{"id":20129,"date":"2011-01-24T09:40:46","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T13:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=20129"},"modified":"2011-01-24T10:01:01","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T14:01:01","slug":"tenacious-contacts-lead-to-1-billion-international-hedge-fund-loan-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2011\/tenacious-contacts-lead-to-1-billion-international-hedge-fund-loan-scam.html","title":{"rendered":"Tenacious Contacts Lead To $1 Billion International Hedge Fund &#038; Loan Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; The founder of Hong Kong-based hedge fund consultancy company and New York lawyer has been linked to two Liechtenstein businessmen recently fined $157 million each for their part in a US loan scam, according to The Sydney Morning Herald.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/header_global_international_en2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-20136\" title=\"International Hedge Fund Fraud\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/header_global_international_en2-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/header_global_international_en2-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/header_global_international_en2.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>The paper reports that the chairman of the Liechtenstein-based Jeeves Group had bought 100% of Jack Flader&#8217;s company, Global Consultants and Services Ltd (GCSL)\u00a0and that Flader would act as a consultant.<\/p>\n<p>GCSL was involved in a $120 million fraud scheme last year involving a hedge fund, Astarra Strategic. The NSW Supreme Court ruled last April that GCSL was responsible for directing the placement of $120 million of Australian investors&#8217; money into funds housed in little-known Caribbean tax havens.<\/p>\n<p>In November 2009 a US investor, Kevin Campbell, won a court case arguing that a stock-loan program involving the Jeeves Group and Flader had been a $1 billion Ponzi scheme that ripped off investors and paid $100 million to its promoters.<\/p>\n<p>In the case before the US District Court in Charleston, South Carolina, Bryan Jeeves and his son, Alexander, were named alongside Flader as &#8221;Racketeer influenced and corrupt organisations&#8221; defendants, according to the news source. The Jeeveses were ordered to pay $157 million each after the court accepted evidence they had breached multiple laws by committing mail fraud, wire fraud, securities fraud and money laundering.<\/p>\n<p>Editing by Alex Akesson<br \/>\nFor <a title=\"hedge funds\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:alex@hedgeco.net\">alex@hedgeco.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.Net<\/a> is a premier <a title=\"hedge fund database\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">hedge fund database<\/a> and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership in <a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.net<\/a> is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for <a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">Hedge Funds<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; The founder of Hong Kong-based hedge fund consultancy company and New York lawyer has been linked to two Liechtenstein businessmen recently fined $157 million each for their part in a US loan scam, according to The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedge-fund-fraud","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20129"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20131,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20129\/revisions\/20131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}