Centaur Litigation

Judgment In the Matters of Centaur Litigation SPC, Centaur Litigation Limited, and Centaur Litigation Unit Series 1 Limited at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Grant Thornton's Fourth Report to Creditors of Centaur Litigation SPC, Centaur Litigation Limited, and Centaur Litigation Unit Series 1 Limited (in Official Liquidation).

Cayman Islands-owned Gable Insurance AG, which provided apparently sham insurance for at least three fraudulent offshore investment schemes, has been taken over by its local regulator in Liechtenstein.

Liechtenstein insurer Gable Insurance, whose Cayman Islands parent is listed on the London Stock Exchange's AIM and which has provided apparently sham insurance for at least three investment schemes that swindled investors out of more than £200 million, has been ordered to stop writing new business by its local regulator.

Complaint in Centaur Litigation Limited, Centaur Litigation Unit Series 1 Ltd., and Centaur Litigation SPC v. Trent Scott Wallace Strong, a.k.a. Scott Campbell Fisher, a.k.a. Scott Williams, at the Federal Court of Australia.

An elusive Australian who uses multiple identities has finally been tracked down and examined by the liquidators of a £97 million Cayman Islands-domiciled litigation funding fraud carried out in the names of Argentum Capital, Centaur Litigation and Buttonwood Legal.

Brendan Terrill, 50, who was one of the masterminds of a litigation funding fraud that collapsed last year after being exposed by OffshoreAlert, has been imprisoned in Britain after pleading guilty to sharing "indecent images of children" over the Internet.

Complaint in Centaur Litigation SPC, Centaur Litigation Limited, and Centaur Litigation Unit Series 1 Limited, all in Official Liquidation in the Cayman Islands v. Brendan Mark John Terrill, of London, England, at the High Court of Justice of England and Wales,

This page is devoted to fraudsters who sue OffshoreAlert for libel after we have exposed them, thereby demonstrating they are stupid and delusional, as well as dishonest. Having their own permanent entry on a free section of our site so their families, friends, future victims and others can discover how ugly they are is a price they must pay for letting their emotions and ego override common sense.

Letter from attorney David Wotherspoon threatening to sue OffshoreAlert for allegedly defaming his client, Canadian fraudster Duane McGaw.

Australian firm Dequity Partners has denied involvement in an attempt to sell on Craigslist (Bangkok) a database of investors who invested in a fraudulent litigation funding scheme in the names of Centaur Litigation and Buttonwood Legal Capital.

Advertisement entitled 'Centaur Litigation & Buttonwood Legal Capital Database For Sale (Bangkok' on Craigslist (Bangkok) on March 10, 2015.

Investors who have already been swindled out of £98 million in a litigation funding scam by Buttonwood Legal Capital are being asked to invest a further £14.63 million to finance a Cayman Islands-domiciled 'rescue fund' set up by Simon Franklin, Stuart Hackett, and Klaus Selinger, who were all involved with the Buttonwood scheme before its collapse. 

'Confidential Private Placement Memorandum' for Cayman Islands-based Chiron Litigation Funding Limited set up by Simon Franklin, Stuart Hackett and Klaus Selinger, of Dequity Partners Pty Ltd., in Australia, to recover assets on behalf of investors in Centaur Litigation Limited, Centaur Litigation SPC, and Centaur Litigation Unit Series 1 Limited who were swindled in a litigation funding fraud perpetrated by Buttonwood Legal Capital and the Argentum Capital Group.

Letter from Salvatore Cugliari denying a claim by the provisional liquidators of fraudulently-operated Cayman Islands-based Centaur Litigation SPC, Centaur Litigation Limited, and Centaur Litigation Unit Series 1 Limited that Royal Luxembourg Soparfi is a "hollow insurer". Royal Luxembourg Soparfi is "a holding company, not an insurer", writes Cugliari.

More than £27 million of the £80 million raised from investors by the Cayman Islands-domiciled Centaur Group may have been misappropriated by insiders Scott Williams, Duane McGaw, Brendan Terrill and others, according to the Joint Provisional Liquidators.

Grant Thornton's First Report to Creditors and Investors of Centaur Litigation SPC, Centaur Litigation Limited, and Centaur Litigation Unit Series 1 Limited (in Provisional Liquidation).

'Update as to historical facts and progress made for investors' by Buttonwood Legal Capital Limited - July 31, 2014.

A writ of summons filed last month in the British Virgin Islands against the suspected masterminds of the £97 million Buttonwood/Argentum/Centaur litigation funding fraud - Scott Williams and Brendan Terrill - recently became publicly available.

Three fraudulently-operated litigation funds known as 'Centaur' went into provisional liquidation at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands last Friday. They are Centaur Litigation SPC, Centaur Litigation Limited, and Centaur Litigation Unit Series 1 Limited.

Litigation funding firm Buttonwood Legal Capital - which perpetrated a £97 million fraud against investors - says it has brought a lawsuit in the British Virgin Islands against former managers Brendan Terrill and Scott Williams for allegedly siphoning off funds. The case has apparently been sealed by the BVI High Court.

Investors in the litigation funding criminal enterprise known as Buttonwood Legal Capital, Centaur Litigation and Argentum need to kick out the clowns who are managing the different facets of this hopelessly insolvent group and take control of the situation before

The slow and chaotic collapse of a fraudulent litigation funding group known as Argentum, Buttonwood and Centaur that was triggered by an OffshoreAlert exposé four months ago has finally hit the courts, with four actions filed in the BVI and Cayman.

Winding-Up Petition In the Matter of Centaur Litigation Unit Series I Limited at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Winding-Up Petition In the Matter of Centaur Litigation Limited at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Winding-Up Petition In the Matter of Centaur Litigation SPC at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Claims by BVI-domiciled Buttonwood Legal Capital that it applied last month to liquidate three affiliated investment funds in the Cayman Islands that go by the name 'Centaur' are false, OffshoreAlert can reveal. No such petitions were filed.

Document Entitled 'Investor Frequently Asked Questions' distributed to investors by Buttonwood Legal Capital Limited (BVI) on June 2, 2014.

Citing "financial irregularities", BVI-domiciled Buttonwood Legal Capital Limited says it has applied to liquidate three affiliated investment funds in the Cayman Islands: Centaur Litigation SPC, Centaur Litigation Limited, and Centaur Litigation Unit Series 1 Limited.

Two months after being exposed by OffshoreAlert as being part of a massive fraud, litigation funder Argentum Group has gone out of business without warning and, according to a source, some of its senior officers in the United Kingdom may have even fled their homes.

Litigation funder Buttonwood Legal Capital, whose Ponzi scheme was exposed by OffshoreAlert three weeks ago, is being investigated for suspected securities offenses in Hong Kong, where regulators have raided the firm's recently-vacated offices and those of two service providers, Hong Kong Trust Company and Allied Pickfords.

Letter from attorney Ashley Hurst, of British law firm Olswang LLP, complaining about a reference to his client, Greg Fairley, in OffshoreAlert's exposé of the Buttonwood Legal Capital/Centaur Litigation Ponzi scheme.

After being suspended on Friday, the shares of London-based litigation fund Argentum Capital Ltd. were today de-listed from the Channel Islands Securities Exchange. The move follows last week's OffshoreAlert exposé of ACL as being part of a £90 million Ponzi scheme.

The Channel Islands Securities Exchange yesterday suspended the listing of London-based Argentum Capital Ltd. - three days after OffshoreAlert exposed the litigation fund as part of a £90 m Ponzi scheme headed by Briton Brendan Terrill, who operates Cayman-domiciled Centaur Litigation and Hong Kong-domiciled Buttonwood Legal Capital.

London-based litigation fund Argentum Capital, whose shares are listed on the Channel Islands Securities Exchange and whose chairman is retired British judge David Keene, is being financed by what appears to be a £90 m Ponzi scheme headed by Briton Brendan Terrill and involving the BVI, Cayman Islands, Hong Kong, Jersey, Singapore, Thailand and other jurisdictions, OffshoreAlert can reveal.

Centaur Litigation SPC - Master Memorandum - February 18, 2013