Martin ONeill

The USA has filed a complaint against the Estate of deceased former offshore banker John Mathewson in an attempt to collect on an unpaid judgment for $11.3 million in 1993 that has ballooned to $39 million. The defendants include two Bahamas companies in which Mathewson allegedly "kept most of his money hidden".

Former Cayman Islands-based banker John Mathewson, who infamously turned in his bank's clients to the United States Internal Revenue Service in return for leniency on tax evasion and money laundering charges in the 1990s, is the target of a new investigation into tax fraud.

A businessman who has been criminally indicted for alleged tax fraud in the United States is suing former Cayman banker John Mathewson for turning him in to the IRS.It is believed to be the first time that a client of the now defunct Cayman-based Guardian Bank and Trust has sought damages against Mathewson for handing over the bank's records to the US authorities.Leon Denning, who was indicted on eight counts of tax fraud at the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on March 29, 2001, filed a civil suit against Mathewson at the same court on August 9.

Ned Richard Hart, who was criminally indicted on February 23, 2000 along with Nevis based offshore provider Raymond David Finzer and Christian G. Cooper, pleaded guilty to one count each of fraud and money laundering on May 21, 2001 at