Certusia Reinsurance

Two dubious groups that have featured separately in exposés by OffshoreAlert appear to be business partners and have been jointly accused of perpetrating an advance fee fraud in a civil lawsuit filed recently in the United States. Certusia Reinsurance, whose operations include a Nevis-based insurer, and Nexxus One, whose operations include a Bahamas-based ‘securities' firm and a Swiss ‘trust' firm, are defendants in a complaint that was filed at the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of California on May 1, 2007. 

A fraudulent reinsurer that was incorporated in Nevis but operated from the United States appears to have gone out of business amid a slew of lawsuits, including a judgment for $1.3 million. The telephone number for Certusia Reinsurance Company Inc.'s

How absurd has the criminal case in Texas involving Bahamas resident Yank Barry become?; A recent land-mark opinion by the United States Supreme Court that effectively determined federal sentencing guidelines were unconstitutional has formed the basis of an appeal by jailed former offshore services provider Marc Harris against his sentence of 17 years in prison and a financial penalty of $26 million for fraud, money laundering and tax evasion; The Central Bank of Belize has warned that an entity calling itself 'Development & Holding Bank of Belize' is not licensed; In July, the Bermuda Monetary Authority also issued warnings about suspect or bogus companies claiming to have ties to the jurisdiction; The United States FBI is establishing an office in the Bahamas, reported the Nassau Guardian; On July 19, 2004, a United States podiatrist admitted to using an offshore bank and credit card account to launder money and evade New York City state and federal taxes on more than $300,000 in income, according to a press release from the office of Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, which prosecuted the case at the state Supreme Court; Germain Bourgeois, the former investment manager of the University of Montreal Pension Plan, is suspected of receiving payments in return for "convincing" three parties to invest "hundreds of millions of dollars" in the Lancer Offshore group of funds; and A civil lawsuit has been filed at the Turks & Caicos Islands Supreme Court against a solicitor who was recently disqualified from serving as a company director in the U. K. by the Department of Trade & Industry for his part in a timeshare scam.

Warnings on suspect or bogus companies claiming to have ties to the Island are being posted to the website of investor watchdog, the Bermuda Monetary Authority.

Deloitte & Touche has offered $32 million to settle a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of shareholders of the British Virgin Islands registered Manhattan Investment Fund who bought shares between October, 1995 and January, 2000. D&T's Bermuda office audited