Lebanon

Originating Application In the Matter of Kayan Ltd. at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Fixed Date Claim Form in Mohamad Fakih v. The Registrar of Corporate Affairs and The British Virgin Islands Financial Services Commission at the British Virgin Islands High Court.

Letter to the editor from Lebanon-based advance fee fraudster Mahmoud Chahal in which he threatens in broken English to harm OffshoreAlert's publisher because of postings by third parties on our message board ten years ago.

Petition of Eleanor Grace Fisher, of Zolfo Cooper (Cayman) Limited, and John Howard Batchelor and Bruno Arboit, of FTI Consulting, to wind-up PAC Ltd. at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Letter from Tony Habib complaining about OffshoreAlert's reporting of his involvement with Phoenix Financial Ltd., which appeared to be perpetrating advance fee frauds, according to research by OffshoreAlert.

Application by BankMed SAL to withdraw stop notice regarding shares in Fresh Del Monte Produce, Inc. owned by Amir Abu Ghazaleh, filed at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Application of Solano Lima Pinheiro, a shareholder of now-defunct Brazilian broker-dealer Dinamica Distribuidora de Titulos e Valores Mobiliarios S.A., to take discovery of Citibank NA and NAI Global, a.k.a. Commercial Properties, for litigation in Brazil regarding an alleged securities fraud committed by Naji Nahas.

Petition of MENA Financial Inc., of the British Virgin Islands, for the liquidation of MerchantBridge Managers Inc. at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Request for Withdrawal of Stop Notice In the Matter of Maher Ahmed Abu Ghazaleh, Amir Abu Ghazaleh, and BankMed sal at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Charge Over Shares In the Matter of Maher Ahmed Abu Ghazaleh, Amir Abu Ghazaleh and BankMed Sal at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Superseding Information in USA v. Thomas Francis Quinn at the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas.

Two convicted fraudsters - one of whom is a former head of a Bermuda insurer - are operating a Cayman Islands domiciled firm that appears to be perpetrating advance fee frauds, OffshoreAlert can reveal.Tony Habib, 54, using the alias Antoine

A breakdown by jurisdiction and amounts of accounts held at Stanford International Bank.

Re-Amended and Consolidated Statement of Claim filed by Samar Telecommunications Limited and Wafic Rida Said against Tele Invest Limited at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Writ of Summons filed by Samar Telecommunications Limited and Wafic Rida Said against Abdullah Saleh Kamel at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

In the Matter of a Share Charge between Maher Ahmed Abu Ghazaleh, Amir Abu Ghazaleh and BankMed, filed at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Israel has requested information about "York University" in Alabama as part of a criminal investigation into allegedly bogus universities. Details are contained in an application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence - pursuant to a request for

Indictment in USA v. Steven Roy Jamieson, Michael J. Signoretto, Robert William Moore, David William Price, Thomas Francis Quinn, John Jeffrey Hemmer, and FNU LNU, a.k.a. Brian Roland Kent at the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in France into Elie Nahas, Antoine Medawar, Anthony Abdelnour, Antoine EI Khoury, Charbel Chidiac, Sabrina Samari, Eleonore Desberceaux, Sabine Abdelnour, Michael Ofsowitz, a.k.a. Michael Martini; Cornelia Suss and others for suspected involvement in international human trafficking and prostitution, primarily through 'Style Modeling Agency'.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Argentina into alleged telecommunications fraud by Serge Abiad, Jorge Nascimento Pereira, Ivana Ciardini, Naba Claude Kamel and others.  

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in the United Kingdom into suspected fraud and money laundering by David Bampton, Peter Rust, Wassim Soufan and Imad Ajama.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in the United Kingdom into an alleged 'prime bank' fraud and theft by Roddam Quintin Twiss.

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 for a criminal investigation in the United Kingdom into Nathan Meyyappan, Richard Parfett and Ronan Moss for allegedly dishonestly receiving stolen goods, dishonestly arranging to receive stolen goods, conspiracy to commit burglary and conspiracy to receive stolen goods.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Denmark into Ismail Deveci for suspected involvement in heroin trafficking.

The governments of offshore financial centers have moved with unprecedented haste in changing their regulatory and supervisory systems in order to be removed from international 'hit lists'.Rather than attempt to group together and negotiate with foreign agencies from a position of strength, many governments have capitulated to international pressure and rushed through emergency legislation.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Spain into Monzer al-Kassar, Omar a-Ahmad Bourmerched, Kamal Abdul Gawad Chazoul, and Mohamed Gadhan for attempted murder.