Sydney plane plotters ‘planned to blow up an Etihad flight with a bomb hidden inside a BARBIE DOLL’
By NIC WHITE FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA From This Is Money The men accused of trying to blow up an Etihad flight out of Sydney planned to smuggle a bomb on board the jet inside a large Barbie doll, Lebanese…
Iran building weapons factories in Syria, Lebanon, Israeli media reports
From Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Israeli media are reporting that Iran is building a factory in northwest Syria to manufacture long-range rockets. The reports feature satellite images showing a site under construction in northwest Syria near the Mediterranean coastal town…
Foreigners own 1 million+ acres of Georgia ag land
By Lois Norder From AJC Georgia is among nine states where foreign interests own more than 1 million acres of land deemed agricultural, according to a recent report by The Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting. The roster of foreign owners…
Participation by International Stakeholders in Cayman Islands Insolvencies
Peter McMaster QC, Partner, and Jeremy Snead, Senior Associate, Appleby (Cayman) Ltd, Cayman Islands Introduction Companies incorporated in the Cayman Islands usually conduct operations and hold assets elsewhere than in the Cayman Islands and Cayman Islands corporate insolvencies therefore commonly…
Bahrain, Lebanon, Nauru, Panama and Vanuatu have now committed to the international standard of automatic exchange of financial account information to tackle tax evasion and avoidance
From Offshore Bankers The OECD and the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes announced today that Bahrain, Lebanon, Nauru, Panama and Vanuatu have now committed to share financial account information automatically with other countries. With…
Three jailed for targeting immigrants in Green Card scam
By Nelson A. King From Caribbean Life Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson announced on Wednesday that three defendants have been sentenced in connection with a scheme in which they stole more than $8,000 from two victims by falsely promising to…
Re PAC Limited (In Official Liquidation): How to empower Cayman Liquidation Committees
By Peter McMaster QC and Jeremy Snead From Appleby It is sometimes assumed that the liquidation committee of an insolvent Cayman company can do little when it disagrees with decisions by liquidators. A Cayman Islands Grand Court ruling on 11…
