Nearly four years after it was exposed by OffshoreAlert, Bermuda-domiciled Arbitrade Ltd. and related parties, including Troy Hogg, Stephen Braverman, James Goldberg, and Max Barber, have been accused of perpetrating a $51 million crypto-based investment fraud by securities regulators in the United States and Canada.
New York property developer Kent Swig and firms he controls, including his Dignity Gold group that claims to have billions of dollars of gold backing a scandal-plagued, crypto-based investment scheme that has operated in Canada, Bermuda, and the United States, are being sued for $7.1 million in allegedly outstanding loans.
Complaint alleging unpaid loans totaling $7.1 million in Louden Broadway Properties LLC v. Kent M. Swig, HSI Holdings LLC, Dignity Gold LLC, and Dignity Holdings LLC at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
Summons with Notice for $342,275 in allegedly unpaid rent in Lincoln International LLC v. Helmsley Spear LLC, Falcon Pacific Construction/Builders LLC, Swig Equities LLC, Kent M. Swig, and Dignity Holdings LLC, the latter two of which are involved in a crypto-based investment scheme known as Dignity Gold, at the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New York.
Affirmation of Non-Compliance in support of a Petition for Contempt regarding an attempt to collect on a judgment for $197,633 in Timothy Tabor and Akiko Tabor v. Kent Swig, a New York property developer who, separately, is involved in a crypto-based investment scheme known as Dignity Gold, at the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New York.
Complaint "to recover for tens of millions of dollars and/or equitable relief for a series of transactions by which defendants mulcted tens of millions of dollars from plaintiff" regarding a cryptocurrency scheme involving entities in Bermuda, Canada, United Arab Emirates, and USA in Troy James Hogg, of Canada; Leila Holdings Ltd., which is identified as a Canadian company in the complaint even though it appears to be domiciled in Bermuda, derivatively and on behalf of Arbitrade Ltd., of Bermuda v. Stephen Lance Braverman, described as a resident of California; Kent Mason Swig, of New York; Dignity Holdings LLC, of Delaware; Dignity Mining Group LLC, of Delaware; Dignity Gold LLC, of Delaware; Charles Hamlin Woodworth, of New Jersey; Max Warren Barber, of Utah; William Richard Sanders, of Tennessee; Scotia International of Nevada Inc., of Utah; SION Trading FZE, of the United Arab Emirates; Prieur Leary, of Florida; CoinMint LLC, of Puerto Rico, and Hayden Gill, of Montana, at the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New York.
In a legal action in which he is seeking $395 million in damages for an alleged fraud involving a cryptocurrency scheme, Canadian Troy Hogg claims two Americans "misappropriated" $250,000 he gave them in 2019 to try to obtain a bank license in Bermuda, OffshoreAlert can reveal.
Summons With Notice for damages of $395 million alleging fraud and misappropriation regarding a cryptocurrency scheme in Troy James Hogg, a citizen of Canada, individually, and Leila Holdings Ltd., of Bermuda, derivatively on behalf of Arbitrade Ltd., also of Bermuda v. Stephen Lance Braverman, Kent Mason Swig, Dignity Mining Group LLC, Charles Hamlin Woodworth, Daniel Francis Sweet, Coinmint LLC, of Puerto Rico; Prieur Leary, Hayden Gill, Max Warren Barber, William Richard Saunders, Shaun L. Heseltine, ABCOR International Ltd., of Belize; Scotia International of Nevada Inc., of Utah; SION Trading FZE, of the United Arab Emirates; Jeffrey Muller, Victor George Webb, G4S Cash Services LLC, of the United Arab Emirates; Peter Walters, Kaled Swlaiman Salem Bokhem, Silver Estate Management Ltd., of Wyoming; E. Warren Goss, and Impact Partners, of New York, at the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New York.
Judgment for $197,633 in favor of the plaintiffs and against the defendant in Timothy Tabor and Akiko Tabor v. 148 Duane LLC at the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New York.
Complaint alleging "fraudulent and harassing behavior" in Dignity Corp., described as a Delaware-domiciled, New York-based company whose principals are Stephen Braverman and Kent Swig v. Does, including those using "the Twitter handles @CryptoDadi_, @StillNoGold, @MrSmileyBrave, @BravermanSteve, @CryptoShadyyy, @ConmanSteve, @SteveBrave3l_, @SteveBraverman, @CapRforSimon, @DnbDig, @TroyJamesh0gg, @McNicholas, @Maarten89NL, @Maarten_Marteen, @DBokhem, @mostwnted1, and @PRNewswire_" and "the fake names "Soren Christiansen" and "Simon Hoedemaker" on Telegram", at the U. S. District Court for the Central District of California.
Complaint for $33,982 allegedly owed on a credit card in JPMorgan Chase Bank NA v. Kent M. Swig at the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New York. Editor's Note: Kent Swig is, inter alia, Chairman of Delaware-domiciled Dignity Holdings LLC, which is a participant in a Bermuda-Canada-US-based cryptocurrency scam that originated as Arbitrade and morphed into Dignity Gold.
A judgment for $427,552 has been entered against UAE-domiciled SION Trading and Utah-based Scotia International of Nevada for non-payment of gold and silver that was used for a cryptocurrency scam that began in Canada, moved to Bermuda, and is currently being conducted by firms in Delaware.
Bermuda-domiciled cryptocurrency firm Arbitrade Ltd. has filed a legal action in New York against Max Barber and his firm, SION Trading FZE, of Ras Al Khaimah, alleging fraud.
Scotia International of Nevada, which claims to own gold worth billions of dollars as part of a cryptocurrency-based investment fraud by Bermuda/Canada-domiciled Arbitrade and Delaware-domiciled Dignity Holdings, is being sued for unpaid rent of $6,632 in Utah. It's the fifth lawsuit against the SION group over the last eight months.