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Diligence Global Business Intelligence v. Michael Holtzman: Order Denying Discovery Application

May 27, 2021
Opinion and Order denying an application by Diligence Global Business Intelligence SA to take discovery from Michael Holtzman, described as "a New York resident and public relations professional", for use in legal proceedings in England and Switzerland involving DGBI's investigation into "allegations of corruption and money laundering in connection with the 2022 World Cup in Qatar" on the grounds that the discovery application "was brought in bad faith or unreasonably seeks irrelevant materials", filed at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Diligence Global Business Intelligence v. Michael Holtzman: Discovery Application

April 19, 2021
Application by Diligence Global Business Intelligence SA, described as "a Swiss company located in Geneva that specializes in intelligence services and private investigations", to take discovery from Michael Holtzman, described as "the President/Managing Partner of SECNewGate, a public relations firm based in Washington, and the President of Bellwether Strategies, a public relations firm based in New York", for use in legal proceedings in England and Switzerland involving "DGBI's investigation into allegations of corruption and money laundering in connection with the 2022 World Cup in Qatar", filed at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Intelligence firm Diligence accuses ex-CEO Nick Day of ‘outrageous legal spending’

May 21, 2020
Intelligence and investigations firm Diligence has accused its former CEO, Nick Day, of trying to "sink the business with his outrageous legal spending" after it was forced to advance him $788,377 to satisfy legal bills that he incurred at a rate of approximately $12,500 per day in the first two months of defending a lawsuit that the company brought against him for allegedly swindling it out of "millions of dollars".

Diligence Inc. v. Nicolas Day: Amended Complaint Stipulation

May 19, 2020
Stipulation to file Amended Complaint regarding allegations of "corporate looting" involving Switzerland-domiciled Diligence Global Business Intelligence SA in Diligence Inc., a Delaware company majority owned by Cayman Islands-domiciled Information Security Investments Company v. Nicholas Day, a citizen of the United Kingdom residing in Chamonix, France, at the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware.

Nicholas Day v. Diligence Inc.: Judgment on Legal Fees

May 15, 2020
Judgment regarding the advancement of legal fees and expenses in Nicholas Day, a citizen of the United Kingdom residing in France v. Diligence Inc., an investigations and intelligence firm, at the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware.

Diligence Inc. v. Nicholas Day: Transcript Of Ruling On Motion To Dismiss

April 6, 2020
Transcript of Argument and Ruling on Defendant's Motion To Dismiss regarding a dispute over the alleged misappropriation of Switzerland-domiciled Diligence Global Business Intelligence SA in Diligence Inc., a Delaware company majority owned by Cayman Islands-domiciled Information Security Investments Company v. Nicholas Day, a citizen of the United Kingdom residing in France, at the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware.

Diligence Inc. v. Nicholas Day: Diligence Opposition to Day’s Motion To Dismiss

March 24, 2020
Diligence Inc.'s Opposition to Nicholas Day's Motion to Dismiss regarding a dispute over ownership of Switzerland-domiciled Diligence Global Business Intelligence SA in Diligence Inc., a Delaware company majority owned by Cayman Islands-domiciled Information Security Investments Company v. Nicholas Day, a citizen of the United Kingdom residing in France, at the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware.

Diligence Inc. v. Nicholas Day: Diligence’s Motion for Partial Summary Judgment

March 11, 2020
Diligence Inc.'s Motion for Partial Summary Judgment regarding a dispute over ownership of Switzerland-domiciled Diligence Global Business Intelligence SA in Diligence Inc., a Delaware company majority owned by Cayman Islands-domiciled Information Security Investments Company v. Nicholas Day, a citizen of the United Kingdom residing in France, at the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware.

Diligence Inc. v. Nicholas Day: Defendant’s Opposition To Status Quo Motion

January 27, 2020
Defendant's Opposition to Plaintiff's Motion for Entry of a Status Quo Order regarding Switzerland-domiciled Diligence Global Business Intelligence SA in Diligence Inc., a Delaware company majority owned by Cayman Islands-domiciled Information Security Investments Company v. Nicholas Day, a citizen of the United Kingdom, at the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware.

US investigations firm Diligence sues British ex-CEO Nick Day for ‘fraud’

January 26, 2020
US-based investigations and intelligence firm Diligence is suing its British recently-resigned CEO, Nicholas Day, for allegedly misappropriating its Swiss "subsidiary", part of a broader dispute between Diligence's majority owner, Cayman-domiciled Information Security Investment Co., and its senior management, comprising Day, in Geneva; Mike Baker, in New York, and Trefor Williams, in London.

Diligence Inc. v. Nicholas Day: Complaint

January 21, 2020
Complaint alleging fraud, unjust enrichment, breach of fiduciary duty, and breach of employment agreement regarding Switzerland-domiciled Diligence Global Business Intelligence SA in Diligence Inc., a Delaware company majority owned by Cayman Islands-domiciled Information Security Investments Company v. Nicholas Day, a Switzerland-based, British national described as Diligence's CEO, founder and minority shareholder, at the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware.

Insider Talking: February 11, 2008

February 11, 2008
A bitterly-fought civil action filed by Bermuda-domiciled IPOC International Growth Fund Limited against US-based intelligence-gathering and risk management firm Diligence LLC and one of Diligence's clients, the law firm of Barbour, Griffith and Rogers LLC, is over; In the British Virgin Islands, an order placing Boston Life and Annuity Company Limited into provisional liquidation was issued by the local High Court on December 21, 2007 following an application on December 5, 2007 by the insurer itself; and One of the most memorable moments of the 5th OffshoreAlert Financial Due Diligence Conference last April was when the Bermuda Monetary Authority's Director of Enforcement would not answer a question from OffshoreAlert's publisher asking him to name a single Bermudian or Bermuda-owned company that the regulator had ever penalized in its entire history, which spans 39 years.

Bermuda regulator seeks to wind-up IPOC group, prompts intelligence firm to seek stay of US lawsuit

February 15, 2007
Bermuda Supreme Court has set a date of April 27th to hear an application by a local regulator to have a provisional liquidator appointed over a mutual fund group that allegedly exists to launder the proceeds of corruption by a Russian government minister. A petition to involuntarily wind-up IPOC Capital Partners Ltd., IPOC International Growth Fund Ltd., Gamma Capital Fund Ltd., Convergence Capital Ltd., Com Tel Eastern Ltd., First National Telecommunication Fund Ltd., Convergence Capital Management Ltd., Augmentation Investments Ltd., and Telco Overseas Ltd. was presented to the court on January 12, 2007 by Bermuda's Registrar of Companies.

KPMG drops bribery lawsuit against US PI firm, but Bermuda Fund files similar complaint

June 28, 2006
A civil lawsuit in the United States that was notable for the unusual level of secrecy afforded to the parties by the judge has been dismissed.Bermuda-based KPMG Financial Advisory Services Limited and its two managing directors, Malcolm Butterfield and Michael Morrison, had been seeking $11 million in compensatory and punitive damages against Diligence LLC, a Washington, D.C.-based private investigative agency/risk management firm whose employees and advisers include former high-ranking officials within the CIA, FBI, US Government, UK Government and UK special forces.

US court denies motion to dismiss IPOC ‘bribery’ lawsuit

March 6, 2006
A U. S.-based intelligence-gathering firm has failed to have a civil lawsuit dismissed in which it is accused of bribing an employee of KPMG (Bermuda) to disclose information about an investigation into alleged money laundering by a sham mutual fund group known as IPOC. Diligence LLC had asked the U. S. District Court for the District of Columbia to dismiss a complaint brought by KPMG Financial Advisory Services Ltd. and its Managing Directors, Malcolm Butterfield, and Michael Morrison, on the grounds that Bermuda was a more convenient forum and that an “indispensable party” is missing from the action, namely the Bermuda Government, which commissioned KPMG FAS to investigate IPOC.

Bermuda Gov’t suspected of whitewashing alleged $1 b money laundering scheme

February 4, 2004
A James Bond-like tale involving allegations of corporate espionage, bribery, corruption, and a Bermuda Government whitewash of a suspected $1 billion money laundering scheme is unfolding in a U. S. court. Among the cast of characters are Russia's Telecommunications Minister, Leonid Reiman; a Bermuda-based, so-called mutual fund in which Reiman appears to be the only investor and which he may have used to launder the proceeds of corruption, IPOC International Growth Fund Ltd.; IPOC's banker, fund administrator, custodian, and accountant, Bermuda Commercial Bank; IPOC's Bermuda representative and provider of various services, including directors and officers, Wakefield Quin; the firm appointed by Bermuda's Minister of Finance to investigate IPOC, KPMG Financial Advisory Services Ltd.; and Diligence LLC, a Washington, D.C.-based intelligence-gathering firm that is headed by a former officer of the U.K. Security Service known as MI5 and whose advisors include a former Director of the CIA and the FBI.