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James Moore found guilty of wire fraud and conspiracy in Renwick Haddow’s Bar Works investment scam

Posted on 13 June 20198 August 2020

On 7 June 2019, James Moore was found guilty of wire fraud and conspiracy for his role in the Bar Works investment scam. Moore was convicted after a one-week trial before the U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman.

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OffshoreAlert slams Operation Rico: “When it comes to combating global investment fraud, the UK is part of the problem, not the solution”

Posted on 8 November 201621 August 2017

On 25 February 2014, police arrested 110 people suspected of being involved in boiler rooms. The City of London Police put out a press release announcing that, “A groundbreaking partnership between UK and Spanish law enforcement agencies has led to a total of 110 arrests”.

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An email trail of a carbon credit scam. Featuring Carbon-ex, 360 Invest Group, Carbon-Expert, and Colemans-CTTS

Posted on 2 April 20163 June 2016

This is a story about how a pensioner was scammed into buying carbon credits as an investment. Miriam contacted REDD-Monitor in August 2014, to ask whether her 4,000 carbon credits were worth anything. She told me that 360 Invest Group had persuaded her to buy the carbon credits and that she’d paid the money to…

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Ryan Mellor, Sales Director, RMT Direct Ltd: “I am not a co-director of Ecopush or at any time had any involvement with this company”

Posted on 22 May 201522 May 2015

EcoPush, the Gibraltar-based company offering “investments” in carbon trading, biofuels, agricultural commodities and sustainable timber, has disappeared. REDD-Monitor wrote about the company in June 2013.

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Rio Branco Declaration: Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force states and provinces “have received very little financial support”

Posted on 5 September 201420 September 2019

Governors from 22 states have signed the Rio Branco Declaration, committing to reduce deforestation by 80% by 2020. If they receive a guarantee of “adequate, sufficient, and long‐term performance‐based funding”, that is.

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