By Chris Lang Earlier this week, REDD-Monitor received an email from “John”. John had been cold called by Simon Humphries, who claimed to be from a company called Williams & Gray. Humphries told John that Williams & Gray could sell the carbon credits he had been scammed into buying years ago for more than £20…
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Seven years ago, Renwick Haddow and Kristan Gander set up a scam in Dubai called Platinum Commodities. The company’s CEO, Robin Berlyn, is still trapped in Dubai. A couple of weeks ago he tried to swim to freedom
By Chris Lang When the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority took Capital Alternatives and several other companies to the High Court in 2013, Renwick Haddow and the other people behind the scams did not stop scamming. Instead, they moved their operations to Dubai.
A company calling itself Carbon Credit Registry is running a recovery room scam
By Chris Lang REDD-Monitor recently received an email with the subject “Another VER scam site…” The email stated, I thought it would be a good idea to let you know (in case you’ve not already come across it) about Carbon Credit Registry: https://www.carboncreditregistry.co.uk. They are doing the old ‘reformatting’ trick.
Banking on Nature: HSBC partners with Pollination for US$6 billion “natural capital” investment
By Chris Lang HSBC Global Asset Management and Pollination Group have announced a series of planned billion-dollar funds targetting “natural capital”. The new venture will be called HSBC Pollination Climate Asset Management and aims to raise US$6 billion from institutional investors. But handing over conservation to bankers and neoliberal economists will be a disaster for…
Carbon conman Sami Raja is finally in prison
By Chris Lang In January 2019, Sami Raja was convicted of fraud and sentenced to eight years in prison. In his trail at Southwark Crown Court, Raja was found guilty of six counts of conspiracy to defraud and money laundering. But Raja wasn’t in court, and didn’t go to prison, having fled to Dubai in…