Farah Halime, a journalist based in Cairo, reports that records from Dubai’s Department of Economic Development show that AGT’s license in Dubai will expire today. When she asked AGT whether it plans to renew the licence, the company re-sent her a statement it produced last week.
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Advanced Global Trading sold at least US$25 million of voluntary carbon credits as investments
Two articles about Advanced Global Trading were published at the end of last week. One by Vivian Nereim, a journalist with The National, an Abu Dhabi English-language newspaper, and one by Farah Halime a journalist based in Cairo.
ClearView Partnership Ltd: The most incompetent carbon credit boiler room so far?
ClearView Partnership is so bad that someone who went from a job interview reported them to Financial Conduct Authority.
TM Harris: Another carbon credit boiler room scam?
TM Harris Associates is another UK-based company that cold calls people hoping to persuade them into handing over their money as an “investment” in voluntary carbon credits. The company seems to have many of the hallmarks of a boiler room scam.
London Carbon Credit Company: Another carbon credit boiler room bites the dust
By Chris Lang London Carbon Credit Company was exposed as a scam by Daily Mirror journalist Andrew Penman in August 2012. Last month, Penman reported that the company has been wound up in the public interest in the High Court in London.