As your adversary may hide money in multiple bank accounts, you may need to perform bank searches. For example, my December 21, 2020 post mentioned a scheme in which 150 checks worth $2 million were seemingly hidden at 12 bank accounts. At your bank searches you would seek your adversary’s customer information from banks. Therefore,
Bank Search
Asset Search & Asset Recovery Tools
If you claim in court that someone is hiding assets from you, you may need to use one or more of the asset search & asset recovery tools. You can use the tools to help you shoulder the burden of proving your claim. Stated otherwise, you can use the tools to provide the Court…
3 Ways To Detect Assets & A Money Trail
A Financial Intelligence Unit (“FIU”) tracks hidden assets by “following the money.” There is always a money trail when assets are hidden and money is laundered. One way FIUs follow a money trail is by collecting suspicious activity reports from banks about bank customers. FIUs can follow a bank customer’s money trail…
Divorce & Hidden Money: Asset Searches At Banks
I. STARTING ASSET SEARCHES AT BANKS
Asset searches at banks raise the question: how do you search for bank accounts you are unaware of? One wife found a box in the basement. Her divorcing husband forgot to take it when he moved out. This box had an offshore bank’s brochure and the husband’s application to…
Divorce & Hidden Money: Your Spouse’s Secret Offshore Bank Accounts
This 38th post in the “Divorce & Hidden Money” series shows you how your divorcing spouse can open secret offshore bank accounts. The post also talks about presenting evidence in court about the offshore bank accounts.
I. FOUR STEPS FOR OPENING A SECRET OFFSHORE BANK ACCOUNT
Your divorcing spouse can open a secret offshore bank…
Asset Recovery Ins & Outs
On October 8th & 9th in Abuja, Nigeria I will lecture about asset recovery & tracking assets. I will present 2 lectures to law enforcement agents who work in West Africa. The lectures are called “Whistleblowers, Secret Bank Accounts & Recovering Hidden Assets” & “Asset Recovery Case Studies & Discussion.” I am presenting the lectures…
An Asset Search For Money Trails
I. DURING YOUR ASSET SEARCH LOOK FOR A MONEY TRAIL
There is always a money trail you can follow during your asset search. This is true no matter how your adversary hides assets. Even if your adversary maintains a secret offshore bank account there is a money trail. The money trail at the offshore bank…
How To Search For Hidden Money
My tips for finding hidden money are at Seven Tools For A Successful Asset Search. Hiring a private investigator is also usually a good idea. For additional help in your search for hidden money, you may need some of the following.
A) HANDWRITING EXPERTS
If forged documents were used to hide or steal money,…
3 Ways To Perform Your Asset Search
A person hiding assets from you could park their money in an offshore bank account & hire an intermediary to be the account’s bank signatory. One website offers this “Bank Nominee Signatories Service” for a cost of about $1000 per year. This person could additionally title their real estate in the name of shell companies.…
Searching For Assets Related To Jamaican Politician Peter Sangster
2/12/17 Update: It seems that after I published this post on 11/27/16, the Jamaican Major Organized Crime and Anti-Corruption Task Force, (“MOCA”), listed Mr. Peter Sangster as a fugitive. “The people on this list are wanted for serious and or violent crimes” MOCA’s website says.
Forty-seven-year-old Peter Sangster of Cherry Gardens, Kingston 8, Jamaica, has…