Chase Manhattan Bank

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in the United Kingdom into suspected investment fraud by William Booth Cook and Donald Nutter.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Ukraine into Star-Soft Ltd. (Director: Serhji Valerii Paronov; Manager: Oleh Ilarii Pylypets; Chief Accountant: Nataliya Mykhailo Dzyubak) for alleged misappropriation of state funds.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from Uzbekistan - for a criminal investigation into Vitaly Alexandrovich Belov for suspected fraud.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Monaco into William Fogwell, Shelley Fogwell and Guillaume Losada y Padilla for alleged fraud regarding the Hobbs Melville Group.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in the United Kingdom into alleged fraud by Martin Brian Tobias-Gibbins, Jimmy Barnard Sanchez, William Deluce, Imdad Ullah, Carl Tessier, Michael Wilson-Smith, Peter Barnett, Minesh Ruparelia, Wilson-Smith & Co., Rhodes Barlow and Ruparelia Thaker.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Norway into Christian August Mohr and Carmelo Salvatore Firetto for alleged investment fraud.

Odyssey Re (Bermuda) to go into run-off and XL Insurance Limited loses $33.4 million after signing a deal with Chase Manhattan Bank to underwrite loans the bank had made for Hollywood movie productions.

Paris-based AXA Re, which faces massive losses from reinsuring Hollywood movies, has filed a lawsuit against Stirling Cooke Brown Holdings, which brokered a small portion of the business. Stirling Cooke Brown Holdings Ltd., Stirling Cooke Brown Reinsurance Brokers Ltd. and one of the group's former brokers, Sawtantar Sharma, are defendants with Chase Manhattan Bank and George Litto Pictures Inc., of Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills, California, in a lawsuit filed on May 2, 2000 at the Supreme Court for the State of New York.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Poland into Alexei Bragontchuk and for alleged fraud and money laundering regarding the proceeds of weapons trafficking.

A battle for legal jurisdiction between the US government and four offshore financial institutions in a $7 million forfeiture case contains a number of important issues that will affect all companies and individuals who operate offshore but have US clients.Among arguments being put forward by the US government for jurisdiction over banking entities located in Antigua, Switzerland and Panama is the fact that the offshore companies sell their services over the Internet, which can be accessed in the US; that Swiss American Bank has advertised in the in-flight magazine of American Airlines; and that SAB has correspondent banking relationships with banks in the States.