By Chris Lang On 27 July 2020, Savraj Gata-Aura was sentenced to four years in prison for his part in the Bar Works investment scam. More than 800 investors handed over more than US$40 million supposedly as investments in the Bar Works co-working space company. Gata-Aura co-founded Bar Works in 2015 with serial scammer Renwick…
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Green IS Group: An FSC-certified Ponzi scheme
By Chris Lang BR & UK Florestal EIRELI – EPP is a Brazilian company that runs teak plantations in Brazil. In March 2018, Imaflora audited the company’s 53 hectares of plantations and remnants of forest, and certified them as well managed under the Forest Stewardship Council system.
Global Forestry Investments: Skeene and Bowers plead not guilty
By Chris Lang Andrew Skeene and Omari Bowers, former directors of Global Forestry Investments, last week pleaded not guilty to fraud charges. In 2019, following an investigation by the Serious Fraud Office, Skeene and Bowers were arrested and charged with three offences of conspiracy to defraud, four offences of forgery, one offence of misconduct in…
Tullett Brown carbon credit investment scam, five years on. Bradley Ferry, director of Tullett Brown but “nothing more than a salesman”, gets his solicitor to “kindly request” REDD-Monitor to “remove the link referenced herein”
By Chris Lang Five years ago, REDD-Monitor wrote about four men in the UK who received 14-year director bans. The bans followed their involvement in a £5.5 million land banking and carbon credit scam. A series of companies was involved, including Tullett Brown Limited, Tamar (London) Limited, Johnnystone Limited and Brad Baker Limited, Foxstone Carr…
More on the D’Cerrado a’Amazonia REDD project in Brazil. Featuring SSO International Capital, LiveHOPE Fund, GHG Emissions Corp., RTD SPV1 LLC, and Brazil Mata Viva
By Chris Lang In July 2016, Boniface Mburaburirwe wrote to REDD-Monitor, asking whether I (or anyone I knew) was interested in buying 345 million “certified carbon credits already invested on Bloomberg”. Mburaburirwe’s asking price was US$6.80 each.