Author: Marketing

Issue: Rooftop, a Singapore company, manufactured and distributed recreational drones. Facing allegations of fraud and malfeasance by its CEO/Founder, the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Texas in April 2019. While illicitly reconstituting Rooftop’s business in China, Rooftop’s principals left the bankruptcy estate with a small trademark license agreement (enough to cover debtor’s counsel’s […]

Originally posted on Forbes.com It is 9 am on a Saturday morning at Hurley’s supermarket in Grand Cayman and there is no hint of “business as usual”. Members of the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service are manning the supermarket entrance, while security guards spray shoppers’ hands with antibacterial fluid. Winding dividers direct hundreds of compliant […]

Angela Barkhouse and Mathew Clingerman, two of KRyS Global’s foremost leaders in the conduct of fraud investigations and recovering assets, in conjunction with CDR Essential Intelligence and contributing editor Keith Oliver of Peters and Peters, have had papers published on Fraud, Asset Tracing and Recovery. This represents the first edition of CDR’s Essential Intelligence – […]

Perpetrators of fraud and corruption have increasingly benefited from the quickening technological changes that make it simple to break down barriers across international borders when dealing with the transmission of information and the movement of assets. This publication provides expert summaries of the laws and regulations which have been developed to freeze and repatriate the […]

Originally posted on Corporate LiveWire The Fraud & White Collar Crime 2020 Roundtable discusses recent developments in the legislation and enforcement of corporate fraud, bribery, corruption, tax evasion and insider trading. Other notable topics include: the prominent bribery case U.S. v. Hoskins, cross border investigations, the agencies tackling corporate misconduct and the effects of Brexit […]

Originally posted on Offshore Red In this barnstorming tour-de-force, international investigator Ken Krys – the executive chairman and founder of KRyS Global, which has offices in the Cayman Islands, the British Virgin Islands, New York, London, Guernsey, Hong Kong and Singapore – lays out the basic strategies that your offshore bank is likely to require […]

KRyS Global’s Managing Director of the Cayman office, Angela Barkhouse, will be speaking with distinguished peers from the Cayman Islands, US and UK at the IWIRC Technical Seminar on 18 February 2020. The seminar is sponsored by 4 New Square Chambers and will be held at the Kimpton Seafire Resort, Grand Cayman. The Panel will […]

Dear Friends and Colleagues, I will be speaking on a panel at the Asset Recovery International conference in Dublin on February 26-28, on the topic “Hey Mr. Ponzi where did you go with our money?” The panel will discuss day one issues and how to deal with them when appointed over a group of investment […]

The U.S. Supreme Court asked the Trump administration for advice on an effort by the liquidator of Bernard Madoff’s firm to recoup $3 billion that was transferred overseas. The justices are considering whether to hear an appeal by investors who say trustee Irving Picard is impermissibly trying to apply U.S. bankruptcy law to foreign transactions. […]

Issue: A Guernsey company was served with a notice to disclose all its working files (including both internal and external email correspondence) to an overseas tax authority, as part of an investigation into the affairs of the beneficial owners of that company. The company’s administrator was given a set period in which to compile and […]