Citigroup

Application by CE Line One Corporation Ltd., formerly known as Five Ocean’s Trading Asia Limited, of Hong Kong, to take discovery from Citigroup Inc. and Jonathan C. Goldstein, P.C. for use in "civil and criminal proceedings to be initiated in England and Wales" against "Jeremy Bennett, a British solicitor; 7 Legal and Finance Limited, a British “national business; and Darren Neil Masters, a financial consultant living in Naples, Florida" regarding an alleged $11.3 million investment fraud, filed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Application by Adele Zarzur to take discovery from Bank of America N/A, Banco do Brasil Americas, Banco do Brasil S.A., Banco do Brasil Securities LLC, Safra National Bank, Citigroup Inc., Wells Fargo Bank N/A, JP Morgan Private Bank, UBS Financial Services Inc., and American Express Bank International for use in legal proceedings in Brazil regarding allegations that the "administrators of her father’s estate, including the WZ Group, have concealed and siphoned over $40 million worth of assets out of the estate", filed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Complaint for "for lender liability against the Defendants arising from loans and financing which directly promoted, and continues to promote, significant environmental degradation in and around the Brazilian State of Minas Gerais" in City of Ouro Preto, in Minas Gerais, Brazil v. Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith, Barclays Capital Inc., Citibank Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., JPMorgan, and JPMorgan Securities LLC at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Petition to enjoin the respondents "from permitting the Republic of Chad and entities acting at its de facto direction to steal the equivalent of over $151 million held in bank accounts with Citibank’s branch in Gabon, which is controlled by Citibank" in Savannah Midstream Investment Limited, of the Bahamas v. Citibank, N.A. and Citigroup, Inc. at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Application by N.P.S.SF. Debt Co., S.à.r.l., 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, St. Kitts & Nevis, and United Arab Emirates regarding an alleged $36.6 million fraud by Muhammad Tahir Lakhani and Muhammad Ali Lakhani, both described as residents of Dubai, UAE, and Pakistan, and their Astir Group, filed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Amended Consolidated Class Action Complaint in Indiana Public Retirement System, Boston Retirement System, Public School Teachers' Pension & Retirement Fund of Chicago, International Union of Operating Engineers Local No. 793 Members Pension Benefit Trust of Ontario, UMC Benefit Board, Inc. and Wespath Institutional Investments LLC, both as administrative trustees of the Wespath Funds Trust; Bucks County Employees Retirement Fund, Jacob Guz, and John Thomas v. Silvergate Capital Corporation, Karen F. Brassfield, Robert C. Campbell, Canaccord Genuity LLC, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Paul D. Colucci, Compass Point Research & Trading LLC, Craig-Hallum Capital Group LLC, Thomas C. Dircks, Kathleen M. Fraher, Dennis S. Frank, Goldberg-Flores LLC, Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Aanchal Gupta, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc., Alan J. Lane, Michael Lempres, Antonio Martino, Scott Reed, Benjamin C. Reynolds, Colleen Sullivan, UBS Securities LLC, Wedbush Securities Inc., and Wedbush Securities LLC at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California.

Application by Andrea Custodio, a resident of Uruguay, to take discovery from PNC Bank, Santander Bank, BB&T Corporation, Citigroup Inc., HSBC USA Inc., J.P. Morgan Chase & Co, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Consolid Travel LLC, Joaquin Navasal, Victor Catania, Alamo Homes Realty Inc., Pablo Botta, Elena Chaves, and 2100 Cascades, LLC for use in legal proceedings in Uruguay involving an allegation that Javier Botta "fraudulently concealed and transferred marital assets within the jurisdiction of this Court in an attempt to hide them from the Applicant", filed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Class Action Complaint alleging fraud in Naya 1740 Fund Ltd., Naya Coldwater Fund Limited, Naya Master Fund LP, Nayawood LP, and Quantum Partners LP, all of the Cayman Islands v. Coupang Inc., described as a South Korea-based "social commerce platform where users could purchase tickets for theaters or travel"; Bom Suk Kim, Gaurav Anand, Michael Parker, Matthew Christensen, Lydia Jett, Neil Mehta, Benjamin Sun, Kevin Warsh, Harry You, Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Allen & Company LLC, JPMorgan Securities LLC, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., HSBC Securities (USA) Inc., HSBC Securities (USA) Inc., Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., UBS Securities LLC, Mizuho Securities USA LLC, and CLSA Limited at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

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.

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.

Class Action Complaint in Juan Chen v. Missfresh Limited, described as a Cayman Islands company based in China; Zheng Xu, of China; Jun Wang, of China; Yuan Sun, of China; Zhaohui Li, of China; Colleen A. DeVries, JPMorgan Securities LLC, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., China International Capital Corporation Hong Kong Securities Limited, China Renaissance Securities (Hong Kong) Limited, Haitong International Securities Company Limited, CMB International Capital Limited, AMTD Global Markets Limited, ICBC International Securities Limited, Needham & Company LLC, China Merchants Securities (HK) Co. Limited, ABCI Securities Company Limited, GF Securities (Hong Kong) Brokerage Limited, Futu Inc., Tiger Brokers (NZ) Limited, and Cogency Global Inc. at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Class Action Complaint alleging fraud in City of Riviera Beach General Employees' Retirement System v. Vertiv Holdings Co., Rob Johnson, David Fallon, Jason Forcier, Gary Niederpruem, David Cote, Joseph van Dokkum, Roger Fradin, Jacob Kotzubei, Matthew Louie, Edward L. Monser, Steven S. Reinemund, Robin L. Washington, JPMorgan Securities LLC, Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., VPE Holdings LLC, Vertiv JV Holdings LLC, PE Vertiv Holdings LLC, Platinum Equity LLC, Platinum Equity Investment Holdings LLC, Platinum Equity Investment Holdings Manager LLC, Platinum Equity Investco LP, Platinum Equity Investment Holdings IC (Cayman) LLC, Platinum Investco (Cayman) LLC, Platinum Equity Investment Holdings III LLC, Platinum Equity Investment Holdings Manager III LLC, and Tom Gores at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Class Action Complaint alleging securities fraud bleichmarin Arkansas Teacher Retirement System v. Clarivate Plc, described as "an information services and analytics company" domiciled in Jersey, in the Channel Islands, and based in London, England; Jerre Stead, Richard Hanks, Sheryl von Blucher, Kosty Gillis, Balakrishnan S. Iyer, Nicholas Macksey, Anthony Munk, Jane Okun Bomba, Charles J. Neral, Richard W. Roedel, Christine Archbold, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., BofA Securities Inc., RBC Capital Markets LLC, Barclays Capital Inc., HSBC Securities (USA) Inc., JPMorgan Securities LLC, and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP at the U. s. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Application by Carolina Andraus Lane to take discovery from Morgan Stanley, RBC Bank, Citigroup, Inc., Deutsche Bank AG, Safra Bank of New York, and law firm Fox Horan & Camerini LLP for use in legal proceedings in São Paulo, Brazil, "her former husband and business partner Gilberto Miranda Batista", filed at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

The bankruptcy trustees of London-based Russian suspected fraudster Anatoly Motylev are seeking records from seven banks in New York as they hunt for the "billions of Rubles" he is accused of misappropriating from failed Russian banks and pension funds he once controlled.

Application by Kevin Hellard and Jonathan Thielmann, as Joint Trustees in the English bankruptcy proceedings of Anatoly Leonidovich Motylev, who "is responsible for the collapse of several Russian banks and pension funds that he controlled and has been held liable for these institutions’ debts as a result of the fraud he and his associates perpetrated", to take discovery from Bank of America NA, Citigroup Inc., JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A., HSBC Bank, Bank of New York Mellon Corporation, Standard Chartered Bank, Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, and Commerzbank AG for use in Motylev's "English bankruptcy proceedings", filed at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The alleged fraud and money laundering scheme involves entities and accounts in several jurisdictions, including Austria, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Cyprus, England, Germany, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Marshall Islands, Panama, Russia, Scotland, Seychelles, Switzerland, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and USA, it was stated in the application.

Application by the Libyan Asset Recovery and Management Office to take discovery from Bank of America N.A., Citigroup Inc. d.b.a. Citibank; JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A., UBS Group A.G., HSBC Bank, Credit Suisse Bank N.A., Bank of New York Mellon Corporation, and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas for use in foreign legal proceedings regarding "tens of billions of dollars stolen by Muammar Muhammed Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi over the course of his 32-year dictatorship", filed at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Application by Dina Hlace, a resident of Buenos Aires, Argentina, to take discovery from HSBC USA, Inc., Bank of New York Mellon Corporation, and Citigroup, Inc. for use in legal proceedings in Argentina, filed at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Class Action Complaint alleging securities fraud in Jatin Chopra v. DiDi Global Inc., f.k.a. Xiaoju Kuaizhi Inc., described as a Cayman Islands-domiciled, China-based company that "purports to be the world's largest mobility technology platform. Its four key components are: shared mobility, auto solutions, electronic mobility, and autonomous driving"; Will Wei Cheng, Alan Yue Zhuo, Jean Qing Liu, Stephen Jingshi Zhu, Zhiyi Chen, Martin Chi Ping Lau, Kentaro Matsui, Adrian Perica, Daniel Yong Zhang, Goldman Sachs (Asia) LLC, Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, JPMorgan Securities LLC, BoFA Securities Inc., Barclays Capital Inc., China Renaissance Securities (Hong Kong) Limited, China International Capital Corporation Hong Kong Securities Limited, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Guotai Junan Securities (Hong Kong) Limited, HSBC Securities (USA) Inc., UBS Securities LLC, BOCI Asia Limited, BOCOM International Securities Limited, CCB International Capital Limited, CLSA Limited, CMB International Capital Limited, Futu Inc., ICBC International Securities Limited, Mizuho Securities USA LLC, and Tiger Brokers (NZ) Limited at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Class Action Complaint alleging securities fraud in Rafaela Espinal v. DiDi Global Inc., formerly Xiaoju Kuaizhi Inc., described as a Cayman Islands company based in China that "purports to be the world's largest mobility technology platform"; Will Wei Cheng, Alan Yue Zhuo, Jean Qing Liu, Stephen Jingshi Zhu, Zhiyi Chen, Martin Chi Ping Lau, Kentaro Matsui, Adrian Perica, Daniel Yong Zhang, Goldman Sachs (Asia) LLC, Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, JPMorgan Securities LLC, BoFA Securities Inc., Barclays Capital Inc., China Renaissance Securities (Hong Kong) Limited, China International Capital Corporation Hong Kong Securities Limited, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Guotai Junan Securities (Hong Kong) Limited, HSBC Securities (USA) Inc., UBS Securities LLC, Bocci Asia Limited, BOCOM International Securities Limited, CCB International Capital Limited, CLSA Limited, CMB International Capital Limited, Futu Inc., ICBC International Securities Limited, Mizuho Securities USA LLC, and Tiger Brokers (NZ) Limited at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Editor's Note: Research by OffshoreAlert at the Cayman Islands General Registry showed that the directors of DiDi Global Inc. were identified as Adrian Perica, Zhiyi Chen, Wei Cheng, Chi Ping Martin Lau, Qing Liu, Matsui Kentaro, Yong Zhang, and Jingshi Zhu.

Class Action Complaint "to obtain compensation for putative Class members who have suffered billions of dollars in injuries" regarding "a conspiracy to manipulate" the "financial auction price" of credit default swaps in New Mexico State Investment Council v. Bank of America Corporation, Bank of America, NA, BofA Securities, Inc., Barclays Bank Plc, Barclays Capital Inc., BNP Paribas S.A., BNP Paribas Securities Corp., Citigroup Inc., Citibank N.A., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Limited, Credit Suisse Group AG, Credit Suisse AG, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Credit Suisse Capital LLC, Credit Suisse International, Deutsche Bank AG, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Goldman Sachs & Co., LLC, Goldman Sachs International, JPMorgan Chase & Co., JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., JPMorgan Securities LLC, Morgan Stanley, Morgan Stanley & Co., LLC, Morgan Stanley & Co. International Plc, Morgan Stanley Capital Services, LLC, NatWest Group Plc, NatWest Markets Plc, NatWest Markets Securities, Inc., The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc., Creditex Group Inc., and IHS Markit, Ltd. at the U. S. District Court for the District of New Mexico.

Class Action Complaint in Alex Garnett v. RLX Technology Inc., which "manufactures and sells vaping products in China" and and whose securities are listed on the New York Stock Exchange; Ying Kate Wang, Long David Jiang, Yilong Wen, Yueduo Rachel Zhang, Colleen A. DeVries, Cogency Global Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., and China Renaissance Securities (Hong Kong) Limited, based in China, at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Application by Makhpal Karibzhanova, who "is a citizen of Kazakhstan and is the former wife of a wealthy and politically-connected Kazakh businessman, Aidan Karibzhanov", for an order of judicial assistance "to obtain testimony and documentary evidence to assist in discovery for use in prospective Kazakhstan civil proceedings" involving her former husband, filed at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Application by Yiming Feng and Sicheng Yin, both citizens and residents of China, to take discovery from Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC "for use in pending civil litigation in China against the co-founder, Mr. Guangyuan Cai" regarding "an investment dispute in Energy Monster - one of China's largest powerbank rental companies - in which a co-founder reneged on his promise to transfer a 3% equity stake to Petitioners, who conceived and built up the company", filed at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Chapter 15 Petition for Recognition of a Foreign Main Proceeding in Japan by Hiroshi Morimoto, of Kitahama Partners, as the Foreign Representative of Masahiko Nishiyama, a bankrupt who was found guilty of "fraudulently concealing his assets", at the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

Class Action Complaint in Yoav Gutman v. Lizhi Inc., of China; Jinnan Lai, Ning Ding, Zelong Li, Xi Chen, Tao Huang, Ye Yuan, Richard Arthur, Colleen A. de Vries, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Haitong International Securities Company Limited, of Hong Kong; AMTD Global Markets Limited, of Hong Kong; Needham & Company LLC, of New York; Tiger Brokers (NZ) Limited, of New Zealand; China Merchants Securities (HK) Co. Limited, of Hong Kong; Valuable Capital Limited, of Hong Kong; Prime Number Capital LLC, and Cogency Global Inc. at the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Application by Deposito Centralizado de Compensacion y Liquidacion de Valores Decevale, S.A. to take discovery from Ecuador High Yield Bond Fund LLC, Argonaut FL LLC, Penderton Management LLC, Jorge Cherrez Miño, Lafise Securities Corporation, IBCorp Asset Management Inc., ICS Institutional Custody Services LLC, and Citigroup Inc. "for use in reasonably contemplated civil and/or criminal proceedings in Ecuador to be filed against Mr. Luis Alvarez Villamar, Decevale's former Operations Manager, for fraud, breach of fiduciary duties, and/or indemnification", filed at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Class Action Complaint alleging securities fraud in Allon Yaroni v. Pintec Technology Holdings Limited, a Cayman Islands company based in China whose securities are listed on NASDAQ; Wei Wei, Steven Yuan Ning Sim, Jun Dong, Jing Zhou, Xiaomei Peng, Chao Zhou, Feng Hong, Jiacheng Liu, Goldman Sachs (Asia) LLC, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., and Citigroup Global Markets Inc. at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Florida residents Jorge Falcon and Leonardo Cornide used insolvent Cayman Islands-domiciled Premier Assurance Group SPC as their own "piggy bank", Cayman's financial regulator has claimed.

Criminal Complaint alleging money laundering regarding "work-from-home fraud schemes" in USA v. Aleksandr Vladimirovich Spitsyn, a citizen of Russia, at the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.

Petition to Confirm and Enforce Final Foreign Arbitral Award of $8.3 million in State Joint Stock Holding Company Artem, of Ukraine v. Gray Fox Aviation and Logistics Inc., d.b.a. Gray Fox Logistics, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Class Action Complaint alleging fraud in Steven Burnham v. Qutoutiao Inc., described as a Cayman Islands company based in China; Eric Silliang Tan, Lei Li, Jingbo Wang, Xiaolu Zhu, Shaoqing Jiang, Jianfei Dong, Oliver Yucheng Chen, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Deutssche Bank Securities Inc., China Merchants Securities (HK) Co., Ltd., UBS Securities LLC, and KeyBanc Capital Markets Inc. at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Complaint against "members of a price-fixing cartel designed to eliminate price competition between and among themselves and co-conspirators to fix the intra bank interest rate used as the basis for loans to consumers, including, inter alia, mortgages, student loans, credit cards, auto loans, lines of credit, contracts, and all varieties of financial instruments" in Lisa McCarthy, Mary Katherine Arcell, Keith Dean Bradt, Jose Brito, Jan-Marie Brown, Rosemary D'Augusta, Brenda Davis, Pamela Faust, Carolyn Fjord, Donald C. Freeland, Donna Frye, Gabriel Garavanian, Harry Garavanian, Yvonne Jocelyn Gardner, Valarie Jolly, Michael Malaney, Lenard Marazzo, Timothy Nieboer, Deborah Pulfer, Bill Rubinsohn, Sondra Russell, June Stansbury, Clyde Duane Stensrud, Gary Talewsky, Diana Lynn Ultican, Pamela Ward, and Christine M. Whalen, described as "borrowers and consumers of loans and credit cards with variable interest rates" v. Intercontinental Exchange Inc., Intercontinental Exchange Holdings Inc., ICE Benchmark Administration Limited, ICE Data Services Inc., ICE Pricing and Reference Data LLC, Bank of America NA, Ban of America Corporation, Barclays Bank Plc, Barclays Capital Inc., Citibank NA, Citigroup Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Coöperatieve Rabobank UA, Credit Suisse Group AG, Credit Suisse AG, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Deutsche Bank AG, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., HSBC Holdings Plc, HSBC Bank Plc, HSBC Bank USA NA, HSBC Securities (USA) Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co., JPMorgan Chase Bank NA, JPMorgan Securities LLC, Lloyds Bank Plc, Lloyds Securities Inc., MUFG Bank Ltd., The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd., Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc., MUFG Securities Americas Inc., Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc, Royal Bank of Scotland Plc, National Westminster Bank Plc, NatWest Markets Securities Inc., Royal Ban; of Canada, RBC Capital Markets LLC, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc., Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Europe Ltd., SMBC Capital Markets Inc., The Norinchukin Bank, UBS Group AG, UBS AG, and UBS Securities LLC at the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Petition to Quash Third Party Summons Issued to Citibank NA by the IRS regarding "India Income Tax Liabilities" and an allegation of "political harassment against the current Indian administration's political opposition" in Sabena Puri v. USA at the U. S. District Court for the Central District of California.

Application by iFinex Inc., of the British Virgin Islands, which operates a cryptocurrency exchange known as Bitfinex, to take discovery from Enterprise Bank & Trust "for use in proceedings in foreign tribunals in Poland, Portugal, and the United Kingdom" involving alleged fraud, filed at the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri.

Application by iFinex Inc., of the British Virgin Islands, which "operates a leading global virtual currency platform operating under the brand and trade name of Bitfinex", to take discovery from Rondell 'Rhon' Clyde Monroe "for use in foreign proceedings both currently ongoing and contemplated in Poland, Portugal, and the United Kingdom" as part of an attempt "to recover approximately $880,000,000 of funds which it had entrusted to an entity named Global Trade Solutions AG, doing business as 'Crypto Capital'", filed at the U. S. District Court for the District of Nevada.

The liquidators of ABRAAJ Investment Management Ltd. have applied to take discovery from 17 banks and a clearing house in the U.S. for "contemplated litigation" in the Cayman Islands to recover more than $385 million allegedly misappropriated by the Dubai-based ABRAAJ Group's founder, Arif Naqvi.

Petition to Quash Third Party Summons issued to Citibank NA by the Internal Revenue Services regarding "India Tax Liabilities" in Sabena Puri, of India v. USA at the U. S. District Court for the Central District of California.

Class Action Complaint alleging securities violations in Katherine Wandel v. Phoenix Tree Holdings Limited, described as "a Cayman Islands holding company that leases and manages apartments in China"; Jing Gao, Derek Boyang Shen, Yan Cui, Wenbiao Li, Erhai Liu, Xian Chen, William Wang, Gang Ji, Edwin Fung, Jianping Ye, Jason Zheng Zhang, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, JPMorgan Securities LLC, Tiger Brokers (NZ) Limited, US Tiger Securities Inc., Cogency Global Inc., and Richard Arthur at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Application by iFinex Inc., d.b.a. Bitfinex, a British Virgin Islands-domiciled, Taiwan-based cryptocurrency exchange operator, to take discovery from Arizona Bank & Trust "for use in foreign proceedings both currently ongoing and contemplated in Poland, Portugal, and the United Kingdom" in which iFinex "seeks to recover approximately $880,000,000" that was allegedly misappropriated by Global Trade Solutions AG, d.b.a. Crypto Capital, of Switzerland, and related parties, filed at the U. S. District Court for the District of Arizona.

Application by iFinex Inc., d.b.a. Bitfinex, a British Virgin Islands-domiciled, Taiwan-based cryptocurrency exchange operator, to take discovery from Pinnacle Bancorp, d.b.a. Bank of Colorado, "for use in foreign proceedings both currently ongoing and contemplated in Poland, Portugal, and the United Kingdom" in which iFinex "seeks to recover approximately $880,000,000" that was allegedly misappropriated by Global Trade Solutions AG, d.b.a. Crypto Capital, of Switzerland, and related parties, filed at the U. S. District Court for the District of Colorado.

Application by iFinex Inc., d.b.a. Bitfinex, a British Virgin Islands-domiciled, Taiwan-based cryptocurrency exchange operator, to take discovery from SunTrust Bank "for use in foreign proceedings both currently ongoing and contemplated in Poland, Portugal, and the United Kingdom" in which iFinex "seeks to recover approximately $880,000,000" that was allegedly misappropriated by Global Trade Solutions AG, d.b.a. Crypto Capital, of Switzerland, and related parties Application, filed at the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.

Nigeria is seeking records from ten banks in the United States for a criminal investigation into an alleged $10 billion bribery and fraud scheme committed by a "shell entity" in the British Virgin Islands that was set up and operated by citizens of Ireland and the United Kingdom.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence from Wells Fargo Bank - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from Ecuador - for a criminal investigation into Marcelo Antonio Espin Cunha, Maria Sol Larrea Sanchez, and Carlos Ricardo Espin Cunha for suspected money laundering.

Class Action Complaint alleging securities law violations in Joseph Acerno v. XP Inc., described as a NASDAQ-listed, Cayman Islands-domiciled company that "purports to be a leading, technology-driven financial services platform and a trusted provider of low-fee financial products and services in Brazil"; Guilherme Dias Fernandes Benchimol, Bruno Constantino Alexandre dos Santos, Bernardo Amaral Botelho, Carlos Alberto Ferreira Filho, Gabriel Klas da Rocha Leal, Fabricio Cunha de Almeida, Guilherme Sant'Anna Monteiro da Silva, Julio Capua Ramos da Silva, Martin Emiliano Escobari Lifchitz, Geraldo José Carbone, Francisco Eduardo de Almeida Pinto, Maria Helena dos Santos Fernandes de Santana, Jared Wilson, Goldman Sachs & Co.. LLC, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, XP Investments US LLC, Itau BBA USA Securities Inc., BofA Securities Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, and UBS Securities LLC at the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Third Superseding Indictment adding four new defendants, including former executives of 21st Century Fox, Inc., of the United States, and Imagina Media Audiovisual SL, of Spain, alleging racketeering, money laundering, wire fraud, tax fraud, and unlawful procurement of naturalization regarding alleged bribery and corruption involving FIFA and other soccer organizations in USA v. Hugo Jinkis, a citizen of Argentina; Mariano Jinkis, a citizen of Argentina; Full Play Group SA, of Uruguay; Hernan Lopez, a citizen of the U.S. and Argentina; Carlos Martinez, a citizen of the U.S. and Mexico; Gerard Romy, a citizen of Spain; Ariel Alvarado, a citizen of Panama; Manuel Burga, a citizen of Peru; Luis Chiriboga, a citizen of Ecuador; Marco Polo Del Nero, a citizen of Brazil; Eduardo Deluca, a citizen of Argentina; Eugenio Figueredo, a citizen of the U.S. and Uruguay; José Luís Meiszner, a citizen of Argentina; Romer Osuna, a citizen of Bolivia; Ricardo Teixeira, a citizen of Brazil; Reynaldo Vasquez, a citizen of El Salvador, and Jack Warner, a citizen of Trinidad and Tobago, at the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Complaint alleging securities fraud in Philippe Lemieux v. Canaan Inc., a Cayman Islands company based in China whose shares are listed on NASDAQ; Nangeng Zhang, Jiaxuan Li, Jianping Kong, Qifeng Sun, Quanfu Hong, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., China Renaissance Securities (Hong Kong) Limited, CMB International Capital Limited, Galaxy Digital Advisors LLC, Huatai Financial Holdings (Hong Kong) Limited, Tiger Brokers (NZ) Limited, Haitong International Securities Company Limited, and ViewTrade Securities Inc. at the U. S. District Court for the District of Oregon.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence from Citibank regarding an account at ABC Banking Corporation Ltd., of Mauritius - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from Poland - for a criminal investigation into Jan Putkowski and others for suspected money laundering.

In an application to take discovery from 12 US banks, a financial institution owned by six Arab nations claims that "hundreds of millions of dollars are missing" from a Cayman Islands investment fund that was set up to invest in "port-related assets around the world".

Complaint in David Younge v. Aircastle Limited, a Bermuda-domiciled, Connecticut-based company whose shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange; Michael J. Inglese, Aaron Dahlke, Peter V. Ueberroth, Ronald W. Allen, Giovanni Bisignani, Michael J. Cave, Douglas A. Hacker, Jun Horie, Takashi Kurihara, Takayuki Sakakida, Ronald L. Merriman, Agnes Mura, and Charles W. Pollard at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.