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OffshoreAlert has received a bizarre 'Cease and Desist' letter that purports to link last week's prolonged cyber attack on our website to British investment fraudster David Kennedy, who was criminally convicted in England on May 3rd for his involvement in a £121 million fraud perpetrated by Cayman Islands-domiciled Axiom Legal Financing Fund, which collapsed after being exposed by OffshoreAlert in 2012.

Public Warning by the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority that Pro Finanz Schweiz AG “is suspected of conducting unauthorised activities in the financial market”.

Chapter 15 Petition for Recognition of a Foreign Main Proceeding in Singapore by Chen Li shan, as the Foreign Representative of Deelish Brands Pte. Ltd., which "was in the business of managing cafés", filed at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California.

Bizarre letter from "Kojo Menne Asamoah DBA Hardpink Legal" demanding the removal from OffshoreAlert's website of details of the fraud conviction of David Kennedy for his role in the £121 million scam perpetrated by Cayman Islands-domiciled Axiom Legal Financing Fund, which collapsed after being exposed by OffshoreAlert in 2012. Remarkably, the author - who used a throw-away email address and may have been using a pseudonym - essentially claimed responsibility for a cyber attack on OffshoreAlert's website last week, which began three days after Kennedy's criminal conviction in England on May 3rd, 2024, ending the letter with the threat that "Failure to comply with this demand will continue with disruption of your service provided [by] Rackspace and Armor via all means necessary."

Malta Financial Services Authority has revoked the licenses of Swiss asset manager Heinz Kubli's investment fund TTC SICAV Plc and its sub-fund, TTC Green Energy Fund, for several regulatory breaches.

Foreign Judgment Registration in the amount of BRL 7,540,709 in Banco Votorantim S.A., of São Paulo, Brazil v. Kenneth Steven Pope, Starbucks Brasil Comércio de Cafés Ltda., Brazil Airport Restaurante S.A., and SouthRock Capital Ltda., all of São Paulo, Brazil, at the Circuit Court of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit, in and for Miami-Dade County, Florida, USA.

Complaint in Nan Liu, Hao Liu, and Guangxiang Xu, all of China, directly and derivatively on behalf of EB-5 SF Investment Limited Partnership and derivatively on behalf of SF Hotel Investors, LLC, v. EB5 Global SF LLC, SF Hotel Investors LLC, MiMA Real Estate Partners I LLC, Renoir HM LLC, Proper Hospitality LLC, Kor Realty Group LLC, Brad Korzen, Kelly Wearstler, Alex Samek, and Brian DeLowe at the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware.

Public Notice by the Malta Financial Services Authority that it has cancelled the licenses of investment funds TTC SICAV Plc and TTC Green Energy Fund for regulatory breaches.

Application by Ibiuna Crédito Gestão de Recursos Ltda., described as "an independent asset management firm"; Travessia Securitizadora de Créditos Financeiros XXXII S.A., described as "a company that specializes in securitization", and Travessia Securitizadora de Créditos Financeiros S.A. to take discovery from Riata Corporate Group LLC, described as "an oil & gas company founded in 1985 by Mr. Noah Mallone Mitchell", Mr. Pope’s uncle for use in "foreign civil and criminal proceedings pending in Brazil concerning the business operations of Starbucks and Subway in that country, held through the SouthRock Group, a group of U.S. and Brazilian companies controlled and owned by Kenneth Steven Pope", filed at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas.

Petition to Enforce Arbitration Award in Panamax International Shipping Company Ltd., of the Marshall Islands v. AAT Global Ltd., of Hong Kong, and Himadri Specialty Chemicals Ltd., of India, at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

The Bahamas Telecommunications Company has filed a complaint at federal court in New York in which it is seeking to seize a $10 million, 121-foot, Cayman Islands-registered motor yacht - M/V Retriever - that it claims caused $1.5 million of damage to an underwater telecommunications cable.

Complaint in The Bahamas Telecommunications Company Limited, of the Bahamas v. M/V Retriever, described as "a yacht registered under the flag of the Republic of the Cayman Islands", at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

At federal court in California, Irish hotelier Patrick McKillen is seeking documents and testimony from former Qatar Government Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim for use in a "tens of millions of euros" legal dispute in France "related to the development of a luxury hotel at 231, Boulevard Saint-Germain in Paris".

Application by Patrick McKillen and Hume Street Management Consultants Limited, both of Ireland, to take discovery from Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber bin Mohammed bin Thani Al Thani, described as "the former Minister for Foreign Affairs in Qatar", for use in legal proceedings in France "related to the development of a luxury hotel at 231, Boulevard Saint-Germain in Paris, France", filed at the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence from Espirito Santo Bank, now Brickell Bank; Total Bank, The Bank of New York Mellon, and FlexFunds ETP LLC - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from Spain - for a criminal investigation into Raúl Antonio de la Santisima Trinidad Gorrin Belisario, Luis Fernando Vuteff Garcia, and Jose Vicente Amparan Croquer for the suspected laundering of "hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars and/or Euros in profits" from an alleged bribery scheme involving Petroleos de Venezuela, S.A., a.k.a., PDVSA, described as "Venezuela's state-owned oil company", some of which was allegedly launder "by purchasing real estate in Spain in the name of shell companies via real estate bonds".