Hong Kong

Application by CE Line One Corporation Ltd., formerly known as Five Ocean’s Trading Asia Limited, of Hong Kong, to take discovery from Citigroup Inc. and Jonathan C. Goldstein, P.C. for use in "civil and criminal proceedings to be initiated in England and Wales" against "Jeremy Bennett, a British solicitor; 7 Legal and Finance Limited, a British “national business; and Darren Neil Masters, a financial consultant living in Naples, Florida" regarding an alleged $11.3 million investment fraud, filed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Criminal Information alleging conspiracy to commit securities fraud involving two unidentified co-conspirators in Vietnam and Switzerland who were described as "co-founders and co-operators of Blacklight S.A.m a purported asset management firm in Switzerland" and entities in Anguilla, Hong Kong, Seychelles and USA, in USA v. Steve M. Bajic, described as a resident of Canada, at the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

Chapter 15 Petition for Recognition of a Foreign Main Proceeding in England by Nicholas Nicholson, Prashan Patel, and Kevin Hellard, all of Grant Thornton, as the Foreign Representatives of Isak Henry Gabay, described as a citizen of Switzerland and co-founder of Hong Kong-domiciled, England-based Duet Group Ltd. - a "global investment holding company" that managed "over $4.4 billion of equity" - who has been criminally charged in Germany with tax-related offenses regarding "Duet Group’s involvement in “Cum-Ex” transactions", filed at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.

Writ of Summons and Statement of Claim in SAIF Partners II LP and SAIF II GP Capital Limited v. Joe Zhixiong Zhou, of Miami, Florida, USA, at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Complaint alleging the defendant "has failed and continues to fail to comply with the Commission’s "Custody Rule", which, to ensure the safety of client assets, requires an annual report from an independent public accountant of Brite Australia’s internal controls" in U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission v. Brite Advisors USA, Inc. at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Forfeiture Complaint regarding funds allegedly associated with "Pig Butchering" fraud that were seized from accounts, at least one of which was "accessed by Thailand, Singapore, and Hong Kong-based IP addresses", in the names of Lim Hock Seng and Yicheng Wang at Binance crypto exchange in USA v. 193,169.0653 USDT, 11,146.8079 USDT, and 18.9649 BTC at the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

Complaint alleging "default on a promissory note, pursuant to which Quadrant guaranteed to pay to VEP a principal sum of $5 million" in VEP Biotech Ltd., of the Cayman Islands v. Quadrant Biosciences Inc., of Delaware, at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York.

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Liquidation Petition regarding an alleged debt of $4 million and allegations of "suspicious or fraudulent activities" in Ayers Alliance Financial Group Limited, of Cyprus v. City Credit Asset Management Co. Ltd. at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Complaint alleging breach of contract regarding an agreement to purchase claims against the FTX crypto group "for 30% of the face value of the claims " in Olympus Peak Trade Claims Opportunities Fund I Non-ECI Master LP, of Delaware v. Ethereal Tech Pte. Ltd., of Singapore, and Burdy Technology Limited, of Hong Kong, at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.

Writ of Summons and Statement of Claim in Bond Capital Partners Pte. Ltd., of Singapore v. Regan Fund Management Company Limited at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Forfeiture Complaint regarding the alleged proceeds of narcotics trafficking involving Christopher Castelluzzo, Luke Atwell, and Brian Krewson in USA v. approximately 30,006 Ether, approximately 153,925.11 Cronos, approximately 244.23 Binance Coin, approximately 764.19 Solana, approximately 23,848.96 Cardano, approximately 32,232.24 Algorand, approximately 299.48 Avalanche, approximately 0.49 Bitcoin, approximately 1,150.71 Polkadot, approximately 1,589.32 Chainlink, approximately 17,208.48 Polygon, approximately 393 TrueUSD, and approximately 2,466.36 Uniswap at the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.

Stop Notice by OxyChina Limited regarding shares in China Gas Investors Limited, filed at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Forfeiture Complaint regarding the alleged proceeds of "a variety of fraud schemes to convince an unsuspecting victim to send co-conspirators money", one of which "involves “pig butchering,” where online co-conspirators utilize social media platforms and dating websites in search of fraud victims" in USA v. 86,766 USDT "seized from OKX account UUID ending 5504 and ID Number ‘097799 with affiliated deposit address ending 94d8" at the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan.

Director Details for GigaCloud Technology Inc., obtained from the Cayman Islands General Registry on October 31st, 2023.

Class Action Complaint in Rock Villanueva v. GigaCloud Technology Inc., described as a Cayman Islands-domiciled, Hong Kong-based operator of "an end-to-end ecommerce platform for global trade services of heavy and large products, primarily furniture"; Larry Lei Wu, Kwok Hei David Lau, Xin Wan, Frank Lin, Xing Huang, and Aegis Capital Corp. at the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

Director Details for Shang Peng Gao Ke Inc. SEZC, obtained from the Cayman Islands General Registry on October 29th, 2023.

Director Details for Growth Today Inc., obtained from the Cayman Islands General Registry on October 29th, 2023.

News Release by the Australian Securities & Investments Commission and a copy of the Consent Order regarding an asset freeze order against Brite Advisors Pty Ltd., which is owned by a British Virgin Islands company whose directors are United Kingdom citizens David McKenna and Mark Donnelly.

Director Details for Knight League Limited, obtained from the Cayman Islands General Registry on October 16th, 2023.

Petition in the matter of New Amante Group Limited, described as "an investment holding company" whose group "is principally engaged in the operation of club, entertainment and securities investment in Hong Kong", at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Petition in the matter of China Regenerative Medicine International Limited at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Amended Writ of Summons and Statement of Claim in Ascentra Holdings Inc. (in Official Liquidation), which "operated a cross-border e-commerce business selling beauty and health products and computer software to the Asian market through multi-level marketing" v. Ryunosuke Yoshida, of Hong Kong; Shang Peng Gao Ke Inc. SEZC, of the Cayman Islands; SPGK Pte Ltd., of Singapore; Growth Today Inc., of the Cayman Islands, and Scuderia Bianco Pte Ltd., of the Cayman Islands, at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Complaint alleging the "conversion of stolen cryptocurrencies" in Yangjing Lin v. Defendant '1', a.k.a. Fanxin Lin, and John Does at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.

Director Details for Hamilton Opportunity Fund SPC, obtained from the Cayman Islands General Registry on October 5th, 2023.

Winding Up Petition in CTS Hermitage Healthcare Fund LP v. China Medonline Inc. at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Petition for the Court's Sanction of a Scheme of Arrangement at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Motion for Temporary Restraining Order in AiShang You Limited, of the British Virgin Islands; Dada Business Trading Co. Limited, of Hong Kong; Dongping Liu, Fengzhen Ai, Min Li, Peifeng Yu, Pijun Liu, all of China; Wenwen Yu, of Florida, USA, and Yanqin Chen, of China, derivatively and on behalf of WeTrade Group Inc., of Wyoming, USA v. Biuming Guo, Grace Li, Ning Qin, Yuxing Ye, Hechun Wei, Kean Tat Che, and Annie Huang, all of China, as Defendants, and Globex Transfer LLC, of Florida, USA, as Nominal Defendant, at the U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming.

Complaint alleging "a scheme that defrauded Plaintiffs out of a total of over $1.4 Million" in Khaled Elsisi, Najy Kanan, Ahmed Khder, Asher Bomani Lewis, Ricardo Marquez, Christine Linda Masters, of Australia; Luis Pinos, Gabriela Janeta Roman, Barry Rosner, Ahmed Sharafeldin, Stuart Wayne Springfield, Christopher Emanuel Szabo, Linwood Walker, and Robert Yeng v. CFT Solutions, LLC, Renan de Rocha Gomes Bastos, Yvenson Israel, Arthur Percy, Chuck Marshall, Divine-Seven EL, Michael Jex and Elido Santana at the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.

Petition in the matter of Green Economy Development Limited at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Complaint in AiShang You Limited, of the British Virgin Islands; Dada Business Trading Co. Limited, of Hong Kong; Dongping Liu, Fengzhen Ai, Min Li, Peifeng Yu, Pijun Liu, all of China; Wenwen Yu, of Florida, USA, and Yanqin Chen, of China, derivatively and on behalf of WeTrade Group Inc., of Wyoming, USA v. Biuming Guo, Grace Li, Ning Qin, Yuxing Ye, Hechun Wei, Kean Tat Che, and Annie Huang, all of China, as Defendants, and Globex Transfer LLC, of Florida, USA, as Nominal Defendant, at the U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming.

Petition for the Court's Sanction of a Scheme of Arrangement in the matter of China Aoyuan Group, described as "a property developer in China", at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Complaint in FTX Trading Ltd., of Antigua and Barbuda, and West Realm Shires Services Inc., of Delaware v. Michael Burgess, Huy Xuan 'Kevin' Nguyen, Jing Yu 'Darren' Wong, Matthew Burgess, Lesley Burgess, described as "former employees of Salameda Ltd."; 3Twelve Ventures Ltd., of the British Virgin Islands, and BDK Consulting Ltd., of Hong Kong, at the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware

Forfeiture Complaint regarding the alleged proceeds of wire fraud involving a purported crypto exchange known as "ANT Coin", fake tech support, romance, and other alleged scams and whose victims include a "76-year-old widow" in USA v. $161,354.08 at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Director Details for Sunac China Holdings Limited, obtained from the Cayman Islands General Registry on September 19th, 2023.

Chapter 15 Petition for Recognition of a Foreign Main Proceeding in Hong Kong by Gao Xi, as the Foreign Representative of Sunac China Holdings Limited, described as a Cayman Islands-domiciled, Hong Kong-based "ultimate holding company of a group of companies ... which is principally engaged in the property development and property investment business in the People’s Republic of China", filed at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.

Complaint "to recover millions of dollars in fraudulently transferred and misappropriated funds from the parents of FTX Founder Samuel Bankman-Fried" in Alameda Research LLC, a Delaware, USA-domiciled company "that had operations in the United States, Hong Kong, and The Bahamas"; Alameda Research Ltd., of the British Virgin Islands; FTX Trading Ltd., of Antigua and Barbuda; West Realm Shires Inc., of Delaware, USA, and West Realm Shires Services Inc., d.b.a. FTX.US, of Delaware, USA v. Allan Joseph Bankman, described as "a tenured Stanford Law School professor with decades of experience in tax law", and Barbara Fried, described as "a Stanford Law School professor who willingly enmeshed herself in the FTX Insiders' world", at the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware.

Complaint alleging the defendants operated as a broker-dealer without being registered in U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission v. Wilson J. Rondini III, of Florida, USA; Falcon Capital LLP, of the United Kingdom, and Falcon Capital Partners Limited, of Hong Kong, at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Originating Application for the appointment of liquidators regarding an alleged debt of HK$3.3 billion in Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (Macau) Limited, of Macau v. Rich Region Holdings Limited at the British Virgin Islands High Court.

Fixed Date Claim Firm regarding J & K Investments Group Limited in Wong Kwok Keung, of Hong Kong v. The Registrar of Corporate Affairs at the British Virgin Islands High Court.

Amended Complaint in Gemini Trust Company LLC v. Digital Currency Group Inc. and Barry Silbert at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Complaint "about a pseudonymous Internet trickster and amateur artist who thinks his quasi-anonymity and modest notoriety allows him to criminally defraud his ostensible friends and business partners, psychologically manipulate and bully them into silence, and unjustly enrich himself at their expense without facing any repercussions" in Kevin Gelasio, described as "a full-time nurse and part-time cryptocurrency trader" v. Haris bin Zafar, described as a citizen and resident of the United Kingdom, and Project Ether Limited, of Hong Kong, at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Complaint alleging "misuse and unreported use of funds raised in a 2016 initial public offering (IPO) as well as Defendants’ failure to disclose millions of dollars in related-party transactions that benefitted Defendant Qi’s family members" in U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission v. Guosheng Qi, described as a resident of China and Hong Kong, and Gridsum Holding Inc., described as Cayman Islands-domiciled "cloud-based analytics company", as Defendants, and Huijie He, described as a resident of China and Hong Kong, as Relief Defendant, at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Director Details for Airstream Investment Ltd., obtained from the Cayman Islands General Registry on September 5th, 2023.

Director Details for LM Fund One Ltd., obtained from the Cayman Islands General Registry on September 5th, 2023.

Winding Up Petition by an investor who "is concerned that she has been the victim of fraudulent conduct" in Ning Du, of Beijing, China v. LM Fund One Ltd. at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Writ of Summons and Statement of Claim in Shan-E-Abbas Ashary, Al Jomaih Power Limited, and Denham Investment Ltd. v. KES Power Limited, IGCF SPV 21 Limited, KP Corporate Director Ltd., Mark Skelton, of London, England; Shaheryar Arshad Chishty, of Pakistan; Darin Daniel Baur, of Hong Kong, and Adeeb Ahmad, of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Four Cayman Islands life settlement investment funds that are part of Bermuda national David Rawson-Mackenzie's Centurion Group have gone into liquidation after their auditor resigned due to "concerns" about how business was being conducted, namely Argent Fund SPC, Defined Return Fund Plc, Life Settlement Strategy Fund SPC, and Defined Returns Partnership LP, three of which appear to have been suspended for over 12 years.

Fixed Date Claim Form in Summit Prestige Enterprises Limited, One Worldwide Group Limited, Top Integrated Group Limited, and Asset Reliance International Limited v. Wing Sze Tiffany Wong and Edward Simon Middleton, of Alvarez& Marsal, "in their capacity as Hong Kong Court-appointed liquidators of China Properties Group Limited", and Overseas Management Company Trust (B.V.I.) Ltd., described as "the registered agent in the BVI for each of the Claimants", at the British Virgin Islands High Court.

Stockholder Derivative Complaint in Central Laborers' Pension Fund, Ezra Cattan, Lisa Cattan, Saul Cattan, Sean Endress, Mikhail Kuperman, Hassan Kutom, Kristopher Mares, and Taylor McGraw, derivatively and on behalf of Palantir Technologies Inc. v. Alexander C. Karp, Peter Thiel, Stephen Cohen, Alexander Moore, Alexandra Schiff, Lauren Friedman Stat, Shyam Sankar, David Glazer, and Kevin Kawasaki, as Defendants, and Palantir Technologies Inc., as Nominal Defendant, at the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware.