Are cyber breaches a fact of life now?

By Kevin Haywood Crouch and Jacqui Sanaghan. Ask yourself, are cyber breaches a fact of life now?  Yahoo, the Bahamas corporate registry, Mossack Fonseca, World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), the list is growing, and the profile of these hacks and leaks is no longer the traditional mining of personal or financial information to be sold to […]

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Recovering Illicit Assets Offshore: Demystifying the Black Hole

Published in 27th Annual ACFE Global Fraud Conference – Speakers Handbook. Author: Kenneth Krys, Founder and Executive Chairman, KRyS Global Many sophisticated fraudsters use offshore bank accounts and corporate vehicles to conceal their proceeds of fraud. With many of these offshore jurisdictions having bank secrecy and little public information, fraud fighters often find themselves with minimal […]

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KRyS Global and Global Partners, BTG Global Advisory, Ideally Positioned to Advise and Provide Strategies Relating to the Panama Papers

Stakeholders and indviduals interested in more information about opportunities related to the Panama Papers should download Paper Chase, a pdf. Contact Kenneth Krys or Kevin Haywood Crouch, to explore how we can assist. KRyS Global, together with our partners at BTG Global Advisory, are one of the world’s largest alliances providing extensive specialist expertise in […]

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The Impact of Intermediary Bank Discovery on Fraud Investigation and Asset Recovery

Published on ABI Fraud Website Introduction “Let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.”[1] This Browning verse would serve as an apt credo for many fraudsters looking to exit the game. The problem is that today the exit always seems to include an […]

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Baha Mar Employees Laid Off As Stalemate Continues

Published in Travelpulse, October 23, 2015 By Brian Major Stalled Bahamas mega-resort Baha Mar laid off 2,000 employees effective Oct. 23 after the country’s Supreme Court granted joint provisional liquidators KRyS Global and AlixPartners approval to release the workers Thursday. The layoffs, made due to the resort’s financial insolvency, affect about 1,440 non-active employees and […]

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Bankruptcy Judge Nixes Fund’s Buy Of $230M Madoff Claim

Published in Law360, October 15, 2015 By Kurt Orzeck A New York federal bankruptcy judge has granted a request by the liquidator for an offshore Bernard L. Madoff feeder fund to undo its allegedly imprudent sale of a $230 million claim against the Ponzi schemer’s defunct firm to a hedge fund. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Stuart […]

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KRyS Global Recovers $150M

Cayman27  October 15, 2015 One local firm takes credit for brokering a settlement in the largest ever Ponzi scheme in history. Some 6 years after Bernie Madoff’s multi billion dollar fraud went belly up, local firm KRyS Global says it’s making progress in recovering a fraction of what was stolen around the world. Click here […]

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KRyS Global secures a landmark decision in US Bankruptcy Court

October 15, 2015 Kenneth Krys and Charlotte Caulfield of KRyS Global, the British Virgin Islands Joint Liquidators of Fairfield Sentry Limited, secured a significant decision yesterday (October 13, 2015) when US Bankruptcy Judge, Stuart M. Bernstein handed down his decision granting their motion to disapprove the sale of their $230 million allowed SIPA claim in […]

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Bahamas Luxury Resort May Open In Early 2016

Published in the Bloomberg Business, October 12, 2015 By Dawn McCarty and John Lippert Baha Mar, the $3.5 billion Bahamas resort at the center of a bitter commercial dispute, will open early next year if Prime Minister Perry Christie has anything to say about it. An agreement could save the resort from liquidation, as a […]

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Fraud and fraud investigation

Published in World Commerce Review – September 2015 By Anna Chan, Membership Director – ISACA Bermuda As a jurisdiction, Bermuda was an early adopter of e-commerce and electronic transactions legislation. To the many leading international organisations present on its shores, Bermuda provides a sophisticated technology infrastructure that includes several fibre optic cables connecting the Island to […]

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