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Convicted fraudster & former Cayman resident Robert Christopher Girvan dies in U.S. ‘amid new probe’

February 15, 2024
Jamaican national Robert Christopher Girvan, whose past included a criminal conviction in the Cayman Islands for a $19 million investment fraud, has died in the United States, apparently from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the backyard of his girlfriend’s house in Alpharetta, Georgia, amid what a source said was a criminal investigation into another of his schemes.

Victims of Cayman Islands investment fraud receive 57% initial distribution

June 11, 2012
Investors who were defrauded out of approximately US$19 million by four Cayman Islands-based hedge funds known as the Grand Island Funds received an initial dividend of 57 cents in the dollar last month from the liquidators, with the prospect of up to six cents more as a final dividend. The first distribution was made possible after the liquidators received US$7 million from the Funds' former service providers, directors and other insiders to settle disputes.

Grand Island Master Fund et al v. Close Brothers et al: Writ of Summons

November 29, 2010
Writ of Summons and Statement of Claim filed by the liquidators of Grand Island Master Fund Limited, Grand Island Income Fund, Grand Island Commodity Trading Fund, and Grand Island Commodity Trading Fund II against Close Brothers (Cayman) Limited and John Sutlic at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

RCTG Investments Ltd. et al v. Scotia Capital Inc.: Statement of Claim

April 30, 2010
Statement of Claim filed by RCTG Investments Limited, Caribbean Commodities Ltd., Grand Island Income Fund, Grand Island Master Fund Limited, Grand Island Commodity Trading Fund, and Grand Island Commodity Trading Fund II against Scotia Capital Inc. at the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, in Canada.

Insider Talking: May 18, 2009

May 18, 2009
The Royal Bahamas Police Force has launched a murder investigation following the death on May 8, 2009 of Bahamas based offshore provider Hywel Jones, who had been in a coma since he was shot in the head 16 days earlier

Insider Talking: September 8, 2008

September 8, 2008
Miami-based businessman Charles Intriago, who sold his anti-money laundering-focused company Alert Global Media, Inc. to New York-based supplier of AML technology Fortent in December, 2006 and continued to manage it before abruptly departing in late March, 2008, is preparing to launch a new business venture that will concentrate on asset forfeiture; Canadian national Wayne Wile, who has been accused of committing securities fraud along with the Cayman, Bahamas and Bermuda operations of investment group Lines Overseas Management, obtained a Cayman Islands Driver's License in a false name, according to the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission; OffshoreAlert has obtained more information about companies and individuals involved with the Grand Island Commodity Trading Fund group of companies, which went into liquidation on June 17, 2008 - one month before its trading manager, R. Christopher Girvan, was arrested in Cayman on suspicion of theft, false accounting and fraud; Investment fraudster Keem Kalfon is at it again. His latest venture operates as 'The People's Money Center' from a web-site at www.peoplemc.com, which was established in June, 2007; and Despite all that has happened over the last 10 years in terms of legal gateways being implemented to allow foreign parties to obtain information about individuals and businesses operating in offshore financial centers, there is still a misconception among some residents of major countries that the secrecy and anonymity of their offshore transactions is enshrined in law.

Target of Cayman investment fraud investigation was accused of another scam in 2004

September 8, 2008
A trader under investigation in the Cayman Islands on suspicion of defrauding hedge fund investors out of many millions of dollars was accused of another fraud four years ago, OffshoreAlert can reveal.Jamaican national Christopher Girvan was one of eight defendants in a civil complaint that was filed by Virginia-based inventor Keith Benson and two Australian companies, Newcom Holdings Pty. Ltd. and Bencom Pty. Ltd. at the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on July 13, 2004.

Insider Talking: August 4, 2008

August 4, 2008
The recent collapse in suspicious circumstances of four investment funds in the Cayman Islands which were established by one of the island's leading local businessmen - Naul Bodden - highlights the absurd level of secrecy that exists in all offshore financial centers that are currently or formerly UK Overseas Territories and, for that matter, the UK itself; Meanwhile, as one of Cayman's worst local company collapses was unfolding, a much-accomplished regulator who would have inspired confidence among the international community that the liquidations would be handled properly, Tim Ridley, was being replaced, effective July 27, 2008, as Chairman of the supposedly-independent Cayman Islands Monetary Authority by Carlyle McLaughlin, who is a cousin of Alden McLaughlin, a senior member of the Cayman Islands Government; Continuing on a Cayman theme, OffshoreAlert noticed that a US-based entrepreneur, Uthman Villanueva, using a business name of 'Golden Crest Consulting' a 'hotmail' email address and a PO Box mailing address in New York, NY, registered the domain name 'uglandhouse.com' as recently as June 28, 2008 - just a few weeks before the US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigation was due to hold a hearing into tax avoidance and evasion in offshore financial centers; and Three founders of a fraudulent, offshore-focused outfit that was known first as the Global Prosperity Group and later as the Institute of Global Prosperity, received prison-terms for tax crimes at federal court in the USA on July 28, 2008.