Prominent Cayman Islands based businessman Naul Bodden has agreed to pay US$3.3 million to settle his liabilities to a fund group he controlled whose investors were defrauded out of US$19 million, including two banks licensed in Barbados and two hedge
Petition for the Recall of a Voluntary Liquidation In the Matter of DM Investment Funds SPC, formerly known as Dynagest Investment Funds SPC, at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.
Winding Up Petition in Bear Stearns Alternative Assets International Ltd. v. Belmont Asset Based Lending Ltd. at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.
Public Notice by the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority announcing the appointment of Stuart Sybersma and Ian Wight, of Deloitte & Touche, as the joint controllers of Colonial Life Insurance Company (Trinidad) Limited, trading in the Cayman Islands as Clico (Cayman) Ltd.
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.
The cold reality of life behind bars has persuaded former offshore banker Paul Morgan Jones to start turning over his assets to the Receiver of Cash 4 Titles, which perpetrated one of the biggest Ponzi schemes in history, operating from
Writ of Summons in National Warranty Insurance Risk Retention Group (in Liquidation) v. Deloitte & Touche (a firm), Ian Wight, Richard Douglas, Michael Pilling, Glen Wigney, Deloitte & Touche USA LLP, Deloitte & Touche LLP, Deloitte Consulting LLP, and Milliman Inc. at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.
The liquidators of Euro Bank Corporation have paid a first dividend totaling US$70 million to creditors, representing 80 cents on the dollar to recognized claimants.Liquidators Michael Pilling and Ian Wight, of Deloitte & Touche, told creditors in a letter dated May 13, 2002 to expect a final return of at least 100 per cent of their respective claims.
Part of the estimated $5.5 million allegedly looted from the First Cayman Bank/Gulf Union Bank group in 1997 went to satisfy a $1.75 million fraud judgment in the United States, according to the liquidators.The fraud had been committed by Sheikh Abdus Shimmy Qureshi and his now defunct Florida firm Escue Management Inc., it was alleged.
Two Cayman banks that were closed down by regulators due to money laundering concerns have filed lawsuits against the government seeking the return of a mysterious US$2.5 million payment in 1997. The litigation relates to the unusual circumstances in which Euro Bank Corporation, then a Class 'B' bank, obtained a rarely-awarded Class 'A' banking license on October 8, 1997.
Writ of Summons in First Cayman Bank Ltd. v. Cayman Overseas (Pinnacle) Ltd., Cayman Overseas (Park Place) Ltd., Cayman Overseas (Downtown) Ltd., Cayman Overseas Developments Ltd., Cayman Overseas Holdings Ltd., Cayman Overseas Investments Ltd., Cayman Overseas Purchasing Services Ltd., Cayman Overseas Realtors Ltd., Cayman Overseas Reinsurance Association Ltd., and The Cayman Overseas Group Ltd. at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.
Cayman Islands-based Euro Bank Corporation this month officially went into voluntary liquidation, as we revealed it would in the May edition of Offshore Alert. Additionally, two members of its management, Ivan Burges and Judi Donegan, were arrested by Cayman police but released without charge, according to sources.
Cayman-registered Euro Bank Corporation is to go into voluntary liquidation following a report into its affairs by Ian Wight and Michael Pilling, of Deloitte & Touche, OffshoreAlert can reveal. The accountants were appointed as controllers of the bank by the Cayman government on May 11 following concerns that it may be involved in illegal activities.
The liquidators of First Cayman Bank have opened negotiations with the bank's directors and officers with a view to holding them financially accountable for their responsibilities. A lawsuit for negligence is also being considered against the bank's auditors. This and the fact that professional fees and disbursements totalling $1.16 million were incurred in the first 23 weeks of provisional or official liquidation were the highlights of the second report of FCB's liquidators, Ian Wight and Michael Pilling, of Deloitte & Touche, dated May 14.
Investors in a failed Cayman-registered mutual fund have criticized the fund's liquidators, Deloitte & Touche, for going behind their backs in applying for a large increase in their liquidation fees. A group of about 20 shareholders of The Global Opportunity Fund, who claim to have lost more than $40 million in the fund, have accused the accounting firm of greed and underhandedness.