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OffshoreAlert's continuing investigation into Belvedere Management Group and its affiliates has uncovered another ongoing investment fraud, this one involving British firm Etaireia Investments Plc, whose shares are listed on the London-based ICAP Securities & Derivatives Exchange and which has raised at least £1.5 million over the last 15 months.

Kijani Resources Limited, which is a key component of international investment frauds committed by Irishman David Cosgrove's and South African Cobus Kellermann's Belvedere Management Group, has gone into liquidation in Gibraltar.

Winding Up Petition in Aurora Funds Management Ltd., as Trustee for the Bear Real Opportunities Fund, Crown Asset Management Ltd. and the Accident Compensation Corporation of New Zealand v. The Torchlight Fund L.P. at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Chapter 15 Petition for Recognition of Foreign Main Proceeding in the Cayman Islands by Hugh Dickson and Mark Byers, of Grant Thornton, as the Foreign Representatives of Saad Investments Company Limited, at the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.

One day after new directors were appointed to 'ensure' that Cayman-domiciled Brighton SPC would be operated legally, the Fund illegally acquired a Gibraltar firm with bogus assets of $125 million, OffshoreAlert can reveal. The transfer allowed Belvedere and its accomplices in Britain, Dubai, Gibraltar, Spain and elsewhere to continue securities frauds involving firms listed on stock exchanges in Denmark, England and Germany.

This session will look at a 10-year legal battle between the USA and the liquidators of Eurofed Bank, in Antigua, for control over assets accumulated by corrupt former Ukraine Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko.

A Guernsey regulator has essentially portrayed Belvedere Management Group principals David Cosgrove and Cobus Kellermann as serial fraudsters with little or no regard for the well-being of investors who, including other funds around the world, have entrusted them with hundreds of millions of dollars and possibly billions since the group began in or around 2008.

Three Belvedere Management Group fund vehicles - The Global Mutual Fund PCC, The Worldwide Mutual Fund PCC and The Universal Mutual Fund ICC - were today forced into administration by their local regulator in Guernsey, with similar applications against two affiliates, Trinity Global Fund and Lancelot Management Limited, adjourned to a later date.

Affidavit by Paul Yabsley, Senior Analyst in the Enforcement Division of The Guernsey Financial Services Commission, in The Guernsey Financial Services Commission v. Lancelot Management Limited, The Global Mutual Fund PCC Limited, The Universal Mutual Fund ICC Limited, The Worldwide Mutual Fund PCC Limited, and The Trinity Global Fund at The Royal Court of Guernsey.

Order to serve outside the jurisdiction in Stuart Mackellar, as liquidator of Crosscan Financial Corp. (in liquidation) v. Dmitry Purim, Edward Petre-Mears, Pavel Maslo, and Elena Ryabova at the British Virgin Islands High Court.

Order in Tetragon Financial Group Limited and Tetragon Financial Management LP v. Brit UW Ltd. (as sole representative of Lloyd's Syndicate BRT 2987 for the 2010 year of account), Chaucer Syndicates Limited, (representing Lloyd's Syndicate CSL 1084 for the 2010 year of account), and AIG Europe Limited at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

An attempt to raise at least £6 million from victims of the Centaur Group litigation funding fraud by March 31st to fund a dubious Cayman Islands-domiciled 'rescue fund' failed - so the three Australia-based businessmen behind the scheme - Simon Franklin, Stuart Hackett and Klaus Selinger - extended the deadline to April 17th.

Victims of Belvedere Management Group's global fraud scheme were pouring so much money into its London division that 33-year-old boss Anthony Constantinou regularly threw huge wads of cash up in the air for employees to grab as it rained down or scoop from the floor while on their hands and knees, according to a former employee.

Press Release by the South Africa Financial Services Board disclosing two regulatory investigations into Jacobus Kellermann in Guernsey and Mauritius.

Cayman Islands-domiciled hedge fund Brighton SPC has been suspended by its directors, David Egglishaw and John Cullinane, after OffshoreAlert revealed it was part of a criminal financial enterprise operated by Mauritius-based Belvedere Management Group.

Two key investment fund companies operated by Belvedere Management Group - Lancelot Global PCC and The Four Elements PCC - have had their business licenses revoked in Mauritius - four days after the group was exposed as a massive criminal enterprise by OffshoreAlert.

Offshore fund group Belvedere Management, which claims to have $16 billion of assets under administration, management and advisory, appears to be one of the biggest criminal financial enterprises in history, headed by David Cosgrove, Cobus Kellermann and Kenneth Maillard, OffshoreAlert can reveal.

Chapter 15 Petition for Recognition of a Foreign Main Proceeding in England and Wales by Scott Egan, as the Foreign Representative of Towergate Finance Plc, at the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.

Investors who have already been swindled out of £98 million in a litigation funding scam by Buttonwood Legal Capital are being asked to invest a further £14.63 million to finance a Cayman Islands-domiciled 'rescue fund' set up by Simon Franklin, Stuart Hackett, and Klaus Selinger, who were all involved with the Buttonwood scheme before its collapse. 

Complaint in Guardians of New Zealand Superannuation, as manager and administrator of the New Zealand Superannuation Fund, of New Zealand; Andorra Gestió Agricol Reif, S.A.U. S.G.O.I.C., of Andorra; APWIA Fund SPC Ltd., of the British Virgin Islands; Olifant Fund Ltd., FYI Ltd., FFI Fund Ltd., Elliott International L.P., all of the Cayman Islands; The Liverpool Limited Partnership, of Bermuda; Karrick Limited, of Guernsey; GL Europe Luxembourg Sarl, Silver Point Luxembourg Platform Sarl, both of Luxembourg, and TDC Pensionskasse, of Denmark v. Novo Banco S.A., of Portugal, at the High Court of Justice, in England.

'Confidential Private Placement Memorandum' for Cayman Islands-based Chiron Litigation Funding Limited set up by Simon Franklin, Stuart Hackett and Klaus Selinger, of Dequity Partners Pty Ltd., in Australia, to recover assets on behalf of investors in Centaur Litigation Limited, Centaur Litigation SPC, and Centaur Litigation Unit Series 1 Limited who were swindled in a litigation funding fraud perpetrated by Buttonwood Legal Capital and the Argentum Capital Group.

Originating Application by John Greenwood and Timothy Le Cornu, as joint liquidators of Kimber Management Limited, at the British Virgin Islands High Court.

Nineteen more claw-back lawsuits seeking a combined US$65 m have been filed in the Cayman Islands by the liquidators of Weavering Macro Fixed Income Fund against banks, investment funds and other firms in Bermuda, Canada, Cayman, Curacao, France, Guernsey, Hong Kong, Ireland, Jersey, Luxembourg, Singapore, and Switzerland.

Writ of Summons in Weavering Macro Fixed Income Fund Limited v. Fortis Prime Fund Solutions Bank (Ireland) Limited and Martello Nominees Limited (formerly known as Fortis Nominees (Guernsey) Limited) at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Writ of Summons in Weavering Macro Fixed Income Fund Limited v. Deutsche Bank AG Singapore Branch and Deutsche Bank Nominees (Jersey) Limited at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Application by Hornbeam Corporation, of Panama, to take discovery from Mordechai Korf, Felman Trading Inc., Felman Production LLC, Optima International of Miami, Inc., Optima Fixed Income LLC, Optima Industrial Management, LLC, Georgia American Alloys Inc., Optima Specialty Steel, Inc., Optima Ventures LLC, Optima Acquisitions LLC, Optima Group, LLC, Optima Highland LLC, 5251 36st LLC, CC Metals & Alloys LLC, and Felman Production Inc. for use in legal proceedings against Halliwel Assets Inc., Marigold Trust Company Limited, Panikos Symeou, Igor Kolomoisky, and Genady Bogolubov in the British Virgin Islands, Cyprus, Jersey, in the Channel Islands; Ukraine or elsewhere, filed at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Claim Form in Renstone Investments Limited and Ripley Investments Limited v. MMR Investments Ltd. at the British Virgin Islands High Court.

Fixed Date Claim Form in Anthony Akagwu and Mercy Akagwu v. Wilmington Investments Limited, Mossack Fonseca & Co. (BVI) Ltd., and Keith Rodgers at the British Virgin Islands High Court.

Public Statement by the Guernsey Financial Services Commission regarding a £190,000 fine levied on The Channel Islands Stock Exchange in relation to transactions in the listed securities of Arch Guernsey ICC Limited or its incorporated cells.

Application by Neil Mather, Christopher Morris and Alan Roberts, as liquidators of Carlyle Capital Corporation Limited, for an order to take the deposition of Randolph P. Green, filed at the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas.

More than £27 million of the £80 million raised from investors by the Cayman Islands-domiciled Centaur Group may have been misappropriated by insiders Scott Williams, Duane McGaw, Brendan Terrill and others, according to the Joint Provisional Liquidators.

Grant Thornton's First Report to Creditors and Investors of Centaur Litigation SPC, Centaur Litigation Limited, and Centaur Litigation Unit Series 1 Limited (in Provisional Liquidation).

Injunction Order in Hornbeam Corporation v. Halliwel Assets Inc., Panikos Symeou, and Marigold Trust Company at the British Virgin Islands High Court.

Judgment in Nedgroup Trust (Jersey) Limited, as trustee of the Brian Gilbertson Discretionary Settlement, suing as shareholder of the Fourth Defendant, Pallinghurst (Cayman) General Partner LP (GP) Limited v. Renova Industries Limited, Vladimir Viktorovich Kuznetsov, Viktor Feliksovich Vekselberg, Pallinghurst (Cayman) General Partner LP (GP) Limited, Pallinghurst (Cayman) General Partner LP, and Pallinghurst Resources Management LP at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Argus International Life Bermuda Limited v. Duigniam Limited, as trustee of Mamre Trust, and Richard Menell at Bermuda Supreme Court

Complaint in U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission v. Julian R. Brown and Alliance Investment Management Limited at the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

'Update as to historical facts and progress made for investors' by Buttonwood Legal Capital Limited - July 31, 2014.

A writ of summons filed last month in the British Virgin Islands against the suspected masterminds of the £97 million Buttonwood/Argentum/Centaur litigation funding fraud - Scott Williams and Brendan Terrill - recently became publicly available.

Ruling in Nedgroup Trust (Jersey) Limited, as trustee of the Brian Gilbertson Discretionary Settlement, suing as shareholder of the Fourth Defendant, Pallinghurst (Cayman) General Partner LP (GP) Limited v. Renova Industries Limited, Vladimir Viktorovich Kuznetsov, Viktor Feliksovich Vekselberg, Pallinghurst (Cayman) General Partner LP (GP) Limited, Pallinghurst (Cayman) General Partner LP, and Pallinghurst Resources Management LP at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Fixed Date Claim Form in Rouge 2004 Limited and Vert 2004 Limited v. The Registrar of Corporate Affairs and The Financial Services Commission at the British Virgin Islands High Court.

Three fraudulently-operated litigation funds known as 'Centaur' went into provisional liquidation at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands last Friday. They are Centaur Litigation SPC, Centaur Litigation Limited, and Centaur Litigation Unit Series 1 Limited.

Order for the Appointment of Provisional Liquidators In the Matter of Centaur Litigation SPC at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Order for the Appointment of Provisional Liquidators In the Matter of Centaur Litigation Limited at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Order for the Appointment of Provisional Liquidators In the Matter of Centaur Litigation Unit Series I Limited at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Litigation funding firm Buttonwood Legal Capital - which perpetrated a £97 million fraud against investors - says it has brought a lawsuit in the British Virgin Islands against former managers Brendan Terrill and Scott Williams for allegedly siphoning off funds. The case has apparently been sealed by the BVI High Court.

Investors in the litigation funding criminal enterprise known as Buttonwood Legal Capital, Centaur Litigation and Argentum need to kick out the clowns who are managing the different facets of this hopelessly insolvent group and take control of the situation before

Claim Form in Buttonwood Legal Capital Ltd. and Centaur Subscription Holdings Limited v. Scott Williams, Brendan Terrill, Centaur Escrow Client Account Limited, and Asia Pacific Beneficiaries Limited at the British Virgin Islands High Court.

The slow and chaotic collapse of a fraudulent litigation funding group known as Argentum, Buttonwood and Centaur that was triggered by an OffshoreAlert exposé four months ago has finally hit the courts, with four actions filed in the BVI and Cayman.

Winding-Up Petition In the Matter of Centaur Litigation Unit Series I Limited at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Winding-Up Petition In the Matter of Centaur Litigation Limited at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.