Two complaints alleging indebtedness against the Turks and Caicos Islands Government have been filed at courts in the United States over the last six weeks. The first complaint was filed at the Circuit Court for the 11th Judicial Circuit, for
Cayman Islands based First Financial International Group Ltd. is seeking more than $1 million in damages against a software developer in Oklahoma.FFIG, which has businesses in the financial, health and insurance sectors in Cayman, Jamaica, the Bahamas and the Turks
Complaint in First Financial International Group Ltd., of the Cayman Islands, v. Ingenux Inc. at the U. S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma.
After more than five years of waiting patiently while the parties responsible for their woes argued in court, holders of credit cards issued by Bahamas-based Leadenhall Bank & Trust may soon be getting a portion of their security deposits back.
Bahamas-based Leadenhall Bank & Trust Ltd., which was closed down by regulators seven months ago, may be insolvent by more than $11 million. That was the glum news for creditors in the first report of liquidator Craig A. (Tony) Gomez on December 9, 2005. On paper, the bank had shareholders' equity of $1.6 million as of October 3, 2005, with assets of $29,864,139, including $20.4 million in cash, and liabilities of $28,235,807. “However my review has revealed that the balance sheet includes loans and past due credit card receivables totaling $6.6 and $6.3 million, respectively, and that both balances are either unsecured or inadequately collateralized,” stated Gomez in his report.
A civil complaint in which a Cayman Islands-based businessman claims he was falsely arrested in the United States is due to go to trial on October 31, 2005. Delroy Howell, President of Cayman-based money transmitter First Financial Caribbean (Holdings) Ltd., is seeking unspecified damages against Argenbright Security Inc., of Georgia, USA.