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Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Russia into Raduga LLC for suspected involvement in tax fraud.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in the United Kingdom into suspected narcotics trafficking and money laundering by Juan David Delvalle and others.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Ukraine into alleged tax fraud.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Hungary into Ferenc Bacs and others for alleged smuggling.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Spain involving Manuel Fernandez Martin Catalan.

Application for appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a credit card fraud investigation into Mitri Sotchugov.

CFTC's Motion for Summary Judgment in Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Sterling forex LLC and Maurice L. Mills at the U. S. District Court for the Western District of Washington.

Eighty-six investors from 19 countries who claim to have invested more than $570 million in the Lancer Offshore Group have filed a lawsuit against its directors, administrator, auditor and prime broker. The three biggest claimants are all based in Montreal, Canada: Fondation Lucie et Andre Chagnon, a charity with a claim for $100 million; Bombardier Inc., the world's biggest train maker and third largest civil aircraft manufacturer whose pension fund has a claim for $68 million; and the University of Montreal's pension fund, with a claim for $67 million.

Section 304 Petition for Assistance in Insolvency Proceedings in the United Kingdom by David Rose, as the Foreign Representative of London and Scottish Assurance Corporation Limited, Edinburgh Assurance Company Limited, The Indemnity Marine Assurance Company Limited, The British & European Reinsurance Company Limited, Commercial Union Assurance Company Limited, General Accident Fire and Life Assurance Corporation Limited, General Accident Reinsurance Company Limited, The New Zealand Reinsurance Company (UK) Limited, The Road Transport & General Insurance Company Limited, The Ulster Marine Insurance Company Limited, Scottish Insurance Corporation Limited, The Yorkshire Insurance Company Limited, and The Ocean Marine Insurance Company Limited, at the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Switzerland into Maria Cecilia Rothermel Manzanera for alleged fraud.

Chapter 7 Petition by Logan Sugarman at the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Minnesota.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in the United Kingdom into alleged tax evasion by Jack Baars and Ann Claire Baars.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in the United Kingdom into Anthony David Rich and others for alleged fraud.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Poland into Syxtus Gaal for alleged credit card fraud.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Italy into Calisto Tanzi, Fausto Tonna, Luciano Del Soldato, Maurizio Bianchi, Lorenzo Penca, Claudio Pessina, Gianfranco Bocchi, Gian Paolo Zini, Giovanni Bonici, Stefano Tanzi, Franco Gorreri, Domenico Barilli, Giovanni Tanzi, Paola Visconti, Francesco Giufreddi, Luciano Silingardi, Fabio Branchi, Angelo Ugolotti, Donatella Alinovi, Claudio Baratta and Alberto Maurizio Ferraris for alleged bankruptcy fraud and related crimes regarding Parmalat SpA.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Belgium into alleged fraud by Patrick Delcour.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Russia into the alleged theft of medical equipment from the Russian Public Health Foundation.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Poland involving the loss of property.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner for a criminal investigation in Ukraine into Selmi JSC for alleged tax fraud.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Canada into alleged fraud by Wayne William Fincham.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Austria into an unknown perpetrator of Internet fraud who uses the bogus name 'Ed Wesyermayer' and an email address of h0pfen@msn.com.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Germany into Klaus Englert and Ulrich Loeffler for alleged fraud and tax evasion.

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.

XL Capital and three of its officers and directors have been named as defendants in a class action lawsuit alleging securities fraud. The complaint was filed at the U. S. District Court for the District of Connecticut on November 20, 2003 on behalf of investors who bought shares between November 1, 2001 and October 16, 2003.

A lawsuit involving Bank of America, Platinum Indemnity Ltd., Diamond State Insurance Company and PartnerRe has been concluded. How it was settled, however, is not public knowledge since several documents concerning the case were filed under seal at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

A Bermuda-registered investment firm is a defendant in a class action lawsuit filed by investors in mutual funds operated by Massachusetts-based Eaton Vance, which manages approximately $75 billion of assets. Lloyd George Investment Management (Bermuda) Ltd., which is operated from Hong Kong, was an investment adviser to Eaton Vance's funds during the class period.

The U. S. Government is seeking to seize the alleged proceeds of narcotics trafficking that are held in accounts at Barclays Bank, in London, England in the name of British Virgin Islands-registered Auxerre Corporation; St. Kitts and Nevis-based Crowne Gold Inc., which is secretly controlled by offshore provider Terry Neal, has been slammed by an Ontario, Canada-based client for allegedly not assisting in the recovery of nearly US$6,000 that the client claims was defrauded from his account by a third-party; U. S.-based Spherion Corporation, which specializes in staffing, recruiting and workforce management, filed a civil complaint against the Cayman Islands Department of Tourism at federal court in the USA on January 29, 2004. Three former insiders of a now-defunct, Grenada-licensed offshore bank have each received non-custodial sentences for their participation in an investment fraud; Meanwhile, two other former insiders with another Grenada-licensed offshore bank, Robert John Skirving and Paul James Peiffer, both of Oregon, have suffered setbacks in their attempts to have their debts wiped out via bankruptcy; Investors who lost millions of dollars in the failed Bahamas-registered Oracle Fund have reached a settlement with the Fund's administrator, reported the Bahama Journal on January 23, 2004; The number of foreign-owned legal entities registered in Bermuda fell by 2.5 per cent from 13,870 to 13,528 during 2003, according to figures recently released by the Registrar of Companies; For a company that claims to manage so much money - more than $2.5 billion - Bermuda-based Orbis Investment Management Ltd. has surprisingly little transparency; A company in which St. Vincent and the Grenadines-licensed offshore bank Omnicorp Bank invested was named as a defendant in a civil lawsuit filed by the SEC at the U. S. District Court for the District of Utah on February 23, 2004; and A participant in an offshore-oriented scam perpetrated by an organization doing business as the Global Prosperity Group or the Institute of Global Prosperity has pleaded guilty to tax evasion in the United States.

Global Dominion Fund, which was part of a now-defunct Nevis-based financial services group, is being sued for fraud in the United States. GDF, an affiliate company called Hooliman Trust and their controller, C. Nolon Bush, were added as defendants on November 21, 2003 to a lawsuit filed three years earlier at the U. S. District Court for the District of Utah.

A slew of lawsuits concerning the collapse of Bermuda-based captive First Virginia Reinsurance Ltd. have been stayed pending a ruling on which United States court should have jurisdiction. All proceedings have come to a temporary halt while a 'Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation' considers a motion by three of the defendants, General Re, GeneralCologne Re and Berkshire Hathaway, to have the cases consolidated into one action at the U. S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee.

The head of a group that established a Cayman Islands hedge fund last year was once disciplined for a securities violation in the United States, OffshoreAlert can disclose. Mark Antony Angelo, 32, President of New Jersey-based Cornell Capital Partners, was fined $500 by the Maine Securities Division in 1999 for failing to disclose the existence of seven consumer complaints against him when he was a licensed sales representative. The nature of the complaints is not public knowledge.

The IRS is conducting an investigation into clients of Vanuatu-registered Asia Pacific Mutual Insurance Company Ltd. Details of the investigation are contained in two petitions filed in October, 2003 by the insurer at the U. S. District Court for the District of Hawaii to quash IRS summonses that were served on the Bank of Hawaii, in Honolulu.

Ansbacher (Bahamas) Ltd. is seeking to prevent a United States bank from partially collecting on a $32 million judgment against an airline based in El Salvador, which is a mutual client. Ansbacher alleges it has a superior claim to Wells Fargo Bank Northwest over $228,993 held in accounts belonging to TACA International Airlines S.A. at the Bank of America, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Article based on applications to collect evidence for a criminal investigation into former Zambia President Frederick Chiluba - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance by Zambia - that were filed at federal courts in the USA on December 10, 2003, December 12, 2003, December 19, 2003, and January 7, 2004. Individuals and businesses mentioned in the request for assistance include Frederick Jacob Titus Chiluba, Xavier Franklin Chungu, Stella Chibanda, Atan Shansonga, Bede Mphande, Bombardier Aerospace Corporation, Aero Toy Store, Inc., and Blue Water Aviation, Inc.

Article based on an application to collect evidence for a criminal investigation into alleged customs violations and money laundering - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from the Netherlands - that was filed at federal court in the USA on October 1, 2003. Individuals and businesses mentioned in the request for assistance include Joanna Atsma-Stulp, Patrick Coughlin, 4458, Inc., and Bank of Montreal.

Article based on an application to collect evidence for the sentencing hearing of Michael John Ongley - pursuant to a request for a request for judicial assistance by Canada - that was filed at the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan on July 18, 2003.

Article based on an application to collect evidence for a fraud prosecution - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from the UK - that was filed at federal court in the USA on January 16, 2004. Individuals mentioned in the request for assistance include Stephen Peter Rayment and Stephen Kornfeld.

Article based on an application to collect evidence for a criminal investigation into alleged securities fraud - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance by Spain - that was filed at federal court in the USA on February 3, 2004. Individuals and businesses mentioned in the request for assistance include CAFI Company, Port Kenny Holdings SL, IFX Ltd., Harris Trust and Savings Bank, Consultoria y Asesoria Financiera International SL, Credit Lyonnais SA, Wilfred Morgan, Sergio Ariel Lopez Crivogusov, Europa Marketing Advisory SL, Global Analysis, Alberto Ortega Diaz, Fernando Heras Castan, Pedro Llorente Malo, International On Line, Francisco Javier Munoz Ponce, David Santiago Suarez, Manuel Diez Fernandez, Ignacio Jose Correa Sureda, and Santiago Maroto Illera.

Article based on an application to collect evidence for a criminal investigation into alleged narcotics trafficking and money laundering - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from Spain - that was filed at federal court in the USA on February 3, 2004. Individuals and businesses mentioned in the request include Talbor Trading SA, Abalone Investments Inc., Gustavo Duran Bautista, Kuna Business SL, Intertransfer, Inc., and Hudson United Bank.

Article based on an application to collect evidence for a criminal investigation into credit card fraud - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from Poland - that was filed at federal court in the USA on February 17, 2004. Individuals and businesses mentioned in the request for assistance include Marek Kacprzak, Tomasz Borkowski, Waldemar Baran, Mariusz Godonczuk, Grzegorz Skorupa, Maciej Mrówka, Pekao Bank, Komplex Company, Tomasz Lenartowicz, Dariusz Pilarski, Roger Daniel, Jari Virankoski, Hidajet Sancakli, Karol Gatkowski, Wojciech Swiatkowski, Pawel Bedzik, Krzysztof Miklaszewski, Marek Ziolkowski, Grzegorz Ramsa, Bankcard Services, Compass Bank, MBNA America Bank, and Citibank.

Article based on an application to collect evidence for a criminal investigation into alleged fraud - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance by Poland - that was filed at federal court in the USA on January 26, 2004. Individuals and businesses mentioned in the request for assistance include Michal Wojewski, Berlo Pomorskie Towarzystwo Leasing Company, JJ Towarzystwo Opieki Medycznej, Parker Leasing Financing Services, Paul Parker and Hope Wiseman.

Article based on an application to collect evidence for a criminal investigation into alleged narcotics - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from the Netherlands - that was filed at federal court in the USA on January 21, 2004. Individuals and businesses mentioned in the request for assistance include Agustin Suriyani Lammers, Yassine Abdellaoui, Jeffrey Prommayon, a.k.a. Geoffrey Prommayon; Abderrazaq Faqir, Adil Ramzi, and Abderrazaq Faqir.

Article based on an application to collect evidence for a criminal investigation into Frans Petrus Johannes Van Laarhoven for extortion and attempted murder - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from the Netherlands - that was filed at federal court in the USA on October 20, 2003.

Article based on an application to collect evidence for a criminal investigation into alleged narcotics-trafficking - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from the Netherlands - that was filed at federal court in the USA on October 23, 2003. Individuals and businesses mentioned in the request for assistance include Michel Pen, Carpe Diem SA, Ramos Moreno, Ellison Investments Spain SA, Ellison World Wide Limited, Julissa Maricela Garcia, JM Carvajal, and Terra Realty, LLC.

Article based on an application to collect evidence for a criminal investigation into alleged fraud - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from Mexico - that was filed at federal court in the USA on December 4, 2003. Individuals and businesses mentioned in the request for assistance include Jaime Guzman Rojas, Crouse Hinds Domex de Mexico, Banamex Corporation, Tamibe, and Texas State Bank.

Article based on an application to collect evidence for a criminal investigation into people smuggling - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from Lithuania - that was filed at federal court in the USA on August 22, 2003. Individuals and businesses mentioned in the request for assistance include Patrick McLaughlin, Lagos B, Webcross LLC, and Unicum Trade LLC.

Article based on an application to collect evidence for a criminal investigation into alleged money laundering - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from Lithuania - that was filed at federal court in the USA on January 20, 2004. Individuals and businesses mentioned in the request for assistance include James William Grassick, Burlington Distribution Service, LLC, JSC Liteurofoto, JC Daisotra, Arturas Aleksiunas, and Irena Jaksoniene.

Article based on an application to collect evidence for a criminal investigation into alleged fraud and tax evasion - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance by Germany - that was filed at federal court in the USA on January 13, 2004. Individuals and businesses mentioned in the request for assistance include Klaus Englert, Ulrich Loeffler, FDN Messtechnik Gesellschaft mit beschranker Haftung, Elab Corporation, and Elab Company, Inc.

Article based on an application to collect evidence for a criminal investigation into alleged fraud - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from Finland - that was filed at federal court in the USA on January 29, 2004. Individuals and businesses mentioned in the request for assistance include Kaj Ossian Barlund, Reijo Mattila, Unto Tapio Vaihkonen, Sami Petter Heikkila, and JTK-Steel Oy.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Spain into Enrique Manuel Vecino Acosta, Ivan Recio Perez and Maximiliano Vecino Adami for alleged fraud.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Portugal into Marcelo Reginaldo, Fernando Tadeu Reginaldo, Sandro Jose Reginaldo, Manuel Francisco Reginaldo Filho, Juares Machado dos Santos, Heleno Leopoldo Loh and Fabricio Silveira Dias for alleged fraud.