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    Genesis Fund investigation leads to eight arrests

    Five people in California and three others in Costa Rica were arrested in May for allegedly swindling hundreds of investors out of tens of millions of dollars from 1994 to 2002 in an offshore investment scam.The arrests followed an 83-count indictment - unsealed on May 13, 2005 - at the U. S. District Court for the Central District of California concerning an unlicensed investment fund known as the Genesis Fund.

    US Department of Justice investigates Genesis Fund

    The United States Department of Justice is conducting a criminal investigation into the collapse of a Costa Rica-based investment fund which collapsed with up to $50 million of investor funds missing.The existence of the investigation has been acknowledged in at least two letters sent this year from insiders to investors in The Genesis Fund Ltd., which is incorporated in Nevis.