Costa Rica: Philip Powers
Complaint for the extradition of Philip Richard Powers from the USA to Costa Rica to face allegations of fraud, filed at the U. S. District Court for the Central District of California.
Costa Rica: Miguel Angel Rodriguez Echeverria et al
Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Costa Rica into the country's former President, Miguel Angel Rodriguez Echeverria, former head of state electrical company, Jose Antonio Lobo Solera, Alfonso Guardia Mora, Guido Sibaja, Edgar Valverde Acosta, Adrian Quiros Carmona, Jose Joaquin Fernandez, Eliseo Vargas Garcia, Rodrigo Mendez Soto, Leonel Barrios and Hernan Bravo Trejos for suspected corruption and illicit enrichment.
Narcotics-trafficking investigators request records from First Union National Bank in Miami
Dutch authorities are seeking to seize the assets of a 42-year-old convicted narcotics trafficker - Bhagwandath Tewarie Parmessar - that are believed to be concealed in a Miami bank.
Netherlands: Bhagwandath Tewarie Parmessar (‘Drugs Trafficking, Money Laundering & Forgery’)
Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from the Netherlands - for a criminal investigation into Bhagwandath Tewarie Parmessar for suspected narcotics trafficking, forgery and money laundering.
Genesis Fund investigation leads to eight arrests
Five people in California and three others in Costa Rica were arrested in May for allegedly swindling hundreds of investors out of tens of millions of dollars from 1994 to 2002 in an offshore investment scam.The arrests followed an 83-count indictment - unsealed on May 13, 2005 - at the U. S. District Court for the Central District of California concerning an unlicensed investment fund known as the Genesis Fund.
Ansbacher asserts superior claim over $32 m judgment debtor
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.
