Second Report of the liquidators of Grand Island Commodity Trading Fund, Grand Island Commodity Trading Fund II, Grand Island Income Fund, and Grand Island Master Fund Limited at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.
The recent collapse in suspicious circumstances of four investment funds in the Cayman Islands which were established by one of the island's leading local businessmen - Naul Bodden - highlights the absurd level of secrecy that exists in all offshore financial centers that are currently or formerly UK Overseas Territories and, for that matter, the UK itself; Meanwhile, as one of Cayman's worst local company collapses was unfolding, a much-accomplished regulator who would have inspired confidence among the international community that the liquidations would be handled properly, Tim Ridley, was being replaced, effective July 27, 2008, as Chairman of the supposedly-independent Cayman Islands Monetary Authority by Carlyle McLaughlin, who is a cousin of Alden McLaughlin, a senior member of the Cayman Islands Government; Continuing on a Cayman theme, OffshoreAlert noticed that a US-based entrepreneur, Uthman Villanueva, using a business name of 'Golden Crest Consulting' a 'hotmail' email address and a PO Box mailing address in New York, NY, registered the domain name 'uglandhouse.com' as recently as June 28, 2008 - just a few weeks before the US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigation was due to hold a hearing into tax avoidance and evasion in offshore financial centers; and Three founders of a fraudulent, offshore-focused outfit that was known first as the Global Prosperity Group and later as the Institute of Global Prosperity, received prison-terms for tax crimes at federal court in the USA on July 28, 2008.
First Affidavit of Naul Bodden in the case of the liquidators of Grand Island Master Fund, Grand Island Income Fund, Grand Island Commodity Trading Fund, and Grand Island Commodity Trading Fund II against Caribbean Commodities Ltd., RCTG Investments Ltd., and Robert Christopher Girvan at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.
Chapter 15 Petition for Recognition of a Foreign Main Proceeding in Bermuda by Tamsin Walker, as the Foreign Representative of Arion Insurance Company Limited, at the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.
Chapter 15 Petition for Recognition of a Foreign Main Proceeding in the Cayman Islands by David Walker and Lawrence Edwards, as the Foreign Representatives of Amerindo Internet Growth Fund Ltd., at the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.