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Bermuda Chairs Regional Crime Stoppers
Bermuda’s Alex MacDonald explained that Crime Stoppers has a pivotal role to play in the maintenance of law and order, civil living, and good governance in the Caribbean region when he became chairman elect of a new regional body earlier this month. On Monday, March 12, the inaugural meeting of the Caribbean/Bermuda and Latin America Crime... Read more of this article
Ex-Bermuda Resident Jailed For Killing Stepfather
A former Bermuda resident who killed his stepfather by stabbing him 41 times when a long-running family feud boiled over was yesterday [Mar. 22] jailed for 11 years in the United Kingdom. British media outlets are reporting [1] [2] Nathan Vaughan-Jones, 34, attacked 63-year-old Nigel Ross in the garden of his sister’s home in South Chailey, East... Read more of this article
Misick Seeks Asylum After Interpol Issues Warrant
Former premier of the Turks and Caicos Islands Michael Misick announced he has sought political asylum in an unnamed country after Interpol issued an arrest warrant for him in connection with allegations of government corruption. The Special Investigation and Prosecution Team [SIPT] in the Turks and Caicos said they obtained the Interpol arrest warrant... Read more of this article
Turks & Caicos Politicians Appear In Court
Two politicians were granted $175,000 bail when they appeared in a Turks and Caicos Court on corruption charges last month, reports the island’s local media. The leader of the Progressive National Party [PNP] and former Speaker of House Clayton Greene and former government minister McAllister Hanchell, were each granted $175,000 bail when they... Read more of this article
John Deuss Goes On Trial In Holland
One-time Bermuda-based businessman John Deuss has gone on trial in the Netherlands accused of banking without a license, disguising unusual transactions and forming a criminal organisation that made possible large-scale carousel fraud in England. Dutch media sources reported today [Mar. 26] that the 69-year-old banker and oil trader was standing... Read more of this article
Robinson Convicted In St. Vincent
Bermudian Winston Robinson was convicted of two offences of money laundering in a St. Vincent court today [Mar.9]. Mr Robinson was on a sailboat — containing $1.7 million in hidden compartments — when it was intercepted entering St. Vincent in April 2008. A police spokesperson said, “The Bermuda Police Service learned today of the... Read more of this article
Curtis Associate Admits Fraud Charges
A Montana man has admitted to bilking investors out of nearly $2 million in a scheme which involved Bermudian Andre Curtis [pictured], pleading guilty to multiple charges of conspiracy and fraud in US District Court yesterday [Mar.7]. Dan Two Feathers is one of three men charged by a US federal grand jury with running the complicated “Ponzi”... Read more of this article
Alleged Fraudster Used Bermuda Account
The US Securities and Exchange Commission today [Mar.6] announced it has charged a New York-based investment adviser with using a Bermuda client fund account to defraud investors in five offshore funds, using some of their money to buy himself a multi-million dollar beach resort property on Long Island. The SEC alleges that Brian Raymond Callahan of... Read more of this article
Lawyer Disbarred For Bermuda Fraud
A disgraced Canadian lawyer who was convicted of fraud in Bermuda has been disbarred by the Law Society of Upper Canada. “Canadian Lawyer” magazine reports this week [Feb.29] that a jury found Robert Martyn guilty of conspiring to fraudulently obtain Bermudian status. Doctored birth and marriage certificates falsely tracing the family’s... Read more of this article
Bermuda Cited In India Corruption Case
India’s Central Bureau of Investigation will soon send judicial requests to Bermuda and the United Kingdom seeking details of money trail in a widening political corruption case in which former Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran is an accused. The CBI has alleged the former Cabinet Minister received $118 million as kickbacks from the Indian-Malaysian... Read more of this article
Montserrat Officer Charged With Assault
Following an investigation which involved Bermuda police officers, a member of the Royal Montserrat Police Servic has been charged with assault and several other offences. Montserrat Governor Adrian Davis said in a press release. “… A member of the Royal Montserrat Police Service has been charged with the offences of assault occasioning actual bodily... Read more of this article
Child Found In US, Mother Arrested
A 14-year-old Bermudian child allegedly abducted by his mother in 2003 was found in Florida yesterday [Feb.2], according to US media and police reports. The child’s mother – 40-year-old Bermudian Kim Sakena Swan [pictured] – was arrested and charged with interference with child custody. The child is expected to be reunited with his... Read more of this article
