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Category: Malta

Blackmore Bond collapse: Financial Conduct Authority is “responsible for every penny lost”

Posted on 14 May 202018 January 2021

By Chris Lang Three weeks ago, Blackmore Bond’s mini-bond investment scheme collapsed into administration. The Financial Conduct Authority was warned three years ago about one of the boiler room operations that was cold calling pensioners to persuade them to invest in Blackmore Bond. But the FCA took no action.

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Can buying Ben & Jerry’s ice cream save the Cordillera Azul National Park in Peru? Featuring Ecosphere+, Althelia, the Poseidon Foundation, REDD, Blockchain, and the government of Malta

Posted on 9 November 201827 October 2020

By Chris Lang Since May 2018, if you buy ice cream from Ben & Jerry’s Scoop Shop in Wardour Street, London, you will also buy a small part of a carbon credit. For every scoop of ice cream, a penny goes to buying carbon credits from the Cordillera Azul National Park REDD project in Peru.

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MED Investment Operations – Part 3: MidiaGeo and InBECAS, the Brazilian Connection

Posted on 19 August 20163 June 2020

A few weeks ago, REDD-Monitor received an email offering 345 million carbon credits for sale. A company based in Malta called MED Investment Operations is offering carbon credits from a REDD project in Brazil and them for sale at US$6.80 each. This post, the third in a series of posts about this incredible offer, looks…

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MED Investment Operations – Part 2: “This model is recognized by international institutions such as Standard Conversion environmental assets of Forests in Transaction instruments”

Posted on 3 August 20163 June 2020

Two weeks ago, REDD-Monitor received an email offering 345 million carbon credits for sale. The carbon credits were from a REDD project in Brazil and a company based in Malta called MED Investment Operations is offering them for sale at US$6.80 each. Last week, I wrote about the companies in Malta behind this incredible offer:…

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MED Investment Operations – Part 1: Anyone want to buy 345 million REDD carbon credits? Only US$6.80 each

Posted on 26 July 20165 June 2020

Last week, REDD-Monitor received a message from Boniface Mburaburirwe asking whether I have any buyers for carbon credits. I suspect Mburaburirwe hasn’t read much on REDD-Monitor, particularly not the series of posts about scam artists selling carbon credits to unsuspecting members of the public as investments.

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