Crowne Gold

The U. S. Government has applied for summary judgment in its forfeiture complaint regarding gold and silver bars and coins seized during a criminal investigation into former offshore provider Terry Neal. The motion was filed at the U. S. District

The U. S. Government is seeking to seize the alleged proceeds of narcotics trafficking that are held in accounts at Barclays Bank, in London, England in the name of British Virgin Islands-registered Auxerre Corporation; St. Kitts and Nevis-based Crowne Gold Inc., which is secretly controlled by offshore provider Terry Neal, has been slammed by an Ontario, Canada-based client for allegedly not assisting in the recovery of nearly US$6,000 that the client claims was defrauded from his account by a third-party; U. S.-based Spherion Corporation, which specializes in staffing, recruiting and workforce management, filed a civil complaint against the Cayman Islands Department of Tourism at federal court in the USA on January 29, 2004. Three former insiders of a now-defunct, Grenada-licensed offshore bank have each received non-custodial sentences for their participation in an investment fraud; Meanwhile, two other former insiders with another Grenada-licensed offshore bank, Robert John Skirving and Paul James Peiffer, both of Oregon, have suffered setbacks in their attempts to have their debts wiped out via bankruptcy; Investors who lost millions of dollars in the failed Bahamas-registered Oracle Fund have reached a settlement with the Fund's administrator, reported the Bahama Journal on January 23, 2004; The number of foreign-owned legal entities registered in Bermuda fell by 2.5 per cent from 13,870 to 13,528 during 2003, according to figures recently released by the Registrar of Companies; For a company that claims to manage so much money - more than $2.5 billion - Bermuda-based Orbis Investment Management Ltd. has surprisingly little transparency; A company in which St. Vincent and the Grenadines-licensed offshore bank Omnicorp Bank invested was named as a defendant in a civil lawsuit filed by the SEC at the U. S. District Court for the District of Utah on February 23, 2004; and A participant in an offshore-oriented scam perpetrated by an organization doing business as the Global Prosperity Group or the Institute of Global Prosperity has pleaded guilty to tax evasion in the United States.

A legal battle is taking place in Oregon for possession of gold and silver bars and coins that were seized during a raid on the offices of companies associated with offshore provider Terry Neal. The United States Government is seeking to take permanent possession of the property, worth approximately $225,000 at current prices.

Offshore services provider Terry Neal, who has been criminally indicted in the United States for alleged tax evasion, said he expects to be charged with further offenses. "In court, the IRS was quite open about the fact that they hoped to amend the complaint with which they have charged me to include all kinds of nefarious acts, as yet unnamed," he told OffshoreAlert. "Of course, the real reason for the government's angst has much more to do with my critical writing regarding IRS abuse as set forth in numerous published newsletters, magazine articles and my several books."

Offshore services provider and asset protection author Terry Leroy Neal has been arrested and jailed in Oregon after a criminal complaint accused him of making false statements in his personal tax returns filed with the IRS.Neal was arrested on December 27, 2002—one day after a criminal complaint was filed against him at the United States District Court for the District of Oregon, in Portland, which is Neal's home-town.

Computer hackers have unsuccessfully attempted to steal $7 million from an alternative currency firm linked with offshore provider Terry Neal.News of the incident is contained on the web-site of Crowne Gold, which operates from addresses in Grenada and St. Kitts.