Mercury Group Limited

Bermudian businessman Gregory Tolaram, Bahamas-based financial adviser Edward Lynch, and seven insurers and investment funds in the Cayman Islands have been accused of participating in a $135 million fraud against U.S. insurer Great Western Insurance Company.

Unable to satisfy a $127 million arbitration award in New York, Cayman Islands-domiciled captive Alpha Re Limited, whose COO is Bermuda-based Gregory Tolaram, has gone into liquidation.

A management agreement between a Bermuda corporate services provider and a hedge fund group accused of committing a $100 million-plus fraud against investors was back-dated by two weeks in an attempt to circumvent a restraining order issued by a U. S. federal court, a regulator has claimed. The contract pursuant to which Bermuda-based Mercury Group Limited agreed to provide "office and related facilities and services" to the Lake Shore group was, in reality, entered into on June 29, 2007 - the same day that 38 boxes of Lake Shore records were transferred from Roth Mosey & Partners LP accounting and consulting firm in Canada to MGL in Bermuda, according to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in a filing on January 9, 2008 at the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, where it is suing Lake Shore and its principal, Philip Baker, for fraud.

Plaintiff's Opposition to Defendant Lake Shore Asset Management Ltd.'s response to court order of January 4th, 2008 in U. S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Lake Shore Asset Management Limited, Lake Shore Group of Companies Inc. Ltd., and Philip J. Baker at the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.