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British fraudster Timothy Schools has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for his £120 million Cayman Islands-domiciled Axiom Legal Financing Fund scam, which collapsed in 2012 after being exposed by OffshoreAlert. Schools, 61, was also disqualified from being a company director for 15 years and will face confiscation proceedings.

Petition alleging fraud in Alyeska Master Fund LP, Alyeska Master Fund 2 LP, and Alyeska Master Fund 3 LP, all of the Cayman Islands v. Alta Mesa Resources, Inc., James T. Hackett, Thomas J. Walker, William Gutermuth, Jeffrey H. Tepper, Diana J. Walters, Stephen Coats, Harlan H. Chappelle, Michael E. Ellis, Ronald Smith, David M. Leuschen, Pierre F. Lapeyre, Jr., William W. McMullen, Don Dimitrievich, Donald Sinclair, Riverstone Holdings LLC, Bayou City Energy Management, LLC, HPS Investment Partners, LLC, and ARM Energy Holdings LLC at the District Court for Harris County, Texas.

A class action complaint has been filed against billionaire businessman Mark Cuban and his Dallas Mavericks basketball team for alleged fraud in their promotion of crypto "Ponzi scheme" Voyager Digital.

Class Action Complaint alleging fraud involving crypto broker Voyager Digital in Pierce Robertson, Rachel Gold, Sanford Gold, Rahil Sayed, Christopher Ehrentraut, Todd Manganiello, Dan Newsom, William Ayer, Anthony Dorn, Dameco Gates, Marshall Peters, and Edwin Garrison v. Mark Cuban, Dallas Basketball Limited, d.b.a. Dallas Mavericks, and Stephen Ehrlich at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Class Action Complaint alleging securities fraud in A. Manny Alicandro v. Coinbase Global Inc., which operates a cryptocurrency platform; Brian Armstrong, Alesia J. Haas, Jennifer N. Jones, Marc L. Andreesen, Frederick Ernest Ehrsam III, Kathryn Haun, Kelly Kramer, Gokul Rajaram, Fred Wilson, Emilie Choi, Surojit Chatterjee, AH Capital Management LLC, Paradigm Fund LP, Ribbit Management Company LLC, Tiger Global Management LLC, Union Square Ventures LLC, and Viserion Investment Pte Ltd., of Singapore, at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Complaint in Kings Wharf Opportunities Fund LP, of Bermuda, which "invests in the debt and equity securities of microcap publicly traded companies" v. Affluence Corp., of Oak Brook, Illinois, described as a telecom technology and smart cities company focused on 4G and 5G technology", and Registered Agents Inc., of Boulder, Colorado, at the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland.

Public Notice by the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission that ICC lntercertus Capital Limited has paid €100,000 to settle a regulatory investigation.

Director Details for Guardian Coin Inc., obtained from the Cayman Islands General Registry on August 10th, 2022.

Chapter 15 Petition for Recognition of a Foreign Main Proceeding in Jersey, in the Channel Islands, by Andrew Wood, as the Foreign Representative of Golden Sphinx Limited, described as a "passive investment-holding" vehicle whose ultimate beneficiaries are Alexander Sabadash, "formerly an elected Senator in Russia", his wife, Larisa Sabadash, and their two adult children and whose "principal assets" are a $45 million residence in Beverly Hills, California, and "certain debts from various parties", including Garry Itkin, described as a former director of the debtor who "engaged in fraudulent and unauthorized self-dealing actions", filed at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California.

Public Notice by the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission that FXBFI Broker Financial Invest Ltd. has paid €150,000 to settle a regulatory investigation.

Complaint regarding "missing funds" totaling $590,000 in Ekopel D.O.O., of Slovenia, described as an exporter of medical equipment v. BNY Mellon N.A. at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

Administrative Order by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission imposing a fine of $300,000 on Bloom Protocol LLC, of Delaware, for an unregistered offering of crypto tokens that, inter alia, involved Gibraltar-domiciled Bloom Limited.

Application by N.P.S.SF. Debt Co. Sàrl, of Luxembourg, to take discovery from Standard Chartered Bank, Citigroup, d.b.a. Citibank; The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation, Bank of America N.A., JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A., Deutsche Bank AG, Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, HSBC Bank, Société Générale, UniCredit Bank AG, Credit Suisse Bank N.A., UBS Group AG, Wells Fargo Bank N.A., The Clearing House Payments Company L.L.C., Bank of China, BNP Paribas USA, Commerzbank AG, Mashreq Bank PSC, and Habib American Bank for use in legal proceedings in Germany, India, Marshall Islands, Pakistan, Saints Kitts and Nevis, and United Arab Emirates, filed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Ten years after OffshoreAlert began exposing his Cayman Islands-domiciled Axiom Legal Financing Fund £120 million investment fraud, causing him to sue us for libel, 61-year-old British national Timothy Schools has been convicted on all five counts against him at Southwark Crown Court, in London, and is in custody pending sentencing on Thursday.

Application for Search/Seizure Warrant in USA v. An Account at Twitter Inc. in the name of @BitcoinFog as part of a criminal investigation into “an illicit Bitcoin money transmitting and money laundering service called Bitcoin Fog” at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

Application for Search/Seizure Warrant in USA v. Two accounts at BitcoinTalk.org in the names of Akemashite Omedetou and Killdozer as part of a criminal investigation into "an illicit Bitcoin money transmitting and money laundering service called Bitcoin Fog" at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

Petition in the matter of CBK Holdings Limited at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Originating Application in the matter of Nugent Limited at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Originating Application in the matter of Lucea Harbour House Ltd. at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Originating Application in the matter of Flint River House Ltd. at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Press Release by The Family (Holdings) Ltd., of England and Wales, regarding an attempt to recover assets via Cayman Islands legal proceedings as a result of "misappropriation of funds from The Family (Global Godfathers) SPC by Oussama Ammar and his personal holding companies Fabuleo Limited and Aletheis, The First Limited".

Application by Farhad Azima to take discovery from Global Impact Services, Eitan Arusy, and Truist Financial Corporation for use in legal proceedings in England and Wales styled as "Farhad Azima -v- (1) RAKIA (2) David Neil Gerrard (3) Dechert LLP and (4) James Edward Deniston Buchanan" in which Azima "seeks to hold a group of overseas defendants responsible for the unlawful hacking of Petitioner’s electronic data", filed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

The USA has applied to serve IRS 'John Doe' summonses on M.Y. Safra Bank and "cryptocurrency prime dealer and trading platform" OX Labs, d.b.a. sFOX, at federal courts in New York and California as part of an investigation into the tax liabilities of their cryptocurrency clients.

Ex Parte Petition for Leave to Serve 'John Doe' Summons for an investigation into the tax liabilities of cryptocurrency clients in USA v. M.Y. Safra Bank at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Ex Parte Petition for Leave to Serve 'John Doe' Summons for an investigation into the tax liabilities of cryptocurrency clients in USA v. OX Labs Inc., d.b.a. sFOX Inc., at the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

Application for Seizure Warrant in USA v. Airbus A319-100 Aircraft, which was "purchased ... through a series of shell companies and trusts" in Aruba, Belize, Cyprus, and Jersey, in the Channel Islands involving accounts in England, Isle of Man, Switzerland, and USA and in which "an interest" is allegedly held by Andrei Skoch, described as "a member of Russia's State Duma" since 1999 and "a Deputy of the Duma", filed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Class Action Complaint alleging breach of contract and breach of fiduciary duty against the defendant "for its failure to achieve best execution in connection with trades it executed on March 18, 2022 that resulted in excess of $70 million in damages" in Loomis Sayles Trust Company LLC v. Citigroup Global Markets Inc. at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Public Statement by the Isle of Man Financial Services Authority "concerning the regulatory investigation of The Isle of Man Financial Services Authority in respect of Trident Trust Company (I.O.M.) Limited and the associated outcomes".

Public Statement by the Isle of Man Financial Services Authority "concerning the regulatory investigation of The Isle of Man Financial Services Authority in respect of R & M Management (I.O.M.) Limited and the associated outcomes".

Judgment regarding "Receiver Jonathan E. Perlman’s Motion for Approval of Distribution Plan and First Interim Distribution" against objections, inter alia, from Cayman Islands liquidators in U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission v. TCA Fund Management Group Corp. et al at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.