Isle of Man Assurance

Plaintiff's Emergency Ex Parte Motion for Statutory Restraining Order, Asset Freeze, Preliminary Injunction, Expedited Discovery, Appointment of Receiver and Other Equitable Relief in U. S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Nikolai Simon Battoo, BC Capital Group Holdings SA, BC Capital Management LLP, BC Capital Group Global, BC Capital Group Limited, BC Capital Group International Limited, and BC Capital Group SA at the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

Several offshore-based parties have been named as defendants in two new civil lawsuits that were filed recently by alleged victims of what they claim was a $1 billion Ponzi scheme. They include legal entities and individuals based in Gibraltar, Hong Kong, the Isle of Man, Liechtenstein, St. Lucia, St. Kitts, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, and the United Kingdom.

A Florida court has awarded $2.97 million against three parties who were part of a scheme to defraud a now defunct financial adviser which was itself perpetrating a 'get rich quick' scam.The judgment was entered on April 2, 2003, the