Loyal Agency and Trust Corp.

Loyal Bank, of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, is suing Mastercard for allegedly causing its liquidation by terminating its license and keeping its $1.5 million deposit as a "termination fee" after the offshore bank was charged with money laundering in the U.S.

Offshore banker Adrian Baron faces up to five years in prison after becoming the first-ever person to be convicted in the United States under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act.

Offshore banker Adrian Baron, Chief Business Officer of Caribbean-based Loyal Bank, is in custody in New York after being extradited from Hungary to face fraud and money laundering charges.

In a superseding indictment returned on Tuesday in New York, four offshore bankers and service providers in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Mauritius, Hungary and England were charged with conspiring to defraud the USA by "obstructing" the IRS' ability to collect tax revenue via FATCA.

Superseding Indictment in USA v. Panayiotis Kyriacou, a.k.a. Peter Kyriacou; Arvinsingh Canaye, a.k.a. Vinesh Canaye; Adrian Baron, Linda Bullock, Aristos Aristodemou, Matthew Green, Beaufort Securities Ltd., Beaufort Management Services Ltd., Loyal Bank Ltd., and Loyal Agency and Trust Corp. at the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Caribbean-based Loyal Bank and its two British managers, Linda Bullock and Adrian Baron, have been criminally indicted in the U.S. for allegedly laundering the proceeds of securities fraud.

Criminal Indictment in USA v. Panayiotis Kyriacou, a.k.a. Peter Kyriacou; Arvinsingh Canaye, a.k.a. Vinesh Canaye; Adrian Baron, Linda Bullock, Aristos Aristodemou, Matthew Green, Beaufort Securities Ltd., Beaufort Management Services Ltd., Loyal Bank Ltd., and Loyal Agency and Trust Corp. at the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.