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TrustToken Inc. v. Kbit Global Ltd.: Complaint (‘Unpaid Crypto Loans’)

Complaint to recover allegedly unpaid crypto loans in TrustToken Inc., described as "a financial services company at the forefront of the development of new 23 global financial systems, using blockchain technology to facilitate loans and commerce" v. Kbit Global Limited, described as a Chinese company based in Hong Kong, at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Oasis Investments II Master Fund Ltd. et al v. Jardine Strategic Holdings Ltd. et al: Appeal Judgment

Judgment in Oasis Investments II Master Fund Ltd., Attestor Value Master Fund LP, Maso Capital Investments Limited, Star V Partners LLC, Blackwell Partners LLC - Series A, Citco Trustees (Cayman) Limited, as Trustee of the Allard Growth Fund; DMS UCITS Platform ICAV, on behalf of its sub-fund, Allard Asia UCITS Fund; Allard Partners Australia Pty Limited, as Trustee of the Allard Investment Fund; Alpine Partner (BVI) LP, acting through its General Partner, Alpine Global Management LLC; 405 ACM Ltd., Athos Special situations Fund SPC, on behalf of its segregated account, Athos Global Opportunities SP-1; FMAP ACL Limited, Athos Asia Event Driven Master Fund, Citadel Equity Fund Ltd., C+F NV, Portus NV, Value Square Fund NV, Cedar SA, AVI Global Trust Plc, Norges Bank, Wakeland Securities LP, Wakefield Securities LLC, FourWorld Global Opportunities Fund Ltd., FourWorld Event Opportunities LP, Boothbay Absolute Return Strategies LP, Boothbay Diversified Alpha Master Fund LP, Integrated Core Strategies (Asia) Pte Ltd., PWCM Master Fund Ltd., Pentwater Equity Opportunities Master Fund Ltd., Pentwater Merger Arbitrage Master Fund Ltd., Crown Managed Accounts SPC, Pentwater Metric Merger Arbitrage Fund LP, through its General Partner, Pentwater Metric Merger Arbitrage CP LLC; Pentwater Unconstrained Master Fund Ltd., Helium Fund, on behalf of its sub-funds, Helijm Selection and Helium Performance; Helium Opportunities, Merlin Fidelis Emerging Markets Fund, Hildene Opportunities Master Fund II Limited, Stonehill Master Fund Ltd., Stonehill Institutional Partners LP, APS Holdings Corporation, Sunrise Partners Limited Partnership, The Funicular Fund LP, Shay Capital LLC, One68 Global Master Fund LP, Golden Chance Goldsmith Pte Ltd., Qube Master Fund Ltd., QRT Master Fund SPC - Torus Fund SP; Lakeville Capital Investors (enhanced) Master Limited, Lakeville Capital Investors Limited, Prelude Opportunity Fund LP, Davidson Kempner Partners, M.H. Davidson & Co., Davidson Kempner International Ltd., Davidson Kempner Institutional Partners LP. Schonfeld IR Master Fund Pte Ltd., Schonfeld Global Master Fund LP, Samson Rock Event Driven Master Fund Limited, Pictet TR - Diversified Alpha, Alphanatics Master Fuind Limited, Indus Select Master Fund Ltd., Vitruvius - Asian Equity, a sub-fund of Vitruvius SICAV; Cambridge University Endowment Fund, FMI International Fund, FMI International Fund II - Currency Unhedged, Man Funds XII SPC-Man 1783 II SP, Man GLG Credit Multi Strategy Master Fund, Graham Leigh Collins, Beral Holdings Pte Ltd., Wong Hong Yen, Hong Sun Wong, Clifford Cheah King Mun, Stephanie Vanessa Ling-Tsu Cheah, Albert Neo Po Soon, Lau Mei Leng, The Gabelli Small Cap Growth Fund, The Gabelli Equity Income Fund, The Gabelli Asset Fund, Gabelli Associates Limited, Gabelli Associates Fund, Gabelli Associates Ltd. II E, The Gabelli Multimedia Trust Inc., GGCP Inc., Gabelli Associates Fund II LP, The Gabelli Global Rising Income and Dividend Fund, The Gabelli Global Global Utility & Income Trust, The Gabelli Equity Trust Inc., The Gabelli Dividend and Income Trust, Gabelli Arbitrage Holdings, and Gabelli Global Small and Mid Cap Value Trust v. Jardine Strategic Holdings Limited and Jardine Strategic Limited at Bermuda Court of Appeal.

Brett Messieh et al v. BitMEX et al: Second Amended Class Action Complaint (‘BitMEX Crypto Fraud’)

Second Amended Class Action Complaint alleging fraud involving BitMEX crypto exchange in Brett Messieh and Drew Lee v. HDR Global Trading Ltd., of the Seychelles; ABS Global Trading Limited, of Delaware; 100X Holdings Limited, of Bermuda; Shine Effort Inc Limited, of Hong Kong; HDR Global Services (Bermuda) Limited, of Bermuda, collectively referred to as BitMEX, "one of the world’s largest crypto-asset exchanges"; Arthur Hayes, Ben Delo, Greg Dwyer, and Samuel Reed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

SEC v. Ho Wan Kwok et al: Complaint (‘$850M Securities Fraud’)

Complaint alleging "multiple offering frauds orchestrated by Guo, an exiled Chinese businessman living in the United States who targeted retail investors through online and social media posts and videos" in U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission v. Ho Wan Kwok, a.k.a. Miles Guo, Miles Kwok, Wengui Guo, and Brother Seven, described as a citizen of Hong Kong residing in New York; Kin Ming Je, a.k.a. William Je, described as a dual citizen of Hong Kong and the United Kingdom residing in London, England; Mountains of Spices LLC, d.b.a. New York Farm, and G Club Operations LLC, of Puerto Rico, as Defendants, and Mei Guo, described as a citizen of Hong Kong residing in New York, England; Qiang Guo, described as a citizen of Hong Kong residing in London, England; Hing Chi Ngok, described as a citizen of China residing in Connecticut, and Sin Ting Rong, described as a citizen of Hong Kong residing in London, England, as Relief Defendants, at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

AAG Energy Holdings Ltd.: ‘Scheme of Arrangement’ Petition

Petition for the Court's Sanction of a Scheme of Arrangement in the matter of AAG Energy Holdings Ltd, a Cayman Islands company based in Hong Kong that belongs to a group whose "principal activities ... are coal-bed methane exploration and development in the People's Republic of China", at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

USA v. Ho Wan Kwok et al: Criminal Indictment (‘$1B Securities Fraud & Money Laundering’)

Criminal Indictment for securities fraud and money laundering with "hundreds of millions of dollars of the fraudulent scheme's proceeds" going into "bank accounts in the United States, Bahamas, and United Arab Emirates, among other places" in USA v. Ho Wan Kwok, a.k.a. Miles Guo, Miles Kwok, Guo Wengui, Brother Seven, and The Principal, described as "an exiled Chinese businessman who fled to the United States", and Kin Ming Je, a.k.a. William Je, described as "a dual citizen of Hong Kong and the United Kingdom who principally resided in the United Kingdom", at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

‘Remove BBShares crypto article,’ writes ‘Joe Juan’

Letter from 'Joe Juan' requesting the removal from OffshoreAlert's website of an article about Cayman Islands-domiciled crypto fund manager BBShares Capital Management Ltd., claiming that a motion for the appointment of Inspectors filed at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands was "withdrawn ... because it is baseless".

Anbang Group Holdings Co. Ltd. et al v. Haibin Zhou et al: Complaint

Complaint alleging the defendants "falsified contracts, property records and legal judgments in an attempt to fraudulently claim ownership over billions of dollars in real estate owned by Plaintiffs" in Anbang Insurance Group Co., Ltd., of China; Anbang Group Holdings Co. Limited, of Hong Kong; AB Stable IX LLC, and AB Stable VIII LLC v. Haibin Zhou, described as "a serial harasser who has attempted to extract payments from other large companies through bad faith cybersquatting and trademark trolling"; Daniil A. Belitskiy, David C. Traub, Yan Zhao, Law Office of Ning Ye, World Award Foundation Inc., Amer Group LLC, An Ban Group LLC, AB Stable Group LLC, Andy Bang LLC, SHC Group LLC, and SHR Group LLC at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

ICONIQ Holding Ltd.: Directors

Director Details for ICONIQ Holding Ltd., obtained from the Cayman Islands General Registry on February 21st, 2023.

John Tang et al v. CITIC Capital Holdings Ltd. et al: Class Action Complaint (‘Fraud by State-Owned Chinese Entities’)

Class Action Complaint alleging "unlawful schemes by a number of state-owned Chinese corporations and individuals, GNC’s Directors of the Board and senior management, and financial advisor" in John Yong Tang, of New Jersey, and Faris Al Kooheji, a citizen of Bahrain v. CITIC Capital Holdings Ltd., of Hong Kong; CITIC Limited, CITIC Capital Partners LLC, GNC Holdings, LLC, ZT Biopharmaceutical LLC, Yichen Zhang, Yong Kai Wong, Hans Allegaert, Kenneth A. Martindale, Tricia K. Tolivar, Cameron Lawrence, Susan M. Canning, Michele S. Meyer, Alan D. Feldman, Michael F. Hines, Amy B. Lane, Philip E. Mallott, Robert F. Moran, Evercore Inc., and Gregory Berube at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

PrecisioBiotix Inc.: Directors

Director Details for PrecisioBiotix Inc., obtained from the Cayman Islands General Registry on February 3rd, 2023.

China Construction Bank (Asia) Corporation Ltd. v. Goldman Sachs et al: Discovery Application (‘$300M Debt of Inter Milan FC President Steven Zhang’, Hong Kong & Italy)

Application by China Construction Bank (Asia) Corporation Limited to take discovery from The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., The Raine Group LLC, Oaktree Capital Management, L.P., Bain Capital, L.P., Lazard Frères & Co. LLC, Citibank, N.A., BNY Mellon, N.A., Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Bank of America, N.A., Deutsche Bank AG, and The Clearing House Payments Company LLC regarding, inter alia, "the corporate financing and executive compensation structures of F.C. Internazionale Milano S.p.A", a.k.a. Inter Milan FC, an Italian soccer club, for use in legal proceedings in Hong Kong and Italy involving an allegation that Inter Milan's president, Zhang Kangyang, a.k.a. Steven Zhang, owes "more than US $300 million to China Construction Bank (Asia) Corporation Limited", filed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

FXCH Ltd. v. Centre Consortium LLC: Complaint (‘Crypto Dispute’)

Complaint for "an injunction in aid of arbitration requiring Centre to direct the segregation of the $6,000,000 USD supporting the peg for the 6,000,000 USDC and to block and freeze 6,000,000 permanently inaccessible USDC stable coins belonging to FXCH" in FXCH Ltd., described as "a member-based financial utility for Institutional Spot-FX Clearing with its principal place of business in Dublin, Ireland" v. Centre Consortium LLC, which "administers the network for a so-called 'stablecoin' that is pegged 1-to-1 (or 1:1) to the U.S. Dollar, called USD Coin and denominated as USDC", at the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

dōTERRA Holdings LLC et al v. JD.com Inc. et al: Complaint

Complaint in dōTERRA Holdings LLC and dōTERRA International LLC v. JD.com Inc., described as a Cayman Islands company based in Beijing, China; Jingdong E-Commerce (Trade) Hong Kong Corporation Limited, "believed to be incorporated and headquartered in Hong Kong", and 'Bxytonline Seller' at the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah.

Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. v. Fosun Fashion Group (Cayman) Ltd. et al: Complaint (‘$5.1M Claim’)

Complaint "to recover fees owed to it by its former clients Fosun, Primavera, and LGHL" in Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. v. Fosun Fashion Group (Cayman) Limited, described as a Cayman Islands company based in China; Primavera Capital Acquisition Corporation, described as a Cayman Islands company based in Hong Kong, and Lanvin Group Holdings Limited, described as a Cayman Islands company based in China, at the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New York.

Oakwise Value Fund SPC: Directors

Director Details for Oakwise Value Fund SPC, obtained from the Cayman Islands General Registry on January 1st, 2023.

USA v. $310,276 Seized From Accounts at Bank of Saipan: Forfeiture Complaint (‘Fraud & Money Laundering’)

Forfeiture Complaint regarding funds associated with "a suspected conspiracy by foreign entities and entities and individuals in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands to commit wire fraud and money laundering" involving entities, inter alia, in Bermuda and the British Virgin Islands in USA v. $271,088 and $39,188 seized from accounts at the Bank of Saipan in the name of a company referred to as "MCS", filed at the U.S. District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands.

Taiping Trustees Ltd. v. Valley Stone Industry Fund Ltd. et al: Writ of Summons

Writ of Summons in Taiping Trustees Limited, on its own behalf and on behalf of Valley Stone Industry Fund LP (in Voluntary Liquidation) v. Valley Stone Industry Fund Ltd., in its own capacity and in its capacity as General Partner of Valley Stone Industry Fund LP (in Voluntary Liquidation), Huarong International Asset Management Limited, of China, and Huarong International Financial Holdings Limited, of Bermuda, at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Hangzhou Biaoba Trading Co. Ltd. v. TVPX Aircraft Solutions Inc.: Discovery Application (England & Wales)

Application by Hangzhou Biaoba Trading Co. Ltd., described as a Chinese company that is "engaged in the business of providing working capital and equity investments", to take discovery from TVPX Aircraft Solutions Inc. for use in legal proceedings in England and Wales "against a debtor named Kei Kin Hung f/k/a Qi Jianhong for the enforcement and recognition of a foreign civil judgment ... in favor of Petitioner, issued by the People's Court of Jianggan District of Hangzhou City of Zhejiang Province", filed at the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah.

Leonid Zavlunov v. Stanislav Shvartsman et al: Complaint (‘Fraudulent Bank Guarantee’)

Complaint seeking damages of $4.1 million alleging fraud and forgery in Leonid Zavlunov, derivatively and on behalf of Strategic Global Experts Inc. v. Stanislav Shvartsman, William Joseph Mudolo, of London, England, and African Development Funding Group, as Defendants, and Strategic Global Experts Inc., as Nominal Defendant, at the Supreme Court of the State of New York, New York County.