21st Century Banking

Former offshore banker Kenneth Payne has been sentenced to 17 years and seven months in prison after pleading guilty to five counts of mail fraud and one count of money laundering in the United States.Payne, who helped to operate the now defunct 21st Century Banking Group, in Grenada, was sentenced on April 12, 2002 at the United States District Court for the District of Southern Indiana.

One of the principals of a now defunct Grenada-registered bank has been sentenced to five years and 11 months in prison in the United States.Daniel G. Danker, 53, was also fined $50,000 and ordered to pay restitution of more than $20 million at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana on July 15, 2001.

The Grenada International Financial Services Authority has revoked the licenses of 17 offshore banks.

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Grenada-registered 21st Century Banking Group is closing down after the US Securities & Exchange Commission froze the assets of the investment group that operated the offshore bank. In a lawsuit filed at the US District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, the SEC has accused six defendants of defrauding 330 investors out of $29.1 million raised since January, 1998.

Grenada regulators have allowed the sham insurer known as IDIC to incorporate on the island after regulators in Nevis and Dominica closed down the company, we can disclose. IDIC was closed down by Nevis regulators on January 27, 1999 and, the following month, was shut down in Dominica, where it had moved.