Torrey Pines Stable Florida Corp., of Florida, and Eric A. Lamaze, a retired Canadian show jumper and Olympic gold medalist, at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

In a case that bears the hallmarks of an advance-fee fraud, a Cyprus company that allegedly paid €1 million for a €5 million loan that never materialized has applied to liquidate the intended lender, a British Virgin Islands purported investment firm operated by London-based Swedish national Gunnar Engstrom.

Public Notice by the British Virgin Islands Financial Services Commission that it imposed a fine of $30,000 on Intertrust Corporate Services (BVI) Limited for regulatory breaches.

Notice of Removal, including a copy of the complaint alleging "retaliatory" employment termination for complaining about "PPP loan fraud, insurance fraud, USCIS Fraud, SEC Fraud and Academic Fraud", in Hong Danielle Accettola v. Linda Mei He, described as a citizen and resident of China; WL Global Corp., of Delaware; WeEducation Group Inc., of Delaware, and Wailian Overseas Consulting Group Ltd., of the British Virgin Islands, at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Involuntary Petition in Pach Shemen LLC, of Delaware; VR Global Partners, L.P., of the Cayman Islands, and Alpine Partners (BVI) L.P., of the British Virgin Islands v. Agathonissos Finance LLC, of the Marshall Islands; Eletson Holdings Inc., of Liberia, and Eletson Finance (US) LLC, of Delaware, described as being part of a "family-owned international shipping" group that "touts itself as having "a global presence with headquarters in Piraeus, Greece as well as offices in Stamford, Connecticut, and London"", at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.

Complaint alleging "Defendants’ brazen abuse of their control over nearly $19 billion of digital assets held in two trusts to enrich themselves at the expense of trust shareholders" in Alameda Research Ltd., of the British Virgin Islands v. Grayscale Investments LLC, Digital Currency Group Inc., Michael Sonnenshein, and Barry Silbert at the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware.

Winding Up Petition in GLAS Trust Corporation Limited, of England and Wales v. Telford Offshore Limited, described as "an intermediate holding company of a group of companies (the Group) incorporated in, amongst others, the Cayman Islands, the British Virgin Islands, the United Arab Emirates and the Netherlands", at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Complaint for $1.7 million in allegedly unpaid penalties for failure to report two offshore accounts to the IRS in USA v. Babak Golbahar at the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

Complaint "to recover “customer property" ... that was stolen as part of Madoff’s infamous Ponzi scheme" involving "swap and related hedging transactions" in Irving H. Picard, Trustee for the Substantively Consolidated SIPA Liquidation of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC and the Chapter 7 Estate of Bernard L. Madoff v. Natixis Financial Products LLC, of Delaware, and Bloom Asset Holdings Fund, described as "an Irish umbrella trust", at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.

Complaint alleging "a complex, international scheme by which Plaintiff’s family, including her mother Helen Stassinopoulos Molokotos, brother Thanasis Molokotos, and sister-in-law Diane Vardakas Molokotos, have absconded with millions of dollars in assets placed into trust for Plaintiff’s benefit" in Polyxeni (Lina) Molokotos-Liederman, of the District of Columbia v. Thanasis Molokotos, of Connecticut; Diane Vardakas Molokotos, of Connecticut; Helen Stassinopoulos Molokotos, described as a citizen of Greece residing in Switzerland; James Spanos, of Connecticut, and Penny Spanos, of Connecticut, at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Asset Freeze Motion in in U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission v. BKCoin Management LLC, of Delaware, and Min Woo Kang, of New York, as Defendants, and BKCoin Capital LP, a.k.a. the Legacy Fund, of Delaware; BK Offshore Fund Ltd., of the British Virgin Islands; BKCoin Multi-Strategy Master Fund Ltd., of the British Virgin Islands; BKCoin Multi-Strategy Fund LP, of Delaware; BKCoin Multi-Strategy Fund Ltd., of the British Virgin Islands, and Bison Digital LLC, of Wyoming, as Relief Defendants, at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Complaint "to prevent further fraud and misappropriation of investor money" in U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission v. BKCoin Management LLC, of Delaware, and Min Woo Kang, of New York, as Defendants, and BKCoin Capital LP, a.k.a. the Legacy Fund, of Delaware; BK Offshore Fund Ltd., of the British Virgin Islands; BKCoin Multi-Strategy Master Fund Ltd., of the British Virgin Islands; BKCoin Multi-Strategy Fund LP, of Delaware; BKCoin Multi-Strategy Fund Ltd., of the British Virgin Islands, and Bison Digital LLC, of Wyoming, as Relief Defendants, at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Originating Summons in Alpine Partners (BVI) LP, of the British Virgin Islands, acting through its general partner, Alpine Global Management LLC v. Myovant Sciences Ltd. at Bermuda Supreme Court.

Originating Application in Michael Latefi, Saif Al Zarouni, and Ali Jassim v. CLAW Restaurant Holdings Ltd. at the British Virgin Islands High Court.

Winding Up Petition in China Renaissance Securities (Hong Kong) Limited, of Hong Kong v. ICONIQ Holding Limited, a Cayman Islands company based in Dubai, at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Complaint alleging breach of contract regarding an alleged $1 million promissory note in Prime Vector International Limited, described as a British Virgin Islands company based in Singapore v. Simulacra Corporation at the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware.

Claim Form in Transcience Investments Limited v. Greentown Holdings (BVI) Inc., Asiapak Investments Limited, and Shaheryar Arshad Chishty at the British Virgin Islands High Court.

Criminal Indictment alleging violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act regarding "bribes to foreign officials at Brazil's state-owned and state-controlled oil and gas company, Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras" involving entities in Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Liberia, Panama, and Uruguay in USA v. Glenn Oztemel, described as a citizen of the USA, and Eduardo Innecco, described as a citizen of Brazil and Italy, at the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut.

Complaint alleging fraud in LDR International Limited, of the British Virgin Islands v. Sara Jacqueline King, described as a lawyer who "is a partner at the law firm King Reuben", and King Family Lending LLC at the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

Fixed Date Claim Form regarding Incpac Holdings Limited in Nexa Resources Peru SA, formerly known as Compañía Minera Milpo SAA, of Peru v. The Registrar of Corporate Affairs at the British Virgin Islands High Court.

Fixed Date Claim Form regarding Unicorn Star Holdings Limited in Toby Jonathan Collins, of London, England v. The Registrar of Corporate Affairs at the British Virgin Islands High Court.

Complaint alleging "the illegal unregistered offer and sale of securities involving the staking of crypto assets" in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission v. Payward Ventures Inc., of Delaware, and Payward Trading Ltd., of the British Virgin Islands, both doing business as Kraken, at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Complaint alleging "numerous breaches concerning public warrants issued by Getty Images and misrepresentations made about those warrants" in CRCM Institutional Master Fund (BVI) Ltd., of the British Virgin Islands, and CRCM SPAC Opportunity Fund LP, of the Cayman Islands v. Getty Images Holdings Inc. at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Originating Application in Climate Change C.C. Ltd. v. Amaltheia Capital Invest Ltd., whose director was identified as Gunnar Engstrom, a citizen of Sweden residing in England, at the British Virgin Islands High Court.

Criminal Indictment alleging "a scheme to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act" involving "shell companies" in the Bahamas, British Virgin Islands, and Panama in USA v. Vladimir Voronchenko, described as a citizen of Russia, at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Claim Form and Statement of Claim involving the proceeds of a "confidential settlement" of a lawsuit in Miami in Bridge Holdings International Corp., of the British Virgin Islands v. Kiran Taneja, of England, at the British Virgin Islands High Court.

Class Action Complaint alleging "Signature Bank had actual knowledge of and substantially facilitated the now-infamous FTX fraud" in Statistica Capital Ltd. and Statistica Ltd., both of the British Virgin Islands v. Signature Bank at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Chapter 11 Petition by Emergent Fidelity Technologies Ltd., of Antigua and Barbuda, whose majority owner and sole director is FTX crypto group's Sam Bankman-Fried and Gary Wang, filed at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.

Complaint in John Harney and DGF Investments Inc., of the British Virgin Islands, individually and derivatively on behalf of Layer1 Technologies Inc., described as "a cryptocurrency mining and technology company" whose "parent and sole stockholder" is Enigma Holding AG, of Switzerland, which has "subsidiaries in the United States, Switzerland, Croatia, and the Bahamas" v. Jakov Dolic and Tobias Ebel, Defendants, and Layer1 Technologies, Nominal Defendant, at the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware.

Fixed Date Claim Form regarding Haversham Properties Ltd. in Ahmad Patel v. The Financial Services Commission and Registrar of Corporate Affairs at the British Virgin Islands High Court.

Fixed Date Claim Form regarding Cowin Enterprises Limited, of Hong Kong, in Kong Yun Kan v. The Registrar of Corporate Affairs at the British Virgin Islands High Court.

Fixed Date Claim Form regarding Hibiscus Industries Liab. Co. Ltd. in Patrick Bucher, of Switzerland v. Registrar of Corporate Affairs at the British Virgin Islands High Court.

Complaint to avoid $445.8 million in "preferential transfers" in Alameda Research Ltd., of the British Virgin Islands v. Voyager Digital LLC and HTC Trading Inc. at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.

Chapter 15 Petition for Recognition of a Foreign Main Proceeding in England and Wales by Kevin Hellard, Robert Starkins, and Nick Nicholson, as the Foreign Representatives of Anatoly Leonidovich Motylev, a citizen of Russia who, in his bankruptcy, "disclosed an interest" in companies in several jurisdictions, including Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Cyprus, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Seychelles, and Turkey, filed at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Fixed Date Claim Form regarding Amerigo Charters Limited in Lisa Ann Pegden v. Registrar of Corporate Affairs at the British Virgin Islands High Court.

Originating Application in Adamas Heracles Multi Strategy Fund, of the Cayman Islands v. Fortune Insight Limited at the British Virgin Islands High Court.

Complaint "to enjoin a discriminatory capital call that will risk irreparably harming Plaintiff beginning on January 27, 2023" regarding the acquisition of "a 220-acre island located in the Exumas archipelago, the Bahamas, that includes Big Cave Cay, Little Cave Cay and 3,383 acres connecting Little Cave Cay to Big Cave Cay" in Prince Salman bin Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, of Saudi Arabia v. Cave Cay LP, of Delaware; Cave Cay General Partner Ltd., of the British Virgin Islands, and Yntegra Capital LLC, of Florida, at the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware.

List of Creditors of 'FTX Trading Ltd. et al' crypto group, filed at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.

Well-known crypto investor Roger Ver, who renounced his U.S. citizenship in 2014 and became a citizen of Saints Kitts and Nevis, is being sued for $20 million by a British Virgin Islands-domiciled affiliate of insolvent crypto lender Genesis for "failure to settle cryptocurrency options transactions".

Complaint alleging fraud, breach of contract and conversion in Urban Commons Danbury LLC, Urban Commons Frontera LLC, Urban Commons Highway 111 LLC, Urban Commons 4th Street LLC, Urban Commons Anaheim LLC, Urban Commons HIDH LLC, Urban Commons Bayshore LLC, Urban Commons Continental LLC, UCQ Holding LLC, Urban Commons Hialeah LLC, Urban Commons RDH LLC, Urban Commons Cordova LLC, and Urban Commons Riverside Blvd LLC v. Claydon Hill Investments Ltd., of the British Virgin Islands; Compass Cove Assets Limited, of the British Virgin Islands; Bounty Green Assets Ltd., of the British Virgin Islands; Frank Yuan, Robert Yuan, Norbert Yuan, and Jerome Yuan at the Superior Court of the State of California, Los Angeles County.

Summons with Notice in GGC International Limited, of the British Virgin Islands v. Roger Ver, of Saints Kitts and Nevis, at the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New York.

Application by China Construction Bank (Asia) Corporation Limited to take discovery from The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., The Raine Group LLC, Oaktree Capital Management, L.P., Bain Capital, L.P., Lazard Frères & Co. LLC, Citibank, N.A., BNY Mellon, N.A., Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Bank of America, N.A., Deutsche Bank AG, and The Clearing House Payments Company LLC regarding, inter alia, "the corporate financing and executive compensation structures of F.C. Internazionale Milano S.p.A", a.k.a. Inter Milan FC, an Italian soccer club, for use in legal proceedings in Hong Kong and Italy involving an allegation that Inter Milan's president, Zhang Kangyang, a.k.a. Steven Zhang, owes "more than US $300 million to China Construction Bank (Asia) Corporation Limited", filed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Complaint alleging breach of contract and unjust enrichment in Bull Blockchain Law LLP v. Towerthree Wireless del Ecuador S.A., of Ecuador; Tower One Wireless Corp., of Canada; LATAM Emerging Market Investment Fund SPC Ltd., of the British Virgin Islands; Banco Amazonas, of Ecuador, and LW Casa de Valores S.R.L., of Panama, at the Circuit Court for the Eleventh Judicial Circuit, in and for Miami-Dade County.