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    WATCH: Fraud & Murder in the Bahamas: The Hywel Jones Affair

    The brother of murdered British businessman Hywel Jones will discuss the seemingly incompetent and/or corrupt police investigation into both his brother's death and an alleged $20 million fraud by Jones' former business partner, prominent Bahamian Lester Turnquest. This session will look at evidence of corruption in the Bahamas on a wider scale and go into problems that expatriate business people face when living and working in the jurisdiction.  EDITOR'S NOTE: The person who begins asking questions at the 50:16 mark is attorney Colin Callender, Managing Partner of Callenders & Co. law firm in the Bahamas. Although he did not disclose it when asking questions, Mr. Callender's law firm represents Lester Turnquest and, in fact, Lester Turnquest's brother, Stephen Turnquest, is a partner of Callenders & Co.   FREE - Watch Complete Session Now

    Hey, Bahamas: Where’s the justice for Hywel Jones?

    Nearly two-and-a-half years after the assassination of offshore finance executive Hywel Jones, a British national, in the Bahamas, the person who is widely believed to have ordered the hit - well-connected, former politician Lester Turnquest - has still not been charged. This comes as no surprise to me. Just a

    Insider Talking: March 10, 2010

    Democratic and Republican politicians alike in the USA fail to return Allen Stanford donations, including Charles Rangel, Max Baucus, John McCain and … gulp … Barack Obama!; victims of one of Canada's biggest hedge fund frauds prepare to sue Grant Thornton Bahamas; man charged with murder of British financial services provider Hywel Jones - police continue to investigate the person who ordered the hit; and a penny stock firm that vanishes into thin air exposes two ridiculous audits conducted by Bahamas firm HLB Galanis Bain

    Insider Talking: January 12, 2010

    The Hedge Hog and Conserve Fund has become the latest example of the extraordinary reluctance of the Bermuda Monetary Authority to take any meaningful action against locally domiciled financial services firms that are suspected of illegal activity, no matter how

    Insider Talking: August 19, 2009

    U. S. businessman Robert F. X. Sillerman, whose assets include the hit television show 'American Idol' and the late Elvis Presley's estate Graceland, has satisfied a summary judgment for $24.2 million that was entered against him in favor of Credit

    Insider Talking: July 19, 2009

    Bermuda based husband and wife financial advisors were charged with stealing $360,000 from one of their companies, Emerald Capital International Ltd., and laundering the proceeds during a hearing at Bermuda Magistrates Court on July 9, 209. David Bolden, 44, a

    Insider Talking: May 18, 2009

    The Royal Bahamas Police Force has launched a murder investigation following the death on May 8, 2009 of Bahamas based offshore provider Hywel Jones, who had been in a coma since he was shot in the head 16 days earlier

    Lester Turnquest, Jr. et al v. Hywel Jones et al: Seventh Affidavit of Receiver

    Seventh Affidavit of Receiver George Clifford Culmer in Lester Turnquest, Jr. and The Bonnycord Group Limited v. Hywel Jones, The Britannia Group Ltd., Hampton Insurance Company Limited, and Stephen Dickson at Bahamas Supreme Court. In the affidavit, Culmer, inter alia, accuses Lester Turnquest of "complete non-compliance" with a court order requiring him to disclose information.

    Lester Turnquest, Jr. et al v. Hywel Jones et al: Sixth Affidavit of Receiver

    Sixth Affidavit of George Clifford Culmer in Lester Turnquest, Jr. and The Bonnycord Group Limited v. Hywel Jones, The Britannia Group Ltd., Hampton Insurance Company Limited, and Stephen Dickson at Bahamas Supreme Court. In the affidavit, the Receiver, inter alia, accuses Lester Turnquest of failing to respond to his requests for financial information.

    Lester Turnquest, Jr. et al v. Hywel Jones et al: Fourth Affidavit of Receiver

    Fourth Affidavit of Receiver George Clifford Culmer in Lester Turnquest, Jr. and The Bonnycord Group Limited v. Hywel Jones, The Britannia Group Ltd., Hampton Insurance Company Limited, and Stephen Dickson at Bahamas Supreme Court. The Receiver, inter alia, accuses Lester Turnquest of failing to co-operate with the Receivership and of failing to disclose certain asset transfers.

    Lester Turnquest, Jr. et al v. Hywel Jones et al: Asset Freeze Order

    Order Freezing Assets and Appointing a Receiver for Lester Turnquest's Bonnycord Group Ltd. and other companies in Lester Turnquest, Jr. and The Bonnycord Group Limited v. Hywel Jones, The Britannia Group Ltd., Hampton Insurance Company Ltd., and Stephen Dickson at Bahamas Supreme Court.

    Lester Turnquest, Jr. et al v. Hywel Jones et al: Hywel Jones Affidavit

    Affidavit of Hywel Jones in support of an asset freeze order and receivership application in Lester Turnquest, Jr. and The Bonnycord Group Limited v. Hywel Jones, The Britannia Group Ltd., Hampton Insurance Company Limited, and Stephen Dickson at Bahamas Supreme Court. The affidavit includes a section entitled 'Physical attacks on me'.

    Bank accounts frozen after Cash 4 Titles businessman arrested

    Two weeks after an article in the September 30th edition of OffshoreAlert about a Bahamas-based mutual fund - Olympia Fund - that invests in a business known as Cash 4 Titles, C4T's funds were frozen following criminal and civil action in the United States.The problems came with the arrest in Fort Lauderdale on October 15 of Michael E. Gause, who helps to run the underlying business in which the fund invests.

    ‘Legalized loan-sharking’ fund launched in Bahamas

    A Bahamas-registered mutual fund has been set up to invest in a controversial industry in which high-interest loans are issued to low income people who use their pay checks and car titles as collateral.Some call it legalized loan-sharking, others call it a cash life-line to the poor. To investors in Olympia Fund Limited, though, it is, perhaps, best called a means to earning above-average returns.