Wayne Turner

A jury in Texas has awarded 41 investors clients damages of $8.8 million, plus annual interest of 8.25% backdated to December 12, 2002, against Atlas Financial Group Ltd. and Atlas Private Trust Ltd., which collapsed in the Turks and Caicos

Accounting firm KPMG is facing two multi-million dollar lawsuits over its involvement in a failed offshore investment group.The actions concern KPMG's provision of auditing and other services for the now-defunct, Turks & Caicos Islands-based Atlas Financial Group. 

A civil complaint has been filed in the United States against failed Turks & Caicos Islands-based Atlas Financial Group, its auditor, KPMG, and several current or former officers. Among the defendants are the Managing Director of KPMG (TCI), Gary Brough, 40, who is British; and the accounting firm's former Director of Corporate Finance,Robert Gass, 38, who is Canadian. AFG founders Wayne Turner and his son, Scott Turner, who are both Canadian nationals, are also defendants.

An arrest warrant has been issued in the Turks and Caicos Islands against a third person suspected of fraud involving Atlas Financial Group (in liquidation), namely Robert D. Whitney, who is AFG's former Chief Operating Officer. It follows arrest warrants that

Canadian businessman Scott Turner, who is subject to an arrest warrant in the Turks & Caicos Islands for suspected fraud, has issued a letter attacking other members of his failed stockbroker Atlas Securities Inc.Nowhere in the five page letter, which

Arrest warrants for Wayne Turner and his son, Scott, have been issued in the Turks and Caicos Islands following the collapse of their firm, Atlas Securities Inc., four months ago amid allegations of fraud.The warrants were issued at the local Magistrates Court on October 23, 2001 and are the first step in an attempt to extradite the Turners from Canada.

Police are investigating Wayne Turner and his son, Scott, for allegedly misappropriating an estimated $8 million from clients of Atlas Securities Inc., of the Turks & Caicos Islands.TCI police began an investigation after a KPMG audit apparently turned up evidence that the Turners had used client funds to cover margin calls relating to their personal trading accounts.

Statement of Claim in Atlas Securities, Inc. v. Wayne Turner at the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia.