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How To Detect Investment Fraud

programme, speakers November 9, 2018
Detecting investment fraud is easy if you know what to look for. Since 1997, OffshoreAlert has exposed more than 175 investment frauds and helped law enforcement and regulators hold those responsible accountable. At next week’s OffshoreAlert Conference in London, OffshoreAlert’s owner an...

Sergei Magnitsky: Fact Vs. Fiction

oaclondon, programme November 7, 2018
By now, the story of Sergei Magnitsky is well-known: A young attorney was beaten to death in a Russian jail cell after blowing the whistle on a $230 million fraud. The incident inspired legislative initiatives in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia to punish ...

Gutting The Billion Dollar Whale

programme November 6, 2018
A $5 billion fraud perpetrated by Malaysian financier Jho Low via an entity known as 1MDB is as audacious a scam as you will find, involving Hollywood, politics, Goldman Sachs, and the financial elite. At this month’s OffshoreAlert Conference in London, The Wall Street Journal reporter Bradley...

Scamming the World: SE Asia’s Boiler Rooms

oaclondon, programme November 2, 2018
Thailand and other parts of Southeast Asia are hotbeds of criminality, places where expatriate investment fraudsters operate boiler rooms with seeming impunity as they set about swindling foreigners living in the world’s major countries, many of whom are pensioners. Investigative journalist An...