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Part 3: Smoke and Mirrors—How Cobalt 27’s Barter IPO Turned Warehouse Metal...
The Champagne Trade That Moved Markets The champagne was flowing at Cobalt 27’s Toronto headquarters on the evening of December 8, 2017. The Canadian company had just executed a 720-ton cobalt purchase...
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New twists in the alleged Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corp. assisted murders...
Vancouver’s most infamous heroin supplier, Naji Sharifi Zindashti, and his trial in Turkey involving Vancouver Corruption, heroin, and murders If you’re from Vancouver, you know the story of how, in...
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Cold War : The CIA Says it Blew up a Russian Gas Pipeline in 1982 with...
The true but untrue tale of spies, murder, economic warfare, and sanctions Introduction In 2004, a most unusual story appeared in a spy book written by a person named Thomas Reed (“Reed”), who worked...
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Vancouver’s Dr. Death and our terrorism ties
I’ve written before on the story of how a Vancouver public company’s main source of revenues was supplying the precursor drug which allowed Mexican drug cartels to cook crystal meth in underground...
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The ludicrous story of the bombing of Nord Stream
A scuba diving fairy tale On March 8, 2023, several news organizations, including the New York Times, published a story emanating from an investigation they say they undertook in which they allege that...
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The 1st Rare Earth Elements Securities Fraud Case – A Retrospective
YBM was Canada’s Wirecard 30 years ago. It remains one of the most surreal criminal cases 30 years ago this month, in February 1993, Russian organized crime leaders set a plan in motion to infiltrate...
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The Canadian mining race for clean tech minerals – on land and in the deep-sea
Canada is racing to become a mining superpower but will its investments be enough? Clean Tech Energy Transition Late in 2022, Canada announced a series of new strategies aimed at re-igniting the...
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India seeking extradition of alleged listed terrorists in Canada
Arshdeep Dalla The Government of India has designated Arshdeep Singh Gill (Gill) on its list of designated terrorists under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967. Gill lives in Canada and is...
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A potpourri of bribery, Canada, Russian organized crime, Russian Oligarchs...
How organized crime used to work in Russia This is not a story but a potpourri of interesting events involving bribery, extortion, attempted murder, banking, Russian organized crime, Oligarchs and...
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“The Lady Oil”– How an Italian singer went on Facebook to partner with the...
The petrol mafia case was first police case of ‘Ndrangheta and Camorra convergence across Italy A Deal with the Mafia Anna Bettozzi with high boots, fur and a helicopter (Source: Instagram) Here’s a...
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US Department of Defence announces new Arctic strategy unit
Climate change is key driver for military Arctic visibility Climate change and Arctic Last week, the US Department of Defense announced the establishment of new unit in the Pentagon, the “Arctic...
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Financial crime trends in 2023
Predictions for 2023 in financial crime Where is financial crime heading? Where will enforcement be focused? With financial crime costs rising for law enforcement, investigations, compliance and...
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Thoughts on Mercenaries and Private Military Contractors
They have been called many things – mercenaries, irregular forces, private military contractors (PMC), and private security companies (PSC) – whatever the phrase, PMCs have been around for a very long...
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FTX: Kids Round-tripping in Crypto-land
Another crypto company bit the dust early this week, and with it, up to US$10 billion in customer money evaporated. BlockFi was a digital currency exchange, deposit-taking institution, and lender....
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Vancouver doctor, Avtar Singh Dhillon, of Emerald Health, charged for 3rd...
New charges levied against Dhillon and against his lawyer Three times a charm or a curse? A Vancouver doctor who allegedly partnered with the now-infamous Vancouver lawyer Frederick Sharp in an...
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Vancouver doctor Avtar Singh Dhillon of Emerald Health, charged for the 2nd...
New SEC charges A Vancouver doctor who allegedly partnered with Vancouver lawyer Frederick Sharp in an International microcap fraud scheme (summarized here) – Avtar Singh Dhillon – was charged by the...
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Voyager Digital: Asking Questions about Canadian Capital Markets
Part 1 – Attempts to legislate securities Fraud in Canada Voyager Digital “Asking Questions About Canadian Capital Markets” is a series of articles about the capital markets in which we explore some...
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Part 2: Understanding round-tripping in the capital markets
Part 2 A mysterious man from Asia and the most famous round-tripping case In Part 1 of “Understanding round-tripping in the capital markets” (here), we discussed round-tripping and looked at a rare...
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Part 1 Part 1: SEC files rare round-tripping enforcement action against Canadian issuer We tend to think of round-tripping as tax evasion round-tripping tied to FDI, where investments are routed...
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BVI Premier arrested for conspiracy to import cocaine for Mexican cartel and...
BVI – a global money laundering safe haven The Premier of the British Virgin Islands, Andrew Alturo Fahie, and BVI port authority head Oleanvine Maynard (“Maynard“), were arrested on drug trafficking...
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