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Citigroup has cast doubt on the legitimacy of a new investment scheme whose participants include two key players in the $345 million fraud perpetrated by the Imperial Consolidated Group.Edouardos Stamatiou and Robert Raven are involved in an attempt by United Financial Corporation S. A. to sell $110 million one-year Certificates of Deposit bearing annual interest of up to 14 per cent.

ARGENTINA Switzerland to investigate Menem's bank accountsSwiss judge Christine Junod will investigate whether beleaguered former president Carlos Menem had money in the country's banking system. Until now, Menem has escaped prosecution in spite of the fact that he has been

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from Colombia - for a criminal investigation into Luis Antonio Acevedo Galindo for suspected money laundering.

ARGENTINA The bankers' parade Michael Smith, of HSBC, declared before judge Claudio Bonadío that bribes were somewhat customary in Argentina. Smith—a British citizen who has been only months in the South American country—was testifying in a new case of alleged

Annuity and Life Re, whose stock has plummeted from $26 to $4 per share this year, has reached an agreement with Citibank to extend its $49 million unsecured letter of credit facility into 2003.Under the agreement, Annuity and Life stated

A twice bankrupt businessman who once fell victim to a foreign currency exchange scam is promoting his own Forex scheme and telling participants it is "realistic" to expect monthly returns of four per cent.Maurice Lewis Mills, 37, operates Washington State-based Sterling forex LLC, which claims it has "fulfilled CFTC Compliance requirements to offer forex trading advisory services to U.S. Clients".

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Italy into Marco Bourelly and Fausto De Berardinis for alleged bank fraud.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Italy into Mauricio Raggio and Rocio Zaldivar Mercado for alleged money laundering regarding the proceeds of corruption by the former Secretary of the Italian Socialist Party Benedetto Craxi, a.k.a. Bettino Craxi.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence from Pinebank - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from the United Kingdom - for a criminal investigation into "Kevin Dooley, John Silver and others for theft and conspiracy to defraud".

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in the Netherlands into Antonius Johannes Maria Van der Stappen for alleged bank fraud.

Corruption in Argentina Since it was founded in 1999, the Argentinean Anti Corruption Office has handled 1,784 cases that generated 489 complaints but none of them has produced a sentence. The last index by Transparency International — which classifies countries

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Germany into Jafaru Damulak for suspected fraud.

Indictment filed by USA against Alvin Irwin Moss, Frederick John Collier, Avraham Zohar, a.k.a. Avy Zohar; Richard Titterington, Geoffrey L. Feldman, Sherrie-Lee Doreen Cave, Peter James O'Sullivan, Rosalind Rose, Wayne Budd, Thomas Montgomery Bayer, Robert Murray Bohn, Stacy Layne Beavers, Beverly Ann Moss, Jeffery Allen Moss, Larry Charles Moss, Michael Joseph Harkin and Michael Elliot Cole at the U. S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a money laundering investigation in the United Kingdom into Kentaro Matsumoto and Illy Chakrabarty.

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.

Enron Corp's Bermuda-registered captive, Enron Re Ltd., has assets of just $9.58 million to meet its liabilities, according to bankruptcy court filings. Creditors of the firm include Enron Corp., Enron North America, Risk Management & Trading Corp., European Finance Re and Harrington International Insurance Ltd.

Section 304 Petition for Assistance in Insolvency Proceedings in Bermuda by Malcolm Butterfield and Anthony McMahon, as the Foreign Representatives of Enron Re Ltd., at the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.

Investigator finds links among different cases of corruption in Argentina The head of an anti money laundering commission in Argentina, Legislator Elisa Carrió, has linked apparently unconnected cases of corruption that have occurred during the past 15 years in a

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Australia into the alleged importation of cocaine into Australia aboard marine vessels Tvareg and Maeva Chiqui in January and December 1998, respectively.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from Aruba - for a criminal investigation into Pursi Tjew San Jie-A-Swie, Farley Hon Ping Jie-A-Swie, Gerrit de Rouw, Hon Wo Choy, Kong Hing Supermarket NV, Kong Hing Supercenter NV and Kong Hing Freezone NV for suspected money laundering.

Article based on two applications to collect evidence for separate criminal investigations into suspected money laundering - pursuant to requests for judicial assistance from Liechtenstein - that were filed at federal courts in the USA on June 14, 2001 and June 15, 2001. Individuals and businesses mentioned in the requests for assistance include Jorge Hugo Reyes Torres, Herbert Batliner, Helmuth Otto Wilhelm Eduard Stanisch, Enrico Clerici, Dresdner Bank (Switzerland) AG, Peter Niermann, Verwaltungs-und Privat Bank AG, Pablo Escobar, Juan Carlos Saavedra Molina, Eugen von Hoffen, Eugen Heeb, Maria Sanclemente, Angela Maria Narvaez, Rosa Elvira Muñoz, Nestor Gomez Mejia, Intercompany Management AG, Barex Shipping, Conus Shipping, Nomentana, Calcul Business Consulting, Cashcom Investments, Con Moto Stiftung, Brenner Stiftung, Ancestry Foundation, FSK Foundation, Von Langenburg Stiftung, Agnat Stiftung, Valauris AG, Langdon Shipping Ltd., Standex Shipping Ltd., Zundorf Unternehmens AG, LGT Bank, Citibank, National Financial Services Corp., and Pershing Securities Ltd.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Liechtenstein into Juan Carlos Saavedra Molina and others for the alleged laundering of the proceeds of narcotics trafficking.

Panama is on a new "black list" Getting genuine and trustworthy information vital if one wants to make smart investing decisions is going to be harder from now on in Panama. Eight journalists have been convicted of criminal libel in

Argentina Finally, Argentinean Central Bank boss Pedro Pou was replaced on Wednesday, April 25th, by Roque Maccarrone, former President at Banco de la Nación and Banco Río. The move followed a parliamentarian investigation that found irregularities in the way Pou

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Italy into Marino Carpino for attempted fraud.

Defendant Obioha's Motion for Issuance of Letters Rogatory in the case of  'USA vs. Mack Obioha et al' at the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of California.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Russia into alleged corruption and fraud involving Industrial State Enterprises of St. Petersburg.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Denmark into Peter Dennis Jorgensen or attempted fraud.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Poland into Krzysztof Iwanczuk for alleged misappropriation to the detriment of Rolnicza Spoldzielnia Produkcyjna.

SG Hambros in the Bahamas is considering asking both US and Canadian clients to sign waiver forms authorizing the private bank to release account information to the authorities in these two countries if the need ever arises, we have been

Offshore Alert can this month reveal further details about an Internet bank in Antigua that is perpetrating a fraud so crude that it illustrates why the island has developed such a poor reputation in the offshore world. The fraud is all the more disturbing because the bank's legal representative in Antigua is Steadroy Benjamin, who is a Senator for the ruling Antigua Labour Party and is the Deputy Speaker of the Antiguan House of Representatives.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in the United Kingdom into an alleged advance fee fraud by Gerhard Martens and others.