Dennis Poseley

A trust promoter with a history of involvement in fraudulent offshore investment schemes has been sentenced to seven years in prison in the United States.Dennis Poseley, a former resident of Phoenix, Arizona, was also fined $175,000 at his sentencing at the U. S. District Court for the District of Arizona on June 29, 2006.

A businessman who has been involved with at least two fraudulent offshore investment schemes has been criminally indicted in the United States. Dennis O. Poseley was indicted on one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States at the U.

A Receiver has been appointed for St. Vincent & the Grenadines-licensed Mariner International Bank Ltd. following a court application from a creditor claiming to be owed US$818,379. The local High Court appointed chartered accountant Linton A. Lewis as Receiver of MIB on March 15, 2002. Lewis is a former head of the Offshore Finance Authority in St. Vincent.

A group that has held highly dubious offshore seminars in Bermuda, the Bahamas and other offshore centers was exposed by CBS News' television program '48 Hours' on January 25. The program, which included an interview with OffshoreAlert's publisher, David Marchant, focused on the activities of the Global Prosperity Group, now known as the Institute of Global Prosperity.