Trinidad & Tobago

Criminal Information in USA v. Daryll Warner at the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Criminal Information in USA v. Daryan Warner at the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Order in IRS Petition for Leave to Serve John Doe Summons on Wells Fargo Bank regarding clients of CIBC FirstCaribbean International Bank Limited at the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

IRS Petition for Leave to Serve 'John Doe' Summons on Wells Fargo Bank regarding clients of CIBC FirstCaribbean International Bank Limited, filed at the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Criminal Complaint in USA v. Daryan Warner and Daryll Warner at the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Claim Form in Gulf Insurance Limited v. Creque's Insurance Agency Limited at the British Virgin Islands High Court.

Motion by Colonial Life Insurance Company (Trinidad) Ltd. to compel CLICO (Bahamas) Ltd. and CLICO Enterprises Ltd. to produce documents and submit to examinations and for sanctions for alleged failure to comply, filed at the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida.

The court-appointed managers of Bahamas-domiciled British American Insurance Company Ltd., which operated throughout the Bermuda-Caribbean region, are suing the insurer's former directors and others for 'recklessly gambling away' hundreds of millions of dollars on 'speculative' Florida real estate investments.

Complaint in British American Insurance Company Limited, domiciled in the Bahamas, v. Robert Fullerton, Robert Fullerton, Brian Branker, Ramchand Ramnarine, Lawrence Duprey, Vishnu Ramlogan, Shiva Ramberran, Green Island Holdings, LLC, and Charles Pratt at the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Complaint in British American Isle of Venice (BVI) Limited, domiciled in the British Virgin Islands, and British American Insurance Company Limited, domiciled in the Bahamas, v. Robert Fullerton, Brian Branker, Ramchand Ramnarine, Shiva Ramberran, Green Island Holdings, LLC, and Charles Pratt at the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Writ of Summons and Statement of Claim filed by Jane Fanny Chan against Clover Asset Management Limited at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Registration at the Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, Florida of a Judgment obtained in the Turks and Caicos Islands by Trinidad and Tobago Unit Trust Corporation against Cem Kinay and Oguz Serim.

Writ of Summons filed by BCM Island Visions Ltd. against Cayman National Bank Ltd. and Cayman National Securities Ltd. at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

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

Complaint filed by Trinidad and Tobago United Trust Corporation against CB Richard Ellis, Inc. and Kent Kerr at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Emergency Motion for Temporary Restraining Order in International Schools Services, Inc. v. AAUG Insurance Company, Ltd. and Gregor Gregory at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Order transferring a case styled as 'In the Matter of Colonial Life Insurance Company (Trinidad) Limited, trading as CLICO (Cayman) Ltd.' to the Financial Services Division of the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Petition In the Matter of Motor & General Insurance Company Limited at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Letter from FIFA to OffshoreAlert prior to our 2010 conference in Miami Beach complaining about a session by British investigative journalist and author Andrew Jennings entitled 'Corruption in Soccer - The Secret World of FIFA: Bribes, Vote-Rigging and Ticket Scandals'. Five years later, indictments against several FIFA personnel mentioned in the presentation were unsealed in the United States.

Response from OffshoreAlert to a complaint from FIFA about a session entitled 'Corruption in Soccer - The Secret World of FIFA: Bribes, Vote-Rigging and Ticket Scandals' at The OffshoreAlert Conference in 2010.

The Hedge Hog and Conserve Fund has become the latest example of the extraordinary reluctance of the Bermuda Monetary Authority to take any meaningful action against locally domiciled financial services firms that are suspected of illegal activity, no matter how

Cayman National Corporation and two of its subsidiaries are being sued for $5 million in "compensatory damages, interest and costs" by a client who claims to have lost money in an offshore investment.Paul A. Gargano, a resident of Cambridge, Massachusetts,

Chapter 15 Petition for Recognition of a Foreign Main Proceeding in the Bahamas by Juan Lopez, a.k.a. John Lopez, as the Foreign Representative of British American Insurance Company Limited, at the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Criminal investigators are seeking cell phone records from AT&T in the United States in an attempt to identify those responsible for an alleged burglary and theft at the home of Cuba's Ambassador to Trinidad & Tobago. Details are contained in

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Trinidad & Tobago into an alleged robbery and theft at the residence of the Cuban ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago, Paul Rojas.

Press Release from the Bermuda Monetary Authority that it has started winding-up proceedings against the Bermuda branch of British American Insurance Company, a Bahamian insurance company which is a majority owned subsidiary of CL Financial Group of Trinidad and Tobago (CL).

Public Notice of cease and desist order against British American Insurance Company Ltd. by the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority.

Public Notice by the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority announcing the appointment of Stuart Sybersma and Ian Wight, of Deloitte & Touche, as the joint controllers of Colonial Life Insurance Company (Trinidad) Limited, trading in the Cayman Islands as Clico (Cayman) Ltd.

New Cease and Desist Order issued by the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority against Colonial Life Insurance Company (Trinidad) Limited, trading as Clico (Cayman) Ltd.

Advisory Warning against Colonial Life Insurance Company (Trinidad) Limited, British American Insurance Company Limited (BAICO) and the CL Financial Group Limited by the British Virgin Islands Financial Services Commission.

Bahamas-domiciled British American Insurance Company Ltd. and British Virgin Islands-domiciled British American Isle of Venice (BVI) Ltd. are being sued for $38 million at federal court in West Palm Beach, Florida. Details are contained in a civil complaint

Case and Desist Notice against Colonial Life Insurance Company (Trinidad) Limited, trading as Clico (Cayman) Ltd., by the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority.

Article based on an application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation into alleged credit card fraud - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from Trinidad & Tobago - that was filed at federal court in the USA on November 27, 2007. Individuals and businesses mentioned in the request for assistance include Eon Adrian Caroll, JPMorgan Chase Bank, and Raphael Levine.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Trinidad & Tobago into Eon Adrian Carroll for alleged fraud.

Article based on an application to collect evidence for a criminal investigation into alleged corruption - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from Trinidad and Tobago - that was filed at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida on March 8, 2007. Individuals and busineses mentioned in the request for assistance include National Lotteries Control Board, G-TECH Corp., Distant Learning Technologies Inc., Union Planters Bank NA, Commercial Scientific Corporation, Union Bank of California, Paul S. Coopers, Wells Fargo Bank, Flixx Avatar Limited, Bank of Nova Scotia, Lloyds TSB Bank Plc, Platinum Resources Limited, Bank Leu (Bahamas), Ishwar Galbaransingh, Amrith Maharaj, Suzanne Seepersad, Jane Yang, Mathew Zukerman, Brian George, Garth Gooding, and Stephen Joseph.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Trinidad and Tobago into three former members of the National Lotteries Control Board regarding an agreement between NLCB and G-TECH Corp.

Article based on an application to collect evidence for a criminal investigation into alleged fraud - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from Trinidad & Tobago - that was filed at federal court in the USA on October 13, 2006. Individuals and businesses mentioned in the request for assistance include Sharaz Hassan, a.k.a. Lenny Hassan; Transamar Corporation, Mikhail Sabee, and Bank Atlantic.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Trinidad & Tobago into Sharaz Hassan, a.k.a. Lenny Hassan, for alleged fraud.

A tax information exchange agreement between the Isle of Man and the United States has come into force. In a press release on September 1, 2006, the U. S. Department of The Treasury announced that “An exchange of letters between

Article based on an application to collect evidence for a criminal investigation into alleged corruption - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance by Trinidad & Tobago - that was filed under seal at federal court in the USA on September 23, 2003 and unsealed on May 15, 2006. Individuals and businesses mentioned in the request for assistance include Namcaran Singh, Cosmas Bonaparte, Horace Blake, Robert Paladino, Clive Forgenie, Lincoln Doman, Saleema Doman, Finbar Gangar, Ken Hovington, Ralph Maraj, Basdeo Panday, David Perri, Lawrence Bober, Christopher Cator, Martin Oliver, Devanand Ramlal, Ganga Singh, Trevor Sudarna, Vishnu Ramlogan, York Research Corporation, InnCOGEN Project, U.S. Credit & Commerce Inc., Bank of New York, Caroni (1975) Limited, CNS Developers (Trinidad) Limited, Design Build International Inc., Design Build Professionals Inc., Innercob Industries (T'dad) Limited, York Research Corporation, Inn COGEN Limited, Loeb Partners Corporation, NRG Energy Inc., Tourism and Industrial Development Company Limited, Trinidad Business Consultants Inc., Trinidad Business Consultants Ltd., and Trinidad and Tobago Electricity Commission.

Eight individuals and two companies have been criminally indicted in the United States on multiple counts of fraud and money laundering concerning the construction of Piarco International Airport in Trinidad & Tobago. Prosecutors are also seeking an asset forfeiture order of at least $15 million against the defendants.

A 69-year-old United States national has been extradited to Trinidad & Tobago to stand trial for allegedly conspiring to defraud the local government.Eduardo Hillman Waller was extradited on August 16, 2005 - 13 days after an extradition complaint was filed against him at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

In the space of four or five years, Halliburton, the international oil services and construction conglomerate that is under attack for overcharging and underperforming in Iraq, has gone from reporting approximately 70 to 80 offshore subsidiaries in its annual SEC filing to just two, both in the Cayman Islands.Offshore networks had become a central part of Halliburton's management and financial strategy. When current United States Vice President Dick Cheney was CEO of Halliburton from 1995 to 2000, the company's offshore subsidiaries increased from nine to 44. By the year 2001, that had nearly doubled. Now most of them have gone missing!

Article based on an application to collect evidence for a criminal investigation into alleged smuggling - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from Trinidad & Tobago - that was filed at federal court in the USA on May 17, 2005. Individuals and businesses mentioned in the request for assistance include Calmaquip Engineering Inc., Soares de Costa Contractors Inc., Birk Hillman Consultants Inc., National Insurance Properties Development Corp., Airports Authority of Trinidad and Tobago, The Maritime Group of Companies, Maritime General Insurance Inc., Fidelity Financing and Leasing Ltd., Maritime Life (Caribbean) Ltd., Northern Construction Inc., and Dresdner Bank Lateinamerika AG.

A look at the pros and cons of the Caribbean Court of Justice.

Article based on an application to collect evidence for a criminal investigation into alleged fraud - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from Trinidad & Tobago - that was filed at federal court in the USA on October 24, 2003. Individuals and businesses mentioned in the request for assistance include Telecommunication Services of Trinidad and Tobago Ltd., Scotia Bank, Clyde Joseph, Maureen Scott, Aline McLean Jones, Cedric Cole, Ameritec Commercial Trading, Bank Atlantic, Intromicro, Ocean Bank, and USA Intercell.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Trinidad and Tobago into Telecommunication Services of Trinidad and Tobago Limited for alleged fraud.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Trinidad & Tobago into Namcaran Singh, Cosmas Bonaparte, Horace Blake, Robert Paladino and others for alleged corruption.

A 62-year-old Costa Rican businessman who enters into "private loan arrangements" with individuals who are promised annual returns of up to 39.3 per cent has refuted allegations of impropriety.Luis Enrique Villalobos Camacho told OffshoreAlert that he is able to pay such returns because he earns about 75 per cent per year from "buying and selling items such as property, cars and boats".

Police investigating money laundering and drug trafficking have raided the offices of a Costa Rica-based money exchange operated by Luis Enrique Villalobos.The action has led to financial uncertainty for hundreds of foreigners who have collectively invested millions of dollars in a long-running high yield investment scheme operated by Villalobos and his brother, Oswaldo, who are known locally as 'The Brothers'.