Stephen Sayre

Terry Neal tries to renege on sentencing deal

August 31, 2004

Former offshore services provider Terry Neal and three co-defendants have had their sentencing delayed pending a review of a U. S. Supreme Court opinion that federal sentencing guidelines are unconstitutional.

Receiver appointed in Canada for assets of Exchange Bank & Trust

July 31, 2003

The Supreme Court of British Columbia has appointed a Receiver for US$20 million of assets belonging to two offshore banks, their clients and related parties - more than three years after freezing them.Following its appointment on June 16, 2003, KPMG Inc., in Vancouver, Canada, is seeking claimants for the funds, which were frozen in April/May, 2000 as part of an investigation into securities fraud.

Insider Talking: November 30, 2002

November 30, 2002

The British Columbia Securities Commission has scheduled a hearing for December 10 11, 2002 to consider applications to vary asset freeze orders relating to accounts at the Bank of Montreal in Vancouver that were frozen in 2000 as part of

Sterling International Bank fails to unfreeze assets

April 30, 2001

An offshore bank has failed to unfreeze US$540,000 of its assets that were frozen at the Bank of Montreal in Vancouver by the British Columbia Securities Commission as part of a stock fraud investigation. The provisional liquidator of Nauru-registered Sterling International Bank Inc., Graham R. Whiteside, had applied for the funds to be released so that he could proceed with the liquidation of the bank.