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    Judge slams hedge fund fraudster for ‘abuse’ of court system

    Investment fraudster Ian Renert has been severely criticized by a judge in the Bahamas, who accused him of “duplicity and dishonesty” and of abusing the legal system during four years of litigation.After defrauding investors in his offshore hedge funds, Renert then sought to mislead the judiciary in an effort to impede civil and criminal investigations into his activities by the Securities Commission of the Bahamas, the SEC in the United States and an unidentified U. S. law enforcement agency, stated Mr. Justice Lyons in a ruling on June 21, 2005.

    Offshore bank paid $3 m fraudulent preference before collapse

    The owner of a Hilton hotel in the Bahamas was the recipient of a $3 million fraudulent preference from a Bahamas-based offshore bank shortly before it collapsed, a court has ruled.Canadian national Ronald Hubert Kelly, a 60-year-old former Catholic priest and convicted pedophile, received the transfer from Americas International Bank on September 4, 2001.

    Bahamas fund group forced into receivership

    An unlicensed, unaudited mutual fund group into which over 550 investors invested approximately $13.2 million has been forced into Receivership by the Bahamas Securities Commission. It has triggered a bitter legal battle for control of the Hawthorne-Sterling family of funds between their Receiver, accountant Clifford Culmer, and their founder, American Ian L. Renert.