Category Archives: Illegal actions

BVI company involved in illegal investor’s case

Thomas Elvin, accused of depriving investors of €177,000 and operating as an illegal investor between 2003 and 2005, is said to be the head of the company called Pear Shaped Resources. This fact was claimed in court, which was told … Continue reading

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Offshore Investment fund alleged of providing false information

Federal Judge has frozen the assets and suspended the operations of Cambridge investment fund, Locust Offshore Management LLC. The founder of the fund, Andrey C. Hicks, is accused of lying to investors about the existence of an operation in the … Continue reading

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Ex-UBS banker indicted for tax evasion services

икониThe U.S. Court has indicted former senior UBS private banker for selling offshore tax-evasion services to wealthy Americans. Martin Lack is a Swiss national who until 2003 oversaw UBS’s North America business for wealthy Americans placing their money in hidden … Continue reading

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Madoff Trustee to file new lawsuit against BVI-based feeder funds

The trustee Irving Picard, who is trying to recover money invested by victims of Madoff’s affair into his feeder funds, among which there were BVI-registered funds, was authorized by the U.S. Bankruptcy Judge to file a $975.5 million lawsuit against … Continue reading

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Satyam scam: UK and Singapore give response to CBI’s rogatory letters

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) (India) has received a response from UK and Singapore authorities to the Letter of Rogatory (LOR) which concerns the so-called Satyam scam with the company Satyam Computers. According to the CBI official, who decided … Continue reading

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Two BVI companies alleged of illegal trading of distributed securities

The executive director of the British Columbia Securities Commission has alleged the two residents of the British Columbia district and two companies registered in the British Virgin Islands of contravening securities laws when they raised money from Canadian and U.S. … Continue reading

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BVI company’s CEO leaves his post after foreclosure scandal

Last week, the attorney David J. Stern has resigned as CEO of DJSP Enterprises, the publicly traded company registered in the British Virgin Islands. This came just in some weeks after he resigned from the post of BVI company’s chairman. … Continue reading

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First Quantum Minerals launches international case against DRC in Washington court

холови гарнитуриThe companies International Quantum Resources Limited, Frontier SPRL and Compagnie Miniere de Sakania SPRL, which are the subsidiaries of Canadian mining company First Quantum Minerals Ltd., have initiated international arbitration against the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) under the … Continue reading

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DRC President nephew’s BVI companies to sell Congo oilfields

Some months after two oilfields in the Democratic Republic of Congo were sold to the British Virgin Islands-based companies, which are said to be owned by president’s nephew Khulubuse Zuma, it actually became known that he sold his disputed rights … Continue reading

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Chairman of bankrupt IT Factory charged with hiding taxes through the BVI company

Tax authority of Denmark has charged Jensby, the former board chairman of bankrupt IT Factory, as well as his wife, with tax evasion. Company’s CEO Stein Bagger fled from authorities in 2008, after it became known that the company received … Continue reading

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