oaclondon Archives - OffshoreAlert Conference London 2018

Sergei Magnitsky: Fact Vs. Fiction

OffshoreAlert 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 ...

Scamming the World: SE Asia’s Boiler Rooms

OffshoreAlert 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...

Litigation Funding: What Claimants & Investors Need To Know

OffshoreAlert oaclondon, programme, speakers October 31, 2018

Litigation funding is revolutionizing two industries: legal and investigative. At next month’s OffshoreAlert Conference in London, litigation funders and private investigators will explain how to take advantage of opportunities arising from this emerging sector. In two sessions, details will b...

Dissecting Cayman Court’s ‘$126B Ponzi scheme’ ruling: AHAB v. al-Sanea et al

OffshoreAlert oaclondon, programme, speakers October 29, 2018

A recent Cayman Islands court judgment concerning “one of the largest Ponzi schemes in history” will be analyzed at next month’s OffshoreAlert Conference in London. Chief Justice’s 1,348-page ruling in May in a decade-long family dispute over Saudi Arabia-based conglomerate A...

Offshore Evasion: UK & US Criminal Tax Chiefs to Speak at OffshoreAlert London

OffshoreAlert announcements, oaclondon, programme, speakers October 2, 2018

The criminal heads of HMRC, in the United Kingdom, and the IRS, in the United States, will be discussing the latest initiatives to clampdown on offshore tax evasion at next month’s OffshoreAlert Conference in London. HMRC’s Simon York and the IRS’ Don Fort will co-present a se...

“David Marchant is only alive because killing him would be a crime.”

OffshoreAlert oaclondon, offshorealert September 26, 2018

That was the slogan about OffshoreAlert’s owner and editor on a custom T-Shirt owned by Panama-based accountant Marc Harris in 1998 after OffshoreAlert had exposed his criminal offshore financial enterprise. Twenty years later, Marchant is still alive and Harris is enjoying his freedom again a...

Fraudster moans: ‘OffshoreAlert caused 85% fall in investments’

OffshoreAlert announcements, oaclondon September 18, 2018

A fraudster complaining that OffshoreAlert caused their scam to prematurely collapse is the most sincere compliment anyone can give us. Thus it was when accountant Mark Munnelly, a principal of British firm Privilege Wealth Plc, moaned to the London High Court last year: “Since the articles we...

Liechtenstein’s Modern Day Grave Robbers – Stealing The Assets of Dead Clients

OffshoreAlert oaclondon, programme, speakers August 28, 2018

In the early 1990s, Information Technology specialist Klaus Lins claimed to have discovered evidence that a Liechtenstein fiduciary was misappropriating the assets of wealthy clients when they died, instead of distributing them to beneficiaries. Lins turned whistleblower but the only person who went...

Here’s a sneak peek of OffshoreAlert’s London agenda

OffshoreAlert announcements, oaclondon June 21, 2018

The countdown is on—A preview of OffshoreAlert’s London Conference agenda will be released early next week. Topics will include an analysis of Cayman’s ‘Algosaibi v. Al-Sanea’ Ponzi judgment, Spain’s huge Costa del Fraud problem, Europe’s targeting of whistleblo...

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