Argentum Group
August
2018
Centaur Litigation Ltd. et al: Fifth Liquidators’ Report
Grant Thornton’s Fifth Report to Creditors of Centaur Litigation SPC, Centaur Litigation Limited, and Centaur Litigation Unit Series 1 Limited (in Official Liquidation).
November
2017
Centaur Litigation SPC et al: Judgment
Judgment In the Matters of Centaur Litigation SPC, Centaur Litigation Limited, and Centaur Litigation Unit Series 1 Limited at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.
August
2017
Centaur Litigation SPC et al: Fourth Liquidators’ Report
Grant Thornton’s Fourth Report to Creditors of Centaur Litigation SPC, Centaur Litigation Limited, and Centaur Litigation Unit Series 1 Limited (in Official Liquidation).
August
2016
Centaur Litigation Ltd. et al v. Scott Williams: Complaint
Complaint in Centaur Litigation Limited, Centaur Litigation Unit Series 1 Ltd., and Centaur Litigation SPC v. Trent Scott Wallace Strong, a.k.a. Scott Campbell Fisher, a.k.a. Scott Williams, at the Federal Court of Australia.
June
2016
Litigation funding liquidators finally examine Australian fraudster ‘Scott Williams’
An elusive Australian who uses multiple identities has finally been tracked down and examined by the liquidators of a £97 million Cayman Islands-domiciled litigation funding fraud carried out in the names of Argentum Capital, Centaur Litigation and Buttonwood Legal.
March
2016
Centaur Litigation SPC et al: Second Liquidators’ Report
Grant Thornton’s Second Report to Creditors and Investors of Centaur Litigation SPC, Centaur Litigation Limited, and Centaur Litigation Unit Series 1 Limited (in Official Liquidation).
November
2015
Centaur Litigation fraudster Brendan Terrill imprisoned over ‘indecent images of children’
Brendan Terrill, 50, who was one of the masterminds of a litigation funding fraud that collapsed last year after being exposed by OffshoreAlert, has been imprisoned in Britain after pleading guilty to sharing “indecent images of children” over the Internet.
November
2015
Centaur Litigation SPC et al v. Brendan Terrill: Complaint
Complaint in Centaur Litigation SPC, Centaur Litigation Limited, and Centaur Litigation Unit Series 1 Limited, all in Official Liquidation in the Cayman Islands v. Brendan Mark John Terrill, of London, England, at the High Court of Justice of England and Wales,
September
2015
Featured Fraudster – Duane McGaw (FREE)
August
2015
Duane McGaw v. OffshoreAlert et al: Libel Complaint
August
2015
‘Apologize for defamation’, writes fraudster Duane McGaw’s attorney
July
2015
Argentum fraudster Duane McGaw resurfaces as Vancouver restaurant owner
When you are one of the principal perpetrators of an investment fraud totaling £98 million, of which at least £11 million was apparently diverted for your benefit, it’s best to keep a low profile until the heat dies down and
April
2015
Cayman ‘rescue fund’ for Centaur litigation funding fraud fails to meet £6 m minimum subscription
An attempt to raise at least £6 million from victims of the Centaur Group litigation funding fraud by March 31st to fund a dubious Cayman Islands-domiciled ‘rescue fund’ failed – so the three Australia-based businessmen behind the scheme – Simon Franklin, Stuart Hackett and Klaus Selinger – extended the deadline to April 17th.
March
2015
Database of Buttonwood Legal Capital/Centaur Litigation investors offered for sale on Craigslist in Thailand
Australian firm Dequity Partners has denied involvement in an attempt to sell on Craigslist (Bangkok) a database of investors who invested in a fraudulent litigation funding scheme in the names of Centaur Litigation and Buttonwood Legal Capital.
March
2015
Buttonwood Legal Capital fraud victims asked for another £14 m to finance ‘rescue fund’
Investors who have already been swindled out of £98 million in a litigation funding scam by Buttonwood Legal Capital are being asked to invest a further £14.63 million to finance a Cayman Islands-domiciled ‘rescue fund’ set up by Simon Franklin, Stuart Hackett, and Klaus Selinger, who were all involved with the Buttonwood scheme before its collapse.
February
2015
Chiron Litigation Funding Ltd.: Confidential Private Placement Memorandum
‘Confidential Private Placement Memorandum’ for Cayman Islands-based Chiron Litigation Funding Limited set up by Simon Franklin, Stuart Hackett and Klaus Selinger, of Dequity Partners Pty Ltd., in Australia, to recover assets on behalf of investors in Centaur Litigation Limited, Centaur Litigation SPC, and Centaur Litigation Unit Series 1 Limited who were swindled in a litigation funding fraud perpetrated by Buttonwood Legal Capital and the Argentum Capital Group.
September
2014
Centaur Litigation SPC et al: First Liquidators’ Report
July
2014
New details about Buttonwood Legal Capital’s fraud lawsuit against Brendan Terrill & Scott Williams
A writ of summons filed last month in the British Virgin Islands against the suspected masterminds of the £97 million Buttonwood/Argentum/Centaur litigation funding fraud – Scott Williams and Brendan Terrill – recently became publicly available.
July
2014
Fraudulent Centaur funds go into provisional liquidation in Cayman
Three fraudulently-operated litigation funds known as ‘Centaur’ went into provisional liquidation at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands last Friday. They are Centaur Litigation SPC, Centaur Litigation Limited, and Centaur Litigation Unit Series 1 Limited.
June
2014
Buttonwood Fraud Victims: Time to kick out the clowns
Investors in the litigation funding criminal enterprise known as Buttonwood Legal Capital, Centaur Litigation and Argentum need to kick out the clowns who are managing the different facets of this hopelessly insolvent group and take control of the situation before
June
2014
Buttonwood Legal Capital Ltd. et al v. Scott Williams et al: Claim Form
Claim Form in Buttonwood Legal Capital Ltd. and Centaur Subscription Holdings Limited v. Scott Williams, Brendan Terrill, Centaur Escrow Client Account Limited, and Asia Pacific Beneficiaries Limited at the British Virgin Islands High Court.
June
2014
BVI and Cayman lawsuits in fight for control of fraudulent litigation funding group
The slow and chaotic collapse of a fraudulent litigation funding group known as Argentum, Buttonwood and Centaur that was triggered by an OffshoreAlert exposé four months ago has finally hit the courts, with four actions filed in the BVI and Cayman.
June
2014
BVI fraudster Buttonwood’s liquidation claims against Cayman Centaur funds are false
Claims by BVI-domiciled Buttonwood Legal Capital that it applied last month to liquidate three affiliated investment funds in the Cayman Islands that go by the name ‘Centaur’ are false, OffshoreAlert can reveal. No such petitions were filed.
May
2014
BVI fraudster Buttonwood Legal Capital claims to have applied to liquidate three affiliated Cayman funds
Citing “financial irregularities”, BVI-domiciled Buttonwood Legal Capital Limited says it has applied to liquidate three affiliated investment funds in the Cayman Islands: Centaur Litigation SPC, Centaur Litigation Limited, and Centaur Litigation Unit Series 1 Limited.
April
2014
Argentum Group abruptly shuts down leaving angry investors hunting for its management
Two months after being exposed by OffshoreAlert as being part of a massive fraud, litigation funder Argentum Group has gone out of business without warning and, according to a source, some of its senior officers in the United Kingdom may have even fled their homes.
March
2014
A Message to Greg Fairley, Ashley Hurst & Anyone Else Thinking of Threatening Me
British defamation law is among the most repulsive pieces of legislation that exists in the civilized world and I have nothing but contempt for attorneys who use it to try to bully responsible journalists into not writing about their clients
March
2014
Greg Fairley threatens libel action over Buttonwood/Centaur article
February
2014
CISE de-lists litigation fund Argentum Capital after OffshoreAlert investigation
After being suspended on Friday, the shares of London-based litigation fund Argentum Capital Ltd. were today de-listed from the Channel Islands Securities Exchange. The move follows last week’s OffshoreAlert exposé of ACL as being part of a £90 million Ponzi scheme.
February
2014
CISE suspends Argentum Capital after OffshoreAlert exposes Ponzi scheme
The Channel Islands Securities Exchange yesterday suspended the listing of London-based Argentum Capital Ltd. – three days after OffshoreAlert exposed the litigation fund as part of a £90 m Ponzi scheme headed by Briton Brendan Terrill, who operates Cayman-domiciled Centaur Litigation and Hong Kong-domiciled Buttonwood Legal Capital.
