VP Bank

Chapter 15 Petition for Recognition of a Foreign Main Proceeding in the British Virgin Islands by Paul Pretlove, of Kalo (BVI) Limited, as the Foreign Representatives of FCI Markets Inc., described as part of "a group of Dubai-based forex trading companies ... known as Exential Group" that was found by a Dubai court to be "a Ponzi scheme disguised as a forex trading program" that defrauded investors out of more than $200 million, filed at the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Chapter 15 Petition for Recognition of a Foreign Main Proceeding in Bermuda by Michael Morrison and Mark Allitt, of KPMG Advisory, as the Foreign Representatives of VL Assurance (Bermuda) Ltd., Valor Group Ltd., and Valor Management Ltd., described as Bermuda companies that are part of a group that also includes companies in Barbados, Ireland, Liechtenstein, and the United States and which are "victims of activity perpetrated between 2013 and 2016 by Jason Sugarman - a former director of the VL Bermuda Debtor - and others, including Jason Galanis, that ultimately led to the insolvency of the VL Bermuda Debtors", filed at the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.

US software tycoon Robert Brockman has been criminally indicted in California for an alleged $2 billion offshore tax evasion scheme involving accounts and entities in Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Nevis, and Switzerland. In a related case, billionaire private equity boss Robert Smith agreed to pay penalties of $139 million to avoid prosecution.

Criminal Indictment alleging conspiracy to defraud the USA, tax evasion, wire fraud, FBAR violations, money laundering, evidence tampering, and destruction of evidence regarding an alleged scheme to conceal approximately $2 billion of capital gains income and involving entities and accounts in Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Nevis, and Switzerland, in USA v. Robert T. Brockman, of Houston, Texas, at the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Application by Awendale Resources Inc. to take discovery of Citibank NA, Standard Chartered Bank, Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, and Bank of America NA for use in legal proceedings in Russia against Plant of Hearing Aids "Ritm" OJSC, filed at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Liechtenstein-headquartered VP Bank has applied to have Luxembourg Stock Exchange-listed MVP Fund of Funds Limited placed into liquidation in the British Virgin Islands, where the Fund is domiciled, claiming it is owed US$9.5 million in outstanding loans.

Application for Temporary Restraining Order in U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission v. Brian Raymond Callahan, Horizon Global Advisors, Ltd., and Horizon Global Advisors, LLC at the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Application for Discovery by Debbie Gushlak in a case against her husband, Myron Gushlak, at the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Approved Judgment in Innovatis Investment Fund Limited v. Ejder Group Limited at the UK High Court.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from the British Virgin Islands - for a criminal investigation into Kevin Sweeney for the suspected theft of funds from his employer, VP Bank.

A British Virgin Islands domiciled IBC that operated as an investment fund before being forced into liquidation last year has been accused of defrauding a California corporation, causing its collapse.Details are contained in a civil complaint that was filed at

The British Virgin Islands is seeking evidence from eight banks in the United States and Puerto Rico for a criminal investigation into a former banking clerk at VP Bank for allegedly stealing $180,000. Details are contained in an application for

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from the British Virgin Islands - for a criminal investigation into Kevin Sweeney for allegedly stealing from and defrauding his employer, VP Bank.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation into Raymond Burraway in the United Kingdom for allegedly defrauding the Bank of Nova Scotia and laundering the proceeds.

Two prominent Bermuda businessmen were arrested at their offices on May 6 by police investigating the alleged theft of $145,000 from a development company. They are Arthur Jones, 52, who owns Bermuda's biggest realtor, Coldwell Banker JW Bermuda Realty, formerly

Complaint in Sandra V. Boylan, Aidan J. Greaney, Paul A. Carnegie, Kevin Cleary, Dale Cochard, John R. Combes, Cynthia Crough, Robert Drake, Eddie Ewell, Ruth Frank, Daniel Zlotnick, Roger Gilmore, Jaime Hamame, Linda Hoitt, Jerry Holladay, Kenyield Limited, Curt Landberg, Helen Louros, Marlow, Davis & Byrd, Ltd., William D. McPeak, Mid America Capital Trust, Ida Ruth Morehouse, Stephen Schulte, Douglas Shortt, A. G. Skinner, Robert Stein, and Paul W. Vandermolen, Jr. v. Kevin McGeever, Douglas Johnson, James C. Sexton, Kenneth J. Adler, Liechtensteinische Landesbank, Gabriel Marxer, James McKiernan, Michael Miller, Raiffeissen Bank, Rudolf Ritter, and James C. Sexton, Jr. at the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

Indictment in USA v. James Carroll Sexton, James Carroll Sexton, Jr., a.k.a. Jimmy Sexton; Rudolf Walter Ritter, and Egon Walter Fink at the U. S. District Court for the Central District of California.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Liechtenstein into Jorge Hugo Reyes Torres and others for suspected money laundering and narcotics trafficking.

Attorney David Hampton Tedder, 54, who has spent much of his career involved in offshore finance, including several dubious ventures, is no longer licensed to practice law in the United States. Records kept by the State Bar of California, where