Gary Kremen

After more than four years on the run, ‘sex.com' domain name thief Stephen Cohen - whose illegal proceeds are believed to be hidden offshore - was arrested in Tijuana, Mexico on October 27, 2005 and turned over to U. S.

For several weeks now, Cayman's two main newspapers, the Caymanian Compass and Cayman Net News, have been attacking each other in news articles and editorials. The animosity between the rivals has now spilled out into the legal system. At the

US businessman Gary Kremen has offered a US$50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of Stephen Michael Cohen, whom a US court recently ruled had stolen the domain name 'sex.com' from Kremen and subsequently made millions of dollars from it. An arrest warrant was issued against Cohen on March 2, 2001 after he failed to turn over details relating to his assets. On April 3, 2001, Kremen was awarded $65 million against Cohen by a Federal Court in California.

Attorney David Hampton Tedder, 54, who has spent much of his career involved in offshore finance, including several dubious ventures, is no longer licensed to practice law in the United States. Records kept by the State Bar of California, where

A federal judge in California has appointed a receiver to take control of any assets of VP Bank (BVI) that were earned from a hard-core pornography web-site at www.sex.com.The Receivership Order, which was issued on February 2, 2001 against convicted felon Stephen Michael Cohen, also covers the assets of two BVI-registered IBCs and other Cohen-related entities.Receiver George C. Fisher, of Palo Alto, is permitted to "locate assets of Stephen Michael Cohen, Ocean Fund International Limited, Sand Man International Limited, VP Bank (BVI) Limited directly or indirectly related to the operation of the Internet domain name 'sex.com'," reads the Order.