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United Kingdom law enforcement investigating the theft of $15 million from Commerzbank AG in Germany by members of its own staff and the subsequent laundering of the criminal proceeds to accounts in several countries, including Australia, Austria, the Bahamas, Costa

Chapter 15 Petition for Recognition of a Foreign Main Proceeding in Iceland by Olafur Gardarsson, as the Foreign Representative of Kaupthing Bank hf., at the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.

Article based on a motion for the issuance of a letter rogatory for evidence in Andorra that the United States Government needs for a criminal investigation into alleged fraud that was filed at federal court in the USA on August 26, 2008. Individuals and businesses mentioned in the letter rogatory include Francis Villas, Davide D'Angelantonio, a.k.a. Mike Lanzi; Sandro D'Angelantonio, Dario Dari, Amanda Giovannoni, Maurizio Mantovani, Sandro Parisi, Joseph Francis Pulli, Scandinavian Title Company, Banca Privada D'Andorra SA, JPMorgan Chase, and Citibank.

Indictment in USA v. Bradley C. Stark at the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Lithuania into Vytautas Valatka and Vytautas Narkus for alleged fraud.

Bermuda-based Security Capital Assurance Ltd., in which XL Capital owns a 46% stake, has been hit with a new wave of class action lawsuits. Already facing class action litigation brought on behalf of shareholders for alleged fraud, the latest lawsuits seek to recover damages on behalf of purchasers of municipal derivatives from January 1, 1992 to the present. The latest class action complaints - numbering three so far - were filed at three different federal courts in the United States from March 12 to April 23, 2008, with eight municipalities or cities and one university as the specimen plaintiffs.

Article based on an application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation into alleged money laundering, tax evasion, corruption and illegal currency trading - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from Brazil - that was filed at federal court in the USA on February 20, 2008. Individuals and businesses mentioned in the request for assistance include Celso Patricio de Aquino Filho, JPMorgan Chase, Cortez Cambio e Turismo, Beacon Hill Service Corporation, International Bank of Miami, CB Financial and BCF Internacional.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Brazil into federal tax inspector Celso Patricio de Aquino Filho for alleged tax evasion and money laundering.

XL Insurance Ltd. has been named as a defendant in two class action complaints filed in December concerning shares worth $300 million that it sold in another Bermuda firm, Security Capital Assurance Ltd., which has been ravaged by the subprime mortgage meltdown in the United States.

Article based on an application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation into alleged money laundering - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from Brazil - that was filed at federal court in the USA on November 27, 2007. Individuals and businesses mentioned in the request for assistance include Antonio de Jesus Lourenco, The International Bank of Miami, Bank United, Beacon Hill Service Corporation, JPMorgan Chase Bank, CB Financial Inc., BCF Internacional Inc., and Cortez Cambio e Turismo.

Article based on an application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation into alleged credit card fraud - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from Trinidad & Tobago - that was filed at federal court in the USA on November 27, 2007. Individuals and businesses mentioned in the request for assistance include Eon Adrian Caroll, JPMorgan Chase Bank, and Raphael Levine.

Article based on an application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation into money laundering - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from Brazil - that was filed at federal court int he USA on December 21, 2007. Individuals and businesses mentioned in the request for assistance include Operacao Alquimista, Operation Alchemist, Jose Sukadolnik Filho, Renato Marson, Janete Mazarim Goncalves, Cecilio Edson Fernandes Junior, Bernardo Granatowicz, Luiz Carlos Peixoto Pessanha, Lemuel Santos de Santana, Marcos Estevao Nassif, Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, JP Morgan Chase Bank, Naftegaz Invest AG, Citibank NA, Unicorp Bank & Trust Ltd., Jose Mahsur Farhat, Citibank FSB, Golden Eagle Investments, Wachovia Bank NA, Seven Keys Import & Export Corp., and ABN AMRO Bank.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation into Jose Sukadolnik Filho, Renato Marson, Janete Mazarim Goncalves, Cecilio Edson Fernandes Junior, Bernardo Granatowicz, Luiz Carlos Peixoto Pessanha, Lemuel Santos de Santana, and Marcos Estevao Nassif for suspected involvement in a money laundering.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Trinidad & Tobago into Eon Adrian Carroll for alleged fraud.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Brazil into Antonio de Jesus Lourenco and others for suspected involvement in money laundering regarding Beacon Hill Service Corporation.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Ukraine into alleged smuggling.

Complaint in USA vs. Bank of Cyprus Plc at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Chapter 15 Petition for Recognition of a Foreign Main Proceeding in the Cayman Islands by Hugh Dickson, Stephen Akers, and Paul Billingham, as the Foreign Representatives of Basis Yield Alpha Fund (Master), at the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.

Indictment in USA v. Vladimir Zdorovenin and Kirill Zdorovenin, both of Russia, for alleged cybercrimes.

Indictment in USA v. Phillip Bennett, Robert Trosten, and Tone Grant at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

A 51 year old German national misappropriated approximately 4.6 million Euros (US$5.86 million) in an investment scam, it has been alleged.Details are contained in an application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence - pursuant to a request

Indictment in USA v. Phillip Bennett and Robert Trosten at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence from Turnberry Bank - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from Germany - for a criminal investigation into Josef Muller, a.k.a. Leon Deane, for suspected investment fraud.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Switzerland into Dieter Behring, Arthur Buck, Beat Bengerter, Jean Kampf, Peter Josef Weibel, Willy Wuthrich, Raymond Pousaz and Anita Zweifel-Reidy for alleged investment fraud, theft, forgery and money laundering involving Moore Park Funding and related companies.

Switzerland has requested information about accounts at two United States based financial institutions as part of a criminal investigation into an alleged US$629 million fraud by hedge fund operator Dieter Behring and his Bahamas based Moore Park group of companies.

Investigators in Switzerland say that a Bahamas based fund group headed by accused fraudster Dieter Behring is believed to be insolvent by more than US$600 million.Details of the estimated scale of the alleged scam and the identities of those being

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Switzerland into Dieter Behring, Arthur Buck, Beat Bangerter, Jean Kampf, Peter Josef Weibel, Willy Wuthrich, Raymond Pousaz, and Anita Zweifel-Reidy for suspected fraud, embezzlement, forgery and money laundering.

Article based on an application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation into alleged fraud - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from Hungary - that was filed at federal court in the USA on December 22, 2005. Individuals and businesses mentioned in the request for assistance include Attila Kulcsar, Tibor Endre Rejto, El Abed Hasan, Mahmoud Abdo, Miklos Bitvai, Dr. Gabor Garamszegi, Dr. Erika Erzsebet Futo, Janos Meszaros, Eva Toth, Katalin Balassa, Hajnalka Pinizsi, Gyula Szeker, Pacific Traders Company LLC, Britton Interinvest Ltd., Atlantic Business Finance Ltd., Canadian Merchant Trading Inc., Megastar Trading Co., Feldman Management BV, Britalia Intenvesi Ltd., Glendale Inter-Management SA, Inter Capital Projects Ltd., Lobagola Investment Inc., Intercorp Holdings LLC, First Capital Invest LLC, Globe International Investment, American-Hungarian Fashionhouse Inc., The Montrade Establishment Ltd., Balmoral Group LLC, Ashmore Investments LLC, Geometax Holdings Ltd., K&H Equities Reszvenytarsasag, K&H Befektetesi Reszvenytarsasag, and JPMorgan Chase.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Hungary into Attila Kulcsar, Janos Meszaros, Dr. Erika Erzsebet Futo, El Abed Hasan, Mahmoud Abdo and Gyula Szeker for alleged embezzlement and money laundering.

Five banks have been ordered to provide details of accounts maintained by the AlphaStar group of companies, formerly known as Stirling Cooke Brown, to its Bankruptcy Trustee.An order directing The Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son Ltd., Wachovia Bank, Bank of America, North Fork Bank and JP Morgan Chase Bank, NA to turn over the records to Trustee Richard O'Connell was issued at the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York on September 22, 2005.

Firms in the Bahamas, Bermuda, the Cayman Islands and Delaware have filed an Enron-related civil lawsuit against JP Morgan and Citigroup in which they are seeking damages of $452 million.That is the amount they lost from loans they issued to Enron after being duped into believing that the Texas-based energy firm was solvent, according to a complaint that was filed at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas on August 26, 2005.

Article based on an application to collect evidence for a criminal investigation into alleged investment fraud - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from the United Kingdom - that was filed at federal court in the USA on April 28, 2005. Individuals and businesses mentioned in the request for assistance include Kevin Dooley, Trevor Prider, Dooley & Co., CFC Finance Ltd., JPMorgan Chase, Chase Manhattan Bank, Citco Banking Corporation, Golconda Partners Ltd., Woodborough Corporation Ltd., Ken Wiseman II, Wiseman Hedge Fund, Barclays Bank, Fiserv Correspondent Services Inc., JD Horwood, Imhoff Clearing Corporation, Imhoff Clearing Corporation, National Westminster Bank, First National Bank, Crystal Cathedral, Somerset Auctions Inc., Steven Thomas Antiques, Nelson Storage, Irvine Regional Hospital and Medical Center, The Inside Story, Abe Corporation, RAD Industries Inc., Majestic Marble & Granite, and US Remodelers Inc.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from the United Kingdom - for a criminal investigation into "Kevin Dooley (now deceased), Trevor Prider and others for their involvement in and management of a massive investment fraud scheme resulting in the loss of millions of dollars to original investors".

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Israel into Michael Komissarouk and others for alleged money laundering involving the operation of an underground bank.

A 68-year-old United States resident is suing a British Virgin Islands-registered hedge fund that he claims swindled him out of $432,245.The action against Runnymede Master Fund was filed at the U. S. District Court for the Central District of California on December 14, 2004 by Paul G. McManigal and two of his retirement accounts.

Details are contained in an application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation into alleged fraud - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from Argentina - that was filed at the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York on September 23, 2004. Individuals and businesses mentioned in the request for assistance include Patricia Narvaiz, International Atomic Energy Agency, and JPMorgan Chase Bank.

The beneficiary and trustee of an offshore trust are seeking more than $1 million in damages for its alleged mismanagement by Morgan Trust (Cayman).Cheryl Tanenbaum, a resident of New York, and Mark Tanenbaum, a resident of Florida, as beneficiary and Trustee, respectively, of the Cheryl Tanenbaum Family Trust, filed a civil complaint at New York State Supreme Court on September 27, 2004.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Argentina into alleged fraud involving a check that was issued by the International Atomic Energy Agency to Patricia Narvaiz and was allegedly cashed without Narvaiz' knowledge or authority.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Switzerland into Jacques Bauer for alleged theft.

Article based on an application to collect evidence for a criminal investigation into alleged fraud - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from Austria - that was filed at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas on April 2, 2004. Individuals and businesses mentioned in the request for assistance include Oliver Pracherstorfer, Elke Reiter, Russel La Rue, Jens Wutzke, Peter Kuss, OPCM Ltd., Worldwide Formation and Management Ltd., and JPMorgan Chase Bank.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Austria into Oliver Philipp Pracherstorfer, Elke Reiter, Russel La Rue, Jens Wutzke, Peter Kuss, OPCM Ltd. and others for alleged investment fraud based around day-trading.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Germany into Bernhard Mockert for alleged fraud.

Bermuda-domiciled AlphaStar Insurance Group Ltd. and 11 of its subsidiaries have applied for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in New York. The group is seeking breathing room while it seeks buyers for its assets, including policy-issuing subsidiary Realm National Insurance Company, for which AlphaStar "is no longer able to provide capital".

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence from Fiserv Correspondent Services Inc. - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from the United Kingdom - for a criminal investigation into "an alleged fraud scheme executed by a British solicitor, Kevin Dooley, and his firm".

A business group headed by Russia's richest man, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who was arrested in October for allegedly defrauding the state of $1 billion, stashed money in offshore centers, including Switzerland, Luxembourg, the British Virgin Islands, the Seychelles, Panama and the Bahamas, according to Yelena Collongues-Popova, who worked for one of Khodorkovsky's associates. Lucy Komisar, a New York investigative reporter who is writing a book about the offshore banking and corporate secrecy system, interviewed Collongues-Popova. This is her story.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Portugal into Orlando Xavier Mourao and and others for alleged fraud.

A syndicate of banks led by JPMorgan Chase Bank is the biggest creditor of ailing Bermuda-based specialty insurer Trenwick Group Ltd., with an outstanding claim of $183 million at August 20, 2003.The syndicate also includes Wachovia Bank, Credit Lyonnais (New York), Dresdner Bank (New York and Grand Cayman), Fleet National Bank, The Royal Bank of Scotland, ING Bank (London), Citibank, The Bank of Nova Scotia, State Street Bank and Trust Company, and Mizuho Corporate Bank.

Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau has called for a ban on U. S.-based financial institutions from doing business with offshore financial centers that have "unreasonable secrecy laws".

Plans by the Bermuda Stock Exchange and a New York-based partner to develop a facility for the secondary market trading in the shares of hedge funds have ended in litigation.PlusFunds Ltd. filed two civil lawsuits at Bermuda Supreme Court on June 8, 2001, one against the BSX itself and another against a joint venture firm called BSX-PlusFunds Group Ltd.

Plans to operate a new reinsurance company in Bermuda called Global Markets Access have been shelved. The company's organizers, who included several people involved in the successful launch last year of Annuity & Life Re, could not raise enough start-up capital, even though the original target was lowered from $350 million to $200 million last month.