Throw away the key to Matt Ames’ cell… Wait a minute, let’s use it one more time!
Kate’s brother – James Middleton, right, at the 2010 carbon trade exhibition. Matt Ames also oversaw Harlequin’s Buccament Bay
Ruined lives, pensions destroyed, homes lost. Suicides. Marriage breakups. Families falling apart as the work of a lifetime vanishes.
That is the legacy of Harlequin’s Matthew Ames, who was just convicted of fraud for running a ponzi scheme. Ames took £1.2million from the rich, from the poor, from widows and pipefitters. He was an equal opportunity swindler who dressed well, talked with such easy confidence that people immediately trusted him.
His product was topical, sexy in its own way: carbon credits, green investments, Forestry for Life. And didn’t he drive a Lamborghini? Wasn’t he also part of the Harlequin Resorts team? Isn’t his father successful? Just look at the people Matt Ames is seen with: Jack Charlton, and even James Middleton – brother of our future Queen.
“Out of the £1.6m that was invested across both companies, only £250,000 was ever returned to investors.
“The rest went directly into the pocket of Matthew Ames, funding his profligate spending habits.”
Ames used people with “impressive CVs” to promote Forestry for Life and give it a sense of legitimacy.
From Echo News Echo nabs £1 million fraudster
Barbados Free Press 
How long before the first Stupid YouTube clip is added.
Met him, an odious ducker and diver. 10 tears in clink (so sentence 20) then 6 months community service when out to repatriate him. Sequestrate all his assets for pay back and make him work off his debt to investors including harlequins money if a shortfall.
First and foremost thanks to BFP. 😉
Matt Ames is history now his life finished.
I firmly believe he is a small fish to catch Carol and Dave Ames, not forgetting Dan.
Lets hope and pray I’m correct, when they take the lid off it will be rotten to the cord – worse than we could imagine.
They will all end up in jail.
Any idea anyone of how the bail hearing went today?
You don’t need to be Sherlock Holmes to make the connection to Harlequin, Matt Ames even dropped his parents in it, saying he learned it all from them, no honor among thieves.
I hope the proceeds of crime act take every last penny off the Ames family and they spend their last days in some grotty little damp one bedroom flat.
After spending years in the slammer.
Makes you wonder where the money went!…
This from The China Morning Post :
But for two potentially life-changing events, businessman Matt Ames is one of the last people you would expect to have sleepless nights.
Last month, a day trip to the casino tables of Macau ended with the Sky Shuttle helicopter in which he was a passenger ditching in Victoria Harbour.
After that, as a tonic, the 35-year-old Londoner took his wife, four young children and their nanny to Mustique, an exclusive private island in the Caribbean.
The island – which boasts royalty, business tycoons and celebrities among its visitors – is hard to beat.
But just as Ames thought the sun-kissed beaches and Carribean charms of Mustique had done their work in helping exorcise the memories of his Hong Kong drama, fate brought them flooding back.
Ames and his family planned to leave their Caribbean hideaway on a private charter flight to connect to a flight to London.
Hours before they were due to leave they received a phone call asking if they would mind switching to a smaller plane. The Cessna 402C they were booked on had a suffered a technical problem.
Due back in Hong Kong for crucial business meetings this week, the founder and chief executive of sustainable investment company Forestry for Life couldn’t afford to wait, so he and his family took the smaller plane.
On his arrival in Hong Kong, Ames discovered that the seven-seater Cessna they were originally due to fly on had been sent to the tiny Caribbean island of Canouan on a medical evacuation mission but had crashed into the sea en route.
The wreckage of the ill-fated aircraft was found but the pilot, who was on his way to the tiny island of Canouan to airlift a road accident victim, was not. The accident victim also died.
Speaking in Hong Kong last week, after arriving for four days of meetings, Ames said: ‘I only found out about the Caribbean crash when I arrived here and that just made me want to go home because it just brought everything flooding back. I had about an hour’s sleep last night before I just woke up sweating.
‘The helicopter crash was bad enough. But the realisation that if we had taken that different flight out of Mustique, myself and my family could have been on the very plane which crashed and I wouldn’t have been here talking to you, has left me quite shaken.’
Ames, who is a qualified helicopter pilot with 80 hours flying experience, says the overwhelming need to know that the life jackets for him and his family are easily available and working properly on any flight are a direct result of his experience when the AgustaWestland AW139 ditched in the harbour on July 3.
He also spoke of his anger and disappointment at the way he and a friend whose life he saved, Nick Barclay, have been treated by the helicopter’s owners.
‘I’m a very, very level-headed person, I am very analytical in everything that I do. Even during the crash, I knew we had to get out, I knew what we had to do. Due to my experience as a pilot I knew at a certain point as events unfolded that we weren’t going to die.
‘Now when I get on a plane I check the life jackets are there. I haven’t told my kids what happened in Hong Kong because I don’t want to worry them. I don’t want them to think that when I go away they are going to think I am going to crash.”
Ames is at pains to stress that Sky Shuttle pilot Richard Moffatt did a great job of getting the aircraft down, but subsequent events have left a bitter taste. ‘Look, I did what any other bloke would have done in the situation, but the truth is, if it hadn’t have been for what I had done then someone would have died. They haven’t even had the common decency to get in touch or do anything.
‘There was a lot of press around the hospital and the hotel after the crash and we didn’t talk to them, we haven’t talked until now.
‘But since that day it has been like a wall of silence from Sky Shuttle. It’s not the money it is the principle. They’ve got enough money to get everyone sorted out, now they seem to be saying you’ll have to take us to court if you want any of your money back.
‘I was in a helicopter which I paid to go on, it crashed, I can prove that I was on it, end of story. Just pay me the money you actually owe me. I couldn’t help my BlackBerry getting wet, I was trying to save someone’s life at the time. My other mobile didn’t get wet, so I am not claiming for it.”
Sky Shuttle has declined to comment in detail, citing the continuing investigation into the crash and reiterating that there were enough life jackets on board. They say they are dealing with passenger claims in accordance with the law.
I found out about the Caribbean crash when I arrived … it just brought every thing flooding back
Matt Ames, helicopter crash survivor and businessman
Source and link here: http://www.scmp.com/article/722243/two-close-shaves-rattle-businessman
Dave, Carol and Dan Ames are fully aware the spotlight of the SFO / Essex Police is firmly on them.
The similarities between father and son and indeed mother are uncanny.
In 2005 Carol Ames sacked a very close family friend, a neighbour and close friend of Carol’s after the friend discovered anomalies in the books of “Loans Made Easy” (Information has been passed on to the authorities).
The neighbour took an action against Carol and Loans Made Easy but was settled out of court and surprise surprise was the subject of an NDA.
In 2006 Ames held an EGM in St. Vincent and with the assistance of Mr. Commissiong had Mr. Ferrari and Mr. Manning removed as directors of the company then known as Man Investments, now known as Harlequin Property SVG Ltd.
The EGM was held after Mr. Commissiong discovered that Mr. Ferrari and Mr. Manning were looking to oust Mr. Ames from the company over fears that Mr. Ames was acting in an illegal manner towards his investors.
Mr. Ames managed to oust Mr. Manning and Mr. Ferrari with the vote of Mr. Man and Mr. Commissiong ( Company Secretary ).
In early 2008 Mr. Royd Smurtwaite and his company Ridgeview were suddenly sacked by Ames from the Buccament Bay project.
The reason Ames gave was that Ridgeview had misappropriated funds from Harlequin. Yet Ames was advised not to take legal action.
In September 2008 Ames sacked Alan Bell the first VP of Harlequin Hotels and Resorts. Again Mr. Bell was accused of fraudulent activity but again no action was taken.
In 2009 Simon John Terry joins Harlequin as in house solicitor.
In 2009 Hazel Barr Harlequin’s compliance manager appointed as a result of “Operation Orange” and on the recommendation of DLA Piper resigns.
In 2009 Ames takes DLA Piper to court alleging that DLA Piper were over charging him. DLA Piper had earlier established a clean up operation within Harlequin code named ” Operation Orange”. DLA Piper were very concerned that the SFO could come kicking in the door and seize incriminating documents. As a result “Operation Orange” was set up as a cost centre so as not to arouse any suspicions relevant to payments being made to cover costs associated with cleaning up the Harlequin mess.
In 2009 Oasis walk away from Ames and Harlequin with Oasis threatening to sue Ames for breach of contract.
In late 2009 Ames threatens to sue the Guardian Newspaper over an article describing Merricks as a dust bowl. Ames presents the Guardian Newspaper with forged and false documents on the status of the Merricks resort and on the back of these documents the Guardian agrees to settle.
In June 2010, Desire Hotels a US hotel management company charged with managing the opening and operation of the Resorts resign amid a dispute over payments and concerns over the liquidity of Harlequin.
In June 2010 Wilkins Kennedy resign acting for Harlequin citing issues which had been brought to their attention and which were of serious concern to Wilkins Kennedy.
In June 2010 Ames fired ICE group accusing Mr. O Halloran and others of fraud.
Mr.O’Halloran threatened to seize the site, Ames in turn used forged documents in grounding affidavits to obtain Injunctions against ICE Group and Mr.O’ Halloran. ( It is believed these forgeries are now the subject of Irish Appeal ).
( It is also very odd that despite Ames claiming that no drainage, power or water infrastructure etc had been installed and that the resort was poorly built, Ames managed to open the resort within 5 weeks and it survived a major hurricane two months later with minimal damage). A truly remarkable feat by Ames.
In 2010 Ames sacks Desmond La Hue, CFO for Buccament Bay who had worked for Harlequin for less then a year. Desmond La Hue was accused of……. yes incompetence and accounting fraud.
In 2010 the recently appointed CFO of the Harlequin “Group” of companies. Mr. Michael Slade resigns from Harlequin after just 6 months in his role.
In November 2010 Ames pays for two senior executives of RLB to travel from the UK to Buccament Bay with a view to RLB taking over the construction related activities of Harlequin. The two senior executives spend a week staying at the Buccament Bay resort before declining to work for Ames. The main concern of RLB was Ames’s inability to fund the project.
Garreth Ronan VP of Harlequin Hotels and Resorts subsequently (and most probably as a result of RLB’s refusal to work with Harlequin) implicate RLB in the O’Halloran fraud case in Ireland.
In 2011 Ames sacks construction company Krauss Manning having tried to poach some of their senior staff originally.
In 2011 Adela Chalmers is appointed CFO of the Harlequin “Group” of companies. She is also a director of “Baker Clarke Partnership”
In 2012 Ames fires another VP of Harlequin Hotels and Resorts and former GM of Buccament Bay Mr. Mark Sawkins. Ames was channelling Harlequin funds through Mr. Sawkins personal bank account in Scotia Bank in St. Vincent. Sawkins received a number of warnings on the issue from Scotia Bank who threatened to close his account if the practise of channelling Harlequin Funds through his personal account was not stopped.
In early 2012 Dave and Carol Ames meet with an insolvency practitioner with a view to liquidating HMSSE.
They are however advised that by doing this the books of HMSSE would be open to scrutiny by a liquidator and possibly the SFO and other investigating authorities.
It was also explained to them that they could not just axe HMSSE, the inter company debt situation would cause the ultimate liquidation of the RDC’s. Carol and Dave chose to appoint Shipleys LLP as administrators a year later.
This at least would buy Carol and Dave 12 a further 12 months. * This is where the trust appears to come into play. ( see below ).
In 2012 Ames sues Portvale football club.
In 2012-2013 Ames claims that Harlequin / BDO appointed an “Independent” firm of accountants ” Baker Clarke Partnership” to account for all investors funds and Ames states that ” Baker Clarke Partnership ” have accounted for all investors monies.
In 2013 BDO resign because they claim Harlequin and the Ames family were not willing to cooperate with them.
In late 2012 Ames sacks Procure It Direct and its principal Andy Smith. Ames again accuses Smith of theft. Smith had been working with Ames from 2010 and was even appointed the CEO of Harlequin Developments, the company Ames established to complete the construction of the resorts.
In 2013 Carol and Dave Ames appoint Shipleys LLP.
In the intervening period Shipleys LLP have stated that the directors of HMSSE, Carol and Dan Ames have been uncooperative with Shipleys LLP.
A report on the conduct of the directors of HMSSE has been forwarded by Shipleys LLP to The Corporate Investigative Branch of the UK Government.
An application has been made by a number of journalists to have the contents of the report made public under the data protection act.
Shipleys LLP have also appointed a firm of London solicitors for the recovery of some £160,000.00 taken illegally by the Ames’s from the proceeds of the sale of a property in Dubai.
* The survival of HMSSE and the survival of the Harlequin RDC’s is directly linked.
Given the debt burden being carried by HMSSE, without a restructuring or writing off of the debt, HMSSE and the RDC’s would fall into the hands of the liquidator.
One wonders, what with the timing of the administration, as to when Garreth Fatchett hatched out the trust plan with Harlequin.
The trust plan in a perfect world might work, where all of the assets of Harlequin were to be placed in the trust. This would still leave investors looking at a potential loss but the losses could be far less then what investors are currently facing.
But Mr. Fatchett has not to date stated what assets are to be placed in the trust nor the value of these assets.
It is also apparent that Mr. Fatchett has carried out little or no due diligence on any of the other resorts with the exception of Buccament Bay. A trust for example is not recognised under Dominican Republic Law.
Mr. Fatchett would have to ensure the assets being put into the trust had no previous / outstanding encumbrances. Taking Mr. Ames’s word for it is just not acceptable.
Another issue raised by a number of posters here and on the RL site is the issue of the legality of the trust in the event of a liquidation.
A liquidator could and most certainly will challenge the validity of the trust. Mr. Fatchett apparently does not wish to acknowledge this issue, having stated in the past that ” HE DOES NOT BELIEVE ” that a liquidator would challenge the trust. He provides no precedence nor facts to back up his belief.
A source ( unverified because they are unwilling to go on record ) has stated that the alleged finance from a Middle East investor has been negotiated by a Mr. Mark Coggle and Mr. Stephen McConaghy who own a company called Blue Boar Consultancy. The company was established in June 2013, its registered offices are located at an accommodation address in Chelmsford in Essex, with an office address in Barbados. There are no fax or phone numbers available for this company.
Mr. McConaghy is currently employed by GSK in the Middle East as a project manager with Mr. Coggle having worked for Harlequin in St. Vincent to 2012.
Yet Blue Boar Consultancy claims it has $700 million + in funds available to it to invest.
Mr. Coggle has acknowledged that he is negotiating the finance on behalf of Harlequin. He further states that no letter of intent has been issued and even if one were to be forthcoming it carries no weight legally.
He says he has provided Mr. Ames with a letter expressing an interest to provide finance but this is not binding in any way. He believes Mr. Fatchett may have misunderstood the letter by calling the expression of interest letter a letter of intent.
Give it a rest, Irishman. Your “source” is your imagination. Usual bollocks.
TSG is it all bollox
Adela Chalmers isn’t a director of Baker Clarke Partnership. CIB is the Companies Investigation Branch, not “Corporate Investigative Branch”. So – 2 for 2 loads of twaddle or inaccuracy. Doesn’t bode well for the rest of the inane diatribe, does it?
Anon 8:11 That was an amazing summation. However I believe that
Kraus-Manning and PiD both QUIT within a week of each other in
July 2012. Admittedly in the scheme of things a very minor point
but something that a pathetic obsessive like TSG will harp on for weeks.
PiD did leave an employee with H-Hotel Design Studio for a few weeks
after that. Which makes me wonder just what is the David Campion
connection today.
Adela Chalmers is one of 3 senior people on the Baker Clark website the other 2 being Jim Baker and Mervyn Clarke. And all 3 are directors of Baker Clarke Management.
Anon 9.08
But that isn’t BCP, which is what was claimed. Inaccuracy heaped upon inaccuracy.
TSG I think given the seniority of Adela Chalmers in BCP and her directorship of an associate company, the independence of the baker clarke partnership is now very much in doubt.
It might be different if you had stated that Adela Chalmers never worked for Harlequin. Then at least it would help support your argumements.
Also you are really splitting hairs between the companies investigation branch and corporate investigative branch.
Most readers understand what was meant. Your argument is what one would expect from Ames in a court. This is a blog site not a court.
There you go again, more inaccuracies it’s ” The Baker Clarke Partnership” not “baker clarke partnership”. No capitals so it’s all bollox.
Andrew Newman of PID told Campion and provided proof ( so he claims) to both Campion and Ames demonstrating that Andy Smith was stealing from Ames.
It has to be understood that there are a few versions as to why Andy Smith and Krauss Manning left, but leave they did.
TSG 9.37 isn’t me. Piss-poor punctuation, paddy.
TSG your arguments are something I would expect from Ames in a court of law. Would you not be best suited to using your brilliant mind in analysing the prosecution files when the are served on Dave, Carol, Dan, Simon Terry, Dan Dalligan, Simon Taylor, Katherine Manderfield or Woller. You can check all the witness statements for grammatical errors, who knows the case could be one or is it won on a capitalisation error.
And why would I want to help that bunch of low-lives?
TSG Who is Paddy.? For someone who likes to split hairs, why not start by getting Dave’s nemesis name correct.
And I’m not Paddy nor am I Irish
Anon 9.49
In his own glass of Baileys, Paudie is Ames’s Nemesis. Paddy, capitalised or not, is a colloquialism for the Irish.
Do try to keep up.
TSG please you have attacked an intelligent post, yes anti Harlequin. Now you want us to believe you are anti Harlequin.
And like the pro Harlequin Trolls you seem to intimate that the Irish Builder is the source of all or most anti Harlequin blogging on BFP.
But to be honest you have no idea who posts what on here, none of us do.
If we are striving for accuracy the word to describe things connected with Harlequin is bollocks, not bollox.
And to be even-handed, Blue Boar doesn’t say it has 700 million to invest, it says that one of the services it can provide is funding of projects from US$ 1 million to US$ 700 million+; that means “arranging” the funding, not having it in the bank.
Please do not take this as support for Blue Boar as their services offer looks like bollox.
Paudie’s spelling and grammar are wonderfully idiosyncratic. They are as distinctive as a fingerprint. So yes, it is unbelievable simple to spot his frothing.
You appear acquainted with Paddy or is it Paudie TSG.
Or even “unbelievably”.
Anon 9.58 – wouldn’t you like to know.
TSG you must know Irish builder well to have deduced all that from an anonymous website.
Absolutely amazing TSG. You should apply to the SFO for a job. Lol
SGD – Touche’….a snappy little ending to go with my sundowner.
SGD – Touche’ …a snappy ending to go with my sundowner.
TSG so all of Anon’s post is rubbish.
Please, you seem knowledgable as to the facts as they pertain, so why not indulge us?
Rumbled AKA Paudie
Why bother? The truth will out, sooner or later.
TSG perhaps you are Mr. McConaghy ?
If so are you facilitating the much needed external finance for Harlequin. ?
Or perhaps Mr. Newman ?
Ooh. Let’s bung lots of names up and see if anyone bites. Fun for all!
It’s hard for the truth to ” will out ” with idiots like TSG raising issue with posts without adding to the debate.
SGD The Blue Boar statement is ambiguous, surely they should have said we can arrange finance of between 1 and 700 million +.
We can all argue what the statements made actually mean.
Ames told purchasers he would provide mortgages. Did he really mean he couldn’t. ?
Whatever he meant he didn’t.
Leonardo Da Vinci was an painter, sculptor, architect, engineer and anatomist.
From the list of services on the Blue Boar website, they seem to be similar polymaths.
I suspect they rely heavily the work of others and they manage the process.
But what do I know? Perhaps they are Da Vinci reincarnated.
It sounds like my idea of what Crozier actually is — a legal
consolidator/packager/marketer. All perfectly respectable in
a Keynesian sort of way. Come to think of it RL/Fatchett isn’t
that far removed either.
TSG is Robert Storey. Paid agitator for criminals.
Meanwhile back to the topic in hand.
Yes the Ames family will face prosecution.
And the trust will fail.
Fatchett has absolutely messed up the trust. Had he done some proper due diligence he would not perhaps chosen his current path.
His arrogance against some of the players in this diabolical mess is just about to bite him right square between his butt cheeks.
And the Irony will be for all to see.
The only player in town lol. Garreth we shall see. We shall see very shortly indeed.
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@anon 10.59. No it’s not, I’ve been at the pictures all night, idiot. However only Paddy in his post of 8.11 would spring to the defence of the drains fiasco. So Paddy why not come out, expose yourself and stop hiding behind the “Anon” tag. Even Ralph was better than that.
Everyone knows Ames lied about the drains. Everyone knows Ames lied full stop. Yeah yeah Storey the Irish judgement blah blah blah.
How is Joe Hopkins your confidant in the SFO Robert. I see you have been mouthing off again lol.
And I am not Paddy. But I really do think you need to stop telling people how close you are with Joe Hopkins.
Cause you aint.
Bob what are your views on the guilty verdict.
I am talking about Matt Ames. Not Newman, Not Paddy, Not Dave, Not Erica but Matt.
Care to comment ?
Some on this site seem to learn nothing from recent events. Ames’s teflon jacket has been removed, he is now bollox or is it bollocks naked.
The snivelling little shit is now dropping everyone in it.
His support is fast dwindling but never fear no one on this site can be identified, the site is anonymous, even IPad Bob will agree on that point.
Because IPad Bob will never come out from behind the BFP or RL site and make a stand in support of Ames.
@Anon, I haven’t mentioned Joe for several months. You really are good at make believe arnt you. “Mouthing off again”? Must be reading your own posts I guess. Just mind how those cats go on your keyboard. How’s the rented bungalow?
@Anon 1 I only comment on things that directly affect me, and the MA trial has not. Now Paddy, Newman, Erica they do directly affect me.
@RS – affect you only in your mind – only in your mind.
Who exactly are you important to?
And so has Dave Robert. Not sure how Newman has affected you. You have been mouthing off again how Joe Hopkins has listened to you and as a result the SFO is dropping the case.
Awww Bob whats wrong you keep saying it is all a set up by Newman. Think who you have told that Joe Hopkins confided in you that the SFO case is over because the evidence provided by Newman was false.
Who is renting a bungalow bob? Im not. But go on teflon man.
You stated just this week that Joe Hopkins provided you with information Jeremy Newman provided to the SFO. You have also said this in the past.
You have been stitched up Bob. Big time. Go on running to Joe Hopkins you gobby little twat.
You were already warned. Im sure loose lips Fatchett is impressed with you now lol
You really are one pathetic silly stool pigeon.
Bob Storey has been telling folks that Joe Hopkins one of the investigating officers from the SFO is a friend of his or acquaintance.
Joe Hopkins reputedly told Bob Storey that the SFO were not proceeding with the Harlequin investigation because the evidence provided by Newman was unreliable.
This is a very serious allegation to make and surely the relationship between Bob Storey and Joe Hopkins merits an internal investigation.
Is Bob Storey trying to set up Joe Hopkins much in the same way that Sean Ghent set up Matthew Chapman?
I recall that Garreth Fatchett warned Bob Storey to be careful about mouthing off in the past.
Ouch what can of worms has that twat Storey opened now.
Funny he has nothing to say about Matt Ames, says Matt’s actions did not affect him. Odd how does he know. Matt was sales director when Storey bought his unit. A convicted fraudster, the jury did not believe a word he said. They convicted him. So why should we believe that he only got 750k in commissions. Maybe he got millions. Maybe he stole millions. Maybe this is what brought Harlequin down.
Strange Bob never lays the blame for any of this at Daves door.
Storey is a coward. He will reappear sometime tomorrow when the thread has moved swiftly on.
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February 2014
Completions expected “in 2-4 weeks”
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Following several months of diligent work, the first completions at Buccament Bay Resort are expected to be finalised in the next two-to-four weeks. Harlequin is ready to complete on the sale of property, but the aforementioned timeframe is dependant on the speed at which solictors representing investors can complete their processes.
We look forward to transferring title to purchasers that are able to complete and realise their investment. This will prove that we have fulfilled the promises made to the first purchasers and that the Harlequin model can succeed.
TripAdvisor Travelers’ Choice Award
It was announced in January that Harlequin Hotels & Resorts’ flagship hotel, Buccament Bay Resort in St Vincent & The Grenadines, has won the TripAdvisor 2014 Travelers’ Choice Award for “Best Luxury Hotels in the Caribbean”!
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The Travelers’ Choice Awards are given to the hotels that have received the most positive reviews by guests – the most important judges of all. At the time of writing, Buccament Bay Resort boasts 89% positive reviews, which total over 400.
Bookings increases in January
Following a tactical marketing campaign, bookings for Buccament Bay Resort and blu, St Lucia increased significantly in January compared to the same period in 2013. Bookings for blu, St Lucia were particularly impressive, almost tripling from last year.
Health & Safety thumbs-up after Christmas storms
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Following the tragic, freak storms that assaulted the Caribbean over Christmas, Buccament Bay Resort has successfully passed independent health and safety inspections by two of the world’s leading long haul operators.
The storms saw a reported 15inches of rain fall within 24 hours on St Vincent & The Grenadines, St Lucia and Dominica, causing flash floods and landslides that claimed at least 22 lives, including a dear and valued member of Buccament Bay Resort staff who was on her way home from the Resort when the storm hit.
The Resort experienced a small amount of non-structural damage in the storm; however, under the leadership of the excellent management team, it was cleaned and restored to normal operating conditions within just a few days and continued to receive excellent reviews on TripAdvisor.
Buccament Bay Resort featured on ITV’s Lorraine show
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Buccament Bay Resort featured on ITV’s Lorraine show from Monday 6th to Thursday 9th January and Monday 13th to Wednesday 15th January 2014.
Three lucky viewers of the British TV network’s morning show won a stay with Paul McKenna at Buccament Bay Resort to help them fulfil their new year resolutions. You can see a clip at the link below:
http://www.itv.com/lorraine/health/lorraines-happiness-habit/
St Vincent’s Argyle International Airport terminal handed over
On December 30th, Mr Ames attended the official handing over ceremony of the passenger terminal building from the developers to the Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines, Dr The Hon. Ralph E Gonsalves.
We have been informed that the airport and runway will be operational from approximately June 2014, with the first international flights from the UK and North America due to arrive in November 2014. Details of the major international airlines that will fly to Argyle International Airport are due to be released in March/April 2014.
The new airport will allow direct transatlantic flights to the island for the first time and we fully expect it to greatly increase the interest in Buccament Bay Resort.
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Buccament Bay Resort opening new facilities
The resort’s new beach bar, Murphy’s, has been opened and other facilities are currently under development, including a conference centre, which will be ready for an important event later this month (details to be revealed soon), and new homes for restaurants Bamboo and Safran on the water front village.
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Trust update imminent
A significant update on the Harlequin Investment Trust will be sent out within the next week. Needless to say, work and progress continues behind the scenes.
@various Anons and Anon 1. You really don’t have a clue what you are talking about. Tell you what make a complaint to the SFO and Essex Police about my “so called involvement” . Now either put up or shut up. You are unable to substantiate any of your claims above so stop clogging up this thread with rubbish, you pathetic anti HP troll.
How remiss of you Paddy in your equivalent to War and Peace above you don’t mention the fraud of Newman and MacDonald, highlighted by the summing up of the judge in Ireland. You don’t mention that Newman was forced to resign from WK, that he has had to sell his house in Bray to pay his legal bills. Of course if these allegations are not true then you have my details, sue me. Go on I dare you! Of course the interesting thing is how much notice will the SFO take of the evidence of fraudsters? Very reliable source of information I’m sure.
Correct me if I’m wrong (BS @ 9.30am) but nobody in the Irish case was convicted of fraud.
Correct, and I was very careful not to say that. “Implicated in fraud” was, I think, the judges comment. As it was a civil case, not a criminal one, then no one can be convicted.
@BS Exactly. It was simply a civil case in which the business interests of two companies were being tested in front of a Judge. Unlike a more recent criminal fraud case in which the Crown has seen fit to protect its citizens by bringing charges.
A question to Irish and his boozy bum chum.
How come Ames is still flying round the world free as a bird……
Once again Jon Austin has proven why he is an award winning journalist with a fine piece of investigative work. He isn’t finished either and we may well see further fruits of his labours.
Storey, those guys could be guilty of fraud or any other crime. They did not set up this scam, they did not defraud investors of 400m pounds by outrageous claims of returns and then squander the lot. This was done by David Ames and Harlequin, and it was done years before an Irish builder came onto the scene. You are comical, and of course are expected to do your paid job of defending the indefensible. Your existence is rather sad, but reflective of the Harlequin approach – ignore all the obvious facts that point to the Harlequin fraud by deflection.
Is Bob Storey now suggesting he never made reference to Joe Hopkins on BFP nor has he ever intimated that he was supplied information on witnesses by the SFO.
I dont think anyone will need to make a complaint lol. I think its gone beyond that.
Jon Austin did a superb job with Matt Ames. We must also remember that Jon Austin also interviewed Terry Potter of Harlequin along the same vein. Terry Potter was sacked shortly after Jon Austin exposed the practices within Harlequin.
Im sure like in the Matt Ames case he passed on his findings to the relevant authorities.
One very high mileage golf buggy, suspension damaged on one side due to over use by a portly convicted fraudster aka Matt Ames.
Special offer for foolish cash buyers:
Cabana at Buccament Bay less 50% BMV
Special features including but not limited to:
Security fence and security lighting
Golf buggy parking bay (only one on the resort)
Executive furniture
Fully fitted kitchen
Bespoke bathroom.
This Cabana has been distastefully designed to suit the Essexness of the former GM of Buccament Bay Matt Ames.
What about completions?
Ames seems desperate to get his hands on some cash.
If the authorities let Ames get the cash something is so so wrong.
Bob have you go a ‘special deal’ from Ames regarding completions?
if you have could that not compromise you with your mate Joe?
Maybe you need to think about that?
You fat stupid Irish Mick and you cohort Dave ‘alcoholic’ Man, you lost, can’t win give up.
The Trust spoils your dream of taking over BB….. what a shame.
How are you recent trips to the doctor? That’s not looking too good is it?
I did amuse us.
Hope for the best, plan for the worst, that’s all we can do. Doing nothing is the only way to ensure failure.
@WUSFO. Believe me I have no “special deal” it’s all in your head. Maybe you just need to think. Full stop.
@Anon (various but the same person) my changing our tune now arnt we? All the lies from your rants of last night. Guess the effects of the booze has worn off and you now realise what a prat you were last night. Of course Paddy, Newman, MacDonald cannot now be seen as reliable witnesses for the SFO and Erica has withdrawn her support. Where does that leave you.
Was Dave Man embroiled in any litigation. News to us. Have never seen mention of it. Please direct us to that piece of litigation.
” I did amuse us” Is that Essexese? We assume by us you mean Harlequin, Dave and Carol.
What did amuse us was Matt Ames being convicted. What will amuse us even further is when he is sentenced, indeed we have a little pool going.
And of course the icing or should that be ICEing on the cake will be the imminent arrest of Dave, Carol, Dan and a few others in the ex teflon coated Harlequin towers.
How do you know you moron Erica is not in full suport
See Bob there you go again. Firstly how do you know if Newman, O Halloran and MacDonald are indeed witnesses for the SFO. And if they were is it your legal opinion that they are unreliable?
See this can be read in another way. Ames took out vexatious and malicious cases against all 3 in order to try and discredit them as potential witnesses in a criminal prosecution of the Ames family.
After all it appears that if any one had a smoking gun it would be one or all of these gentlemen. And you are forgetting the appeal in Ireland. Should Ames loose it would vindicate the others.
But it is odd given your claimed relationship with Joe Hopkins that you appear to know so much about potential witnesses.
Your goading on this matter is also rather odd.
Now I don’t know how this works but I am sure if the police knock on your door in Nuneaton you will deny ever having posted on this site.
See you constantly refer in a negative way to those whom you consider to be witnesses in a potential state criminal prosecution of Harlequin and the Ames family.
Don’t you think you are sailing very close to the wind or are you confident your claims of anonymity will protect you.
Just wondering.
If DA losses the appeal it will not change the judges opinion that this was a fraud perpetrated by the gang of three. I have already had the police knocking on my door. That was to tell me about the numpty that decided to try and intimidate me with silent phone calls. Of course he then denied it and blamed his wife. My goading? I suggest you read the postings of a drunk last night. What an idiot. Oh and by the way anew,an admitted himself he complaind to the SFO on 3 occasions.
Was Matt Ames granted bail and if so how much was required?
It would be an indication of what the sentence may be.
From 6.46 am
TripAdvisor Travelers’ Choice Award
It was announced in January that Harlequin Hotels & Resorts’ flagship hotel, Buccament Bay Resort in St Vincent & The Grenadines, has won the TripAdvisor 2014 Travelers’ Choice Award for “Best Luxury Hotels in the Caribbean”!
BB did not win THE award for “Best Luxury Hotels in the Caribbean” as stated by Harlequin…they won an award…in fact they were ranked 18 of the top 25 winners in that category. Why do they bend the truth?
Also from 6.45 am…”We look forward to transferring title to purchasers that are able to complete and realise their investment. This will prove that we have fulfilled the promises made to the first purchasers and that the Harlequin model can succeed.”
In Sept 2012, Ames said in a newsletter that they were then in the process of delivering titles to investors at BB, but 18 months later, not one has been delivered.
Time will tell.
Bob, and your special little deal? Will Joe approve?
@Worried Investor
From: Erica broughton
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 07:05:59 +0000
To: cpcholding@europe.com;
Subject: Put this on BBFP
Xxxx
Let us all get one thing straight when I said to you that I was no longer willing to be a witness that was with regards to the SFO,
Will that do you, Moron.
@Worried Investor
From: Erica broughton
Date: Tue, 5 July 2013 06:05:59 +0000
To: cpcholding@europe.com;
Subject: Paudie
I’m sick of him calling me for hours at a time, please ask him to desist. Dave Man, only call’s when in drink.
Sick of both of them, it’s making me ill.
Actually it won’t do Erica, aka worried investor.
You have been, and always will be, infatuated with the Irish builder. Just like a love sick teenager.
He used you, just like Fatchett and then Crozier; they all dumped when they decided you are mentally unstable.
A risk.
You have never had anything to contribute, never will; it’s simpley beyond your simple little house wife’s brain.
Keep to washing dirty undies. Working class types should never have invested.
@ Bob Storey
From: Dave Ames
Date: Tue, 5 July 2013 06:05:59 +0000
To: cpcholding@europe.com;
Subject: Bob Storey
I’m sick of him telling everyone he is close to the SFO. He also left his false teeth behind the last time he sucked my knob.
My name is Bob Storey but am now posting silly emails.
Will that do you, Moron.
Dave Carol would you like us to send some of the classic emails we have from you both and from Mattie boy to BFP lol.
@Anyone etc etc. you obviously cannot read. Read my earlier post. Or perhaps you would like to tell the world what my “special deal” is. Go back to bed and sleep off your hangover.
Dead sister how convenient.
http://www.theleader.info/26/article/2850/oasis-update/
Dis any of the freezing order bunch do any DD?
http://www.spanishpropertyinsight.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6917
she was involved in this scam, changed her name. start scamming again.
Odd she never proved her innocence? and you muppets still keep paying her to do what?
lol
Harlequin are now really scraping the bottom of the barrel.
It was Tuesday the 2nd of July 2013 or Friday the 5th of July 2013, but it sure as hell could not have been Tuesday the 5th of July 2013.
Not the first time Harlequin have forged documents though.
@Worried investor aka Erica, oh dear you have been caught out with your stupidity, I don’t have false teeth. You cannot even make up an e mail without it being stupid. No point in calling you a moron, it’s just too obvious.
Anon 2.16, yes the stupid e mail from Anon 2.06 uses the same date lol. Funny how that is quoted as a HP e mail when it obviously not. Take you blinkers off.
Bob I think someone was pointing out that the first two emails were false lol. I don’t think anyone would believe for one moment that Dave Ames would allow you suck his cock, false teeth or not..
Dave prefers to have his knob sucked by Garreth Fatchett. He has got cash. You have a share in a pond. Lol
I suppose that makes you pond life.
For a fact that makes him a bottom feeder.
Nothing false about the first one. I own my own pond.
For the attention of the Case Management Officer SFO.
CC Department Head of SFO.
CC Internal Corruption Unit. SFO
CC Chief Constable of Essex Police
Date 15th February 2014
Your ref. Email: confidential@sfo.gsi.gov.uk
Subject.
Potential Confidentiality Breach within the SFO.
Dear sir, we would like to bring to your attention some very serious concerns pertaining to your ongoing investigation of the Harlequin group of companies.
As you are aware Barbados Free Press has hosted a large number of forums with reference to Harlequin and its associated companies.
There has been much heated debate on the BFP forums.
However one particular poster claims to be a Robert Storey from Nuneaton. He also claims to be a witness for the Serious Fraud Office.
Over the past few months he has, in his many posts referred on occasion to the ongoing SFO investigation of Harlequin.
He has made some alarming claims about individuals who he alleges have made witness statements to your officers.
He has stated that the witness statements from certain named witnesses are no longer being considered by the SFO because the credibility of those witnesses, according to Mr. Storeys claims on BFP, have now been undermined.
We would like to know how Mr. Storey would have been privy to any potential witnesses providing confidential information to the SFO
Mr. Storey has intimated that much of the information has been provided to him by a Mr. Joe Hopkins, a case officer employed by the Serious Fraud Office.
This is a very serious matter and needs to be investigated. Mr. Storey appears to be suggesting that the confidentiality of offering evidence to the SFO may not be maintained by your officers.
We would hope that you would look into this as a matter of urgency.
We understand the serious nature of the investigation into Harlequin and have provided you with screen shots of Mr. Storeys posts with respect to your ongoing investigations.
Kind regards,
Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Don’t forget witness intimidation. You haven’t mentioned that. This is the biggest laugh I’ve had in years. Lol. Grow up.
@BS Robert Storey
Are you insinuating that you might be called as a credible witness? Biggest bullshit I’ve heard in years.
I haven’t suggested anything. Read the post from the muppet, open letter. This gets dafter than Harry Potter. Still waiting a knock on the door from the boys in blue.
What a very sad state of affairs, when an Irish builder steals millions, from Dave Ames, who gave away millions to his family.
Many other will have ripped off the bumbling old fool.
Seemingly this was not enough for Matt Ames who is now in jail after conning £1.6 million in a similar scam.
I hope the rest of the Ames family and associates and up on fraud charges.
The poor investors face losing £400 million………..
A few gullible ones gave a ‘suspected con woman’ even more money to achieve what?
They continue to pay her each month….. fool and theier money easily parted….
Meanwhile, unless you are a SIPP investor you will get pennies back if Harlequin goes bust.
Will the Trust work? – no idea, but no other options seem realistic.
No winners unless you are involved in the claims business. Fatchett will make millions – do I begrudge his that? Not one bit.
Without him Harlequin would have continued to bully and steal from people.
I hope the IFA’s and SIPP companies go bust
Yes, you missed out on the fact Ames is doing some very keen deals to greedy ‘investors’ who think they are actually going to complete anytime soon.
Is he allowed to sale these units off at Buccament Bay for, so little?
What will happen to the greedy cash rich fat cats, when BB goes bust?
Could Robert Storey has a special special deal, where Ames says no cash?
Would this stand up to insolvency procedures?
Anyone know?
@open letter, I’ve just found Joe’s direct e mail address. Do you want it rather than send your childish e mail to a general e mail address. Just e mail me, you know the e mail address that Erica, the daft mare, posted on here some months ago, and I will send it to you. By the way, no sign of the plod yet.
@more questions, stupid prat, your English is appalling, as is your reasoning.
Bob you are a fool. Lol. You just will not give up.
I have it on very good authority that the Ames family will be arrested and charged within the next few weeks.
@open letter, do I take it you don’t want the direct e mail? Bluff called, Boom
Storey will stand by Ames no matter what. No point in engaging with someone who sticks two fingers up at the authorities.
To RL’s credit they have tried to shut the fool up over on the RL site on a number of occasions. He carries about as much credibility and weight as Matt Ames or Dave.
Now Bob back over to you and your continued attacks on Newman and his bungalow. Glad to see that Joe Hopkins confided in you or so you would like us all to believe.
I guess they may have a word next week.
I for one will be asking the SFO some questions and I reckon I am not alone.
I doubt Bob you have called any ones bluff. I also agree that the SFO have serious questions to answer. I too will be raising this with them on Monday.
I have also sent an email to Jon Austin. He seems to get things done.
Bob, jump to defend this post, and it’s teeeriblee engilishee
Bob you are an annoying twat, does this give you a sense of self importance?
You mean like pretending to be a solicitor?
joe.hopkins@sfo.gov.uk so please piss off Bob you shit stirring prick. I also hope that they will treet your contemt severley.
Reinvent yourself?
http://www.spanishpropertyinsight.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6917
Don’t forget to ask them about witness intimidation. Now run along and change the record. It is sooooo boring now. The sooner you realise that your intimidation tactics are not working you may get a life.
Strange no mention of her sisters death online…… look at trip adviser.
7. Re: Merricks Resort – Oh Dear
18 May 2013, 12:52
CPC Worldwide is run by a woman who faces many charges in Spain for running away with 2 million plus euros of ex pats money and is now behind this company. Her real name is Audrey Dixon and she now uses the alias Elizabeth Crozier. Check her out online. This company is meant to be retrieving money fro investors in Harlequin and yet is run by a complete scammer. You investors need to know the truth behind this company. Check her out on google. Former owner of Oasis Spanish Properties. If she ever returns to Spain she faces 11 years in prison.
Maybe a open letter to Chris Corny?
There you go “open letter” . Treet lol, you couldn’t make this up.
http://www.cartercamerons.com/who-are-we/
Ask the question…..
Off down the pub then pick up the Indian. How ironical that people can spout so much bile on here. Perhaps they are short of subjects/intelligence to talk about serious subjects. What what they do now I will be away for a while. Keep the cat off the keyboard perhaps especially as the Walton on Thames warrior is back on line.
Bob, I don’t care what you do, you nasty little man.
CLC / CPC are back in court on Tuesday.
No wonder the anti CPC brigade are out in force. Pathetic sad bastards.
Why haven’t the anti CPC brigade reported their suspicions to the UK Police, why wait till the weekend before Carol and Dave are due in court to launch an attack on CPC.
Carol and Dave why don’t you both just turn up in court and deal with the 22 plaintiffs. You owe them money fair and square.
You seem to have the money to build “Murphy’s Bar” and a conference centre so just pay what you owe and then go do one.
You are nasty thieving scum, just like your darling son Carol. Scum of the earth.
And no I’m not CPC or Paddy or Dave Man.
Just one of many of thousands who now realises you and your Harlequin family are total and utter scum.
Until the authorities deal with Dave, Carol and Dan Ames they will continue to bully, lie and con their way through life. The Ames family are nothing but thieves.
And they have not got the guts to deal with valid claims being made against them.
CLC CPC are not the only people to have begun the redress process against Harlequin. Much has been going on in the background in the Caribbean.
If that lazy bastard Fatchett had gotten off his ass rather then blowing smoke up his own ass he would have discovered the huge problem with the Harlequin assets.
Oh yes the due diligence will show the trust cannot work, but it won’t be Fatchett’s due diligence. Freeloading freak.
So full of s h i t Storey ……. On the RL site bob bit claims completion takes 3months the Harlecon newsletter sent to victims claims 2-4 weeks .
Don’t let the truth get in the way of fiction will you now …….
Looks like BS Bob has come into some money recently. Pictures yesterday, pub and curry tonight. Must have received a payoff from the Basildon boys. I bet it’s cash in hand. Seeing as he is on the social it can’t go in his bank account can it ?
Ames didn’t turn up for his own sons case he is hardly likely to rally for one about himself ….. Ames has no intention of paying back any money . His get out of jail free card has been lovingly prepared by Fatchett .
I know – he murdered Betty and is falsely claiming her pension money.
Watch that cat on the keyboard you keep alluding to doesn’t come back to bite you Bob .lol
miaow
No Bob is protected by Joe Hopkins of the SFO. Teflon Bob. Remember ’twas the SFO who approached Bob for a statement. So Bob claims.
One wonders how many more lives and careers will be ruined before Ames is finally arrested and charged.
It looks like Joe Hopkins is now in the firing line.
Bob is too stupid to understand what he has done. Fatchett might tell him but he too has a whole heap of hurt barreling down the tracks towards him.
Funny Fatchett will end up being reported for his actions, another career tainted because of involvement with the Ames family. But in Fatchett’s case it could have been avoided had he done the most basic of due diligence.
Funny how the firm of Williams and Williams in SVG was used to produce a document demonstrating the good character of Matt Ames in his UK trial.
Hmm I wonder who engaged them for that purpose.
“a whole heat of hurt barreling down the tracks…” That sir
is English at its best.
@view from the hill, you see you have just proved what a stupid idiot you are. Now let’s see if you can follow this.
1)the HP newsletter says HP expect to FINALISE the completions in 2-4 weeks
2)I said the PROCESS is expected to take 3 months.
Now do you understand the difference between process and and finalise? Obviously not, the concept is just too difficult for you.
Jeez Bob – Go back to your box of Pommeroy.
Actually I have never heard of Pommeroy but it was
mentioned yesterday and it must be cheap….
To Bob Storey everyone is an idiot, but is he the real idiot for having invested in Harlequin in the first place.
One question he could answer. Bob are you happy with your investment and are you confident that the trust will allow the resorts be completed and returns paid as per the promises made by Harlequin.
@anon (the last one) I’m just too much of an idiot to answer that lol
‘@Robert Storey
February 15, 2014 at 8:33 pm
@anon (the last one) I’m just too much of an idiot to answer that lol’
yeah well you said it! cnut
@Anon, I had no Input into this thread until Anon 10.57 decided to add me into it. Rather silly of him don’t you think.
Bob is so desperate to have the last word. You said you were going to the pub Bob. Fuck off then!
Storey what are you on about. You have been harping on for months about how Joe Hopkins has confided in you. You twat. That’s the Joe Hopkins from the SFO.
Yup because you know Mr Storey that you have just royally buggered a mans career and subsequently poppa Ames chances of a clean getaway .
The trust was the only hope Ames had of escaping justice but plod does not take kindly to one of there own getting an investigation because loose lips sink ships and you sunk this one
no one posted at 10:57 Bob
must be a figment of your imagination.
Mr. Storey could you please tell me as a purchaser in Buccament Bay do you believe the trust is the best option. If I sign up to the trust and the trust is formed does that mean that finance will happen and the resorts all of them will get built ?
Could you answer that for me please. I would like your opinion.
I’m back from the pub dumbass. Sitting in front with my I pad. In for the long haul tonight.
@anon, no kid. How long did it take you to work that out. Now whose the twat, twat.
10.59
It seems that it is Harlequin that have the problem of understanding dates and times for completion…after all Merricks, and the two resorts in Dom Republic and one in St Lucia were supposed to have been built years ago, and they not even been started. BB, is not even half finished.
BTW, the signboard on the abandoned construction site of the eyesore H Hotel in Barbados still says it will be ready in 2013!
What a bunch of jokers! The Ames family could not have found a better name for their operation.
Who’s not whose!
You dumb ass.
Dumbass, not dumb ass, all one word. Dumbass!
@robert storey I’m sure the previous poster is sorry for misspelling you name dumbass.
Definition of dumbass
Someone who looks up the word “dumbass” in a dictionary
Mr. Storey you seem to lean towards the pro Harlequin camp. Could you please give us your views on whether the trust will ensure the resorts get completed and we get our promised returns.
Could I ask that posters refrain from the constant attacks on Mr. Storey, I would really appreciate his honest opinion.
Loving this, you are all posting about me. Job done, think it’s about time I cut some more CDs for my fan club. Hook line and sinker.
Its hoolineandsinker dumb ass !!!
@ Interested investor
February 15, 2014 at 9:07 pm
Are you new to this forum? Robert Storey does not have an honest opinion. Never has done and never will.
Did you know that Robert Storey used to post as ‘Fatchett does not represent me’ and frequently referred to him as an ambulance chaser?
I am sorry Interested investor but you will never see your promised returns. The resorts will never get built. It’s a scam, a ponzi.
Its clear now that BS considers it a “job” to clutter up the blog with meaningless comments.Job well done.
@Anon 9.11 ha ha ha ha ha ha. Lol what panet are you from, planet Zod.
panet
lol
Are those who support Harlequin playing with a full deck.
I can see their strategy for attacking CPC despite their moral compass being totally off beam.
But to attack the SFO by virtue of insinuating that an officer of the SFO is passing on information with respect to potential witnesses is absurd in the extreme, and although it will ensure that the officer in question will now face an internal investigation as is protocol within the SFO, it will do nothing more then commit that officers colleagues to ensuring that matters are concluded as a matter of urgency in potentially bringing at least preliminary charges against the Ames family and others within Harlequin.
The strategy used by Harlequin against any perceived foes has not changed. What has changed is the arrogance which Harlequin supporters are now demonstrating towards the work of the investigative authorities.
An award winning BBC producer was forced to resign because he over stepped the line on exposing the truth about the activities of Harlequin, the Government of St. Vincent and the Ames family.
His only crime was to expose Harlequin and the Ames family for what they are, in an attempt at preventing more people from loosing all they have.
Now similar tactics are being used by Harlequin against an investigating officer of the Serious Fraud Office.
The goading by particular individuals on this site with respect to the SFO is doing Harlequin and the Ames family no favours whatsoever.
The individuals themselves might believe that as a result of the anonymity of this site nothing can be proved or linked back to particular individuals.
The posts of the last 24 hrs however have done the Ames family and Harlequin I repairable damage.
You just do not mess around with a serious active criminal investigation, especially when you are relying on the honesty of the Ames family and Harlequin for hard facts.
@Yatinkiteasy, no I don’t, but so many idiots, and you now fall into this category, insist in posting meaningless rubbish about me. If they do it then I will answer. Don’t forget it was not me who first put my name into this thread. If you don’t want rubbish then don’t start posting rubbish about me. It’s an easy concept to understand.
@Yatinkiteasy
Bob has a very sad life. He lives in a rented house with his mum and mother in law. His wife can’t stand him. He invested all his redundancy money in Harlequin (paid cash). His last job was a burger flipper and he got the sack. He has not worked since.
Despite his claims to be close to the Ames and the SFO he is a fantastic. A liar and a hypocrite. And he likes to stalk women too.
@tein, and who do you think is goading the SFO? Care to support that with proof?
@9:33 –You almost made me feel sorry for him. But that last
sentence queered the deal!
15 mins and counting. Proof?
An idiot is one that gave Mr Ames thousands of pounds and has nothing to show for it, but who continues to defend the person and company that many believe to be con artists and crooks.. I do not fall into that category . Ha Ha Ha…LoL LoL.
Vot is dis all abowt?
Mr. Storey given your incessant references to the credibility of witnesses and naming those witnesses as being witnesses for the SFO and your references in the past to a member of the investigative team in addition to your previous claims that the SFO approached you is enough to trigger two separate complaints from anyone with a vested interest in Harlequin.
And that is all it will take to have the named officer potentially suspended pending the outcome of an investigation.
This is not the first time Harlequin have triggered an internal investigation within the SFO. In 2013 at a meeting in Manchester Harlequin and Mr. Ames intimated that the SFO investigation into Harlequin had ceased. A member of Harlequin’s entourage at the time claimed that he had worked previously with senior members of the SFO and they had confided in him that the SFO were no longer interested in Harlequin.
This was enough to trigger a large internal investigation within the SFO. This cost the organisation both valuable time and money.
It was subsequently discovered that there was no merit to the bizarre claims made by Harlequin at the Manchester meeting.
Whether you now wish to resile yourself from your previous insinuations is neither here nor there.
The damage has now been done. But your nonchalant attitude towards this is totally bizarre. I honestly believe you are not understanding of the damage you may have done even though perhaps inadvertently.
You have certainly handed a loaded pistol to those seeking to accelerate the demise of the Ames family.
This is not an attack on your character as you may have your own reasons for doing what you have done, it is however a vivid demonstration of the potential cause and adverse affects in this particular case.
@Retribution Wrong blog dude.
Odd how the Cozier trolls are out in force tonight, touched on a sore point, tee hee!
She has reinvented herself with a new name.
How did she get that big fancy house?
And the plastic surgery?
Conning C*nt, she is.
I am not so zure…… dis is so incomprehensible on so many vevels anon mein dude!
@tein go for it. That’s not proof. You have no proof. Just to show how stupid your posting is you are suggesting that the SFO cannot request to interview someone. They only interview someone who approaches them. How stupid is that. Still you believe what you want. I could not give two monkeys.
@Yatinkiteasy, who says I have nothing to show for it? Get your facts right first. Still that would be a first.
@Retribution – Welkommen aus scheissfest
Mr. Storey you are the catalyst. Little time or effort will be applied in determining whether you are the protagonist I suspect, but there is enough to cast suspicion on the particular investigative officer’s ethics in dealing with witnesses or in respect of the confidential matters with respect to potential witnesses in the immediate short term, however unfounded the allegations or suspicions might turn out to be.
But your insinuations will cause short term disruption to the life of the particular officer as it will to the efficiency of the workings of the SFO.
The SFO may determine at a later stage that further action will be taken against perhaps your good self. Its is then the proof you speak about now will come into play.
TEIN- Good Grief! Trying to parse what you just wrote is a nightmare.
However the meaning came across loud and clear. Lets hope that
BS is clever enough to understand it.
@the end is nigh , it’s a waste of time trying to get bob storey to see sense . He doesn’t understand that he is out of his depth . Best we just ignore him and hopefully he will go away .
I believe his sort feed of the attention they get
Bob You claimed you were a confidant of Joe Hopkins, you stated that Newman made 3 previous complaints to the SFO. You said that this information came from Newman. Cmon Bob proof.
You said MacDonald and O Halloran were witnesses for the SFO. How do you know this. ?
How do you know the SFO have discredited these witnesses if indeed that is what they are.
How do you know Erica Broughton is or is now not a witness.
Proof Bob
How did the SFO know how to contact you. You must have contacted them initially. Otherwise how would they know who you were, unless perhaps you were a friend or such like of Joes. ?
Your doing an awful lot of back pedalling at present.
As I said I don’t give a monkeys. If your case against DA is so weak it will fail due to my ” insinuations” then you really are in trouble.
Re Erica, see the previous e mail from Erica.
Re the SFO contacting me, well documented in previous threads
Re the others, I just know.
Pedalling flat out forward now.
I am nor zure shitezenhosen is vixed, not at all zure. Zees post are like rowd rhages. Ze protagnists ide in der vehicles ver dey veel save
Yes can we now ignore Bob Storey.
Please do. As I said I had no input into this thread until someone decided to bring my name into it.
After recalling all those 36/FDNRM posts that at times took up
circa 20% of all posts on some earlier threads I am tempted, sorely
tempted to respond to RS/10:54 but I won’t….
@Anon but you just have responded, so you are a bit thick aren’t you.
Oh so Bob has title to his Cabana?No.just some payments(already spent) for writing pro Harlequin crap on a blog and Trip Advisor as “Sportingman”. What facts are wrong Bob?..Do you actually have something to show for your investment in Harlequin?.Is it even close to what was promised in the nice glossy brochures and websites? No.And do you have title to your lovely cabana at BB? No. And those are the facts.The rest from you is all bull crap.
You are one sad, sad, case.
@anonymous don’t he isn’t worth it , I thought we agreed to ignore him .
Maybe we can get back to recovering our stolen money and looking for solutions to Harlequin as soon as miss manderfield , mr dalligan and the other Harlecon trolls have popped of to bed .
Yat, what BS has to show for his investment is a job to agitate on forums. Never once has he provided a valid argument as to how or why his paymasters are not involved in defrauding thousands. He simply disrupts and is not worth this attention, so move on. BB loses hundreds of grand a month, completing on that is not really worth doing anyway even if you could get clear title. Paying more money over would be madness.
@yatinkiteasy we are ignoring the little scum bag ……. We all know he has had a few quid of poppa Ames and boy has he earned it , let’s face it when the sfo do pick up Ames snr his purpose in this world is over . For me his purpose is over now .
Back in reality over on the other forum ran by Fatchett , the group seems confused .some eagerly awaiting the due diligence to manage a limited recovery of funds , others still certain that the resorts will be built and finance payments made and others who are smelling blood and looking for attack methods .
Fatchett is doing all he can to keep order in the ranks
Lol 4 more posts about ignoring me. You really are the most stupid bunch of posters I have ever come across.
@ Yatinkiteasy, you know absolutely nothing and are soooo far from the truth, which of course only I know. Now let’s see if you can resist posting about me again.
Just one question —-is there a ridgeview from that hill?
God, I hope not.
Meanwhile with his family in tatters Ameless is in Buccama Bay .bumping a few knuckles no doubt in his quest for finance ……are you asking for the bag back ( and I don’t mean Carole)
Nope all I see is ice ice baby
In three days time CLC an excellent and reputable law firm along with Peter Knox QC an equally excellent barrister return to the high court in the UK representing 22 Harlequin purchasers.
All they are looking for is a return of their money as is due to them under their contracts.
So its odd that Harlequin now take the opportunity to attempt to discredit CPC and its Principle Mrs. Crozier one of a number of support companies to the claimants action.
Harlequin if they had real suspicions with respect to Mrs. Crozier would have alerted the authorities along time ago. Indeed they could also have brought it to the attention of the judge in the current case. Fact is they have not.
The only ones rattled in this case are the Ames family, Harlequin and those thieves who work for them.
The anti CPC rhetoric will possibly increase in its ferocity as Tuesday approaches.
Carol and Dave Ames would be far better suited just to turn up on Tuesday and plead their case.
I suspect however that neither coward will attend.
Surely there is noone alive stupid enough to think the Harlequin model can be revived, with finance enabling construction of the 9000 or so units still to be built, and then all those units operated at a profit? Absolutely amazing, a no wonder Ames got one over so many in the first place if people actually still believe this. Makes you actually think Ames should get away with it as such folly would have seen the investor lose money one way or the other on investing in carbon credits (ahem) or some such other ridiculous scheme/scam. This thing was blatantly a scam from the start, was barely dressed up – when Ames was telling people they would not have to pay their mortgages off, and no resorts were built, where did investors think that money would come from?? Does anyone among the investors/regulatory legal actually know about operating a resort in the CAribbean, what it takes to do it at a profit, not to mention build in the first place? If they did, they would have seen some of those locations and sizes and just chuckled along with the rest of us about what a ridiculous idea it all was.
Comrade Ralph Gonsalves submitted a character reference for Mattie boy in his recent trial.
Not sure whether he regrets his decision, it all depends on the size of the bag of cash handed to him by Ames I suppose.
Isn’t Tuesday’s court appearance a real test of the crazier bunch ?
If Fatchett had gotten off his fat ass and carried out even the slightest of due diligence he would have found that the trust he referred to recently in Manchester cannot happen.
There is a huge irony here which will come to pass very soon. I would not like to be Fatchett facing a baying mob when he tries to bullshit his way out of this one.
The words ” only game in town “, will haunt Fatchett for a very long time.
That’s why it pays to engage legal firms who are impartial and who prioritise their clients over the needs and wishes of, as in this case Mr. Ames and Harlequin.
Remember Fatchett, all who deal with Ames end up tainted some more then others and you my friend are no exception.
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@anon it’s 24 claimants . Of course Harlequin will attempt to discredit anyone who attacks Them look at Newman , WK , Ridgeview ,Ice group , not to mention the hundreds of managers who stole from them , the endless list of people who through jealousy set out to destroy them ( according to harlequin)and then of course the low life scum purchasers who Carole Ames stated set out to discredit her family because they couldn’t afford to complete on the 5000 imaginary houses her husband had sold .
Harlequin have forged emails , lied under oath , encouraged others to do the same ( if you believe the posts on here ) cheated and stole from pension funds with the aid of those who ought to have known better ,
A ordinary housewife has been vilified beyond belief , personal attacks have taken place on Crozier , Corney and even on FAtchett until he fell into line with AMes .
Paul Walton is having sex with everyone , RIchard Ingham is stalking MRs B, MR Jones is engaged in illegal activities against ladies , and every tom dick and Harry is a Freemason .
all agents and sales people are con artists everyone who touched the holy harlequin is a scam act , the only innocent people are the AMes family they are beyond reproach …….. How could MAttys jury be so so wrong .
Tuesday will be upon us real soon, let us see what happens and who joins the fray shall we.
No point in surmising at this stage. If CLC are successful on Tuesday, will the pro Harlequin mob raise the white flag. Somehow I doubt it.
No for sure Ames will fight on he is hoping the CPC/CLC mob run out of money …… But mark my words THEY WONT …… So hope be damned it’s a fight to the bitter end
@ View From the Hill aka Paddy booooooring. Bla bla bla.
What a stupid statement. If you cant afford to complete you should never have invested.
Its very clear mortgages were only being provided subject to status.
And look how many mortgage payments the Ames family covered for investors who would not normally be in a position to make an investment.
Greedy agents lied and the Ames’s are truly disgusted by this.
Builders ripped off Ames, proven fact.
Supported by corrupt Accountants, proven fact.
And now you have 24 investors who lied about their ability to afford such an investment, who could not afford to complete, who needed the Ames family to pay mortgages on their behalf. Now crying. And also trying to take down the trust.
90% of investors want the trust fact. The trust is going ahead. Fact.
Make your minds up 22 or 23 or 24? Let’s make a number up shall we.
At the Warrington meeting clients asked if the trust would recover their money in full others asked if the finance payments would restart . And for you information my letter said guaranteed mortgages not subject to status .
The trust can go ahead , fall apart do as it pleases you do not have all the investors on board because you do not have me and I am one .
The court papers says 24 so I guess it’s 24 ,it’s a public document so read it.
VFTH – The trust holdouts (assuming the trust ever has status)
will in the end rule the day.
Ames on video lying virtually every time he opens his mouth. How is that risk free development in Thailand going? The marina at BB? The airline? How can anyone possibly defend this man?
We all know Harlequin is a right mess. Are you seriously suggesting RL don’t know ? It’s not what they said last week. They painted Harlequin as a disaster. Which as we all know it is.
It is way better to try to secure the assets that not. If it does not work, so what ?
£240.00 is a punt, nothing more.
@anonymous 12.43
I am not sure RL could have taken the same steps as CLC / CPC. Their clients did not want to fund it. Too much money. Hence the £240 option.
http://www.lovemoney.com/blogs/scams-and-rip-offs/scams/27024/fighting-back-against-the-pension-liberation-scammers
@tax implications .This has been mentioned before that people who take their pensions out early are liable for tax on the money . I have no idea if the UK authorities would follow this through but apparently they could..
@Wibble , GF tried for a freezing order but lost the case ..
@Greetings, Of course Gf knows it’s a right mess I am not certain a lot of his clients understand it though from reading his forum ..
@anon 1.01 – it’s hard to get why people defend Ames but then you look at the salaries he paid his staff Daligan and Manderfield were on 30k per month , that kind of money buys a hell of a lot of loyalty no matter what .
Anonymous 12.01am
What money were the Ames family using to pay investors’ mortgages? It was investors’ deposits wasn’t it? Straight forward, pure and simple, Ponzi fraud.
From what I see the Trust will ultimately fail, Buccament Bay will be put into administration. SIPP investors will get redress through Insurance. The cash investors who have enough cash to complete will complete in the next few weeks – when BB goes bust a buyer will come in because the new airport will make things more viable. These cash investors who have title ( I am tod the real figure is 20 to 30 completions) will then agree a sale with the new owners and recover their investment that way.
Cash investors who can complete need to complete – handing over the balance to Ames may not be as stupid as some people state.
I hear of the 30 completions many are Ames friends and Masons?
Does anyone else think you should grab title if you can afford to?
@anonymous8.28
The whole point of the due diligence process is to enlighten investors. Judge the process when it had happened. If at that point, GF says it’s wonderful, then he will have some questions to answer.
The RL freezing order app was made against the companies, not Ames personally. Different actions.
What is fair to say is that RL, Paddy, Crazier have all played their part in bringing what is really going on to light. Irony is, they are all in it for different things.
This is terrible. How could someone do this ?
No Wibble you are wrong they are all init for the same thing dosh!
Don’t make these the hero’s they are far from it you know and I do
Harlequin – you are right.
However, help is never free. Free usually has no value etc.
The video above says more though. Who would rip this chap off ?
I wold’nt but YOU Wibble Wobble Paudie You would if it got you the result you wanted ………………….
What a shocking thought !
@WhatstheUse
Agreed, apart from get title unless you can afford to lose the lot.
The tax will run into many 1000’s
Regarding Crozier.
Many are making comments about Matt Ames and Dave Ames.- a fraud link.
Let’s just assume it was actually Croziers ‘sister’ who ripped people off, how do we know Crozier was not somehow involved? Or knew about the scam?
Crozier just re-appears after years of hiding?
Just saying……….
Yes let’s bump the thread so crazier is not the hero or indeed the victim
as you have tried to make out…………Karma is coming for you matey
That’s funny Wibble, Erica posted the same clip on her blog. Now there’s a coincidence.
Have any of the 22 Muppets ever asked for proof, who she really is?
What does she do other than Harlequin? Even that is this Corney bloke a real solicitor.
He is no better or worse than any investor. Why not go the whole hog and get some 80 year old crying.
Whats good for the goose,
You might well be right who knows
One thing we all know is confidential emails are on this forum which were sent to her
Or is she going to claim hacking again yawn yawn
Could Crozier look like her sister? has anyone ever met the woman?
http://www.theleader.info/26/article/2850/oasis-update/
Crozier is one dodgy woman, lie with dogs get fleas. 😉
Why the video of the spastic? Is the spastics money worth more than mine? When Dave cashed the cheque was he to know it came from a retard?
When the time is right, the whole sorry mess about Crozier will be exposed. This will blow the case right out of the water….
The Crazy Crozier following will be left to pay Dave’s costs.
Dave is not as stupid as people make him out to be.
Nice house, on the run again?
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-31610035.html
I think any investor with plans to complete on BB should remember what the FCA had to say about that in 2013. Nothing has changed since that time.
“We are aware that on 13 May 2013, Harlequin Hotels & Resorts approached investors to state that Harlequin Property (SVG) Limited, another company within the Harlequin group, is working with SIPP and SSAS providers to facilitate the completion of built properties at Buccament Bay Resort. They invite investors who are in a position to fund the balance outstanding from their SIPP and SSAS or wish to relocate their investment from another Harlequin resort, to contact Harlequin Hotels & Resorts.
We wish to remind financial advisers that our expectations where financial advisers are asked for advice on overseas properties purchased through Harlequin group were set out in the alert of 18 January, which remain valid. Also, please note that Harlequin Property (SVG) Limited is not regulated by FCA and it is not a company incorporated in the UK. Harlequin Property (SVG) Limited is based in St Vincent and the Grenadines.
We urge financial advisers considering recommending consumers paying monies or further monies over to any of the companies in the Harlequin group at this time to proceed with caution. You should ensure that consumers fully understand the risks involved with the investment. You should also advise consumers to obtain legal advice from lawyers in the country where the property is located before proceeding with any investment in a company in the Harlequin group.”
Worriedinvestor
February 16, 2014 at 12:17 pm
Crozier is one dodgy woman, lie with dogs get fleas. 😉
Don’t worry about the fleas worry more that the dog don’t bite ya
just saying
Question:
What did she do before this?
http://companycheck.co.uk/director/916139761/NICOLETTE-ELIZABETH-CROZIER/director-summary
Just askin……
Why would you change your name? shock horror, maybe something in your past….. that happened in Spain???
Have any of the Sunday papers picked up on the conviction for fraud for Ames? There was a piece on the UK Times yesterday on a case with striking similarities. A Ferrari driving conman who gulled affluent investors out of more than £21m using charm and a fake dealing room was jailed for seven years. He got this sentence after pleading guilty too. The evidence showed that this was also a classic Ponzi scheme with investors being paid out of other people’s investments.
So 7 years for £21m after a guilty plea? Not sure what one would expect for £1.3m after wasting everyone’s time with a not guilty plea. Then what would £400m weigh in at?
Also, the guy convicted for Fraud had spent money on a trip to Las Vegas and had bought himself a £4m home. Fast car, trip to Las Vegas and a nice house. Is there a book out there called “Fraud for Dummies” with all these tips inside?
I have now lost all faith I actually thought the Bob Storey post above was a hijacker but unfortunately not and to think the guy in the video is on the RL Forum 😦
Watch this investor on You Tube – makes you think
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I stumbled across this. It made me feel sick.
What type of person could sell such a scheme to a clearly vunerable person ?
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Permalink Reply by Robert Storey 1 hour ago
Oh please, this was posted on BFP on 11.25. Four minutes later it appears here. 1t was posted by Erica on her blog some months ago. Yes the guy is disabled, but he is no different to anybody else on here, or any other investor. I suggest you question his motives for investing. Are you ” Wibble” by any chance?
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Permalink Reply by kathryn tinkler 1 hour ago
Hi Robert, yes it is a disgrace, for how everyone as been treated by Harlequin. I have seen Patricks youtube before. I believe Patrick is on this forum, so when you are on I would like to say hi , and I hope you are ok and being well looked after by RL@co. We are all in the same.. boat and are in this mess together. Good luck to all of us. Kathryn
He is no different to any other investor and to imply that he insulting.to Patrick.
11 Years for Spanish fraudster who rips off English investors for 2.5 million.
How does she afford such a house….. just askin.
Sorry for taking fees and promising the world….
Such a legal professional you would think all these lies would be removed?
http://www.granalacantplaza.eu/forum/archive/index.php/t-853.html
This forum is boring as a Robert storey posting . Erica go eat a pie or something .
Who gives a flying f..k about anything other than their investment with Harlequin. This crap on hear is just to disrupt and stop people thinking about the real deal . Ames Where Is My £120k give it back now. I can drive to Basildon to collect it
Anon3.18 .dont expect any sensible responses Harlequin are terrified of Tuesdays hearing (I didn’t know anything was happening if this is the trial it’s come really quick)
They will keep this rubbish going to deter anyone from fighting them . I haven’t decided on the trust option yet but looking at this rubbish maybe the 24 had the right idea to grab as much as they can and get out of it .
I don’t think anyone should be using the threads on BFP re Harlequin and its odious team as guide to future actions!
The over promised over paid 24, that have got nothing back you mean?
Crozier is the one shiting herself.
Ames will just drag it on until they run out of money……….. simple.
he British Home Office (Ministerio del Interior) actually got involved in one case, a company called Oasis Properties had been scamming so many people that the Home Office asked the Spanish police to arrest the owner of the company and sling her in jail. In 2004, Audrey Dixon was incarcerated in Malaga for fraud. However, you can’t rely on the British authorities taking an interest in your case. They won’t.
Strange with all the documented information about Oasis, nothing every mentions that she has passed on……….. funny than?
Just sayin……..
No pictures of either sister,
just sayin
http://www.theleader.info/26/article/2850/oasis-update/
More rubbish from the Harlequin camp …… The big question is what do this group have that is so damn frightening to the trolls …
Let’s take a guess
Could it be they are fully funded
Could it be they have a definite win
Could it be the investigations turned up something so scary Harlequin are terrified
Could it be nothing whatsoever moves this group from its direction
Whatever it is the Ames camp are in panic
Yeah, I’d heard that there is a sudden rush on toilet paper in Basildon right now.
Ames can and will drag this out. Many investors do not have the money to complete. It is they who are dragging Harlequin down.
And we have agents who mislead investors. Fatchett has stated this.
And you have Builders ripping Ames off. See Irish Court Case.
Fatchett would not support Ames if he thought he was a Conman.
Liverpool FC would not support him.
Gary Player would not support him.
UK and West Indies would not support him.
The Prime Minister of St. Vincent would not support him.
The Prime Minister of St. Vincent sent the UK trial a personal character witness statement for Matt Ames in his trial through his lawyers Williams and Williams. Why do this if he did not believe in and trust Mr. Ames.
Now on Tuesday you have a bunch of greedy stupid investors and we will name and shame them who could not complete or pay their mortgages now wanting to cause trouble for Mr. And Mrs Ames.
And they are also trying to bring down the trust. These are greedy stupid and irresponsible people.
Putting up videos of again people who could never have afforded their investments. No offence to Patrick but he would have been better off keeping his money for his medical condition. Wonder how much he costs the NHS ? Another greedy investor.
And Mr. And Mrs. Ames are getting blamed for all this. Are they responsible for Patricks illness. Bollox are they.
Dave Ames has land worth over $200 million. And Buccament Bay worth the same again. So why do investors think they are going to loose. RL are fully behind Dave Ames now.
They have said this. RL is not suing Dave Ames or Harlequin. He is suing the agents and IFAs.
And the reason he is doing this? Yes they lied Dave Ames did not.
We know Wilkins Kennedy went to the SFO in October. We know they tried to make a complaint then to the SFO. We know they produced false documents. They were trying to force Dave Ames out of business.
Next week Dave Ames will sue Wilkins Kennedy for £30 Million. RL will confirm.
We see Bob Storey is posting under multiple personalities again today.
We can tell it’s you Bob because of your poor sentence structure and consistently bad spelling and grammar.
How was your pissander curry last night Bobby Knob? Bet you didn’t get a shag and retired to watch women-porn on your ipad in the bathroom again.
Correction Investors/purchasers HAVE land and BB
NOT DAVE AMES!!!!
Dave Ames has as much chance of getting 30million quid off Ames as I have of getting my £120k back zilch ……… He is a liar plain and simple
@ Anonymous February 16, 2014 at 5:33 pm
You are talking rubbish. For God’s sake get a grip will you. BB is not worth $200 million USD. And Dave Ames does not ‘own land worth over $200 million’, which by the way is not very much in the international property market. Where do you get this wrong information from?
Highly amusing to see the Harlequin trolls wallowing around in the gutter spouting increasingly more pathetic lies.
This level of fear and desperation would usually tug at my heart strings, but these low life pieces of shit deserve what’s coming to them. And the more they stir their own shit, the worse they’re making it for themselves.
That deluded psychopath Ames must be getting even sicker with worry. Let justice finally be done. I can smell it; it’s near.
So, continue to squeal you fat little Harlequin pigs. The misery you’ve caused people through your ignorant self obsessed greed is going to hurt you like hell.
Happy days.
Let’s see the names the n clever boy …… Let’s see what you’ve got , let’s have a show and tell night if you’ve got the balls for it. Your getting really scared of this hearing …
You have nothing to show have you .
Buggar it anon 24 meant to say if he get so e recent of Wilkins Kennedy I will show my backside nude in harrods
Red cent
@Anon 2.06, nice try but guess what, nobody took any notice of your pathetic trolling attempt.
I will name the names after the case on Tuesday. What has Dave Ames and Caril done.
Did people think the Amses will always pay the mortgages for others.
Dave Ames sold his business to Cortholds and put every penny that is millions into the Caribeen.
Martin Mack Donald bribed some guys in the Doninican and tried to hang it on Dave Ames. The he and Wilkins Kennedy went to the SFO in October with the false information. Trying to stop the case against him. Fact
Dave Ames showed the papers to everyone in Manchester last week that proves Wilkins Kennedy are the real thieves. Gareth was there to fact.
And Dave Ames will close Wilkins Kennedy and will get the 30 million and in front of Gareth promised to put the money back into Harlequin.
Look how much Dave and Carol will lose if the trust dose not go ahead.
Post of 5.51, do “we” You need to open your eyes and your brain. Been out all afternoon. What time are the SFO and Essex old Bill calling round tomorrow Lol
@Anon 24
More rubbish from the Crozier camp …… The big question is what do this group have that is so damn frightening to the trolls …
Let’s take a guess
Could it be they are skint
Could it be they have a definite split in the camp
Could it be the investigations turned up something so scary Crozier wants a deal
Could it be nothing whatsoever will stop Crozier from bleeding you dry
Whatever it is the Crozier camp are in panic
No company called Cortholds ever existed according to Companies House. Still, Harlequin employees from thick twat Ames down can’t spell. So Dave, can you remember how you used to spell the name of the company you sold for millions (you lying bastard)?
They ( Camp Crozier ) want to walk away. Ames is the one who has them in court on Tuesday. Twats.
@In the know
Crozier is a devious lying drunken old has been.
I must be really annoying to have been ripped of again by Crozier, does she still keep reading you all the riot act 😉 you keep obeying, because she is just a bully.
Grow a pair and stand up to her.
@Anon 6.04, I was at the Tigers game when the post was made. Not that I have to justify to an “anonymous” keyboard warrior like you.
Don’t forget Erica has tried to get her money back from Crazier. Does the Crazier 24 include Erica still?
Anyone who believes that Crozier will win need to think about this.
You all invested in Harlequin the business. Not in Mr or Mrs Ames.
As a result you cannot win your case. Its not to late. Call Mr. Ames tomorrow or Simon Terry. They will listen. They will be delighted to let you into the trust.
Mr. Ames is not vindictive. But if you make him go through more cases he will have no option but to defend his good name and that of his company.
If you give him time he will share the 30 million amongst all investors. And if anyone does not believe this just ask Garreth Fatchett.
Folks it is not too late. Tell Crozier and Corney to get a life. They are chasing ghosts. They know they have lost. Walk away tomorrow. This will drag on for years otherwise and Crozier and Corney will bleed you dry. Cut you losses with them and join the trust. RL have guranteed that the only safe place is the trust for your investment.
Dont you think RL would have done what Crozier did if they thought they would win.
They didnt. Remember RL and Fatchett personally got some 50 million quid back in cash for Arch Crux investors.
They got their money back only because of RL.
Bob shut up. There was no post about you at 6.04. Great you were at the Tigers game.
Should have stayed there Bob. Maybe someone should have fed you to them. Lol
Bet Joe Hopkins would be in that que. Twat. Muppet. Illiterate idiot. Ames stool pigeon. Spasticphobe,
………..yeah yeah Bob. ☻☻☻☻☻
Oh this is hilarious …… Firstly RL got frig all back from arc cru …… Read it and weep .
Second it doesn’t matter if crozier is involved or not the claim goes ahead
Thirdly . What the f..k are you harlequin shite so scared of
Could it be the lady has you by the balls those that know mrs c know she has more guts than any of you and doesn’t give a shit no matter how many times you attack her
Grow a pair or foxtrot Oscar
The Harlequin camp are certainly really rattled this evening.
Crozier is going after Ames personally, which is a perfectly reasonable strategy but only feasible for a limited number of claimants. RL were always looking for high volume therefore pursued a different route, again equally valid.
Ames has resilience, I’ll give him that but his days are numbered, patently so.
No it was 5.51
Rumour has it ames is begging crozier for a meeting , methinks all is not clear on this blog
“Que”. What is a que? You mean queue. Not very nice things to call Joe is it. Oh by the way I have never called Joe anything else but Joe. I’m sure he appreciates being named in full by yourself and your friends. Now go and check all your screen shots and find out which Joe I’m referring to. Yes you twat, muppet, illiterate idiot, that’s you ok.
Dear Inch
Improve your language or leave the blog. I’ve dumped several of your comments but if you don’t play nicer I shall block you.
BFP Robert
Hahaha, Harlequin trolls bricking it big time.
Terry and Ames will “let” people join the Trust. They’re absolutely DESPERATE for people to join the trust and hold off on inevitable litigation. Litigation for thousands of breached contracts, the majority of which will NEVER be honoured and all the money is GONE. Harlequin in FUCKED.
Bye bye you lying bastards, and the King of the lying bastards, Ames.
Harlequin companies soon to fold, then let the criminal prosecutions begin.
Ponzi fraud and deception.
Anon @5.46 – hilarious. Ames has only ever lied, who gave the agents the information with which to sell, that he is on youtube spouting so ineloquently? He did not sell any company for millions, that is not even vaguely based on truth. He is a former bankrupt (twice) and has no track record that should encourage investors. Buccament Bay was built using investor money (9000 investments), so in theory it does not belong to Ames, and it is worth US$20m at the very most. Noone in this market would pay that for the place, and that is including the 110 units, Take them away and probably worth US$5m. When did you last shop for a resort? You buy based on profitability, and potential. A resort caught up in litigation and only loses money is worthless. Offers for Marquis are knocking around at US$4m in real estate circles. Blu similar amount. Dom Rep land a little more. The efforts to suggest Ames is blameless and was a victim of dozens of others who wronged him in business are futile. He alone is responsible for what has happened and he will shoulder the blame and get the longest prison sentence. Also, why quote Liverpool and Gary Player etc as supporting him means he is legit – did you see who invested in Madoff and Stanford? Did you see the positions Madoff held?? All the while was a complete fraud. Only difference is is that Ames was clearly a fraud from day 1 and it is inexplicable that people did not see through it. Madoff and Stanford were smooth talkers and knew a bit about what they were peddling. Ames knows less about resort development and operation than he does about rocket science.
Oops, pardon my language BFP Robert. I was getting all excited. Sorry.
@Anon RU ha ha ha ha. Now behave.
Fuck off Bob. Rent boy.
That’s not playing nicely is it. Tut tut.
BFP make exceptions for people swearing at you Bob, what with you being an irritating twat.
And the more I irritate you the more I like it. The worse your swearing the more I know I am irritating you. Loving it!
@Anon RU aka Inch, is Inch a reference to the size of your manhood? Lol
Can’t wait for the evidence to be presented at the Fab 24 trial.
Ames must be crying himself to sleep at the injustice of justice.
What will Ames’ defence be considering his advice to all other investors is to sue their agents for recommending such a shit investment? And for them to pay up to form a trust to relinquish their contractual rights in exchange for owning a fraction of that shit investment?
A fool and his money ….
Bob, why the hell would I ever sign in under another name, and pretend to have lost all command of the English language? Do you think I want more anonymity?! You really are a thick twat and just keep proving it over and over again.
@Anon RU aka inch. This is as funny as Top Gear.lol. Looks like I am still irritating you.
@in the know ….. Defend his good name lol mr ames will allow me into the trust …. Thanks but no thanks … Fool me once shame on you fool me twice shame on me .
Gloves off Ames ….. Let’s dance
Read my lips Ames is a fraudster like his son 1 down two to go
Jonathon Dolby ain’t much better ……. Your next
@Anon-reason
My guess is the evidence comes from mercenary Jones
Desperado why don’t you come to your senses ………. Why does Dave ames remind me of that old eagles song ……..
Oh dear the lady has you rattled but the ladies not for turning and will give you a damn good hand bagging .
Leave cliff alone …….
Nikki aka Audrey the con woman.
Poacher turned game keeper
Crozier is crapping herself, the ‘clients’ 23 /24 are very upset.
Ames will go bust and you can swivel lol 😉
£7,000 per month, security of costs, thousand paid so far.
Who is the winner?
Not the 24 muppets.
Yep, Ames have NEVER EVER not fought a court case, why would he change?
Attacking him, does not work.
Yup there is a good chance that Ames will go bust ……. For sure it’s more likely than that silly trust idea you lot keep banging on about .
Well he is going to have to fight this one isn’t he .
What is that revolting smell?
Of course, it’s Harlequin troll crap! Piles and piles of the stuff.
We have all makes of crap being expelled now from all those now insanely sick with fear:
Ames x 4
Mandefield/Wooller the dressage wannabe (terrible brood mare though)
Terry the bent lawyer
Sonny and the inbreds …
All the agents and “I”FAs …
Retribution is going to be fabulous.
Cliff who;s side you on this week???
OR who is paying the most for your services???
Both sides I guess. Lol
No one cares on Tuesday is shit or bust ….. Ames will shit for sure.
You lot can say what you want the 24 will win and Ames will loose …………
Keep your crap coming boys
Might have to taser Vinny in harlequins car park if it continues
Oh the joy of bbfp ….. No accuracy , limited knowledge and outright slagging off
How’s the one arm bandit Katherine ….?
Naughty naughty ……….. But in fairness god does not hit with a stick
Corney is delighted ……. He has won every thing against Ames , Tuesday will prove he is the better lawyer . His group are delighted with him .
Go team Corney
Audrey lives.
The Crozier bunch will be defeated, who is the contract with NOT Mr & Mrs Ames.
fools, muppets.
Erica are you sill being followed by Inghams lol
We will never be defeated …….. Even if we loose we win .
Prison for what? Being good at selling to the great unwashed?
Of course you loose the clients money, you win!
The corney crozier group have obviously rattled the Ames camp …… Why is the question
Crozier has conned the lot of you, a classic.
Ask about when Dave goes bust.
No win, still pay.
Daves cost wow.
Camp Corney are clearly crapping themselves, you should be preparing instead of writing on here Nikki 😉
Warn your £7000 a month.
Crozier wannabe solicitor, common as muck rough as f**k.
Lol ……. As if she could be arsed to read this bull .
Hello Erica … Still sore at been dumped are you sorry paddy found another lover
David Edward Ames recently travelled to St. Vincent not to endeavour to work on completions. Not to offer his condolences to the family of the employee killed in the storm. No. David Edward Ames travelled to St. Vincent to arrange a further payment to the Hon. Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, in return for the character reference and witness statement the Prime Minister Mr. Ralph Gonsalves prepared for Matt Ames in his recent criminal trial.
Paid too much then
Ames is in SVG ?.. Must be doing the completions then is he .
Bet Ames is nowhere near SVG ….. He’ll his son has just been convicted , what kind of man would desert his wife at this difficult time
Just had a little look at CLC’s webpage and did some wider reading around the firm. It seems pretty clear to me that all attempts to disparage “Corney” are borne out of fear — his calibre, pedigree and experience in this field is impressive; I’d be scared if I were in the wrong side of any case that he was acting on too.
The attempts to undermine him, and the manner in which they are levelled, betray a fairly profound ignorance of exactly the sort of legal professional that this individual clearly is — and how the legal system and profession in general works. Unlike those making laughable statements about him above, he is clearly educated and intelligent and expects a result — interesting too to note the subjects of the papers that he’s had published (he’s clearly been chosen for this case for a reason). Attempting to suggest that he isn’t fully aware of exactly how to structure his case and identify relevant parties is similarly ignorant — do you honestly believe that he doesn’t know how legal parties work? Have you got any idea what you’re dealing with in terms of the intellect of an individual like this? Do you not think that if he’s going after individuals here, there’s a good reason for it — or do you genuinely think that with zero legal experience, you’ve thought of something he hasn’t?
This attempt to launch ad hominem attacks on every single individual who has an axe to grind with Harlequin is cynical and transparent — fortunately it also says far more about those launching the attacks than those they are launching them against. And reeks of desperation.
Crozier has attempted to make contact with Mr. Ames in an attempt at doing a deal prior to Tuesday.
Crozier has tried to contact Mr. Ames a number of times in the past few days.
She has asked for a meeting on a one to one basis, no lawyers, no third parties.
If this is not a sign that Crozier understands the case against the Ames family is ill conceived I do not know what is.
Of course Mr. Ames has refused to meet Crozier ahead of the hearing on Tuesday. To do so would be improper.
Crozier has indicated that her clients have no wish to continue the case and are instead looking to join Mr. Fatchett’s trust.
Given the above it is rather odd that Crozier and Co. are still attempting to persuade the uninitiated that they have a winning case.
Dave Ames was with his wife in the court in Ilseworth when the jury returned their verdict.
Both Dave and Carol remained dignified through out the whole proceedings even thanking the court staff on leaving the court.
The reports of the undignified response from Carol Ames are just totally untrue.
Save your. Breath anonymous the harlequin rabble are terrified and think by attacking the group who have the freezing order they may scare them off . If it wasn’t so pitiful it would be funny .
Ames is desperate for the trust so crap will go on till lunchtime Tuesday when the case will be over .
Everything is in place , everything is going to plan .
They paid money pursuant to, and contingent on, contracts stating that certain things would happen within certain time frames: they didn’t.
Seems like a pretty winnable case to me.
Anonymous 10.37 prove it because if it were true your little trolls would have been told to beautify her ad they did Fatchett. Beautification is the stage before sainthood for you non left footers
Chris Corney is just acting as a Legal Postbox of sorts.
It is Crozier who puts together the pleadings and supporting documentation. The CLC role is minimal.
Hence the reason why the pleadings are so weak.
@ 10.45 its beatify not beautify.
Beatify. Twat.
Weak enough to win. Every time ………sorry beatify auto correct was on
@anon 10.45
I think you mean beatification not beautification.
Does anyone know what time the Essex police are coming tomorrow? Is it going to be a dawn raid? Perhaps I should have an early night. Ha ha lol
Enough of the catholic crap ……. It will end up worse than the masons !!!!!!
Crozier can’t make deals only Corney can and even then he needs the agreement of the clients and he doesn’t have it .
Na you’ll be fine it’s a lunchtime knock …. You weren’t worth the overtime
No, its not. You must be dead to be beatified.
Beautify: to make beautiful
Beatify: the third stage of cannonisation
Back to school for you
Yo, – Frankie dude, you go guy. Are you the same Cisco that I met
in B.A. in 1978?
I just don’t understand Mr. Storey. Thanks to him and his references Mr. Joe Hopkins will face an inquiry and Mr. Storey seems to be relishing in it.
I for one am very disturbed by the idea that Mr. Storey would know details of witnesses in a criminal investigation.
I believe his attitude towards what I would consider a grave allegation frankly stinks.
Interfering in a criminal case is considered a serious criminal offence. Why would anyone be so flippant about such a serious issue.?
Indeed why would someone tempt faith in such a manner. Clearly Mr. Storey has no grasp on reality or indeed the potential consequences of his actions.
Anon 11:48 Congratulations…..that sounded very much like a
prosecutors summation speech in a court of law. Absolutely no
flaw in logic. Bravo!
Crozier is only Corney assistant she like pretending about lots of things!
Try peeling back a few layers,she what you find we have……
Matters not if Nikki Crazier is bent. She has the whip hand at present.
Good luck to both sides. May the least dodgy win !
@Anon 11.48 just give it up. No one is interested, your postings are factually wrong despite being told so. We are all bored now with your very silly accusations. Let me just point out a small point to you. I have never posted Joe’s second name, unlike you. So that’s your silly argument shot down . “You don’t understand me”? You need a brain to do that mate.
Bob,
You have not mentioned the SFO in any way which would compromise your obligations. Odd, why would anyone even say that !
All, RL has a report….
We received numerous copies of the Guardian SIPP update. It was a shame that Guardian were unable to attend last Thursday. If they had of attended, they would have seen that we were trying to seek a common accord between SIPP providers on a number of technical issues.
Harlequin impacts on Guardian more than any other SIPP provider. On our figures we estimate they have around 50% of all of the 3500 or so SIPP investments. Therefore, the effect on Guardian is significantly more than any other SIPP.
We fully understand that Guardian need to see the due diligence. We also understand that they will need to be party to any Deed of Waiver. However, what we have been invited to do would prevent us from pursuing any redress claim for both our existing clients (of which there are many).
All our clients want either / both of (a) the securing of the assets bought by Harlequin using their money (b) the ability to obtain redress so that they can exit the Harlequin investment as soon as possible (c) a compromise / concession by SIPP providers to waive annual management charges whilst this matter is dealt with.
We cannot and will not agree to something which prevents (b).
What we are going to do is agree something with Guardian which allows them to work with us on the due diligence. We would have talked this through last week if Guardian had attended. We have suggested meeting Guardian as soon as possible to see whether common ground can be agreed.
We will report back.
Regulatory Legal Solicitors
Paddy / Dave M / Nikki
You need to post to tell the 11 readers how much of a sham the due diligence is. GF is thick, RL are going to be sued for not working Ames out.
Irish thief
Spanish scammer
Man who didn’t sign The Beatles – well the Ames gravy train !
Made for each other !
Tick tock you all will end in in the dock lol
All thick as in stupid, and thick as thieves. Totally horrible people.
Instead of paying all those backhanders, should have held some back for a rainy day.
Guardian Pension Consultants Ltd
Registered Office: Guardian House, Capricorn Park, Blakewater Road,
Blackburn BB1 5QR
FCA Number: 463717
Company Number: 05532587
Balance sheet total (2012): £394,366.00
2013 – bit cash strapped?
http://companycheck.co.uk/company/05532587/GUARDIAN-PENSION-CONSULTANTS-LTD/financial-accounts#financials
Has anyone got any proof Guardian paid “commissions” We know from other sources Kathryn Taylor (CE Guardian) has contacts in Harlequin but only limited evidence of commissions et al so far
Funny you should say that………
Oh and a email from Guardian has just arrived do not think Gareth is going to be happy.
It is all a nest of RATS
Yes we know all about them 😉
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd632947.aspx
Yes I have proof.
Just imagine a RAT infiltrated people computers?
“If they had of attended..” If my lawyer wrote such bad English, I would be concerned. US$650m taken by Ames is unaccounted for, and a trust will protect him from being sued by investors, is that the gist? Contracts breached, and investors foregoing rights under those contracts? Surely that is not the case?
Guardian Pension Consultants- can you share such proof? Have you informed SFO? I would love something I could add to my file for the Ombudsmen and the FSA!
Condensed version of the future.
Harlequin, Ames, SIPP’s IFA’s and agents go bust.
FSCS feeding frenzy.
The end.
What’s stopping Ames stealing the completion money?
Absolutely nothing. I think a more apt question would have been:
”What’s stopping Ames stealing the completion money – AGAIN”
RL”s latest release is bizarre in the extreme.
RL state that they “cannot and will not agree to something which prevents (b).”
(b) being the ability of investors to seek redress in order to allow them to exit the Harlequin Investment as soon as possible.
Yet RL are actively encouraging all investors to sign up to a trust which will prevent investors from seeking any redress from the main protagonist in this…… that being Harlequin and the Ames family.
RL are not only claiming to be protecting the interests of investors but they are also protecting the interests of Harlequin and the Ames family.
Who is RL actually representing ?
RL is representing (spoiler alert) the interests of RL.
It purely and simply is a money making scheme for (surprise) RL….
Another point worth noting aside from the use of the word “of”. RL say Harlequin impacts on Guardian more then any other SIPP provider.
Should that not be Guardian impacting on Harlequin.
Also for some time now RL told us how the SIPPs formed the majority of the contracts within Harlequin. They also told us there were in excess of 9000 contracts. We can only deduce from that that there must be in excess of 4500 SIPP investments.
But now RL are telling us that there are 3500 or so SIPP investments. About 40% with half of this held by Guardian. That according to RL’s own figures is 20% of Harlequin investments. A sizeable figure indeed.
Can RL confirm that Rowanmore the other very large SIPP provider has acceded to RL’s demands. If not well the figure not currently buying into the trust rises further.
And what then of RL’s previous statements whereby they stated a mandate of 75% of investors was required in order to allow the trust to proceed.
And finally what affect would any existing liens, charges or cautions on Harlequin’s assets have on the assets to be placed in the trust ?
Why are you asking questions of RL on here? They are not going to answer. Ask them on their blog, oh but you would have to be an investor to do that. You are an investor, yes or no?
Teeny tiny itty bitty question JaftoRL. Affect is ALWAYS A VERB.
EFFECT is the result of an action. Don’t get the wrong idea because
I really admire your posts…
If you go back to several of the RL communications, you will find many inconsistencies in their statements. Like all lawyers…they are in it for the money…protecting investors? What a joke. They know all is lost, but they can still (maybe) get away with a million pounds or so for their services.
The anti RL mob, could this be the ones who won’t join the trust because they chose the wrong option? Or the cash investors? Or the mortgage fraudsters? Or the fat Paddy?
I’m not anti RL , I am not anti anyone making a living , I am not surprised that the due diligence will be cods wallop .
I just want to know how Ames thought he could trick us again ???
How can any DD be done for a Company that has never filed Annual Financial Returns..can someone please explain how RL or anyone else can get around this?
It’s in his genes…… He maybe knows the game is up?
@Yankingitoff
By getting answers to questions, it’s really logical.
No answers = no DD = liquidation.
Yatink – Try bribing a Prime Minister for starters, it has gotten
around a lot of pesky laws in the past.
Wankingitoff
Setting people up is good too, Panorama for example.
I have noticed some of the ‘stupid 24’ are posting on here does Nasty Nikki know about it?
You know it’s not allowed or going on the RL blog. lol
You will be told off…. and excommunicated.
I don’t get the connection between bribing a PM and doing DD on a Company.Even a PM can not create several years worth of Financial returns.
Some of the more pertinent comments on this site have had the result that RL have indeed responded.
Harlequin would like us to believe the this site and this thread is the domain of freaks and weirdos. Yes there are many who fit that bill who post on here, but from time to time little gems are posted which result in an avalanche of abusive posts coupled with allegation followed by counter allegation.
It is these little gems who are helping those who read this thread and others similar to this to put together the pieces of the jigsaw.
You do not necessarily have to post or identify your self when just browsing this thread.
And Mr. Ames should be under no illusion as to the many parties with an interest in Harlequin who visit these threads on a daily basis.
Why else would Harlequin go to the extremes they have to quell sensible debate on the issues being raised.
But sadly much of this Harlequin Troll activity does nothing more then pique the interest of readers further.
Mr. Ames and his tribe of delusional followers appear not to have understood the concept of the Streisand effect.
The Ames family and Harlequin are akin to a rabid animal in its final death throws. Still highly toxic to those who come near them but other wise a spent force.
On another note Matt Ames remains incarcerated pending the independent surety being found and put in place. Carol Dave and Dan have been precluded from visiting him without as all 4 are suspects in the Harlequin criminal investigation.
RL are also about to cut some fairly large amounts of flack on the issue of the due diligence they apparently over looked. It’s going to be a highly embarrassing and most awkward situation for RL to talk their way out of.
Where is the burger flipping SFO leak today are do I dare raise that particular issue today.
Yatink – I meant to imply that bribing a PM can shield a company
from complying with legally required financial statements. Sorry,
I got garbled typing.
All quiet on that Western Front this afternoon, Thank God. Although at times he is worth it just for a laugh.
Yatink- Hope that I am not double posting this. What I meant to say
is that by bribing a PM one might get away with not submitting
legally required annual reports.
Another thought – The “little gems” are exactly why I read this daily.
@anonymous, Thanks for the clarification. Understood and agreed. However, if the financials are not available, for whatever reason, DD can simply not be completed, even if the Country involved does not demand that they are done (as is required by law on an annual basis.)
Yatink – As they say…”we are singing from the same hymn book”
Some back of napkin DD:
9000 units sold
Average size – 1,500 square feet
Build cost U$150 (very low side for high end) – US$2.7bn for the units
Infrastructure on the properties @10-20m per property given their location and status – US$80m
Golf courses/marinas – anyone’s guess as really these are not feasible, but generously let’s say US$40m.
Total cost to build out what has been contracted to build – US$2.82bn.
Money taken is US$650m, more than half gone on commissions.
No evidence anything is left.
Assets are common areas of a resort (units effectively do not belong to developer as they are under contract to pass to the purchaser), and unbuilt land. Total asset value of all land and assets less than US$100m. Probably less than US$50m.
Debts – contracts are breached so should be showing some US$600m as a liability on balance sheet.
If people all decided not to enforce the contracts, and expected to get what they bought, then still some US$2.8b needed to complete.
If US$650m is one third of all deposits, then the total sales value is US$2.1b. If two thirds is remaining of that to come in from investors/purchasers, then the total they can expect to collect in the best case scenario is a little under US$1.4bn. They are almost US$1.5bn shy of being able to meet their obligations, and that is before one takes into account finance costs (if finance were ever forthcoming which clearly is not going to happen with such a business)
Given that investors cannot complete anyway, and most likely don’t want to and just want money out, people should immediately forget about resorts being built. Given that the only resort loses money hand over fist based on what Harlequin themselves have said, and the others are not built but would lose also given location and lack of demand for their kind of resorts, and given resorts just do lose money for the first three years, then a huge provision would have to be made to fund that also. Even if the resorts could be built, there would be no point as they would be money pits. Other than the DR, the resorts are totally unsuitable for location.
Forget about criminal investigations, non filing of accounts, and all other improper conduct, noone should think for a moment any more units other than what is already built are going to begin. With that in mind, the only DD required is that of Buccament Bay as a resort to see what the 110 investors or so that may own holiday units are actually getting. This is not an expensive process – just send the auditors in, get access to the accounts and very quickly the real picture will emerge. This could be done for US$30k. It does not need a trust to do that either, they are legally obliged, so “investors” should enforce that obligation.
Still waiting for the knock on the door. Ha ha lol
@Anon and others, you seem to have the misconception that I have raised the SFO recently. You are guilable enough to swallow the bullshit from the posters of Saturday night. How brainless you are.
ANON DD
We all know it’s F***ked, just need to know how bad, sadly I don’t believe you DD will stand up to scrutiny. It’s all a bit silly.
Ames will try to steal the completion money then do a bunk. Why else is he hanging around? it’s over for him and his parasitic family.
You Storey still getting a return ha ha
Looks as if Ames fils is not the only one with an iffy moral compass. Where do they get it from?
@ Silly Post. The due diligence will be made public tomorrow evening. This should focus attention on a number of issues, primarily the absolute inability of Mr. Garreth Fatchett to manage properly the establishment of the trust.
Enough money is being wasted chasing dreams and the time has come to put those true facts out for all to see.
Even dafter post.
How can you do DD without Ames giving you the information?
@ Silly post. All we are doing is making the details of our findings in the different land registry offices in the Caribbean known to all on here. No biggy. Why would we rely on what Mr. Ames says. We will leave that to Fatchett.
Good, so will this be documents or just ‘anon’ post? and why not do it now?
@open letter and your gang of followers, so how did your e mail to the SFO go? I have to go out tomorrow and need to know what time the Essex plod will be here. Of course you did send the e mail didn’t you? Wouldn’t like to think it was a wind up would we? Ha ha lol
@ Silly Post. The information is readily available in the Caribbean.
The information will be available tomorrow evening in the UK.
The legal representatives of the trust would have the documentation available to them tomorrow if they wish.
The information will end all hopes of a trust as currently proposed by Fatchett, it will also demonstrate that he was not the only game in town.
That will be obvious from the documentation
At least we are not doing the RL on this. We will go public with what we have discovered so all investors can see.
Then they can make up their minds. It is that simple.
I am waiting for the SFO and Joe lol ha ha. Mind how the cat goes down there in Waldon in your bungalow. Ha ha
You are all so guilable. Lol ha ha. I never mentioned the SFO in months. Lol ha ha. Mind how you go.
Worried Investor aka Erica. Wouldnt you like to know ha ha lol
That wasnt me. Its gullible illiterate twats. Mind how you go now ha ha lol. Still waiting for the essex police. Tea on the boil. Ha ha
@Anon, just like the old Ralph posts of the past, “the information has been passed to the authorities, all will be revealed soon” only soon never comes does it.
Anon you enjoy renting lol ha ha. You should have got a unit like me ha ha. You could share Paddys caravan ha ha. Still waiting for the police. Hang on who that oh its only my chinese delivery ha ha.
@ Anon and your twat followers. I have to out tomorroow so WHAT TIME ARE THE ESSEX PLOD COMING is JOE COMING or is he in Waldon on Thames with a bucket. Lol ha ha.
You dragged me into this twat. You mentioned Joe H#@#$#@@ ha ha not me. Must be loads of joes twats. How many joes idiot rental acountant twat. Ha ha
Robert Storey sounds like a lonely little man cackling away
in his loo. Just a guy and his i-pad. It may not be the SFO at
his door but more likely men in white coats with big nets.
Does anyone know what the action is in the high court tomorrow against the Ames family. ?
Will the Ames family be present minus Matt of course. ?
I do wonder what Carol must be thinking now ?
I have been told that the authorities will be arresting them soon. Dave Carol Dan & Matt.
Here is hoping.
I have been out all evening so I have not been on. Idiots do you believe everything on here lol ha ha. Twats. Essex plods never left a note anon. Tomorrow ? Im in Waldon at Thames tomorrow looking at rental property. Lol ha ha
Yes, I do fear that Mr Storey is drifting into the realms of the unwell. It has been a slow but perhaps inevitable decline. What an unseemly way for a man of advancing years to behave. And why is everyone a “twat” all of a sudden?
I have not posted today. Its not me.
I too am a victim in this mess. Yes I was receiving a return for some 2 years. I was receiving a return until some on here through jealousy tried to destroy Harlequin.
Dave and Carol Ames have never been convicted of any crime. Matt was set up by the builder and Newman.
I am joining the trust to show my support for Dave and Carol. No one can demonstrate the business model has failed. The Irish case proved that Dave Ames is honest.
The many faces of Bob….and they are all loony!
I must sign more atographs for my fans lol. So Essex plods is it me lol ha ha. Stupid twats ha ha. Idiots
@ Robert Storey Dave Ames is honest. now that is the funniest post I have ever seen on BFP
question for you as you do seem to be the man with the answers….lets just assume that DA/CA etc all get arrested and join Matt behind bars….do you not think you will look a t@@t then after all the posts , or will you blame the Irish builder for setting him up
deffo got a career in comedy
More like theatre of the absurd.
May I interrupt all your sad little bickering and pointless back biting to ask if anyone KNOWS what happened at Matt Ames’ Bail hearing on the 14th? Is he in prison or on bail?
Well I’ve read this forum for a few weeks and my conclusion is as follows
Your scre.ed and I know it you cannot overrule previous cautions …..
@Small Mole
Don’t care he is a criminal like the rest of his family.
Seems to be the calm before the storm. Let’s see what surprises are in store today!!!
Mirror mirror of the wall who is the dodgiest of them all? Dave Ames or Nasty Nik 😉
UCIS my arse!!!!
Win or loose today the trust is dead.
That is one sure outcome of today’s events.
Will Ames turn up?
Let’s hope no one has been killed or injured in the earthquake which rocked Barbados and other Southern Caribbean Islands an hour ago.
Today is not that significant for the trust. It is significant for Dave & Carol.
Today we will see what kind of man fatshit really is. Could it be he hasn’t a clue? The Marathon man might just have hit his wall.
Today will split the troops in the trust. Today will expose a few wee little problems.
Today will be a defining moment.
Tick tock tick tock, today we find out if Fatshit is a cock Tick tock tick tock.
it seems that no damage has occurred. Good job otherwise it will all be DA fault. .
Tick Tock, tick Tock, is that Red Button Girl? Is she one of Craziers 24? Or did she suffer a breakdown having her fingure hovering over the nuclear option for so long?
The RL due diligence hasn’t issued any conclusions as yet. Surely that is the time to judge.
GF will be too busy carb loading for Sunday. With all his pink pounds, he can probably have a caviar and champagne diet !
All,
I read our much maligned due diligence process. We have done plenty of work in the background and understand Harlequin pretty well.
Our results have not been published yet. When they are, please then inform us of any errors, misunderstandings etc.
I speak regularly to most of the parties involved. They appear to be pragmatic. However, it seems to us that because CLC have their application today, Nikki Crozier has been subject to constant attack. For the same reasons CLC bring their application, Harlequin will resist it. The fall out from the application will form part of our due diligence.
Please do not assume any pre determined outcome to our advice. It will be based on the known facts.
I am not bothered about some of the historical issues. They litter this site. What I am bothered about is getting a decent result for investors. We have a trust, redress or a mixture of the two.
Happy to answer sensible questions, but not to anonymous internet posters. My email is gareth.fatchett@regulatorylegal.co.uk and my telephone number is 01384 889911.
Gareth Fatchett
Well said- but you should have said “hysterical”- not “historical”!
Today we will see what sort of man Crozier is, for F**ks sake she looks like one! tick tock
So the stupid 24 not only happy paying ‘he/she’ £7k per month Ames now has the information, he desired.
Listen Fatshit you lazy bastard. You should have known what was going to come out of today’s hearing had you bothered to get off your ass and do something with the money you were given aside from swanning off and to make the body beautiful.
You were not the only game in town. Of course as a result of today your due diligence lets us say will be altered.
And why did you take it upon yourself to respond to what you refer to as anonymous posters.
You are up to your neck in this and you are shitting it.
Oh please anonymous 12.48pm what’s upset you now? run along now have a chat with the 24 stupid ones….
tick tock 😉
Ames knows what’s coming out of the case. Sadly he did not tell that prick Fatshit, and dropped Fatshit in it from a very deep height.
But Fatshit would have known had he not crawled up Ames’s crevice.
See Fatshit was not the only game in town. Nor does Fatshit get it.
The trust cannot go ahead. Fatshit, all will be explained shortly, we then hope as a result that investors come after you too.
Till then go fuck off you lying, scheming, greedy wanker.
You were warned that anyone who has dealings with the toxic toad tends to get burned.
You deserve to be fried you prick.
Something seems to have rattled the nasty Nikki Camp today? Could it be those fees…… for doing what?
You will be told off by Nikki posting on here. I think investors will becoming after you if you carry on you nasty ranting, why you so uptight?
When you fry me make it sunny side up 😉
So who won Dodgy Ames or Dodgy Nikki?
DAve Ames has nothing to fear.
Unlike some who will be fearing 24 or is it 23 calls tonight!
Well posted Gareth Fatchett at 12.23pm.
The language that is used by some posters on BFP is unwarrented and uneducated.
However you are losing the argument!
I’m not at all sure he’s (GF) lost yet! and which argument?
Does anyone know where I can buy some carbon credits?
Try Ames family, they’re going up in smoke
I tried them already but was told that the person I need to speak to has popped out of the office for 7 years. Thanks anyway.
Seven years- is that the MA sentence? or are ya joshing?
It was just a very funny joke.
Gareth Fatchett has on numerous occasions updated us on the trust.
What I find a little odd is his need to come onto BFP to clarify his position. A position which appears to ebb and flow like the tide.
However what is a fact, is that aside from the CLC 20-24 there are others who have taken steps to protect the financial interests of their clients, and I am most surprised by the antagonistic manner in which Mr. Fatchett is dealing with some with respect to the trust.
Indeed it is those same entities through their actions, that have made the trust an unworkable process in its present format, and until those outstanding claims, and again I am not referring to today’s action in the UK High Court, are settled sadly the trust will not be able to proceed.
Mr. Fatchett has no one to blame but himself for this unfortunate train of events. Had he even carried out the most basic of due diligence he would have clearly understood that the trust, as is proposed would not have worked, however it would have allowed him time to negotiate with those who currently hold all the cards in a rather different and possibly less antagonistic manner.
I am not referring to Harlequin or the Ames family either.
The failure of the trust is therefore purely down to the inaction of Mr. Fatchett in understanding the alternate avenues that were available to others, and I apologise if this seems harsh, but the faith Mr. Fatchett has put in the Ames family to provide him with factual and accurate information on their companies, and the apparent absolute arrogance of the man with respect to the notion that he was the only viable alternative to liquidation.
The fact that Mr. Fatchett had to come onto BFP, a site he has ridiculed and derided in the past by stating that the posts on this and other threads were without any factual basis or provenance, is now an indicator of the seriousness to which he is now accords some of the more informative posts on this site.
As has often been stated, these threads are viewed by a far wider audience with varying interests in Harlequin then some on these threads would like us to believe, and Mr. Fatchett’s earlier post is testament to this.
One other point I would like to pick up on, is Mr. Fatchett’s rather benign reference to the provenance and authenticity of the due diligence he is in the process of conducting. He appears in his letter on BFP to welcome analysis of his due diligence once it has been produced. And would be willing to correct any anomalies to his due diligence if his due diligence was proved to be inaccurate.
Given that Mr. Fatchett has claimed that his due diligence will only be made available to paying clients of his, I find it both odd and bordering on farcical that Mr. Fatchett is now suggesting that any one with contradictory information to that due diligence being produced by Mr. Fatchett is welcome to present this to Mr. Fatchett in order for him to reconsider the content of his due diligence pack. Given that Mr. Fatchett has alluded to this due diligence being covered by a type of NDA.
It is becoming more apparent that Mr. Fatchett is attempting to force through his trust proposals regardless.
It must be noted that Mr. Fatchett does not believe that the Serious Fraud Office will proceed with any action against Harlequin or the Ames family. This is however a personal view held by him and to date he has not provided any additional information to add credence to this view.
One has to wonder where Mr Fatchett gets his information from with regards to the SFO??
Re Matthew Ames
The Application to Vary Bail Conditions on 14 Feb was REFUSED and Ames was remanded in custody.
Matthew Ames is scheduled to be sentenced on 14 March. He certainly hasn’t helped himself by pleading not guilty.
Of course the assumption is that the post from RL earlier is actually from RL. The obvious cases of ID jacking which goes on on this thread or indead on BFP in general means nothing can be taken on face value.
Is that really you Bob?
Absolutely correct Robert, I am sure RL will post something very shortly on their site disclaiming the post on BFP if indeed Mr. Fatchett did not post on this thread. We wait news of this. Perhaps you could monitor this for us all.
Thanking you in anticipation.
@ Sid Indead it is Bob.
@ SSMITB Fatchett gets all his info from Ames. Indeed Fatchett seems to assist Ames in many matters.
Heading back in to Court.
Harlequin contesting CLC case. Very interesting who the players in support of Harlequin are.
Further update later.
Indead Sid, it is me.
Robert are you referring to the possibility that your ID gets hijacked. Does this mean that you do not know anything about the witnesses in the SFO case and that you do not know Joe Hopkins?
Robert could it be that you never got a return on your investment, indeed could it be that you do not in fact exist.
Who knows Robert, so agreed it is best we place no credence on anything you may have to say. This removes one of the more colourful, humorous and predominately idiotic contributors ( single plural ) from the discussions.
The Gareth Fatchett post was a fake.
Bob, there are only 3 of use on here.
All did not go according to the CLC plan today. Oh dear sounds expensive.
@ anonymous 4.04pm
I’m sure we would all be interested in a full account of the days proceedings.
Are you Robert Storey. Or Robert Storey ( without the dot). Or is it Gareth Fatchett is a fake ?
I’m sure Gareth will tell us all in good time.
@Once a crim always a crim on February 18, 2014 at 8:17 am
I’d like to know obviously! I’ve put a lot of hard work to see he faces justice, therefore I’d to make sure he is where he should be!!
@ More Fees, Simon Terry tweeting from the court then?
Rees is making his arguments so unless you can read the mind of the judge well why not let the proceedings carry on.
Let’s see what the judge has to say when the argument and counter arguments have been concluded or would you prefer we take REES’s arguments at face value.
Rees is making Masonic gestures to the Masonic judge.
Bro.Dave will get his way.
@anon 4.10 you could of course remove yourself from posting, oh hang on a minute that would be every Anon on here, there would be no body left. And there you go posting the second name of Joe, something that I have never done. Lol tut tut
I Am Bob.
5.20 and all quiet on the Crazier front. Must have gone well then.
Bob you should have said ” there you go again, Joe who? I know no Joe Hopkinson. ”
But you didn’t lol
Deff never heard of a Joe Hopkinson, have you? Lol
No not me either.
Carol can you explain this? lol
http://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/11018294.Fruadster_tried_to__scam__Queen_s_representative_in_Essex/
Well done to Jon Austin, he is not my son.
I have adopted Gareth Fatchett as my son.
Please refer to him as such.
Gararth Ames. 😉
Lol looks like Mattie Boy can’t help himself lol
Like father like son……….
This whole things is going tits up. Trust or no Trust it’s dead.
The Ames family is finished, Harlequin is finished and investors have simply lost their cash.
Nothing more to say, no point paying Crozier anymore money, cut my losses. Fed up with the whole thing.
Tues night and still no sign of Essex plod. This is getting to be an anti climax now. Can Open Letter update me on his e mail. Did he get a reply, was it sent? Was Open Letter just a troll? I think we all know the answer to that one. Mind how you go.
@Anon February 16th 6.44, “I will name names after Tuesdays case” well we are all waiting. Perhaps you can start by trying to remember your own name.
As promised. Dear Mr. Fatchett, with the greatest of respect, we have undertaken an exercise in order to ascertain the true position as it pertains to the land assets held by the various Harlequin entities and the Ames family in the Caribbean.
The exercise was simple in its execution. We engaged a firm of solicitors in each of the respective jurisdictions where Harlequin / Ames claim to have land assets.
Each of the firms contacted the respective land registry offices in each of the jurisdictions.
The following is what transpired. We have summarised the findings and have sent the land registry documents to the relevant authorities.
The total cost of the exercise was less then $10,000 USD inclusive of Vat. Or in simple terms the equivalent to 26 investors contributions to the trust.
All of the resorts owned by Harlequin have cautions attached. Ironically some of those cautions have been attached by Guardian SIPP and Rowanmore. As you your self have pointed out both these companies account for close to 30 % of investors.
Both Guardian SIPP and Rowanmore took these cautions out, not recently, but in many cases prior to your initial engagement on the Harlequin matter.
They have taken this action in order to protect the interests of their clients.
These cautions have the affect of providing an encumbrance on the land assets of the Harlequin entities.
You could call it a trust of sorts.
You have at all times stated and alluded to the fact that you and your company RL were the only option open to investors in lieu of a liquidation of the Harlequin assets.
There is also persuasive evidence that your relationship with Harlequin and the Ames family is conflicted as it pertains to your claims to act on behalf of investors within the Harlequin Group. We will deal with this issue at a later stage and will of course allow you the opportunity to be open and transparent with all investors.
Harlequin and Mr. Ames have on numerous occasions stated that the lands owned by Harlequin / Ames remain unencumbered, we now know this statement was false.
You can now understand given the many cautions on the assets of Harlequin through out the Caribbean that the trust as being proposed by you cannot legally work until such time as these cautions are dealt with.
You however have no authority, financial capability nor mandate from Harlequin to deal with the issue of these many cautions.
As to deal with the cautions, which were obtained by way of affidavits will require Harlequin to settle with the clients who have obtained these numerous cautions. Harlequin can do this in two ways. Pay the clients what they are owed or challenge the validity of the cautions by way of court actions.
You also made a statement that you had seen a letter of intent from a financier but due to an NDA are precluded from sharing details of this financier with us. The finance you state would be predicated on the establishment of the trust.
We find it very difficult to accept this, any reputable financier would have carried out the same exercise we did.
Mr. Fatchett you have now some very serious questions to answer.
But its time to drop the charade. Its time to face up to the reality of the situation. Investors do not want continued updates on how much progress you are making. They now will require unequivocal answers.
RL paying for trust.
Posted by Keith on February 18, 2014 at 19:38 in Investor DiscussionsSend Message View Discussions
Just looking back through all previous correspondonce and came across this extract in the invation snet out to last octobers meetings by David Ames.
The trust documentation is currently being independently prepared, the cost of which is being covered by Regulatory Legal Solicitors, who do not act for Harlequin but for a number of investors. Harlequin has not yet seen the documents but understands that the trust will be based in the UK and will have 5 nominated trustees to represent the interests of its members.
What did he mean independently prepared and RL to pay trust costs, RL must have been aware at the time.
Maybe he was just dreaming again.
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David Ames has known about the cautions for over 18 months now.
It now begs the question of how independent Garreth Fatchett really is. When push comes to shove who will Fatchett protect?
It is time for answers Mr. Fatchett.
Matthew Ames’ Application to Vary Bail Conditions on 14 Feb was REFUSED and Ames was remanded in custody.
Matthew Ames is scheduled to be sentenced on 14 March. He certainly hasn’t helped himself by pleading not guilty.
Anonymous
February 18, 2014 at 7:49 pm
Let me guess you have told the authorities lol post the documents you gob shite.
Completions have taken place on BB today.
See I can make things up too 😉
I have been ‘informed’ by an ‘informant’ that CPC got a bloody nose in court today?
All unhappy in Croziers camp?
Yes we are fucking pissed off.
What happened?
Absolutely SFA, unless you count spending my money again, they made the wrong call – jumped the fucking gun.
Truth be told
Tell me which court and the names of the plaintiffs and defendants. I will look it up and tell you the outcome.
Why is Bob now posting as Worried Investor? The dodgy syntax and poor grammar is a stone cold give away.
Most of us should never have been put in the case, talk about throwing good money after bad. I have very little left and no end in site for the £1000’s I have paid Crozier.
Feel totally fed up with this whole thing.
You have absolutely no idea who I am.
I can, however, at will change my writing style with gay abandon. This is something that demands a certain level of intelligence; does it not?
Nikki Crozier, the wannabe solicitor. Still trying to control the 23 by bullying them? What an awful woman.
What happened today in court with Crozier and Harlequin?
Rather odd I was in the court room today. Both Mr. and Mrs. Ames were conspicuous by their absence. Harlequin were represented by QC Mr. Rees, his junior, Richard Specter of ELS, Dan Abrhams in house solicitor for Harlequin and Simon Taylor VP for Harlequin Hotels and Resorts.
CLC were represented by Mr. Chris Corney, Mr. Knox QC, his junior and a large representation of investors from the claimants.
The start of the case was delayed to 12.00 given an over run of an earlier case.
The case broke up for lunch returning in the afternoon.
At 16.30 the judge ordered both sides to reach a consent order on a number of the issues raised. They are due to return to court tomorrow at 16.00 in order to have consent order perfected.
A number of witness statements supporting the defendants case were produced, only one of Harlequin’s witnesses was in court today. Mr. Spectre. Two other witnesses for Harlequin were not in attendance, they were Mr. Sam Commissiong Lawyer for Harlequin in the Caribbean and Mr. Gareth Fatchett a solicitor with a company called Regulatory Legal from Birmingham.
The claimants witness statement was from Mr. Chris Corney who was in attendance.
To be fair to both parties, I will report on the undertakings made by the defendants once the order has been perfected tomorrow.
It is wrong to state that the claimants received a bloody nose. It is correct to state that the action was hotly contested by both parties.
It is worth noting that Harlequin stated in court that the only reason the company is in the dire financial position it finds itself in, was as a result of the actions of the ICE Group and its principal Mr. O’ Halloran in league with Wilkins Kennedy. Mr. Rees stated that Harlequin through a different chambers was to file a lawsuit for USD $ 50 Million next week in the high court in London against Wilkins Kennedy.
The judge stated that those matters were of no interest to him as they were not related to the particular claim before him.
Last week Harlequin submitted documents to commence an arbitration process against Wilkins Kennedy. We do not know whether the offer of arbitration was rejected by Wilkins Kennedy.
The claimants in that case are Harlequin Propert SVG and Harlequin Caribbean Ltd.
Mr Rees representing the defendants was grilled on the quality of the evidence provided by the defendants. The defendants and claimants were asked by the judge to sit together to agree a consent order pending the outstanding evidence being provided by the defence. The order is to be perfected tomorrow at 16.00. The case was then adjourned for two weeks by which time the defendants will have had to comply with the terms of the consent order.No order as to costs has yet been given in today’s applications
I think that fairly sums up the proceedings today.
In the court. Thank you for the summary. I look forward to hearing the contents of the court order tomorrow. Again thank you for keeping us updated.
I have one question however, surely you meant that Gareth Fatchet was a witness for the investors and not Ames. It would be horrific to think that Mr. Fatchet would be supporting Mr. Ames against fellow investors, I am sure Mr. Fatchet would not wish to be reported as having worked on the side of Mr. Ames.
But aside from that little mistake ???? Again thank you for the summary.
Ha, ha Bob you imbecile – using a semicolon (incorrectly) doesn’t disguise anything you old fool.
Anonymous
February 18, 2014 at 9:51 pm
Sorry you are wrong.
Thank you, and In Court.
The same people, Nikki you are looking silly now LOL
Getting worried aye?
What was today’s case about, in English please.
@ Thank you. You are most welcome.
However Mr. Gareth Fatchett was most definitely a witness for Mr. and Mrs. Ames.
To those who are claiming some sort of loss for CLC on the contrary. Mr. Rees was heavily criticised in court by the judge for not providing evidence as previously ordered by the court. The consent order will have the consequence that accounting and valuations for all 43 Harlequin companies will have to be presented to the court within 14 days. Or the Ames family will face serious sanctions.
And could potentially have their defence struck out.
As I repeated earlier I will be in court again tomorrow and will post the details of the court order.
I think one person who is going to come out of this with more than a bloody nose is Fatchett.
In bed with Ames eh? Well I never……….
However Mr. Gareth Fatchett was most definitely a witness for Mr. and Mrs. Ames. G F please clarify, several refs to this above
Fatchett takes money from investors for valuations. He says they are for investors. Gives the copies to Ames. Ames uses them in court against CLC. Fatchett works for Ames. But heh you guys carry on believing the bull from Fatchett. I would not trust him as far as I would throw him. He could not care less about investors.
Yes Please Gareth. Why were you a witness for Harlequin of all people. Sorry worse for the Ames’s. And why did you not know about the cautions????? Fancy that Guardian and Rowanmore moved a year ago to protect their investor money and you see fit to attack them. How much is Ames paying you Gareth.Guardian clients did not have to undertake not to sue Ames to get cautions. So why are you attacking investors who go down a different route.
Fourteen days to come up with accounting for years and years
of obfuscation. Really I don’t understand how Harlequin can do it.
Looks to me like CLC just may be holding the upper hand.
Bad move bringing Fatchett into the fight for the Ames. Same guy who wants people to give up all rights to sue Ames. Not only smells but stinks.
Cant wait for the update. Can just see it now. Im doing whats best for investors. The cautions are historical. Im going to sue Guardian. They will toe the line. Everything moving forward as planned. We supported Ames for a good reason but we cant tell you yet because it is part of the plan.
This all could be the work of someone who ripped off customers in Spain, oops sorry it wasn’t me.
My sister.2.5 million
http://www.spanishpropertyinsight.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6917
Come on Nikki I know it’s you
When did you change your name Audrey?
Did you ever work with your ‘dead’ sister 😉
http://www.theleader.info/26/article/2850/oasis-update/
Come on come clean Nikki
Want me to carry on…..
http://www.granalacantplaza.eu/forum/showthread.php?853-AUDREY-DIXON-OASIS/page2
Crozier was not in court, she won’t chance a photograph – I wonder why?
Keep your shit coming ……it’s funnier by the minute ….
How did the case go against Harlequin Liz ?? No news posted yet, so I take it you were blown out of the water. I did warn you to stay away. People need to be made aware who is really behind your company. The biggest fraudster in Spain who conned millions from expats for properties they never got. None other than Audrey Dixon, now known as Elizabeth Crozier or Elizabeth Dixon as I am aware. If you wish to deal with CPC Worldwide, check out Audrey Dixon on Google first and you will find a lot out from other victims she worked her magic on. BEWARE !!! You will be her next victim !!!
Just going through my notes. Mr. Rees did bring to the attention of the court that Mr. Commissiong a barrister and lawyer for Harlequin in the Caribbean and who is a witness for Harlequin in the CLC case and was a witness for Harlequin in the Irish case got his evidence wrong in Ireland.
Must be great getting money for a case when you know your clients will run out of money.
SLA claim coming.
Where did Crozier work before? Just askin……
Nikki stop posting Chris will tell you off 😉
Bet he tells you what to say LOL.
Well going by the reaction of the pro Harlequin lobby tonight it looks like CLC won.
Sad to think that Ames and Co believe attacks on individuals will divert attention away from the facts.
@same person
You have no knowledge of what you speak. , you speak rubbish and crap and all of it lies .
But then again harlequin is built on lies
Did you get the names correct on the court documentation today
#makesachange.
One trick pony crozier
There must be a full moon in England tonight. The lunatics
are all howling at each other…
Botox bitch….. I got the documents on you……
A court case was held today and now rather then any cohesive or rational views from those pro Ames we get the usual rubbish.
But they apparently dont just come up with rubbish on here. They seem to have no issue with lying in a court. Any investor who believes that they will recover any losses should start thinking straight. The Ames family are nothing but cheats, thieves and cowards.
In today’s court Mr. Rees pointed out to the court that Mr. and Mrs. Ames faced slanderous comments on a daily basis.
Great we have an obviously bent lawyer looking to drag us all into a trust where we cant sue Ames and share a pond. That is if it has no caution. And it has cost us another £250 Fantastic.
To those people who think I have been posting on here tonight, you are wrong. Ive been down the pub. So get a life.
@ in court… just to confirm, HP etc will have to provide accounts for all of the HP companies within fourteen days….and what is the potential result and penalties if they don’t. Do the accounts need to be verified/cerified in any way by a registered body (if so that could be interesting to predict the documents produced)
surely Ames is in trouble for not producing a set of accounts for companies house etc for all these years…if he does produce some form of accounts surely the CLC QC will rip into why have these only just been presented and why were they not submitted to CH…I put it to you that these have been fabricated in the previous fourteen days…..oh fecking dear CLC just hit check mate game over button
I wouldn’t worry too much about waiving your right to sue Ames. It doesn’t seem to work even if you do get him into court and have an obvious breached contract and are only asking for a refund as per your contractual rights! How can this not be an open and close case? What possible defense can Ames have? It just sounds like another nonsense to me, but heh, what did we expect? The circus continues.
@Anon, I’m sure there will be a strategy to appeal for more time to drag the case out until the money runs out.
Anonymous we will know the full terms of the order once it has been signed off by the judge tomorrow.
The court order should contain the sanctions etc.
We should have all the details about 16.30.
@ Sid These are currently just procedural issues so appeals do not come into play at this point. The court order will stipulate what ever sanctions will be enforced. It will be then up to the judges discretion to enforce the sanctions of the order should the order not be complied with.
Produce my statement word for word. It simply says a trust is being worked on. Nothing more.
That is factually correct.
This cannot be true that Fatchett was a witness for Ames. If so, this is a massive conflict – he has been trying to get investors not to sue someone who all evidence would suggest defrauded them, and then acts as witness in the alleged fraudster’s defence. Whilst wanting to protect investors. This would be career ending for him, so would need concrete evidence of this before rushing to judge.There would be no way back for him if it were true.
Very sensible words anon.
Yes it might appear to be an open and shut case, but it needs at least some cooperation from both parties. In the Ames case, CLC have now made 6 attempts to get from the Amses a full and frank disclosure of their personal assets, to date this has not been forthcoming.
You would assume that for example lawyers would play an honest game as officers of the court, but we then see the revelation today by Mr. Rees the Ames’s barrister that evidence provided by Mr. Commissiong a barrister and solicitor for Harlequin in the Irish case was wrong.
In other words he lied in Ireland on oath. Barristers and Lawyers who are witnesses don’t normally risk their professional reputations by getting something wrong. Do you believe Harlequin will bring this mistake to the attention of the Irish Court, of course not.
It can be a long and laborious process, however this is not to say that it’s just not worth pursuing.
Another interesting facet of the current case is that at the onset of the proceedings the level of damages and costs to be paid by the claimants in the event that they lost was capped. The Ames’s made an application today to have that cap increased. This was not forthcoming. So from the outset the claimants are fully aware of their exposure with relevance to damages and costs should they loose. If memory serves me correctly as I do not have my notes of today’s proceedings on me, I think the cap figure was £70,000.00 or about £3000 per claimant.
Sadly many on this site would like you and others to believe that the cost of this action is prohibitive but in reality given that it is a class action and in this case with a cap the costs are greatly reduced.
There are additional costs in the region of £15,000-£20,000 per month in legal fees, case preparation and court appearances, but spread across 20-24 claimants again the cost burden is greatly reduced.
You will have seen figures quoted on this site and statements along the lines of Ames will bankrupt you if you loose the case, given the Cap in this case they are just scaremongering tactics.
Stuff of fantasy. No doubt this post will be savaged in the morning but I would suggest that anyone with an interest should try and get to the next hearing in the CLC case in 14 days. It is quite revealing.
The Ames strategy is to try and drive the costs of the case through the roof through legal delaying tactics. This is a common strategy used in cases where one side may feel their case is weak for whatever reason. In doing this the weaker side hopes to win by default by driving the other side out of money prior to the end of the case. The Ames unfortunately use this tactic using investor funds to fight litigation with those same investors.
This strategy whilst morally repulsive to some is not illegal.
In the current case against the Ames given the cap, the strategy above is not as important and is far less of a concern to the claimants. Ironically the Ames are claiming in this case that the strategy outlined above is being utilised by the claimants. The Ames have proffered an argument that it is the claimants who are dragging out the case in order to force the Ames to a settlement position by default.
This goes against the arguments being proffered by some on this site. But that is propaganda for you.
Gareth Fatchett proffered a witness statement in support of the Ames in the UK high court today. The witness statement was with respect to the establishment of the trust.
Whichever way you look at it, it was a witness statement in support of the Ames defence against investors.
Given that the trust has not yet been established and technically there should be no guarantee that the trust will proceed until the due diligence process has been completed I fail to understand why someone would feel compelled to enter a witness statement in support of the defendants when they themselves are technically in dispute with the same defendants and professing to represent thousands of investors in a similar situation to the claimants in this case.
Regardless of the content a witness statement is a witness statement, and witness statements are designed to buttress the arguments of a particular side.
I’m sorry but I personally do not accept that a person in Mr. Fatchett’s position should have entertained such a request not to mind acceded to it. It does seriously question his impartiality and independence.
One wonders what other information Mr. Fatchett is passing to the Ames.
These are my personal thoughts on this issue.
@ regulatory legal solicitors 12.41 am.
I think you are missing the point. You submitted a witness statement as a solicitor in support of the Ames defence of the action by investors.
It actually makes little difference what the content of the witness statement was.
But let’s take your argument.
By your own words, you are not in a position to state whether the trust will proceed or not. You have been at pains to point out it is dependant on the results of the due diligence.
But as an officer of the court you would be fully aware that a witness statement from a solicitor for a defendant in itself holds some sway with a judge.
In doing what you have done your independence has most definitely been compromised.
Wow. So Gareth has joined Harlequin too. Is there no end to the crookedness of all this?
Spot on.
I gave my statement as I felt it appropriate that the court was aware of the current trust process. Are you suggesting that it should not have been mentioned ? Who would that suit ?
It is in my clients interests for the courts to know. I do not act for the CPC clients. I owe them no duty whatsoever.
They run their own case.
You claim to have two thousand clients, did your clients instruct you to submit a witness statement on behalf of Mr and Mrs Ames?
Did you not pull a similar stunt a few months ago when you stated on your website that you were going to assist Ames in his case against Wilkins Kennedy? Admittedly you backed down from that particular stance a few days later.
Sorry Gareth your independence on the issue is compromised.
Bullshit Gareth absolute Bullshit. You by your own words previously don”t even have a mandate. Did you even discuss or alert your “clients” to the fact you were issuing a witness statement? And what about the cautions? How does that affect your trust? Spot on. Very professional of you.
Disgusting. Absolutely disgusting. Its a disgrace. You took our money. You had no permission from me to go to Ames. I paid you 250. So I am a client.
In what way was Commissiong’s evidence wrong? Did he lie or “mis-speak”?
Because in the Irish case he claimed Dave Ames owned part of Buccama bay in his personal name , and for yesterday’s hearing he claimed it was all owned by harlequin companies…. It was a confusion
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GF is in Tokyo, so he certainly was not in London.
GF provided a statement to the court confirming that an investor trust is being worked on. GF took the view that the court should be aware of the large number of investors seeking to protect their interests.
The meat of the case relates to whether David / Carol Ames complied with their disclosure requirements relating to earlier orders. GF made no comment in relation to this as both he and RL have not part in this action.
I am posting this link again as it got lost in yesterday’s ‘discussions’.
South Essex fraudster tried to “scam” Queen’s representative in Essex.
http://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/11018294.Fraudster_tried_to__scam__Queen_s_representative_in_Essex/
What I find odd is why Crozier is a prolific user of this blog and deems it correct to discuss fees etc.
I certainly would be unhappy at cira £1000 per month for court costs, plus security of costs, and no end in sight – how much have you paid so far?
It’s a fact most of the clients should NEVER have been ‘sold’ into the case.
SLA claims anyone?
Dave has the right idea, run them into the ground – they can’t afford it.
Let’s just assume Ames does a deal with Crozier, what 20-30 % maximum, less your ‘fees’ – you still get naff all.
If Ames wins, well you are into some totally serious numbers.
Good money after bad…….. Unless you are the Queen of botox.
Question time.
Work out what you have paid Crozier to date.
What you ‘may’ pay her
What you ‘may’ get in return
Verses what you invested.
Still look like a good deal?
This latest exercise is just to generate more fees and you fell for it.
She has no other income apart from you lot.
How much did yesterdays bloody nose cost your clients Nikki?
There is an incredible stench of fear emanating from the anti CLC/CPC poster(s). I’ve only recently come across this site and had heard about Harlequin but otherwise have no vested interest for or against but I just could not help feeling the terror in his/her/their post(s). I assume the poster(s) can’t be investors otherwise why the fear so what is Harlequin so scared of in this court action? Anyone know?
Nikki – if you did well, please tell us what orders you obtained.
I know the answer. Let’s see whether you tell the truth.
Anonymous
February 19, 2014 at 9:28 am
All there is to fear is fees and fees……… How much were the cost’s for a day in court? Plus the prep………….oh dear.
I am saddened that people are attacking NC. She made the application in good faith. Spent some money and her schedule of costs would have made Ames cough.
She has not obtained an order. No wonder she seeks to blame GF. GF simply gave a statement saying trust process in play.
Very very odd. Particularly as neither NC or GF act for Ames.
Nikki didn’t get an order. Not one. Spent 30k approx..
24 Muppets pay that.
Croziers cock up?
Or Daves defense?
She was really really angry last night. Bet Chris could not get his pecker up.
Not me! That will teach you for calling me freebie Erica
LOL 😉
Did you get the names right this time #makesachange
@24 lose more money – Nkki wins
You can add about £20k to that after today, Croziers cut £5k for two day’s work plus costs.
What yesterday does prove is that Ames will go to great lengths to keep investors money rather than do the honourable and legitimate thing and pay back what he owes under contract. I don’t think this aggressive stance will do him any favours with the SFO if/when the time comes.
Well said Sid.
I agree Sid.
If he has no money left what can he do? I firmly believe Harlequin and Ames are finished.
Why don’t CLC just get a grip and sell his assets if the case is sooooooo tight?
Why are some of you so impassioned by the costs of this action? I can’t really see why it’s any of your business. Some individuals have chosen to deal with things in a certain way as is their right in the circumstances. The information from “In Court” above, which seems very credible, has nixed the idea that the potential fallout is a bottomless pit. It’s been dealt with.
I’m struggling to understand why, if it’s not your money, you’d care so much. They’ve obviously made their own decisions — oafishly opining “wrong choice” smacks of a strange desperation; “if I say it enough, it might eventually be true — or people might not bother to actually engage with this more than the facile level at which I do.”
As usual in this case, any individual who puts themselves up against Harlequin and actually attempts to assert what they consider to be their rights, is subject to a barrage of ill-informed, repetitive, ad hominem attacks. Have you got any idea how reprehensible that makes the company, and its supporters, look to the outside world?
GF states he has no duty to CLC investors. But he has a duty to Dave Ames? All he does seeks to protect him. He may say this is in the interests of his investors. Nonsense, he should be telling Ames to hand over everything or all of his clients are going to sue him and ensure he goes to jail for life – that is what a lawyer should be doing, fighting for his client against the bad guys. Ames defrauded GF’s clients, it is clear as day. This whole protecting and playing nice with Dave Ames makes no sense, and is utterly distasteful. Now he has sent in a statement on the side of Ames really does show which side his bread is buttered and frankly is shocking. He would have lost my trust 100% and I expect most right thinking clients will think the same. I would be complaining to the bar association if he had no mandate to issue a statement for Ames’s benefit, total conflict.
Its not we are obsessed with costs its just that the old trout Crozier, a convicted fraudster, who uses aliases, who bleeds 20% of the fees that are paid away to her, has been gobbing off along with her followers taking a selfish route that will damage the majority and the success of the trust has failed and will have cost her disciples another £50k!
Its bad enough being ripped by Ames now they are being led a merry dance by Crozier!
Its all too funny
“Matthew Ames found guilty and remanded in custody
February 18, 2014 at 8:31 pm
Matthew Ames’ Application to Vary Bail Conditions on 14 Feb was REFUSED and Ames was remanded in custody.
Matthew Ames is scheduled to be sentenced on 14 March. He certainly hasn’t helped himself by pleading not guilty”
Matthew Ames’ application to ‘Vary’ Bail Conditions ‘may’ have been refused but I can categorically confirm Fat Matt IS out on Bail until his sentencing on the 14th March. His passport has been confiscated and is banned form travelling under his Bail conditions.
@Anon 10:55, “that is what a lawyer should be doing, fighting for his client against the bad guys”….spot on (to quote the man himself).
why is MA out on bail…having been found guilty for a serious crime on two counts, and the sentence is a prison term, then they are not usually given bail??
Old fish lips pockets another £50k. Poor clients between a rock and a hard place, pay for more legals or walk away.
Some of them will have pay almost as much as their investment at the rate.
may be of interest to investors. redress option is not cut and dried and would be complicated even further if the sfo took action against harlequin
Claims in relation to investments in Arck LLP
17th February 2014
Since our previous update, the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) announced that two former partners of Arck LLP, Kathryn Joy Clark and Richard Aston Clay, have been charged with fraud and forgery offences by the SFO and Nottinghamshire Police. The trial is due to take place in January 2015.
Due to the ongoing criminal proceedings, FSCS is not able to reach a view on the liability of the independent financial advisers (IFAs) against which we have received claims at this time. In particular, FSCS is not able to confirm whether any losses incurred by investors were caused by the advice they received from their IFA to invest in Arck LLP. However, we will continue to monitor the situation and will provide further information as soon as we are in a position to do so. We regret the continuing uncertainty, but unfortunately we cannot finalise our position at this time.
In addition, as explained in our update of 22 August 2013, we have been considering the liability of HD Administrators LLP in relation to those investments in Arck LLP which were held in the HD SIPP. Our investigations in respect of these claims are ongoing.
FSCS will provide further updates regarding claims relating to Arck LLP and HD Administrators LLP as soon as we can provide more information.
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Jargon Buster
Most clients would think it odd that if I did not give a statement.
Otherwise, based on the application I have seen, 24 people would have frozen the Buccament Bay land.
24 CLC clients get what 2000+ clients want. No way would I stand by and let that happen to my clients.
Only really dumb people would think a civil suit could get a person a life sentence.
Lack of understanding …
Nikki,
What order did you get ?
Er…..
So why doesn’t Harlequin give the 24 their money back. Problem solved, and the rest can get on with the trust ??
Did you see a older version of this woman in court?
https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&docid=6lTm49AczGkRwM&tbnid=vYM5w9e3tOjmHM:&ved=0CAUQjRw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymail.co.uk%2Ftvshowbiz%2Farticle-1036375%2FPictured-Struggling-step-way—agony-Leslie-Ash.html&ei=LK0EU6rqI6aa0QWsyIHgDg&bvm=bv.61535280,d.ZGU&psig=AFQjCNGT_3w8FhKe7EdS6Icfqtox_ozS2A&ust=1392901803113091
Because they don’t have it to give.
@scabby – who said anything about a civil case? 2000 investors filing complaints and action relating to the crime of fraud would be fairly compelling and something Ames may wish to avoid. I suspect it is coming to him anyway as you just cannot get away with fraud on that scale, but think others who are seen to support/protect this would consider this alternative.
Anonymous
February 19, 2014 at 1:17 pm
The SFO won’t get me me dosh back, asked em.
They said Crozier will scam me a bit more and achieve nothing.
Dave, a dedication to you
“Gareth Fatchett – Regulatory Legal Solicitors
February 19, 2014 at 1:00 pm
Most clients would think it odd that if I did not give a statement.
Otherwise, based on the application I have seen, 24 people would have frozen the Buccament Bay land.
24 CLC clients get what 2000+ clients want. No way would I stand by and let that happen to my clients.
”
That comes across as a deliberate ‘spoiler’ tactic to derail the oppositions case. RL don’t want anyone else jumping the queue when they have their own ‘solution’ to promote. Nothing to do with justice, just commercial considerations. Harlequin seems to be so toxic that it corrupts all who come into contact.
Them F***cking Masons, Ames was instructed to sacrifice Matt for an easy ride yesterday. What more proof do you need? wake up.
BBaywatch
what about masonic corruption? its a fact
Anon
February 19, 2014 at 11:16 am
You are right he is out on bail. Even the court office doesn’t know its left hand from its right and gave out conflicting information. Jeez.
So was was crozier upto exackly, buccament bay? thats plain crazy
Daddy made a few calls, all for show.
Corney / Crozier you have had my f***cking money, get the f***cking results, you wont get another penny out of us – from now on.
As bad as Ames, sold a dream deliver fuck all
How’s the weather in SVG today looks like storm clouds are gathering “…………………..
I don’t think anyone who invested in this is in a position to call anyone else stupid. To invest was stupidity beyond compare, and stupidity comes at a cost. GF being involved with Ames is a path he has chosen for investors. It would have made more sense to be more aggressive with Ames to back him into a corner so he had to make available all assets and accounts to the group being put together by RL. I accept though that this is just an opinion which may not be correct. What is more than opinion is that recovery of any money is only going to come from selling off of assets or redress claims. The business is not going to create new wealth or increased value over what is there now, to believe otherwise is continued stupidity. To get more value would require massive investment in product and marketing which is not going to happen in current circumstances. Those with cautions will get paid first, many have been saying for a couple of years now that getting cautions is the first thing investors should be doing, and many have been doing so for a while. It is extremely cheap to do this, but you get yourself in the line for recovery of monies. A contract has been breached, you have rights under contract, and ultimately you can force asset sale to recover funds.
‘A contract has been breached, you have rights under contract, and ultimately you can force asset sale to recover funds.’
Absolutely right but you have to be able to get your hands on those assets.
In this case they seems to have been frittered away [or did I mean hidden away] some time ago?
Unbelievable
What a soap opera….. Cant believe that so much energy is being spent on this trust that has no value whatsoever until Ames puts all his assets into it.. The longer this drags on the worse it will be for investors. At the end of the day nothing will be left but broken dreams. Can anyone explain if there is any benefits whatsoever with the potential trust. I can only see more headache and more losses for investors.
Give it up and let a liquidator sort out the mess
There are still assets – Blu is there, land is there. They do all have cautions on them for the very reasons outlined above. You need some balls, a good lawyer and money to force that liquidation. Or, you would do it with a number of others to reduce cost. Obviously, RL have put those investors together to form a trust to get control of the assets that way. It is not what I would have done, and not what most local lawyers would have advised for recovery of their client’s deposit. To try to work with the very people who put you in this mess is just plain wrong on many levels, including practical ones, as is being borne out.
Hmmm..
I was talking about personal assets of the Ames family.
Dave & Carol (she’s a director) Ames and Daniel (he’s the other director) Ames live in very nice houses don’t they?
Now why hasn’t David Ames been a director of any of the HP companies? Just go look in the Companies House files.
In my experience, for investors to go after those personal assets you have to show intent to defraud. Often this is difficult. In this case however, it does not seem difficult to show intent to mislead or defraud due to the massive amount of documented lies and inaccuracies in so many of his communication both written and recorded, and the lack of any kind of obligatory reporting due, and of course as they were selling properties on land not owned or where there was planning permission. It would very easily be proven that Ames was de facto in control, even if not a director, of all things Harlequin – he is recorded telling people he owns Harlequin, he launched the resorts, launched the sales programs, sales training, is the one that meets the ministers etc etc. Going after the land assets is a straightforward process, and I suspect also would be more than possible to go after personal assets. Still need those balls, money and a decent lawyer. You had the first two when the investor group was formed – the decent lawyer part I don’t think you have, but proof will be in the ultimate results and I could be wrong.
Hotel Blu in St. Lucia has been mentioned. Harlequin own this hotel???? Ames owns this Hotel???????
If RL and Gareth Fatchet had done some proper due diligence they would have discovered that title was not vested with any Harlequin entity or with the Ames family.
Has anyone, apart from maybe the inner core of Harlequinistors, not bitterly regretted the day they ever met a member of the Ames family? Which individual or organisation has not been utterly trashed by association with them?
It’s like an anti-Midas effect. Everything they touch turns to shit.
It is very likely blu is owned by a company owned by people Ames is in cahoots with, such as soraya skeete, but easily linked ultimately. Paid for by investor money of course.
How odd this blog is full of piss and vinegar, the RL blog is perfectly calm 😉 Could there have been bad news and bloody noes all round in the Trout Pout camp? tick tock……
Erica, go and fuck yourself, fat bitch
Were there ever any investors in Hotel Blu? Or was it just bought with investors money? – typical of the absurd business model which the Ames’ have pursued. As all of the ‘noise’ on here seems to be coming from RL/Harlequin ‘supporters’ I would assume that it is they who are in trouble, as you can usually guarantee that when HP supporters squeal they, like all pigs, are in the sh..
David Ames owns very little (probably not even his flashy house on Brock Hill)
He owes a lot though.
@ Sinister Dexter
Good because he will lose the lot.
BBaywatch
IFA and HP’s staff have been singing away for ages no doubt
Were there any Harlequin investors involved in the H Barbados?
It’s still a derelict eyesore and such a bad image for tourism in Barbados.
SD – A good reason why the authorities in Barbados should take a
hard look at David Campion. He knows EXACTLY who owns H-Hotel.
I think tourism in Barbados has more to worry about than a unfinished hotel.
stop robbing, raping and shooting tourists, would be a good place to start.
Add to that, R. Storey, ignoring fraudulent land schemes…
The irony is that if the H Hotel project had been run by someone who knew what they were doing (and to a sensible plan) it would probably have turned a profit. As it is it’s just another part of the whole delusional mess that Ames created. Trust/rescue plan – call it what you will, it is no more than rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. No amount of late stage fiddling and fudging will save what was fatally flawed from the very beginning.
Isn’t the fact that Ames family took over £4mil in dividends (much more in total) fraud? A company can only pay dividends out of profits. To best of my knowledge Harlequin never ever made a real profit. They just took in more of investors money than they spent!
Don’t bring me into these exchanges. Oh I see Anon you thought the post above was me. You muppet.
No Robert – you are the muppet. So much so that you couldn’t
even keep your identity secured. Personally I don’t care who posts
as Robert Storey. Each and every one of them are idiots.
@Robert Storey February 19, 2014 at 5:18 pm
‘stop robbing, raping and shooting tourists, would be a good place to start.’
Please can you expand on that statement Robert Storey?
Isn’t the fact that Ames family took over £4mil in dividends (much more in total) fraud? A company can only pay dividends out of profits. To best of my knowledge Harlequin never ever made a real profit. They just took in more of investors money than they spent!
Crooked Brits caught in Barbados falsely claiming armed robbery at their Sandy Lane Villa..Hope they brought a supply of vasaline! The robbery made news in many UK newspapers,no doubt causing alarm and worry amongst travelers and investors…their arrest and conviction however, has not been reported in the UK.Good job Royal Barbados Police Force.
http://www.nationnews.com/articles/view/british-couple-sentenced/
Yatink – Crikey!…what a cringe-worthy looking pair of losers.
@sinister Dexter, I will be surprised if the ” Robert Storey” of 5.18 tries to explain anything.
@ Anon 5.54. Obviously the concept of ID hijacking doesn’t cause your one brain cell any difficulty.
You have to admit, though, they do look like they would have $34million in jewellery, so maybe their storey is not that false…rolmfao
Should have read the Matt Ames book of scams first….oh you did….ahh that’s where you went wrong its the Dave & Carol Ames book of scams….I do hear that GF is releasing an updated version….how to be a solicitor and scam people
@ Rolling over etc…I don’t think the crown jewels would help
those perps…
Apologies for the delay in the update.
Both parties have apparently agreed the terms of the consent order. The order needed Mr. Ames input as it is a consent order. Mr. Ames unfortunately was called away on urgent business in the US and could not be contacted, therefore the judge adjourned the case for 7 days to allow the consent order to be perfected. The parties are due back in Court next Wednesday to have the order signed off.
There was no objection by the claimants to the 7 day adjournment.
Of course there was no objection, the clock is ticking and the Crazier till is filling up nicely. In the legal profession time = money.
That urgent he told everyone at last weeks meeting all about it. Lol
Apparently Gareth Fatchet has been keeping some very important facts from investors. Mr. Fatchet’s plan for the trust was basically scuppered by the PM of St. Vincent, hence the need to have the trust established under UK law. Mr. Fatchet has also refused to inform investors of the 20 + Judgements obtained against Harlequin in St Vincent and the applications now to enforce these judgements.
Such is the anger towards Harlequin that there is to be the equivalent of a full parliamentary debate in St. Vincent on the issue next week.
Issues to be covered include Matt Ames and his involvement in Harlequin. The current litigation, judgements, cautions, tax owing, outstanding creditor payments, etc etc.
Anon:7:53 – Other than i-witness-news-svg it does not seem that
there is any investigative reporting allowed in SVG. The Peter Binose
postings on BFP and Caribbean News Now are invaluable to filter
through the agitprop of the Gonsalves regime. Should there be an
honest and open debate in the SVG parliament I would think that
things vis-a-vis Buccament is in sight. Surely Gonsalves must
realize what an albatross David Ames is.
Clarification it is the opposition in St. Vincent who are pushing all the buttons on this one.
I should hardly think it would be Gonsalves. He’s up to his neck in
it. Too bad that there isn’t a young feckless lawyer on SVG who
wants to go for the “big kahune”. All the islands are governed by
“leaders” who are still in the late 1980’s/90’s. One reason why
their economies are stagnant.
If anyone is in any doubt that Fat Matt Ames, the convicted fraudster, has been involved with Harlequin Property recently, just check out this picture he tweeted in October 2013, of himself and X Factor Star Stacey Solomon, at what looks like, the Harlequin Offices.
I’m guessing you’re not smiling now Matty boy!!
Please change “feckless” to “fire-brand” Man oh man was I way off.
No point in getting Fatchet to do anything he is firmly in bed with Ames.
Question: Now that Fatchett has seemed to go over to the dark side
would it be possible for the “pink slippers” to sue him and RL for
legal malfeasance?
Matt was looking very comfortable in the meeting room of the Harlequin offices in Basildon in October 2013. What must Andy Townsend Ames’s conduit to ITV be thinking ?
And what was Matt doing.
I find the recent failure of CLC / Crozier and the level of attack on Gareth Fatchett amusing, they are no doubt related.
Basically, the 20 something clients have now decided they have been led a merry (albeit) expensive dance.
How much have you paid for yesterday’s farcical performance? Will you get a refund? 😉
How much longer will you continue to pay? How much? £10k, £20k? when is enough, enough?
At some point you have to get out, before you just can’t pay anymore.
Set a date or cash figure, then do it.
Several of us are very, very pissed off with the whole thing, cost an bloody fortune, sadly no end in side.
CPC just want more and more money, I feel well and truly ‘hooked’ don’t know what to do.
£240 for the Trust, sounds like a bargain!
Oh my poor Dear.
Come over to the RL blog, no need to hide behind a silly name. It’s so calm and relaxing nobody bossing you about. 🙂
You even get to have a nice chat, ask questions, get answers.
Even Bob FDRM is playing nice…. most of the time.
You are even allowed to visit other blogs, and the best bit, shhhhhhh it’s free, yes free.
The nice solicitors won’t even charge you if you don’t get your money back.
All unhappy in CLC land?
Come over too for a nice little chat.
Ran out of cash? tut tut.
Gareth have you told your chums in the BBC about your witness statement ? Now why would you even be talking to the BBC in the last few weeks ?
Does Dave know you have been talking again to the BBC ?
@Miss Marple, one serious flaw in your post of 9.30. Care to guess what it is?
I am not sure why posters are stating that CLC lost their case. This is simply not true. Mr. Peter Knox QC and Mr. Heflin Rees were told by the judge to agree the terms of a consent order. The terms were agreed but Mr. Rees QC pointed out to the judge that he was unable to confer with his client Mr. Ames on the issue of costs to be paid by his client and to be lodged with the court. The judge has simply adjourned the matter for 7 days by which time he expects Mr. Heflin Rees QC to have located Mr. Ames. It was pointed out to the judge that Mr. Ames was on urgent business in the US and was uncontactable. If Mr. Ames cannot be contacted within the next 7 days the judge will make the order.
This is exactly what happened in the High Court Queens Bench Division today.
When oh when will the SFO and Essex Police finally move on Ames.
Yes day 3 and no sign of Essex plod. I am beginning to believe that Open Letter,s post was just bullshit. What took me so long to realise this. Lol
In Court – Exactly what is a consent form and in this case what
would it contain. ps- Thank you for keeping and update.
1. Secret Ledger @secret_ledger 23h
@TimBushLondon This is what I mean about accountants: no-one ever blows the whistle.
@secret_ledger Spot on. Accountants could not blow the whistle even if you put one in their mouth and hit them in the goolies.
1. Jeremy Newman @jwgn 2h
@TimBushLondon @secret_ledger Ahem. I did. I’d not recommend it. Professional suicide
1. Secret Ledger @secret_ledger 2h
2. @jwgn @timbushlondon … agree that you were anonymous and I respect that.
3. Jeremy Newman @jwgn 2h
@secret_ledger @timbushlondon Not that anonymous – I was sued for libel
You certainly did thats for sure! OOPS
A consent order is an agreement made between both parties.
CLC were looking for everything including the kitchen sink.
ELS were looking to give nothing and contest everything.
The analogy;
CLC were happy just to take the kitchen sink for now.
ELS were happy that much of the commercially sensitive material pertaining to Harlequin would not be aired in public.
Anon —Oh Crap!, and I thought that we were at last getting somewhere.
But why should any commercial material pertaining to Harlequin
NOT be aired in public? Sensitive or otherwise.
the accounts for HPSSE or whatever should have been posted at co house but I don’t think they were…that offence would merit an order banning being a director…but ames seems to have, foe now, got away with it….sure once the house starts to fall it will fall ahrd
Dear Nikki,
I am sorry for not allowing your 24 clients to nip ahead of my group. I had to provide a statement as I wanted to make sure the court knew the situation.
I do know about the cautions etc. It will be all be published in our due diligence report. We only issued the last batch of Terms of Business last week. Therefore, we have only been working on this since then.
We seek a collegiate way of working with all parties. Having a war achieves nothing as you have just found out.
If that means you want to post under “anonymous” continually, then that is a matter for you. I am disappointed on a personal level as we have shared ideas /information etc over the last year.
Gareth
It would be s hoot if Gareth Fatchett did actually write such a letter to Mrs. Crozier. Alas he didn’t.
But on a more serious note he made a statement earlier today on his forum that was wholly misleading.
Gareth Fatchett is a second rate lawyer who is trying to coerce investors into giving up all rights to sue Mr. Ames.
One has to assume Mr. Fatchett read all the documents in Harlequin’s evidence bundle before writing a witness statement in support of Harlequin.
Now Garreth as a lawyer what assets are being placed in the trust ?
How many investors want the trust as proposed by you to proceed, ? please for the purposes of this exercise count the SIPP trustees as investors ie Guardian and Rowanmore etc.
How many investors have instigated legal action ?
How many have obtained cautions ?
How many fee paying clients in this matter do you have ?
Don’t worry, the due diligence will reveal the information we have !
Please wait for the outcome of the process. It does include all the topics you have set out above.
There is no way Gareth Fatchett would post on here. These posts are made up. BFP is not the forum used by RL.
Anyone daft enough to think any different needs their head testing.
One would expect him to spell his name correctly too. A poor effort troll.
After me dressing up as a Japanese school girl for you, then you do this to me Gareth, it’s just awful.
Just for you my marathon man!
Naughty Nikki, we love Gwarff, and make hwappy endings fwor mawafpon man 😉
You lot don’t deserve me, if it wasn’t for your cash me an Chris would tell you all to fuck off.
Chris and I,
I don’t pretend to know all the ins and outs and can’t learn much here really. But I will tell you this- Nikki Crozier kicked me out for the group prior to “signing up” for asking too many questions! I think I’m relived now.
@Truth be told.
You had a close escape.
Crozier is a liar, that much she shares with Ames.
Furthermore, she uses no being a ‘proper’ solicitor to her advantage, she is unregulated.
Hang on! is she Dave Ames?
Why can’t everyone just wait for the court order next Wednesday. It will be a court order and will explain everything for once and for all.
This conjecture and comment on conjecture is ridiculous. If CLC have won this action, then that is fantastic news for the 24 clients. Ames and Gareth Fatchet are adamant the trust is proceeding so great news there too. And since Ames and Fatchett have seen the letter of intent from financiers there will be enough cash all round. So what is the big deal ?
Because it would spoil the muppets fun , this is the only life they have
I wish Simon Taylor would stop using the word muppet, it’s doing my head in.
Saw Simon Taylor in court, I thought the police and SFO were looking for him. He was in court, he was the taller slimmer guy with boyish good looks who constantly looked back at the claimants and smiled. The portly little guy sitting beside him, who looked like he pretended to know what he was doing is Dan Abrhams, child in house solicitor for Harlequin and replacement for that bent solicitor Simon Terry.
Simon Taylor was a professional golfer but tragically had his career cut short at the age of about 12. Like the rest of the Ames / Harlequin mob he is a prolific liar and absolute fantasist. He was also a very close friend of Matt Ames. He likes young girls and indulges in prostitutes on a regular basis when traveling.
Does anyone know what the occupancy at BB is right now?
Sid, the latest stinker of a review on TA says that the resort was busy over 14 Feb.
http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Hotel_Review-g147380-d1719145-Reviews-Buccament_Bay_Resort-St_Vincent_St_Vincent_and_the_Grenadines.html
What a pity you did not refer to the TA review which followed it. 5* review!. the only problem was with our friend LIAT again. Although to be fair to the review quoted above, Paddys drains get a mention again.
Open message to Essex plod, going out for a couple of hours so no point in calling in till after 3 today. Mind how you go lol.
The Irish judge said Paddy never put in the drains and this was confirmed by Harlequin.
When was ICE Group removed from site ? Oh yeah nearly 4 years ago. And Ames 4 years ago knew there was no drainage. Yet are posters now trying to say this has not been repaired lol. Nearly 4 years later lol.
The pro Harlequin mob are just being ridiculous lol.
Great news, GF will be pleased when he returns.
He’s nearly at the £1m mark for pink forms. Must make NC realise she backed the wrong horse. His office staff seemed very chuffed.
At £240.00 a pop, his client will not go mental if things go wrong. £240.00 is a good night out for many.
On the other hand, spending thousands and getting not £1 back will be hard to explain away.
Chris – cost / benefit analysis ?
What if Ames goes bust ?
Why is a non-solicitor fronting matters ?
Chris, what if Nikki is Audrey is Elizabeth ? – surely, you need to be every wary ?
Whilst it’s good that the resort seems to be getting busier, it sounds like it’s overcrowded with only 150 villas built. Yet thousands of people are still to be given property. Common sense tells you that that can’t happen…so what then? And of the 150 that are being sold, are they in the hands of investors or the property of Ames? If they are being occupied by paying guests then they are obviously complete and should have been handed over years ago to investors who should be seeing their return….like Bob is.
Well Sid- I expect a property audit fir the entire Harlequin network of companies in the RL DD. In my case I can only see the Trust working if a consolidated business plan was developed where all, or al least most investors receive a “fraction” mortgage free. The old model of leveraging in anything up to 70% is unrealistic.
Bob 36 I was referring to the latest review “Don’t be taken in by the flash website & brochure 5* it’s not”.
One would have thought that the drains should be in good working order at a five star resort. That is one STINKER of a review. I expect that Damage Limitation will be along quite soon posting some more gushing and over-effusive reviews to push it down the list.
Pardon the puns.
Dan Abrams is the good looking one you Muppet. Only looks like a dashing young chap!!
@Anonymous
February 20, 2014 at 11:10 am
Well he can’t be all that bad then, nothing wrong with a good sh*g. 😉
There are some who still believe that something can be rescued from Harlequin. The trust is over. Harlequin will be liquidated.
The trust has received a mortal blow this week. More on Gareth Fatchets faux paux next week. Gareth is not telling us all the whole truth. But it is now time to expose the awful truth about GF and RL and the fact that Ames has been wagging this dog for quite some time now. And if anyone cares to wonder where Mr. Fatchett is, he has taken 10 days off to prepare for the Tokyo marathon at the weekend.
Nice one Garreth, at least you don’t need to pay for any due diligence, you can lift it all from the Harlequin CLC case, or at least cherry pick the bits you want. Well Gareth what goes around comes around. Enjoy the Tokyo Marathon. See you when you get back next week. Hope to see you in a video in your nike running gear.
And please could you stop removing posts from your blog site, it gives the impression you are trying to hide something.
@Heffin Rees QC
February 20, 2014 at 1:05 pm
I was waiting for a glimpse of Nikki / Audrey / whatever she is called, in court.
If I did see her, would have no idea what she looks like.
Why is that? Chris can you help out? You must have some ‘pictures’
Chris Corney – time you cum clean on this. 🙂
http://www.spanishpropertyinsight.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6917
Chris you need to be very careful Crozier will cause you some problems. Many are asking – why do you hook up with a crim?
@ Richard Specter, you have many questions to answer working with a criminal like Ames. Same to you Hefin Rees. We like those from Harlequin who want answers from Chris Corney want answers from you guys. We demand answers.
This is a real, ‘name changer’ or should it be ‘game changer’ LOL
Hang on, unless I have missed something don’t QC’s work with criminals?
We would like to know Gareth how many of your 2000 Harlequin clients asked you to do a witness statement for Mr. Ames who after all caused this mess. We have asked you to recover our money. Not have a love in with the Ames family. Do you do this with all the crooks you hope to recover something from.
Solicitors work with criminals too. Just look at Fatshit and Ames.
I gave a statement, why would I not?
Or Chris Corney and Crozier 😉
@where did all the towels go..
That is a pretty poor review…I would be surprised if Harlequin does not get it taken down. It does not seem to have been made up either, as are many of the super positive “reviews” that are posted.It seems honest, and written by someone who was truly disappointed with the whole experience at BB.
“Paddys drains” were caused because Mr Ames supposedly gave Paddy $50 million to build the resort..Without a written contract!
Who does he blame for the eyesore H hotel wreck in Barbados..Paddy?…no it was that incompetent guy at H Studio that messed up.
Harlequin=Jokers..
And Fatshit and the 100’s if not 1000’s of investors who committed mortgage fraud. 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😜😜😜😜😜😜😜😜😜😜😜😜😜😜😜😜😜😜😜😜
@Anon 12.59, page 66, par 66. Irish case ” the requisite waste water drainage systems had not been put in place, such that sewage was found to escaped into the soil”
@anon 1.05 you obviously are having a sense of humour failure. Lol
Anon
February 20, 2014 at 2:38 pm
Fraud is fraud, deserve what they get. Just greedy people.
The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plane…
http://www.theleader.info/26/article/2850/oasis-update/
CPC Worldwide is run by a woman who faces many charges in Spain for running away with 2 million plus euros of ex pats money and is now behind this company. Her real name is Audrey Dixon and she now uses the alias Elizabeth Crozier. Check her out online. This company is meant to be retrieving money fro investors in Harlequin and yet is run by a complete scammer. You investors need to know the truth behind this company. Check her out on google. Former owner of Oasis Spanish Properties. If she ever returns to Spain she faces 11 years in prison.
@Yatinkiteasy, you really make me howl, any negative post on HP is genuine, while a positive one is by a HP troll. Unbelievable. The fact is your “negative” reviewer, who has only ever posted 1 review on TA, gave the resort 5 stars for location, sleep quality, cleanliness and 4stars for the reviews seems to escaped you. What a surprise.
The poster below, who is supposidly a HP plant, has travelled around the world to many varied destinations. Think I would rather take his advise than a first time TA contributor.
Re “Paddys drains” yes he did give him $50m under advise from his “mate” MacDonald, who was really Paddys mate. No excuse for not having a contract, but their is even less excuse for taking advantage.
Yatinkeasy = one eyed.
What about H studio and H Hotel Bob, opening in 2013?
In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is King.
* 4 stars for cleanliness
* there
Robert Storey = one sided view
Yat.
Robert is ill, Dave is the victim in all this !!
H hotel stopped because the SIPP revenue stopped. Stopped but will restart.
In the land of the one eyed man, the blind will follow because they cannot see. That counts me out then.
Dave Ames is a true visionary and leader, why else did we invest?
It stopped for the same reason the projects in Dominican Republic ,St Lucia Merricks Barbados and Buccament Bay stopped…The ponzu scheme ran out of new investors. Money stopped coming in. That`s how all Ponzi schemes eventually stop.
Matt tried it, but it did not work…daddy did it on a much larger scale.
This forum gets worse by the day ….
Gareth had every right to give a statement .
CLC/CPC took a claim their clients wanted and a result will be seen by them when the barristers finish the job .
Harlequin are terrified of nikki for some weird reason but let me say this theses posts just prove she’s onto something ……. God knows what but no doubt we will find out soon .
I heard she met with Ames ……maybe they sorted something …
Given that nearly 200 positive reviews were removed by TA I think that there is every reason to be highly suspicious of these latest ones, especially as they seem tailored to addressing issues such as the flooding and put that in a positive light. Why would a guest who had paid to stay at BB post a negative review (with so much detail) if it did not reflect the reality. Not likely to have much of a motive to do that. However, in the past many of the positive reviewers have been shown to be investors, travel agents and professional travel bloggers so plenty of vested interests there.
Anyone familiar with the resort knows that it is getting very tired and shabby round the edges and needs a major refurb already. Most of the Americans staying recently have been comped as part of a sweetener to push the hotel in the US market.
So you don’t think that an anti HP troll with an agenda might post a negative post then? Bit naive that.
all of the posters on here have an agenda …… some good some bad ….
would be good to hear from AMES LOUD AND CLEAR WHAT IS REALLY HAPPENING TO THE INVESTORS FUNDS
GF statement on the side of Ames shows who he is working for/with clearly. I would not be comfortable knowing he supports the person who did this. Can you see Madoff being supported by his clients’ lawyer?
Who actually owns H Hotel, Blu, the planes?
Whether BB is a good hotel or not at this point is really less relevant to the size of the fraud going on. A sight of the accounts would be good though. Hotels generally doing ok in the region at the moment, the competition of new Sandals in Barbados and Grenada would massively impact on BB one would think, as both market themselves as high end all inclusives, albeit BB welcomes children and families. That family market though is dead outside of school holidays. The attraction of an ex footballer or rugby player or west end singer will not draw in couples looking for a romantic holiday – that concept is up there as one of the most misguided and expensive ploys.
CATOTD – why would you want to hear from Dave Ames? His word has no credibility. Even in better times he was telling bafflingly provable lies. In bad times, he will say anything. It is barely worth listening to the lawyer for the investors who is working to protect Ames. You need a local lawyer to enforce a local contract, that is the only way to get your protection of that contract. You really don’t need to ask about investor funds anyway, proof is there for you. 9000 units sold, 100 or so built, nothing started on the new build projects, and the renovation one standing still. There is therefore obviously no money left of the investor funds, it has gone. When over half was paid out in commission, and the rest obviously mismanaged with investments in planes and lifestyle and loans to the Ames, as well as cashflowing a resort that according to Harlequin was losing US$1m per month, you can see where it went.
so as far as you are concerned the man is an out and out fraudster ? has everything he said been a lie ? thats not possible otherwise the police would have moved to arrest him
The Crozier followers certainly have been rattled, maybe the penny has dropped they backed the wrong horse!
Should I stay, or should I go?
Feel a youtube clip coming on 😉 tick tock Croziers been in the dock
For Nikki’s disciples!!
Oh shut up Erica you old hag …you have nothing to contribute execpt in the ugly daughter competition
Mattie boy seems to have dropped Daddy in it. lol
http://www.ftadviser.com/2014/02/20/ifa-industry/companies-and-people/matthew-ames-awaits-sentencing-for-fraud-aY58nCZzxQI7zZhtFxCVBP/article.html
That could have been Dave Ames, instead of the cocky little shit Matt.
Can’t wait until he goes down.
Serious question. Can this mental disorder Ames and now Matt Ames suffer from, be genetically passed on.
Poor kids….
Yes delusional behaviour is inherited . In fact I feel a bit sorry for Matt he only got done for a million quid . Ames must be mortified , what a crap level .
Funny thing in the past when Ames had any type of victory he would send a letter to all his investors, and crow. So why the silence Mr. Ames ? It would be easier for Ames to find the 24 claimants and shoot them. What is Mr. Ames afraid of ? All will be revealed on Wednesday. ALL . Do you honestly believe the incessant attacks against the claimants and their legal team does anything to diminish their resolve. Why not wait for Wednesday. ?
Then everything will be in the public domain. And I think everyone will be very surprised by the outcome of last weeks events.
The panic in the Ames camp is being graphically illustrated by posters on this site led by Mr. Simon Taylor, who was present in the court last week.
I have no idea who Simon Taylor is, Simon Terry maybe?
Just incase you forgot about funding
http://www.harlequinhotelsandresorts.com/news/
He is the scrawny dark haired thing who pretends to be a professional golfer or gofer
It’s all going wrong in Camp Crozier 😉
Rebellion within the group of followers, legal costs she has to pay, deflectors, leaks, holding back on payment….. what a mess!!
Horny Corney is conflicted.
He know the truth about Audrey, but his pecker rules his head……..
Special request for the stupid 20 ish
To Chris and my Clients………….
Oh look the night shift has arrived . Please stop the you tube crap it slows the thread …
Tonight Mr. Fatchett on the RL website gave further reasoning for producing a witness statement in support of the defendants. What is glaringly obvious is his apparent attempt to mislead investors who are members of his forum and clients of his.
He states that the CLC clients were a minority and given that he had a majority of clients he felt compelled to produce a witness statement.
His witness statement however claims he represents 2000 investors which he calls clients. This is 33% of Harlequin clients even by Mr. Fatchett’s own numbers quoted in the past. So this can hardly be called a majority.
The worrying aspect for Mr. Fatchett’s clients is that he appears to be treating his clients like proverbial mushrooms.
Keeping them in the dark and keep feeding them shit springs to mind.
Mr. Fatchett would have also seen the documentation provided by Harlequin and CLC to the court, yet strangely has failed to bring the contents of these documents to the attention of his clients.
He claimed in his High Court witness statement to represent 2000 Harlequin clients. The assumption must be that in some way he is acting on direction from his clients, as such he should make available to his clients all the documentation produced in the case.
The Witness Statement produced in court gives the court the distinct impression that Mr. Fatchett is acting on the instructions of his 2000 clients.
Mr. Fatchett has been given sight of other documents including a letter of intent for external finance, yet he claims that because of an NDA he is unable to provide any details pertaining to this, yet if he is acting for 2000 clients surely his clients should have been given sight of these particular documents and any NDA should have applied to his 2000 clients.
So I do have to ask are the 2000 investors actual true clients of Mr. Fatchett in real legal terms.
What strikes me as strange is that an NDA is a legal restriction and
has to be sanctioned by a court of law. My question is what court of
law would issue an NDA for a Letter of Intent. Its just too convoluted
to understand. Especially since in and of itself a Letter of Intent has
no legal standing. Please someone explain to me.
A recent poster on here stated that the Judge in Matt Ames’s case refused the defendants application to vary his bail conditions and the poster further stated that Matt Ames was out on bail.
This might happen on Planet Ames but here on Planet Earth it is rather different.
On Planet Earth in a case such as young Matthews the defence would seek to vary the bail conditions for the convicted defendant pending his sentence. The application to vary the bail conditions could include the provision of an independent surety and acceptance that the convicted offender surrender his passport and sign on at his local police station on a regular basis pending his sentencing hearing.
In young Matthews case this application was denied by the judge and Young Matthew was remanded pending his sentencing hearing.
The practice on Planet Ames is somewhat different. In the example of young Matthews case, the same application would be made by the defendants lawyers, they would seek to limit his original bail conditions which allowed him to travel abroad for work.
The judge as a matter of routine would deny the application to vary, allowing young Matthew to freely travel around the universe including traveling to his favorite Banana Republic where it’s leader had provided him with a character reference and an offer of sanctuary.
In planet Ames the judge would tell young Mattie that he would be sentencing him for upto 10 years in March but till then would wish young Matthew a safe trip on his travels, saying to young Mattie that he was looking forward to seeing him in four weeks.
Thank God we do not live on Planet Ames.
Telling a court that the trust process is happening is hardly contentious.
Smokescreen for CPC not getting what they want.
About as non-contentious as a Letter of Intent.
But is Ames getting what he wants?
I suspect Richard Spector rues the day he ever heard of Harlequin or the Ames family. Imodium Richard????? 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
Doubt it. His fees are good.
Lawyers can represent whoever they want !
Is Gareth Fatchett a freemason ?
Greetings from Tokyo.
Flying Business Class courtesy of the pink pound. Thanks
I am in Tokyo with Nikki. We are in love.
Leave us alone. We need the money for our future.
Now Hefin Rees QC, Mr. Fatchett was not the one who stated that now was he. ?
Perhaps that was concocted by your client.
Or was that the first draft issued to your witness, you maybe getting confused, am not surprised, god knows how many multiple differing witness statements you drafted for different candidates. Must be hard to keep up. Cant blame Simon Terry for this.
I see Dan Abrhams is potentially preparing to take the torch from Ricky. Another young career destroyed perhaps.????????
Planet of the Ames is indeed a strange place indeed it is considered by some to be some type of parallel universe.
The Ames tribe are the predominant tribe on the planet, comprised of humanoid featured beings who communicate via what some call a dialect not un similar with a form of dialect found close to the coast East of London on planet Earth. Most of their dialect is made up of unintelligible ramblings.
The hierarchy is decided through a competition held every 5 years, we have nothing like it on planet Earth with the exception possibly of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival held in the Republic of Scotland, a desolate land, close to the arctic circle on planet Earth.
Those who are chosen to lead the tribe and control the planet must demonstrate an absolute manic ability to fantasise and to indeed live those fantasies. The Chief of the tribe then gets to choose his breeding partner from a selection of the most grotesque and brutish looking females on the planet. Inbreeding is quite common and most acceptable on planet of the Ames.
Victory is not celebrated in Planet of the Ames rather losses are. For example when Planet of The Ames were knocked out of the first round of the Universe Cup, the Tribal leader gave all the inhabitants of the Planet a two week national Holiday. And ordered celebrations of a magnitude unheard of anywhere else in the Universe.
One would be greatly mistaken for assuming they had won the Universe Cup Final.
The bulk of the inhabitants are made up of creatures with little or no intelligence, it is impossible to compare them to even the most basic life forms on earth, scientists have after studied and compared single cell organisms on Earth to the creatures which inhabit Planet of the Ames and have deduced that the single cell organisms are far more advanced in every way.
The creatures on Planet of the Ames appear to accept everything the leader fantasises about like programmed inanimate robotic forms. To describe the creatures as living a life of servitude is an under statement.
The leader of the Planet of The Ames, recently attacked a neighbouring planet, 90% of his forces were destroyed the remaining balance captured and sodomised. The attack was a total defeat and the losses staggering yet in typical Planet of the Ames Fantasy, the loss was celebrated with great gusto and preceded by weeks of extravagant victory celebrations.
Scientist from Earth have studied the creatures of Planet of the Ames. They worship and adore a God called Dave. Worshipping him with total abandon.
Legend has it that the God Dave was formed out of a brown gooey smelly substance not dissimilar to what emanates from the rear end of a bull here on planet earth, bull’s shit. His wife the Goddess Carol was created from the larvae of the flies that called this brown gooey smelly substance home or so legend has it.
A strange place indeed this Planet of the Ames.
Heh Ricky Hefin Rees QC says solicitors can represent who they want. Bet you will never want to represent Ames or Harlequin again. 😜😜😜😜😜😜😜😜😜😜😜😜😜😜😜😜
Maybe you should have considered joining Fatchet San in Tokyo. Conichiwah Garreth. Sayanora Ricky my old buddy. Sayanora lol 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
Dear Mr. Fatchett,
We note from your forum that you once again deride the postings here on BFP.
You wonder why we remain anonymous. We do so because our good friends on BFP allow us the freedom to post.
If we were not anonymous you would seek to injunct us as you did tailormade. Once bitten, twice shy as they say.
You on the other hand have sought to police your forum and remove any contentious posts soon after they appear. Luckily we have grabbed screen shots of all these posts including the in excess of 20 you removed in the past 24 hrs.
There is no other way of putting this. You are a lying, duplicitous little shit. But rest assured, we will demonstrate this. We are surprised you have not mentioned the cautions on your forum. Of course as a result of these cautions, you know the trust cannot proceed.
We have known about these for months. Indeed we warned you that you were not the only game in town. But in the interests of your clients (the Ames family) you chose not to listen.
You have basically conned 2000 investors out of £400,000 + VAT and for what. Your trust CANNOT go ahead. Please explain this to your clients and explain why you feel it necessary to tell us how urgent the trust is, take our money and then fuck off to Tokyo so you can run in a marathon.
It will be our absolute pleasure to expose you further for the lying, greed and gross incompetence you have clearly demonstrated.
And expose you we will at every turn.
@ In Court
February 20, 2014 at 10:39 pm
Or should we just call you Nikki?
£240 for the Trust V’s £10k, £20k, £30k +++ with a fraudster who is as false as her the rest of her augmented body.
Come on expose me, really scared!!!
I think it’s me exposing you 😉
Getting a little bit rattled ?
CPC are now stuck. That doesn’t leave many options does it ?
Bargain !
£240 v limitless costs and Ames’s downside costs risk.
Double bargain.
How much has NIkki / Audrey recovered to date ?
Less than £240.00
Nikki,
Why not produce your Birth Certificate ?
We will then know who you really are !
Company search – check
Cross check date of birth against Register of Births, Deaths & Marriages.
Er – no Nikki. Certainly an Audrey.
Leave Nikki alone.
She is trying her best for her clients. Nothing more.
Anonymous 21FEB AT 2.05AM.
That bad language is back again.
It is Friday and you are still losing the arguement.
more crap to slow the thread , rubbish piled upon rubbish . back in the real world Ames nicks the money and everyone else plays on you tube ….
idiots
A few observations;
Harlequin are panicking, to the point it is now becoming alarming.
Harlequin were not victorious this week in any way, had they been we would all have known. That is one thing Harlequin do well, they communicate good news to all their investors.
Gareth Fatchett was wrong. He in the eyes of most conflicted himself. His arguments do not read true compared to the full facts presented to the court. But he knows this. This can also be seen through the cull of posts on his forum over the last 24 hours. Has Mr. Fatchett been damaged by this.? Yes of course.
Mr. Fatchett lied on his own website last night. He claimed he represented the majority of investors, he does not, nor did he state that through his statement to the court. So investors need to ask themselves why he lied to them.
The assets to be placed in the trust have been spelt out to the court. Why has Mr. Fatchett not informed his 2000 clients of what these assets are ?
The Trust. Can the trust go ahead today ? In simple terms No it cant. Unless Mr. Fatchett is suggesting that investors should be happy to take a 3rd charge. Strangely enough and probably what will disgust many is that Dave Ames through Harlequin Hotels and Resorts has taken out cautions on his own properties.
Gareth Fatchett will come unstuck when the full details of the case become known. And his involvement in it.
Nikki Crozier. The incessant attack on Mrs. Crozier are typical of Harlequin. But if Mrs. Crozier has done something illegal and Harlequin through their trolls have been claiming this for months the question has to be asked why have Harlequin not reported this to the Police. And why now on the week of the CLC action are Harlequin becoming manic about it.?
I suspect there are a few intelligent people in the Harlequin camp feeling very uncomfortable about the all the posts. Ames and his mob are running riot. Some others associated with Harlequin know that their association with Harlequin is about to come to a sudden end and their careers might very well be on the line.
Don’t panic harlequin … It’s starting to show just how much this is hurting .
Really the panic is obvious
Chris, don’t worry get help:
http://www.thelondonclinic.co.uk/conditions/male-sexual-dysfunction
I have been posting on here for months now.
In that time I have been accused of being, Mr. Newman, Mrs. Broughton, the Irish Builder, Mr. Man and now Mrs. Crozier amongst others.
Well I am not.
I am me. Plain and simple. I am me.
Goodbye Mr. Fatchett, Fairwell, your career is going to come to a sudden halt. You should contemplate sticking to marathon running or visiting the Ames’s in prison. Hope your PI cover is adequate, you just cannot tell what little gems are going to come flying out next week.
Ironic that you do a witness statement for Ames in the same few weeks that you sit with BBC panorama and attack your mate Ames. There certainly is no accounting for taste.
David and Carol, I have recently signed my witness statement for the SFO as have many many others. I am sorry David, I very much doubt you and Carol will get to spend another Christmas with Matthew.
Carol I see you have been taking this badly, you will only be on suicide watch for about a week once incarcerated, after that you will have all the time in the world to do as you please. But please don’t do it till you have been convicted and found guilty. Allow us watch you go through that at least.
Had Matt been contemplating suicide, can you tell us how down he is feeling, you must be devastated, what’s it like knowing you may never see your son again by the beach or in the park, down by your ducks, together running playing with the kids.
Will you miss your grand children. I think they will not want to know much about you.
I suppose Prison Dave will protect you from those who are looking to dispense justice their own way. Will you miss Carol and your family???
Will you miss the grand kids ?
They were good times while they lasted and the money was rolling in. I’m talking about the last few years when you were walking on air. Probably the same hot air that was coming out of your lying mouth.
What does it feel like to know it will all be torn from you a third time eh?
You know this is it. No more chances, are you like Carol contemplating suicide, best not do it before Carol and you are convicted. Give your victims a chance at attending your trial and watching justice being served. Please at least give us that. You took everything else away from us so give us that at least.
So Anonymous is nasty for writing that one post. Please can you tell me how you would describe Mr. Ames given that his actions have driven hundreds to despair and ruin. Hmmmm what words should be used to describe Mr. Ames and his family ?
Victims ? Heros ? Philanthropists ? Prudent Business people ? Cmon its time you guys spelt it out.
I do wish we could stick to facts and honest debate here. More spins than a spiders underpants!
The facts are on here. Ames and his loyal band just don’t want to face up to them.
The facts are that Harlequin is finished, the facts are the cautions will prevent a trust.
And as “in court” pointed out the facts of the case last week will be out for all to see next week.
Why oh why are investors still clinging onto any hope that Ames has any honorable intentions towards them.
Again the facts are it’s over. All Garreth Fatchett did was bought Ames time.
Nikki,
Stick to the facts. You have done the best for your clients. No more.
RL will do the best for their clients.
Ames is the one who is in the wrong. No one else.
Attacking each other makes no sense. Never has.
It’s not possible Harlequin are so panicked they love to distract with crap and you tube .
I describe the Ames family as Lowlife scum . Any decent businessman would have gone bankrupt not stole pensions
Mr. Fatchett had a choice in submitting a witness statement on behalf of Mr. Ames. He did not confer with his so called 2000 clients. He therefore was not acting on instructions. He claims to have seen the arguments put forward by the defendants barristers and this is what spurned him to submit a witness statement.
The question from a legal perspective is why did he have sight of the claimants pleadings prior to the case,when as he states he neither acts for Harlequin, any of the Harlequin Group of companies or indeed any members of the Ames family. Neither does he act for any of the claimants. Yet in order to decide on making a witness statement for the Ames family he first had sight of the claimants documents.
He refers to this in his statement on the RL blog. But surely he would also have seen the defendants statements as they pertained to the trust and he would have seen that they were wholly conflicted with his version of events.Yet he fails to raise issue with this.
And why when similar questions were asked of Mr Fatchett on the RL blog site did he see fit to have those questions removed?
I am asking important questions here, not attacking anyone ?
I can’t understand how cautions can apply in the UK under these circumstances? I’m really perplexed as to how they can apply to land in the Caribbean et al- anything not subject to UK land registry rules? Can anyone explain?
Mr Fatchett has just sent a letter out claiming he made his statement to the court in the interests of justice ……….
I will say no more on this point .
21st February 2014 – Update
All,
FSCS Surgeries
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We will be publishing these very shortly. Please watch our website for updates.
Terms of Business / Due Diligence Process
We have issued our terms of business to all clients. As we receive new clients, we will issue terms of business on a rolling basis. We are now fully into our due diligence process. We are not going to comment on the due diligence process piecemeal. We intend to deliver the due diligence process as a complete piece of work. We will invite comments and corrections.
We cannot rely on hearsay, rumour or innuendo. Nor do we place any store in “anonymous” posters on other forums. If third parties have something to inform us, they can formally engage with us. To rely on “anonymous” third parties is dangerous, particularly as there is a reason they post without identity in the first place.
High Court Action
During this week, we provided a witness statement to the High Court for a hearing on Tuesday relating to David & Carol Ames. Our statement confirmed to the court that the trust process is proceeding. Harlequin’s lawyers also put a statement into court in relation to the trust. We provided our statement to confirm the position in relation to the trust. We took the view that the court understanding the position from all sides was in the interests of justice. We are not party to the proceedings in court. Nor do we act for any of the parties. Therefore, we see little point in commenting further at this point.
SIPP
We will be liasing with SIPP providers (who hold Harlequin) to seek a way in which we can allow them access to our due diligence findings. We will keep investors updated as we progress.
Pink Forms
Please be in contact if you have not lodged your Pink Form(s) with us. Harlequin hold a significant number of forms. Some investors clearly assume that this is sufficient. It is not. We need the Pink Forms to make you a client of our firm.
Conclusion
We are progressing forward. As we do, we expect those who wish to see Harlequin fail increase their activities. The side effect of any Harlequin failure will be a total loss for investors. This is not in the interest of any investor. Investors need to secure their position as best they are able. To that end, we will continue with the work we have been instructed to do.
Regulatory Legal Solicitors
Visit Harlequin Investor Group – protecting investors at: http://harlequininvestorgroup.co.uk/?xg_source=msg_mes_network
A witness statement is exactly that. A statement made by a witness to a set of facts.
The GF version will be his take. He does not need to consult anyone to make a statement (other than himself). He is not a party to proceedings. Nor does he represent anyone. He does not need to consult with 2000+ people.
It makes a good story and a deflection from the real issues. RL have made it clear where they stand. You can disagree with that. Some will, some won’t.
The point is that it does not matter. The actual witness statement of GF has not been published here or anywhere else. The people who have seen it are :-
(a) Harlequin / Harlequin lawyers
(b) CLC / CPC
(c) Court
I doubt Harlequin will attack GF / RL. That leaves CLC / CPC to spend all their time attacking. All that this does is encourage people to make personal attacks.
RL may have picked up the issues which anonymous posters refer to on this blog (cautions etc). Is there any evidence they have not ?
The real culprits in this mess are Harlequin and those behind Harlequin. It just so happens that RL do not see a liquidation of Harlequin as the best approach.
This forum is in the main for those either 100% for or 100% against.
I bet that under 50 people post on this site. The RL forum has approx. 3000 people registered to it.
Whatever good points are made on here get lost between You Tube videos, masonic posts, rants and some frankly horrible things.
RL are on their own side.
@GB thank you for an intelligent clear post that cuts out the rubbish on here .
Bob’s been very quiet over the last couple of days. I expect he is safely in the custody of Essex Police and has had his iPad confiscated.
Depends on the nature of the caution etc …
No still waiting for the knock on the door. Mind how you go. Sent from my I pad in Boston.
Bob, you know all about changing names – is that what Crozier done? 😉
Bob – Are you lecturing at the Harvard Business School on how
to be an unsuccessful investor? I can imagine the howls of laughter
you will be confronted with…
If you’re in Boston Bob, that could explain why you haven’t heard the knock on the door! Boston US or Boston Lincolnshire?
CATOFTD – Is Ames and out and out fraudster and is everything he said a lie? You just need to look at the evidence to answer that yourself. He promised 10% guarantees, sold properties very cheaply, said he would pay mortgage payments, returns would be massive, resorts built within certain timeframes, the marina at BB was almost ready etc. All of those things have not happened. He has said things that are not true, or could never be true, so yes he is a liar. He did so in order to take your money, and paid that money to himself and his cronies. He did not build, he did not plan to build and in some cases he did not own the land. As he told lies to take your money and then use it for reasons not in your contract, then that would make him an out and out fraudster. So much money was coming in, he had to do something to keep more money coming in so BB was partly built. In whose names are the H Hotel and Blue? Has this been made clear to investors whose money was used? Have you had accounts sent regularly on the performance of the assets that you investors own, namely BB and Blue? And the planes? If you can answer those questions positively for Ames, then he is not a fraudster or liar. If you cannot, then he is a fraudster and a liar.
I see all the RL and GF comments. This route is absolutely not a route I would have taken, but people are paying GF and RL, they are his clients so it is only them who can comment on his performance. He is not doing anything illegal as far as I can see, but he has fallen into the trap of believing Harlequin is not already finished as he keeps referring to people who want to see Harlequin fail. It failed several years ago. His protection of Ames is curious, I am sure whether that is sinister or not will be revealed in the fullness of time.
From: Harlequin Investor Group – protecting investors
Date: 21 February 2014
21st February 2014 – Update
All,
FSCS Surgeries
We have a very full week at The Village Hotel, Warrington next week. If you want to discuss your FSCS form, the trust or any other related issues, please call Rebecca Handley on 01384 889900.
(FSCS, you understand that the FSCS route is what they refer to as a route of last resort, ie, when there is nothing left the FSCS may pay compensation up to a limit of £50,000, the FCA have already indicated that they are not willing to entertain claims and you have stated that you will be looking to appeal this decision, however given that the FSCS scheme is a scheme of last resort how can you make a justifiable last resort claim when you yourself are seeking to enable Harlequin to trade out of it’s current difficulties, you have even stated that you have seen a letter of intent from financiers and know their identity. )
FSCS Surgeries – Midlands / Southern Venues
We will be publishing these very shortly. Please watch our website for updates.
Terms of Business / Due Diligence Process
We have issued our terms of business to all clients.
(All RL clients ???)
As we receive new clients, we will issue terms of business on a rolling basis. We are now fully into our due diligence process. We are not going to comment on the due diligence process piecemeal. We intend to deliver the due diligence process as a complete piece of work. We will invite comments and corrections.
(From who Mr. Fatchett, who will you invite comment and correction from, Mr. Ames?,or investors who are still very much in the dark, for had they known what is to be known about Harlequin now they would never have invested in the first place)
We cannot rely on hearsay, rumour or innuendo.
( Are you stating that the claimants documents as provided to you by Mr. Ames contained hearsay, rumour and innuendo?, are the cautions hearsay rumour and innuendo )
Nor do we place any store in “anonymous” posters on other forums. If third parties have something to inform us, they can formally engage with us.
( Who are you prepared to engage with, in the past you have let it be known that by engaging with certain parties, Mr. Ames would be very displeased with you and you took the decision NOT to engage with certain parties because of this. )
To rely on “anonymous” third parties is dangerous, particularly as there is a reason they post without identity in the first place.
(And what might that reason be, a fear that you would use investors money to seek an injunction preventing the truth from coming out, you have clearly demonstrated your willingness to do this, take Tailormade for example, then you had the audacity to say that action was settled, it was not, Tailormade contested the action and won)
(You are also deliberately stifling debate on the issues on your forum, by culling negative comments, in the past 24 hrs you have removed in excess of 20 comments which were neither offensive nor in contradiction of your forums use policies yet you chose to remove comments raising pertinent questions, they have been saved.)
High Court Action
During this week, we provided a witness statement to the High Court for a hearing on Tuesday relating to David & Carol Ames.
( No not relating to Dave and Carol Ames but in support of their defense and as requested by them )
Our statement confirmed to the court that the trust process is proceeding.
( The trust process is proceeding is a very vague statement, the due diligence should determine the trust process, yes you will state that the due diligence forms part of the process )
Harlequin’s lawyers also put a statement into court in relation to the trust.
( Which was different from your statement, or at least the final draft of your statement),
We provided our statement to confirm the position in relation to the trust. We took the view that the court understanding the position from all sides was in the interests of justice.
(From all sides???, you submitted a witness statement on behalf of the defendants, as you claim you are not a party to the action, this was not a three way case, you do not act for the claimants, so how can you justify your statement here, all sides really Mr. Fatchett ???? )
(You claim on the RL site that you had seen the claimants claim, therefore you would have seen mention of a number of cautions, this would have demonstrated to you that your trust proposals are fundamentally flawed )
( Justice, please Mr. Fatchett, you submitted a witness statement in support of the defense, where 24 claimants are claiming a refund which under the terms of their contracts they are fully entitled to and you claim you provided a witness statement for the defendants and you say it was in the interests of justice? )
We are not party to the proceedings in court.
( Whether you were or not not in the past, you most certainly are a willing participant in the proceedings now, you are a witness for the defense, and as a result could very easily be called to provide evidence in the trial, please Mr. Fatchett as an officer of the court you know how this works. )
Nor do we act for any of the parties. Therefore, we see little point in commenting further at this point.
(The debate has just started Mr. Fatchett )
SIPP
We will be liasing with SIPP providers who hold Harlequin to seek a way in which we can allow them access to our due diligence findings. We will keep investors updated as we progress.
( How have you progressed with Guardian and Rowanmore, as you would have seen from the claimants bundle they have cautions against the Harlequin land assets )
Pink Forms
Please be in contact if you have not lodged your Pink Form(s) with us. Harlequin hold a significant number of forms. Some investors clearly assume that this is sufficient. It is not. We need the Pink Forms to make you a client of our firm.
( You have clearly stated in the UK High court that you act for 2000 investors, 4000 investors have still to give you Pink Forms, clearly that is not really some, now is it Mr. Fatchett.)
Conclusion
We are progressing forward. As we do, we expect those who wish to see Harlequin fail increase their activities. The side effect of any Harlequin failure will be a total loss for investors. This is not in the interest of any investor. Investors need to secure their position as best they are able.
(Would not placing cautions on the land like many others have done been the best option to secure investors positions)
To that end, we will continue with the work we have been instructed to do.
( Given that you now claim to have been instructed by your clients, how come its you, not them, who is covered by an unenforceable NDA with respect to the identity of the financiers and the letter of intent)
(Who instructed you to set up a trust????? Was it not you and RL along with Dave Ames who initially came up with the idea of the trust. )
Regulatory Legal Solicitors
Visit Harlequin Investor Group – protecting investors at: http://harlequininvestorgroup.co.uk
(Conclusion, Mr. Fatchett was does the trust actually achieve? You will have seen from the defendants documents submitted to the court what assets are being offered into the trust, you would have also seen the issues raised by the claimants in relation to some of these assets, you of course will also see that the assets being offered by the defendants are not as you have indicated in your communication with “Your Clients”
The trust will try and achieve two primary goals, 1. the removal of the threat of litigation against the Ames family and the Harlequin group of companies for good, given the time bar situation, which you have never given answers too,
And 2, the trust will have the affect of writing down the inter company debt to a fraction of the circa 400 million which stands now, in other words the value of the assets owned or paid for investors will become about 2.5% of what they are now.
The only ones to benefit from this are Harlequin and the Ames family, if the debt is written off Shipleys might look favorably upon a CVA.
What benefit is this to investors, some say investors will still have to find a 70% mortgage to complete on properties if indeed they ever get completed, however that is not legally the case, since they will have given up their contractual entitlements for a a few ponds and footpaths being held in the trust, there is nothing to stop Ames from selling investors original properties to new clients. Investors will have as part of the trust given up entitlement to their current plots. Fact. If existing investors want to buy their existing plot, they may have to go through the whole process again, pay a deposit and start over. )
Lets hope some savvy clients of Gareth Fatchett and RL take them up on the points above, and lets hope that others considering the trust as an option, now consider the other options available to them. The best that non trust investors can do to protect their interests is apply for a caution on their respective RDC’s. This is something Mr. Fatchett failed to do. Those with cautions will hold the upper hand and given that Mr. Fatchett seems hell bent on proceeding with the trust, a caution seems like a very sensible way in which to secure your interests. Mr. Fatchett or Mr. Ames would have to negotiate from a position of extreme weakness with those caution holders in order for the trust to proceed.)
Fair play to RL, can’t ask anymore can you?
Nikki Trout pout is being unfair on them – her call she backed the wrong horse.
And lost.
The increased attacks of RL are from Nikki Crozier, her stupid 24, and the Irish builder.
Why? sour grapes nothing less.
She has spent all clients money on a wild goose chase, promised Paddy she would destroy Ames.
She failed and now got a mini rebellion on her hands.
tick tock…..
@Geoffrey Boycott, very few of the registered users on the RL forum contribute to that site, and many of the registered users are not even investors, you have IP’s the SFO, Police, Lawyers, creditors (non investors), etc. There was a time when the RL site allowed users to see who had joined the forum, many whilst having a keen interest in Harlequin were not investors. BFP do not give figures for those who just browse their site, however it might be interesting to see if they would be able to indicate what hits and spikes their site gets when relevant Harlequin related material is posted on their site, as I write this I am also looking at the RL site and I am not an investor.
Nikki some of your clients are skint, why are they in the case?
You should pay.
Why do the Harlequin supporters i
keep insisting that Mrs. Crozier, CLC or Peter Knox lost, please lost what exactly?, The perfected court order will be available for everyone to see next week. So again please stop filling up this thread with utter nonsense. IF CLC had lost anything Ames would have emailed the world and he has not. Fact. The perfected order will clarify everything.
Oh I see harlequin are back from lunch ….. Just when sensible threads were getting posted . Oh dear .
Whether CLC’s clients are broke or otherwise is a matter for CLC and their clients. A rather odd statement.
What we have been told on numerous occasions is that the Ames’s are broke. Mr. Fatchett has told us many times that the Ames’s are broke. Wonder will Richard Spector have to pay the Ames’s legal costs.
Actually maybe he will 😜😜😜😜😜😜
It’s harlequin back from lunch again . Of course everyone will be skint because the Ames family took their money !,,,,
More crap and nonsense …… Come back GB your posts are at least interesting
To be fair to Mr. Fatchet, he was approached by Mr. Ames and his legal team and asked to sign a pre written witness statement regarding the trust. Mr. Fatchet refused to sign that particular witness statement because it contained wholly inaccurate information on the trust and he knew by signing it he would be misleading the court.
Given the rather unusual approach made by Harlequin Mr. Fatchet felt compelled to produce a document which fairly represented the facts as they pertained to the court.
He was most certainly not doing it to cause problems for the CLC 24. He felt that Harlequin’s original version relating to the trust needed to be clarified for all to see.
This very decent and noble act is now being attacked.
@ anonymous 3.31 pm. You make some very interesting points. The cautions look like a very viable route given Ames’s desperation to proceed with the trust.
As GB very appropriately pointed out Fatchett is for Fatchett, investors beware.
The Judge was conflicted, let me tell you why.
Fatchett is a Mason
Ames is a Mason
Both QC Masons.
When asked to help a fellow brother they have no choice – this is why the Judge threw them all out. He won’t be allowed in on the next case.
@ In defence of Mr. Fatchett 4.32 pm. This is not the first time that Mr. Ames and his legal team are alleged to have falsified witness statements. My question is why would Mr. Fatchett even entertain entering into the fray when he would have seen that the Ames family were willing to lie in court.
If I was a cynic, I’d say the reason why Fatchett did a witness statement for Ames was to get his hands on some juicy info from the claimants.
I suspect that Mr. Fatchett as a witness now has access to all the claimants documents which he can sift through and use or amend dependent on how much he wants the trust to succeed.
A lot of juice for his due diligence paid for of course by the claimants, allowing Gareth to nip off to Tokyo for a marathon. He has been paid by investors to provide due diligence amongst other things, so now he can pocket some of that cash.
No flies on Garreth.
So, CPC’s clients pay £3K (or whatever) to fund legal action to recover their money through litigation, suing the Ames’ personally.
RL’s clients pay £240 to get a 1/6000-9000th share of common areas (of what, we’re not sure), and relinquish their contractual rights, and slag off investors who try to sue to get their money back?
I know what I would have done.
I posted several years ago about placing cautions if contracts in breach. Why is it only now people are looking at this? It is always the first port of call in the Caribbean when property contracts are breached. It is not rocket science and it is cheap, and many people did. The concept of the trust really is not helpful to an investor wanting to get his/her money back. Sorry to state a hard truth, but investors were extremely naive investing in Harlequin and Ames, and are demonstrating the same naivety here on an ongoing basis.
Are the investors who are Fatchett’s clients as thick as planks.
Just look at the update today. Fatchett is holding FSCS clinics. The FSCS is the redress of last resort, google it for Gods sake, so how if Harlequin is being saved by the great Fatchett can Fatchett commence last resort applications. For Christ sake, when are people going to wake up to this.
Fatchett keeps stating that some want Harlequin to fail. Ok Fatchett why are you asking your clients to forgo their contracts for a few ponds and footpaths. Harlequin has failed, It needs a CVA to prevent Shipleys LLP from putting the whole damn mess into liquidation.
What do investors get from the trust, probably 2.5%. Nothing more.
I don’t think they will get anything whatsoever from the trust. Joining the trust with thousands of others rather than instigate aggressive litigation against Harlequin (who love a bit of litigation at investors’ expense) actually is the “sit back and do nothing” option.
The trust campaign didn’t change much really. It was always going to be a case of the proactive minority managing to get their investment back through legal action and subject to NDA; and the majority of investors ending up losing everything at the hands of a fraudster. Isn’t that always the way scams go?
I’m going to put my neck out and state that I think the £240 paid to RL for the DD, and subsequent set-up of the trust was a complete waste of money.
When … or if… the trust gets going, are there ongoing fees that members will have to pay? Are they responsible for the upkeep of the areas in the trust?
Why ask a question like that?! You clearly want Harlequin to fail!!
Yes … the trust will require ongoing fees, will not generate any returns, but I’m not sure of the liabilities for maintenance, insurance etc.
Waste of money. The only notable benefit is to the Ames’.
Will the Trust be an UK Trust or an SVG? Which countries laws
will govern the Trust?
The trust WAS to have been governed by UK law not any Caribbean law. But now until the cautions are dealt with, there can be no trust. Fatchett knows this now too.
Investors will just have to wait for him to come back from his Marathon in Tokyo.
The trust is proceeding, we have a mandate, please let there be no more discussion on the matter. We are going ahead with the trust. Those with cautions are just trying to cause Harlequin to fail. Those who question the trust want it to fail. But they are a minority. Justice will prevail. Justice for the Ames family will prevail. They will be exonerated. No need to look at the historical issues, no need to rake up the past, no need for due diligence. Note to the caution holders, we will challenge the cautions, we will win, and we will then pursue you for the rest of your assets. You will not interfere with the trust.
Since there have been adjudicated (to some extent) cases in
SVG I would suppose it is also out of bounds until final resolution.
Gareth Fatchett originally stated he had stat demands, he did not. He took a case in the High Court in the UK against Harlequin and lost on jurisdictional grounds, but both sides kept that quiet. He claimed he won a case for a group of his clients, Ames undertook to give Fatchett’s clients some of the assets in Dubai. Shipleys scuppered that little deal.
So all in all Fatchett has achieved the square root of sqwat diddly for his clients yet has taken a cool 400k from them in fees.
There are cautions in SVG and 22 judgements to date against Harlequin.
Your contract gets breached, so rather than demand money back via local lawyers and place cautions, you join a trust with thousands of others to get security of some common areas, and at same time give up rights to pursue the other party on that contract. A very very passive approach to being scammed.
Cautions in St Lucia too.
Certainly looks like “check if not yet check-mate” for Fatchett.
But he sure seems to be cornered. Perhaps he will attain enlightenment
around the 23d or 24th mile. Epiphany is a delusion.
Big probs in Dom Rep too. Looks like someone has been divesting.
Can any of this be proven absolutely as it has a bearing on investor decisions
The barrister Mr. Rees QC named in this weeks high court case in London as suing Wilkins Kennedy for $50 Million USD is a Mr. Jacob Dean QC,
5RB are Mr. Dean’s chambers and they specialize in entertainment and media law. Mr. Dean QC was the barrister representing Harlequin in the recent arbitration over Harlecon.
Harlequin are claiming that they are suing Wilkins Kennedy for professional negligence, not one of Mr. Dean’s QC specialities nor is it a speciality of 5RB, Mr. Dean’s chambers.
Two weeks ago Harlequin filed documents with Wilkins Kennedy seeking arbitration, so why was Hefin Rees QC stating to the judge that Harlequin were taking Wilkins Kennedy to the High Court in the UK to start a civil law suit for the recovery of $50 Million USD.
This is a huge case, why has this not hit the news papers or the trade magazines?
Why are HMSSE refusing to take part in the action given that Ames claims that his case is a slam dunk. Shipley’s LLP are fully entitled to join the action, why haven’t they, Indeed why did they refuse to join the action in the Harlecon case previous to this. $50 Million is a hell of a lot of money, especially given that it is a “Slam Dunk Case”
The claimant companies in the professional negligence arbitration papers filed are Harlequin Property SVG Ltd and Harlequin Caribbean Ltd. Odd given that Wilkins Kennedy represented Harlequin Property SVG, Harlequin Hotels and Resorts and HMSSE.
Mr. Ames introduced Mr. Jacob Dean at the meeting in Manchester as the barrister suing Wilkins Kennedy, or so he claimed.
Please visit the 5RB website to see the profile for Mr. Dean, was this the man at the meeting in Manchester?
http://www.5rbdotcom
Disappointed investor 2000 people paid Mr. Fatchet to find this out, ask him. The cautions are on all the lands. Gareth knows, or should do by now.
This is really weird, look at the last post cut and paste below, this post appeared today.
http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/ShowTopic-g147380-i1175-k7220743-Why_are_reviews_re_Buccament_Bay_so_disparate-St_Vincent_St_Vincent_and_the_Grenadines.html
4. Re: Why are reviews re Buccament Bay so disparate?
today, 20:09
I am an investor with BB and am experiencing a few problems re my quarterly payments with the company. However having stayed at BB some nine times since their opening i cannot fault the resort and the running of it at all.
At the end of the day i would rather receive my payment late in order for a bill to be paid at BB and see the resort continue to operate to a high standard.
Individual tastes and expectations seem to dictate as to a good or bad review.
Its a fabulous place which i recommend wholeheartedly. I am back for another three weeks in august and as long as the place continues to run and be a success i am happy to wait for my return.
Answers many of the questions as to where many of the guests come from. Wonder what planet that investor is on. ???????
Gareth San here is an investor that might not have got a PINK SLIP, a straggler as you call them.
More on Matt today.
http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2014/news/conman-found-guilty-of-fraud-after-reporters-undercover-expose/
That investor is not from this planet. lol
Disappointed investor – after proof, pay a local lawyer to take a copy of land register. There are cautions, I have seen them on one piece of land, but did not take copies. That piece of land is going to sell for a fraction of what was paid for it as it is pretty bad land and Ams overpaid, as he did for everything he bought. Not directed at you, but lots of investors still want “proof” of things – do they need proof too that construction has not started on any of his other developments than BB? Investing in property overseas is not like buying blue chip stocks. Got to do your own DD. Now they still have a third party UK lawyer taking money to set up a trust with minimal security to then do DD.
Yes why are people still sitting back and asking for proof. Fatchett appears unwilling to do as “instructed” by his “clients”, that is to carry out the most basic of “Independent” due diligence.
The cautions have been in place for some time now. Ironically Mr. Ames himself has a number of cautions on the lands. Yet the saviour of investors appears wholly oblivious to what is going on around him. Gareth Fatchett is a very lazy solicitor. Does not bode well for his clients.
All we get from Gareth Fatchett is nothing more then glossy waffle. He seems more like Ames as each day goes by.
It’s difficult for a normal person with little experience to understand what’s going on . We took the advice of an agent to buy into Harlequin and invested cash and pension money . Of course we understand that we need a lawyer now because after four years we have nothing , our hope was that the trust would get us our money back but from what you are saying it won’t.
Has it yet dawned on the masses that anyone and I mean anyone with any contact with the toxic toad and his family become tainted in one way or another. I know Mr. Fatchett is trying to throw oil on the water by stating that no credence should be paid to anonymous posters, but he knows it is these anonymous posters who are providing the pieces of the jigsaw that otherwise would never have come to the attention of investors. Mr. Fatchett’s greed and belief in Ames appears to have been his Achilles heel, now even he must realise the trust is dead.
But what about all the cash he took, any quick very basic due diligence would have unearthed the cautions on all the lands and would have signalled that the trust could not work.
It’s time Fatchett refunded the cash.
I asked H early last year to put my cabanna up for resale at Buccament bay
as I could not afford to complete, so if another investor completes on my cabanna do I get my resale monies as I notice some idiot on RL Forum saying the money will go to the trust? why would it? surely it is mine?
@ Jane Doe
How are you ever going to know anyone completed on your property, there are no records, that is half the problem with Harlequin, secondly there are a raft of judgements against Harlequin in SVG. This is the subject of a debate in parliament in SVG next week.
So you have little or no chance of seeing your money.
But people are completing on cabana’s in the next few weeks? everyone has a unit number so surely the unit belong to someone as per contract? so what happens to the money I have paid? we entered into a legally binding contract so how can someone just come along and buy my cabanna? without my selling it to them? if this happens H have broke the contract? I understand I did but that was because they promised 100% mortgage
Would I ever love for a pro-Harlequin troll to answer your question
Ms. Jane Doe. Robert Storey comes to mind.
@ disappointed investor,
The trust on its own could never have had the desired affect that you would have received all your money back.
The assets of the trust and this can be confirmed from this weeks case were to be the common parts of Buccament Bay the 19.5 acres, there was another plot of land in the DR being proposed by Harlequin in addition to the common parts of Buccament Bay, but even if there were no issues with this and there are, then the value of the assets being proposed was 4% of the original monies invested.
Are you a member of the current trust or are you a client of RL?
If so it is time you guys got him to get off his backside and put cautions on all the resorts where his clients have investments. That would do for a start, but it looks like time has run out.
I suppose you guys could ask Fatchett what the hell he is doing swanning around Tokyo when the situation you guys find yourself is so time critical.
Too busy watching the rugby and waiting for Essex plod. How should I know the answer you idiot.
I’m surprised that “the rugby” is broadcast in Boston…
@anon9.50 . I have sent my blue form in for redress but not the pink one I am undecided what to do . If I can get my money back from Harlequin I won’t claim against my advisor as he has advised us on financial matters for a while , this is the first problem we have encountered .
I don’t seem to get a straight answer from anyone but we don’t have much time to decide what to do .
@ Jane Doe
If any completions take place in the next few weeks then they will more then likely be illegal. To complete Harlequin must have a certificate of good standing, ie this means audited accounts and taxes up to date etc. and that they can’t get.
Have you had any correspondence from Harlequin with respect to your resale in the last 4 months? You state you have breached your contract, be careful here, You seem to believe that Ames will act honourably, just look at the stance he is taking against the 24 claimants in the UK High Court where Ames is in total breach of his contractual commitments to those 24 investors.
If as you state you are in breach of your contract with Harlequin then I would advise that you seek immediate independent legal advice and not Mr. Fatchett nor CLC.
I cannot complete as I have not got the 100% mortgage that H said they would get me so am I in breach of contract?
Who can I turn to? if not Mr Fatchett or CLC
Jane Doe – Reading between the lines of what has been posted on
BFP for well over a year, i-witness-news.svg, & Caribbean News Now
if I were you I would immediately contact a lawyer in SVG who is also
a member of the opposition party currently serving as a Senator.
Unfortunately corruption seems to be the name of the game. Kind of
like fighting fire with fire. Good Luck!
@ Disappointed investor, Harlequin is insolvent and has been trading that way for years. The trust will not get you your money back.
@Disappointed Investor, where did you invest?
Two rivers
In the real world that makes about 50% of investors up shit creak without a paddle. 😉
The Trust gives those poor F uckers a slightly better chance than liquidation.
Fatchips has about 3000 on the RL blog, on here about 20, and most have multi ID’s.
Conning Crozier has about 24 followers.
Round it up say 50 against 3000…….
@Face facts What’s your point?
Erm, yes, Face Facts, what’s your point??
And why do you think the Trust helps investors in almost certain litigation?
Because they may sleep a bit better? If so, I agree with you.
Anything else is disingenuous. There is no advantage to setting up a trust.
So Ames has finance WOW!!!!
Over on the RL site Gareth Fatchett again is claiming he has a majority.Remember earlier he also says he is instructed by his 2000 clients. He also states he has the court documents from this weeks case. Produce the documents to your clients Fatchett, produce them. And produce your witness statement. Majority means just that. Your witness statement does not state you have a majority, how could it, it states you have 2000 clients, 33% of the Harlequin total.
Richard Ingham must also have the court documents, his claims that the claimants were looking to secure the completion monies is broadly correct, so Richard please make these available. Richard wants Gareth to push on with the trust.
Mr. Walton Mr. Fatchett commissioned you to provide one or could it have been two reports, maybe its time to come clean.
So lets stop all the sqwaking here and now. Put the documents on the table Garreth, all of them, you are claiming on your site that some of the claims made on this site are untrue. So its time to put this to the test. Produce the documents to disprove what we are saying.
There are cautions on the Harlequin lands. Fact. So please explain how you the trust will now work.
Gareth / Richard get over your selves, your claims over on the RL site that a minority of 24 are trying to bring down the trust are untrue. Look at all the judgements in St. Vincent. Look at all the cautions, look at the Guardian cautions, the Rowanmore Cautions.
Gareth / Richard tell the investors what the assets to be placed in the trust comprise of. You have the court documents. Go on get it over with.
@disappointed investor. Two Rivers. I don’t know many lawyers up in that part of the Caribbean, although know some. Business there is very much done with exchanges of brown envelopes. I would look up a few lawyers in the area and write to a few of them outlining your situation, but probably even better if you go there – there are plenty of cheap holiday packages that you could take and just start visiting law firms. Placing cautions there should be similar to rest of the islands. I do know that it takes serious developers to make it up there, who have own arilines and airlift, tour operators and more. Ames would have been eaten alive there, would never have stood a chance even if it was built, which sadly given the model it never was going to be. Good luck.
@anonymous 11.10 thank you for your sensible posting . What you say is sound common sense and we will check out local lawyers .
Anon 11:10 Bravo !!! ..The best way yet I have heard to describe
the reality……”the exchange of brown envelopes”…….
For clarity, am the 11.10 anon, will post as anon11 for sake of differentiation, but don’t get to check this site out as much as would like these days. I am based in Caribbean and know a lot of lawyers in the southern and eastern islands (have done business in northern islands and indeed know many people there, none know about Two Rivers) I don’t like to see developers or resorts fail and would always support them, but really this has long since failed and it is now less a case of toppling something and more clearing it all up as best as possible for investors and locals who rely on their business for work. I would not describe Mr Ames as a developer or hotelier having met him a few times, he is more a guy who loved the commissions and really was not so worried about the resorts and how they could get built or operate profitably, got in over his head and the beast snowballed with others around him also filling their pockets and making this beast grow. The story is not dissimilar to the Madoff one, the lie just grew and became his life. It is no excuse though, when Madoff knew things were doomed and should have stopped sooner, and by same token when Ames knew he could never deliver, should have folded up rather than lure more people in. Anyway, sermon over! Everyone has to make their own decisions, best of luck.
Tonight’s little show over on the RL site does demonstrate that investors have no clue what the trust is all about. And Fatchett has again failed to explain it to them. A Richard Ingham believes the completion money is the trusts, sadly that is not the case and here is why.
In the court documents Mr. Fatchett and Mr. Ingham have, if they care to look at the skeleton arguments of the defendants and para 24 and the supporting documentation they will find that the assets to be placed in the trust are the common parts of Buccament Bay. This paragraph also puts beyond doubt that Mr. Fatchett was a willing witness for the Ames family.
Now given that Harlequin are only offering the common parts of Buccament Bay as assets for the trust, and if that is true and correct and we have no reason to doubt this because not only did Mr. Fatchett not question this, his name and witness statement support this particular paragraph as submitted to the court. Then these are the only assets investors will have a claim over.
The sections of the resort where investor units are built are not defined as common parts and as such will not form part of the trust, therefore for Mr. Ingham to state that the completion monies should or will be placed into the trust has no legal standing.
There will be no obligation legal or otherwise whatsoever to account for the completion monies to the trustees of the trust.
But on the RL site even though Mr. Fatchett and Mr. Ingham have the documents from the court they appear to be playing a game for the benefit of the 1999 other clients of RL.
Mr. Ingham is an intelligent gentleman and given that he has the court documents there can be no doubt that both he and Mr. Fatchett are under no illusion as to what assets are to be placed in the trust.
Mr. Ingham whilst claiming he has sight of the court documents wrongly states that the CLC 24 wanted to take the completion money.
Para 34 and 35 of the claimants arguments deals with this specific matter. In fact what the claimants were seeking here would have assisted in securing and securitising assets not only for the claimants but indirectly for Mr. Fatchett’s clients too, including Mr. Ingham.
Again both Mr. Fatchett and Mr. Ingham were playing out a scene akin to a soap opera for the other 1999 clients of RL to lap up.
The documents which Mr. Fatchett and Mr. Ingham have had sight of clearly demonstrate that all is not well with respect to Harlequin.
And the answers investors seek as per the due diligence are contained in these court documents, therefore we are now calling on the remaining 1999 clients of RL to demand that Gareth Fatchet makes these documents available to his clients.
One client Mr. Ingham already has had sight of these documents, it’s now time that these documents are released to the remaining 1999 clients in order that the charade being played out by Mr. Fatchett is seen for what it is, a charade.
To be honest Fatchett has been caught napping and he is making a dogs dinner of the damage limitation. His foes whoever they might be are demonstrating a level of intelligence even Fatchett is finding hard to come to terms with.
The trust is dead. That’s for sure. The finance is dead that’s for sure. The cautions well they may just control the board. There is a plan B but is Fatchett brave enough to go for it, it means ditching Ames but it could work, he would need to give an olive branch, but it could work wonders, question is he brave enough or will he continue to fight what currently is a loosing battle.
The choice is his. Ditch Ames. Time is running out here.
Nikki,
Belt up.
You are getting as bad as Paddy.
£1m – we ain’t stopping
Anon 1.18
GF is in Tokyo. His email is easy to find. Why not contact him ?
He is not as pro-Ames as you think. He is cordial with Harlequin as they are working on the trust. That does not mean he acts for Harlequin.
If you are serious about privately discussing matters, you will make contact. If GF shuns any sensible approach then you can moan.
Anon – 1.18
If you email gareth.fatchett@regulatorylegal.co.uk then he will meet and listen to what you have to suggest.
I know him well enough that he will not deal with people who post anonymously.
GF is pragmatic. He is not going to be bothered about anonymous posters on this site.
Remember, he has seen all parties attacked. Without exception. Therefore, this is just an unpleasant cycle.
Mr Ingham is a private investigator …..
Have we not been here before.
Anonymous Feb 22,1-18am
I do not think that any investor should believe anything that you post.
You are economical with the truth.
Jane Doe – is that short for Doehead? What have you done yourself to raise completion monies? Did you ever have the funds even to complete in respect of the taxes? Thats 8.5% of the sale price?
You were a greedy bitch with no hope of affording your investment.
As for the completion monies, these can only go to one of 3 places, Ames, Trust or Crozier – who would you choose?
Why do you think you are due any monies from Harlequin? Did you receive any interest payments? Did you pay all your stage payments? I guess not so they come off your deposit at 8% – your owed nothing!
Your another investor who was greedy and has now lost their cash!!
@ Keith Freeman and anyone else for that matter.
Folks you seem to be missing the point. The due diligence answers are in the court documents. Fatchett and Ingham have them. Fatchett represents 2000 clients. Ingham is a client. Its time investors woke up and asked to see these documents.
They will explain all there is.
As for the Olive Branch, Garreth Fatchett is not in the driving seat here. Ironically he is not bothered by anonymous postings in the normal course of events, he is only bothered by the anonymous posts when he knows exactly who generates them. And he also knows how to contact them.
The trust is dead, the simple matter of the cautions have dealt with that. The due diligence whilst mainly irrelevant now is contained in the court documents in Fatchetts hands. Get them off him, see for your selves.
It does not seem right to me that Richard Ingham has court documents that are nothing to do with him? why is he the chosen one Mr Fatchett?
Crozier going after Dave’s personal assets the way he talks about BB being “His baby” and BB being in his name he bought it on himself.
Fatchett stating % of people wanting to bring Harlequin down is a true fact Fatchett is referring not to the Irish builder as many think but to Dave Ames trying to liquidate it and buy it back for himself for buttons.
So Bob Storey, I guess you are completing?
So if after you have completed for some reason ie new owner or liquidator steps in any profit you might make you will give to the trust?
why not involve others in your completion and share your potential profits with them?
So who are you to call anyone greedy you are the one bragging about getting a return why not give your return to the trust?
No Thought Not!!
@Jane Doe, oh dear Jane, if that is your real name. I’m not sure how long you have followed this blog, or posted previously under a different ID, but let me point something out to you. You see it it quite easy for someone to post using an existing posters ID. Now Jane before you come out with your rather silly rhetoric I suggest that you just take a deep breath and before you post try and decide if the post you are replying to was from me. Ok.
Just to prove the point.
@Robert Storey I would like to apologise for my previous comments I realise it was not you who posted at 10.51
mmmm Your right I thought it sounded almost intelligent so course it was not you. Lol
Nikki, what does Chris Honey say about you posting on here like a nut job?
Nikki we are pissed off with you, you failed us – but took the cash – again.
Bob can you not answer the question in Jane’s post of 2.23pm? It’s perfectly reasonable?
Nuneaton is full of police today. Is it the Essex Plod? Are they ready to surround the house? Will Joe be with them? Joe who you may ask? Or could it be that nuneaton are playing Luton today with a record crowd? Where is “open letter”? How was the e mail received?
When you check you DOB at companies house, Nikki no way are you born in 1968 – no way what so ever!!!
is that a typo?
46 – not a chance.
56 – maybe.
And you ‘sister’ is ?????
Bob if you see a woman that looks like a drag queen it’s Nikki, beware.
Oh back to shit and crap just when the posts started to look like they where from other investors and not aggressive trolls .
No wonder there are no pictures of Nikki or even a death certificate for her sister.
Of course silly me it’s in Spain.
Nikki is the worst aggressive troll, I prefer Bob to that nasty cow.
@Glass Houses, I counted 4 questions. Which bit are you referring to?
It’s not difficult Bob. Do you not have the courtesy to answer Jane’s questions?
1)So Bob Storey, I guess you are completing?
2) So if after you have completed for some reason ie new owner or liquidator steps in any profit you might make you will give to the trust?
3) why not involve others in your completion and share your potential profits with them?
4) So who are you to call anyone greedy you are the one bragging about getting a return why not give your return to the trust?
@robert storey ….. It’s doesn’t matter to him who looses out . Robert storey cares only for his own pocket and criticizes anyone who isn’t in a position to complete on a unit as greedy and laughs at them .
I bet he never paid any money to the trust fund …… Doesn’t need to as he is a rich man with his benefits and part time job
@glass houses, do you not have the interlect to understand that I did not call anyone greedy as in your point four. I will reiterate, as it is too difficult for you to understand, the post of 10.51 was not me. Do you now understand that.
@ Dirty rs. The same comment applies to you. I have not called anyone greedy who cannot complete. Idiot.
If you could spell intellect properly I may be more inclined to listen to you!
However I just don’t believe you
Try answering the questions Bob!
………………….
Ern NO
@drs I do t give a monkeys what you believe. Get a life.
Anonymous Feb 22 at 11.28am.
I thankyou for your post.
However, it is absolute rubbish.
I have one bobbit …….. I had a better one before I met your pal Ames but as an intelligent fellow I can smell bullshit at 50 paces and your full of it .
@Jane Doe, see Jane, unfortunately this is the result of your post. I don’t blame you at all, but the low life’s will now seize on this type of thing because they lead such sad lives. They are supposed to be intelligent, but spend their life looking for spelling mistakes. Now Dirty Rotten Scoundrel, if you have a life I suggest you use it for some advantage. You are obviously a bitter twisted person. I pity you.
Robert – you write like a fourteen year old schoolgirl. So silly.
@Anon, and you would know how 14 year old schoolgirls write? How revealing.
AGAIN,
Questions to Robert Storey. Why won’t you answer them?
1)So Bob Storey, I guess you are completing?
2) So if after you have completed for some reason ie new owner or liquidator steps in any profit you might make you will give to the trust?
3) why not involve others in your completion and share your potential profits with them?
4) So who are you to call anyone greedy you are the one bragging about getting a return why not give your return to the trust?
To Jane Davies from the RL blog ….save your yourself the grief.
Any communication with Ingham/Storey is an exercise in
“reductio ad absurdum”
I am not Jane Davies, So please do not attack that lady I have watched BFP and just wanted answers.
My question is I have paid a deposit for a cabanna I have requested a resale so how can someone complete on my unit and I not get my money back??
http://www.exaronews.com/articles/4341/sfo-director-judges-let-off-white-collar-crooks
@jane doe because harlequin is a well structured scam ….. We cannot complete and so we will loose our money /pension and it’s unlikely we will recover anything ,but hey ho bob storey says I need to get a life so that’s what I will do maybe I will move to Nuneaton the benefit fiddles seem pretty good there.
@the poster of 6.43. Here a tip for you, instead of thinking up silly names to post under, read, if you can, response to previous posts. The questions have been answered. You are too thick to understand the answers.
@drs, Nuneaton is too good for you. Care to expand on your silly comment about benefit fiddles? No I suspect not, silly comment for a silly effect.
I am an investor and a client of Mr. Fatchett but am dismayed that not only is he unwilling to disseminate the information he holds to his clients but that he is now preventing and removing pertinent posts on his forum.
I am also totally disgusted that he has chosen to share the information he has obtained with a few from his inner circle and I am thankful that one amongst his inner circle has demonstrated some moral integrity by sharing the documents with me.
I am however deeply shocked and wholly dismayed by what I have discovered. And am now going to seek independent legal advice with particular reference to Mr. Fatchetts’ professionalism in this whole process.
I would call upon all investors to read my post.
“Reply by Regulatory Legal Solicitors 13 hours ago
Patrick,
We do not act for Harlequin or the Claimants. We are not in a position to release court documents on this site.
The litigation between the parties is something which we will report on as part of our due diligence.
We have no desire to join ourselves to these proceedings. We are not going to speculate on the tactical moves made by either party. That is a matter for them.
We have confirmed that we provided a witness statement in the proceedings confirming the trust process. ”
Mr. Fatchett in para 3 of his witness statement states the following;
“I act for over 2,000 investors who purchased properties through the Harlequin Group of Companies (“Harlequin”). I am advising these investors on options related to their Harlequin investment including the best route to recover their money or secure their investment.”
Given that Mr. Fatchett acts (takes instruction) for over 2000 investors then the court documents should be released to his clients, after allMr. Facthett is acting for his clients.
Paragraph 5 and 24 of the defendants (Ames) skeleton arguments in the High Court in London are posted below.
From this there is absolutely no doubt that Mr. Fatchett was acting in support of Mr. and Mrs. Ames, for him to state otherwise is absurd.
“The Defendants’ Evidence
5. In resisting the Claimants’ applications, the Defendants rely upon:
5.1 5.2 5.3
The Second Witness Statement of Richard Spector.
The Witness Statement of Samuel E Commissiong.
The Witness Statement of Gareth Fatchett.”
“24. As detailed in paragraphs 14 to 19 of Richard Spector’s Second Witness Statement, and the witness statement of Gareth Fatchett, the Draft Order sought would have the effect of undermining the efforts of the Harlequin group to set up a trust in respect of the common parts of Buccament Bay. As well as undermining the business activities of the Defendants as directors of the Harlequin Group of companies, the Draft Order would have a dramatic prejudicial effect on the thousands of investors who have signed up to the initial stages of the trust to date.”
“33. In addition to the evidence served on behalf of the Claimants in support of this application, the Court is invited to pre-read the Defendants’ evidence in the form of the Second Witness Statement of Richard Spector, the Witness Statement of Sam Commissiong, and the Witness Statement of Gareth Fatchett.”
Now to the assets to be placed in the trust, below is paragraph 4 of Mr. Fatchetts’ witness statement.
Paragraph 4 of Mr. Facthetts’ witness statement.
“I have advised the investors that, subject to the due diligence (which is currently being carried out,) the best route to secure the investors’ Harlequin investment would be to enter into a trust (“Trust”) which will be secured on land owned by Harlequin including the land at Buccament Bay and at Two Rivers. ”
Now lets look at what the Ames family say in their skeleton arguments in the same Court Case about the assets to be placed in the trust.
24. As detailed in paragraphs 14 to 19 of Richard Spector’s Second Witness Statement, and the witness statement of Gareth Fatchett, the Draft Order sought would have the effect of undermining the efforts of the Harlequin group to set up a trust in respect of the common parts of Buccament Bay. As well as undermining the business activities of the Defendants as directors of the Harlequin Group of companies, the Draft Order would have a dramatic prejudicial effect on the thousands of investors who have signed up to the initial stages of the trust to date.
The Ames family through their lawyers have spelt out to the UK High Court the assets to be placed in the trust.
“……..the Harlequin group to set up a trust in respect of the common parts of Buccament Bay.”
No where do the Ames’ solicitors are barristers make reference to the land at Two Rivers being placed into a trust.
Did Gareth Fatchett read the document incorrectly, here is what the Ames’ solicitors say about Two Rivers at paras 26.2 and 27 of their skeleton arguments.
“26.2 As detailed in paragraph 14 to 19 of the Second Witness Statement of Richard Spector, the Claimants have refused a security over Two Rivers, which is unencumbered land valued at $17,500,000……………..”
“27. In addition, it is the case that the Defendants’ undertakings to date are satisfactory in providing the Claimants with protection in respect of their claims. The Claimants have refused a security over Two Rivers, which is unencumbered land valued at $17,500,000, which it is not at their discretion to do.”
So if Harlequin were offering Two Rivers to the claimants as security how can Mr. Fatchett state that the Two Rivers land was going to be secured in the Trust for his 2000 or so clients.
On the issue of due diligence,
This is what Harlequins’ solicitors say in their skeleton arguments,
“11. Further, and or in the alternative to the matters listed above, the Claimants are not entitled to see the Defendants’ confidential information as this is commercially sensitive. The nature of the material that the Defendants would have provided to enable the Baker Clarke letter to be issued would contain commercially sensitive material.”
It will be very difficult if not impossible for Mr. Fatchett to obtain any due diligence material of merit if Mr. and Mrs. Ames are refusing to provide this material to a UK court of law.
I seem to remember Mr Fatchett talking about a trust last March/April it seems a long time ago now, and still the Ames family run around town on our money it just does not seem right………………
Crozier shut your trout pout
Fatchett, in trying to act on behalf of 2,000 clients simultaneously, is actually the worst legal representation they could have ended up with. He does not fight for the best result for the individual in trying to be the saviour of the masses.
Maybe his 2000 clients are are so altruistic that they would rather sacrifice any chance they had of recovering a significant part of their investment than stand in line in a group with thousands of others (backed by Harlequin and its supporters, funnily enough) and accept the conversion of their preliminary purchase contractual agreement with Harlequin into something worth more or less fuck all.
And they all have the cheek to condemn the Crozier 23. Those 23 are purely choosing to recover their money in the normal way, in suing the psychopathic conman who stole it from them, and won’t give it back despite contractual breach. I doubt the 23 pay much attention at all to the calamity that is the formation of the Trust and its blind followers.
Good luck to them and I hope they’re successful. It won’t make any difference to what the 2,000 Trustees are going to be left with.
On a more macro note, does it do the “City” and UK financial reputation
any good for the seeming inability of the authorities to prevent such
an obvious scam/Ponzi scheme to linger on and on. No laws appear
to have any teeth and those that may are not enforced.
@Anon RU aka Inch, it’s the Crazier 24 numpty.
I think it’s an absolute disgrace that it hasn’t been stopped.
It’s quite soul destroying to think how corrupt the whole system can be if something so open and obvious as this isn’t dealt with. But then you’re right, society seems to be riddled with fraud and deception and greed, from bankers, to industry, politicians right down to your scummy bankrupt double glazing salesman from Essex.
What’s the point in playing by the rules when those that don’t clearly do so well out of it and yet are so untouchable?
Fuck off Storey, you pointless, slimy piece of dog shit.
Yes Bobbit, so articulate of course any numpty or even muppet could write like that ……..note correct spelling
Incidentally I don’t live that far from Nuneaton …fancy a beer one night just to catch up .??
http://www.exaronews.com/articles/5019/sfo-will-soon-have-no-purpose-says-agency-s-ex-fraud-chief
Send me an e mail.
@anon RU aka Inch, irritating you already? Result
Not irritated Bobbit …..just looking forward to a beer with a fellow investor .
Ok I’m confused, the ref to “irritated” was to Anon RU, not to DRS.
There is much debate on the issue of the recent court case over on the RL site, and despite me being an investor and a client of Mr. Fatchetts’ my posts on the RL forum have been removed as quickly as I have posted them. Mr. Fatchett will not take my calls as he seems to be away (Again).
Mr. Richard Ingham another client of Mr. Facthett and a regular contributor to the RL Forum and who also has the documents from the recent court case, has been making statements I presume on behalf of RL, RL have not questioned his posts nor sought to remove them from the RL blog site as they have done with mine.
RL have the court documents, but are unwilling to explain to us, their clients, the ramifications of the claims made by the claimants in their skeleton arguments in the case last week, yet they allow Mr. Ingham a platform in which he can mislead clients like myself on the issues raised.
This has to stop, I have no other platform in which to raise my now ever growing concerns as to the independence and indeed of the validity of the advice Mr. Fatchett is giving us his clients.
Mr. Ingham has stated on the RL forum that the claimants were seeking to freeze and retain the completion monies from Buccament Bay, Mr. Fatchett has been stating to us, his clients, that the assets of Harlequin at Buccament Bay were being put into the trust, the following raises huge questions as to what assets Harlequin actually own, it seems that some of the Buccament Bay assets are held by Mr. Ames.
This from the Claimants Skeleton arguments.
“21. Of more immediate concern for the purposes of the freezing order and this application, the Claimants uncovered evidence that in fact some of the land at Buccament Bay was owned by the First Defendant personally, although none of this land was included in the Defendants’ schedule of assets.”
“22. Thus, in proceedings in the Irish Commercial Court, it turned out that HPSVG’s lawyer in St Vincent, Mr Sam Commissiong, told the court that the First Defendant bought some of the land at Buccament Bay in his own name, and not in the name of any Harlequin company (see Mr Corney’s statement paragraph 9 [1947]).”
“23. In the light of this, the Claimants repeatedly asked the Defendants to provide evidence of title (as is set out at Mr Corney’s paragraphs 11 and 12 [1947]), but the Defendants were unwilling or unable to comply.”
“24. Hence the Claimants’ application for an order that the land in question be treated as part of the Defendant’s assets for the purposes of the freezing order and Defendants’ undertakings.”
This information was provided to me by a member of Mr. Fatchetts’ inner circle, I am an investor paid my £200, I am called a client of RL by Mr. Fatchett, yet I have to resort to going through the back door for information, which is crucial to my decision, in whether I should give up my contractual rights as they pertain to Harlequin in return for a small holding, and give up all rights to seek redress from Harlequin, or seek an alternate route to that of the trust whereby I stand a better chance of recouping something from this mess.
Again I want to also reiterate that I am totally disgusted with Mr. Fatchetts’ behaviour towards his “Client” by giving the chosen few access to documents which affect us all and by seeking to censor debate on the issues on his forum.
This post raises huge issues as to the role Mr. Fatchett is playing in all this. He most definitely is supporting Mr. Ames and he has mislead his 2000 clients. Its time he produced the court documents in their entirety and not some sanitized version in his “Due Diligence”.
Anonymous
February 22, 2014 at 8:17 pm
I am an investor and a client of Mr. Fatchett but am dismayed that not only is he unwilling to disseminate the information he holds to his clients but that he is now preventing and removing pertinent posts on his forum.
I am also totally disgusted that he has chosen to share the information he has obtained with a few from his inner circle and I am thankful that one amongst his inner circle has demonstrated some moral integrity by sharing the documents with me.
I am however deeply shocked and wholly dismayed by what I have discovered. And am now going to seek independent legal advice with particular reference to Mr. Fatchetts’ professionalism in this whole process.
I would call upon all investors to read my post.
“Reply by Regulatory Legal Solicitors 13 hours ago
Patrick,
We do not act for Harlequin or the Claimants. We are not in a position to release court documents on this site.
The litigation between the parties is something which we will report on as part of our due diligence.
We have no desire to join ourselves to these proceedings. We are not going to speculate on the tactical moves made by either party. That is a matter for them.
We have confirmed that we provided a witness statement in the proceedings confirming the trust process. ”
Mr. Fatchett in para 3 of his witness statement states the following;
“I act for over 2,000 investors who purchased properties through the Harlequin Group of Companies (“Harlequin”). I am advising these investors on options related to their Harlequin investment including the best route to recover their money or secure their investment.”
Given that Mr. Fatchett acts (takes instruction) for over 2000 investors then the court documents should be released to his clients, after allMr. Facthett is acting for his clients.
Paragraph 5 and 24 of the defendants (Ames) skeleton arguments in the High Court in London are posted below.
From this there is absolutely no doubt that Mr. Fatchett was acting in support of Mr. and Mrs. Ames, for him to state otherwise is absurd.
“The Defendants’ Evidence
5. In resisting the Claimants’ applications, the Defendants rely upon:
5.1 5.2 5.3
The Second Witness Statement of Richard Spector.
The Witness Statement of Samuel E Commissiong.
The Witness Statement of Gareth Fatchett.”
“24. As detailed in paragraphs 14 to 19 of Richard Spector’s Second Witness Statement, and the witness statement of Gareth Fatchett, the Draft Order sought would have the effect of undermining the efforts of the Harlequin group to set up a trust in respect of the common parts of Buccament Bay. As well as undermining the business activities of the Defendants as directors of the Harlequin Group of companies, the Draft Order would have a dramatic prejudicial effect on the thousands of investors who have signed up to the initial stages of the trust to date.”
“33. In addition to the evidence served on behalf of the Claimants in support of this application, the Court is invited to pre-read the Defendants’ evidence in the form of the Second Witness Statement of Richard Spector, the Witness Statement of Sam Commissiong, and the Witness Statement of Gareth Fatchett.”
Now to the assets to be placed in the trust, below is paragraph 4 of Mr. Fatchetts’ witness statement.
Paragraph 4 of Mr. Facthetts’ witness statement.
“I have advised the investors that, subject to the due diligence (which is currently being carried out,) the best route to secure the investors’ Harlequin investment would be to enter into a trust (“Trust”) which will be secured on land owned by Harlequin including the land at Buccament Bay and at Two Rivers. ”
Now lets look at what the Ames family say in their skeleton arguments in the same Court Case about the assets to be placed in the trust.
24. As detailed in paragraphs 14 to 19 of Richard Spector’s Second Witness Statement, and the witness statement of Gareth Fatchett, the Draft Order sought would have the effect of undermining the efforts of the Harlequin group to set up a trust in respect of the common parts of Buccament Bay. As well as undermining the business activities of the Defendants as directors of the Harlequin Group of companies, the Draft Order would have a dramatic prejudicial effect on the thousands of investors who have signed up to the initial stages of the trust to date.
The Ames family through their lawyers have spelt out to the UK High Court the assets to be placed in the trust.
“……..the Harlequin group to set up a trust in respect of the common parts of Buccament Bay.”
No where do the Ames’ solicitors are barristers make reference to the land at Two Rivers being placed into a trust.
Did Gareth Fatchett read the document incorrectly, here is what the Ames’ solicitors say about Two Rivers at paras 26.2 and 27 of their skeleton arguments.
“26.2 As detailed in paragraph 14 to 19 of the Second Witness Statement of Richard Spector, the Claimants have refused a security over Two Rivers, which is unencumbered land valued at $17,500,000……………..”
“27. In addition, it is the case that the Defendants’ undertakings to date are satisfactory in providing the Claimants with protection in respect of their claims. The Claimants have refused a security over Two Rivers, which is unencumbered land valued at $17,500,000, which it is not at their discretion to do.”
So if Harlequin were offering Two Rivers to the claimants as security how can Mr. Fatchett state that the Two Rivers land was going to be secured in the Trust for his 2000 or so clients.
On the issue of due diligence,
This is what Harlequins’ solicitors say in their skeleton arguments,
“11. Further, and or in the alternative to the matters listed above, the Claimants are not entitled to see the Defendants’ confidential information as this is commercially sensitive. The nature of the material that the Defendants would have provided to enable the Baker Clarke letter to be issued would contain commercially sensitive material.”
It will be very difficult if not impossible for Mr. Fatchett to obtain any due diligence material of merit if Mr. and Mrs. Ames are refusing to provide this material to a UK court of law.
All,
Are completion profits owed to Original Buyers from the 50 people completing ?
We are told that 50 people are ready to complete. We have seen no hard evidence of this.
If these people are Original Buyers at Buccament Bay then they will simply have their balance to pay.
If these people (or some of them) are 2nd Buyers then they will have to account to the Original Buyer for their profit.
We have many of the Original Buyers telling us that they resold their contract via the secondary market created by Harlequin.
Remember, the Original Buyer only received their profit upon completion by the 2nd Buyer. Therefore with only around 110 units ready to complete on there must be instances of resale where profit is owed to the Original Buyer.
It seems to us that Original Buyers who entered the resale process should raise the query with Harlequin as to whether their resold unit has completed. If so, then the completion monies are not owed to Harlequin, but to the Original Buyer.
One unusual element of the resale structure is that there is no contractual nexus between Original Buyer and 2nd Buyer. More often than not, the parties do not know who each other are. Difficult to pay someone when you do not know who they are !
We are continuing to piece together the Original Buyer population to the contracts / original maps. Be in contact with us if you undertook a resale and have not as yet spoken to us. 01384 889900.
As part of any formal restructure process, we are going to insist that there is a proper audit of the sales / resales on Buccament Bay. This sits in our “shopping list” next to investor security and the Statutory Demands being dealt with.
We only have 2 more days to wait before Mr Ames is going to return to us. We sincerely hope all the “positive news” from Harlequin in their 3 emails (yesterday – Brazil, today – Pro Harlequin, today – Harlequin) is backed up by substance and action. Talk at this point is all but finished.
Regulatory Legal Solicitors
Thought the above might help Jane Doe and others who have units already built in BB
Anon 10:08 – Unbelievable that you were totally ignored by the
last RLS post. They are in some sort of lala land….and in such a
public way.
The above letter is some 6 months old, I see Fatchett has not mentioned the “STAT DEMANDS” since, wonder why?
But now to the juicy bit,
“As part of any formal restructure process, we are going to insist that there is a proper audit of the sales / resales on Buccament Bay. This sits in our “shopping list” next to investor security and the Statutory Demands being dealt with.”
Lets not forget the completions are happening as Ames claims.
OK MR. FATCHETT WHERE ARE YOU WITH THIS??????????
WHERE ARE YOU WITH THE AUDIT OF SALES \ RESALES????
AND HOW DO YOU CORRELATE THIS WITH THE STATEMENT FROM AMES BELOW IN THE RECENT COURT CASE?????
“11. Further, and or in the alternative to the matters listed above, the Claimants are not entitled to see the Defendants’ confidential information as this is commercially sensitive. The nature of the material that the Defendants would have provided to enable the Baker Clarke letter to be issued would contain commercially sensitive material.”
IF AMES WILL NOT GIVE THIS TO THE COURT, HOW DO YOU INTEND TO GET IT?, AND GIVEN THAT YOU ARE UP TO YOUR NECK IN THIS, PLEASE DONT STATE THAT YOU HAVE SEEN SOMETHING, BUT YOU ARE THE SUBJECT OF AN NDA SO CANNOT SHARE IT WITH YOUR CLIENTS.
@Anonymous 10.08 and 10.22
I am not ignoring you just wonder what we can all do?
Mr Fatchett has decided Mr Ames does not have to answer to any of us where our money has gone, why is that Mr Fatchett.???
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Stop shouting, no one is going to answer you.
Richard Ingham is grossly misleading clients over on the RL site, and of course Gareth Fatchett and RL are remaining resolutely silent on the matter.
Ingham why play the gormless idiot?. The assets of the trust in the court documents you have comprise of the “Common Parts” of Buccament Bay.
From the court documents you have, “……..the Harlequin group to set up a trust in respect of the common parts of Buccament Bay.”
And as such, legally, that is all that will concern the trustees, what Mr. Ames does with any cash generated from any part of the Harlequin Operation outside of those assets, those being the common parts of Buccament Bay, is frankly his business.
Given that Mr. Fatchett has failed to do “his shopping” which he stated 6 months ago he was going to do, again a reminder, “As part of any formal restructure process, we are going to insist that there is a proper audit of the sales / resales on Buccament Bay. This sits in our “shopping list” next to investor security and the Statutory Demands being dealt with.” frankly Mr. Ames is free to spend that money on anything he sees fit.
You might now begin to understand why the CLC claimants sought to freeze these assets pending, yes you have it now, a proper audit of the Harlequin business at Buccament Bay.
Now its time that Fatchetts clients woke up to the bull shit being fed to them by Ingham and Fatchett.
What a mega mess….. The authorities need to move o this…the SFO….you cant sell units on land you do not own with out it being fraud, the solicitors regulatory body need to stamp on Fatchet as he would seem to be a crooked as Ames
bout time the government governed
Anyway I am off to start a Ponzi property business was soon as find a dopey masonic solicitor to be my tail gunner
@ Anonymous 10.56pm, whoever is behind these leaks, they are not looking for responses, they do not need them, they are alerting readers to the fact that there is a problem, and they are alerting readers and visitors to this blog that Gareth Fatchett may well be aiding and abetting the fraud by the Ames family. If the extracts published above are truly from the CLC / Harlequin case, then the trust is in serious trouble, the posts on here do get read by a very wide audience. you would be surprised who reads them.
Why does Ingham keep saying the completion money has to go into the trust? This is incorrect.
Fatchett has stated in his witness statement for Ames’ defence that the common areas of Bucc Bay form the trust. Basicaaly, what we’ve known from the start, yet RL are so evasive over confirming. Well. Fatchett has now confirmed to the court.
Even if the completion moneys don’t get used in settlement for Crozier’s clients, it WILL NOT be put into the trust. All that goes into the trust is the common areas of Bucc Bay. The trust has no control whatsoever over anything else in the Harlequin empire.
I surprise myself by reading them.
The trust will hold common areas plus any properties completed that people do not have the finance to complete on, pons a and paths mantra is a load of bull spun by the anti trust
Incidentally Ingham is not saying that completion monies should go to the trust – he is saying that monies should be reinvested in construction of Buccament Bay for the good of everyone in the trust – stop twisting what’s been written!
Anon RU And don’t foret to add that Trust members are relinquishing
all contractual rights. Such a deal !
The stupidity going on over on the RL site, This guy Ingham, who has seen the court documents is pushing for the trust to be set up as quickly as possible, the trust will not secure the cash.
Fatchett is a fraud,
Permalink Reply by Patrick 35 minutes ago
Richard- I think the problem for many people is that they don’t trust the completion money in the hands of the Ames family. They have proven to be reckless with cash.
Permalink Reply by Richard Ingham 32 minutes ago
Patrick – I can understand that point of view hence why we need the trust functioning ASAP
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Permalink Reply by Patrick 16 minutes ago
What do people think of this possible scenario?
Harlequin have been very eager to push for completions money, even to the extent of hounding investors to complete at Buccament Bay. Could it be possible that Ames wants to use this money to agree a settlement with the Crozier group of investors. This would protect the Ames family assets, which is basically investor money and hey presto, suddenly all of the hostile investors have disappeared. This would leave the Ames family free to plan their exit route without the threat of investor legal action. Clever, yes. Devious, yes. Would you put it past Ames, no.
WhatstheUse
February 22, 2014 at 11:24 pm
Incidentally Ingham is not saying that completion monies should go to the trust – he is saying that monies should be reinvested in construction of Buccament Bay for the good of everyone in the trust – stop twisting what’s been written!
Well whats the use this is what a Richard Ingham said on the RL site,
Permalink Reply by Richard Ingham yesterday
Patrick I’m a raid your wrong – crozier attempted to get her hands on completions monies that’s a matter of fact not debate. This cash should go back to the trust hence RLs statement to the course regarding the trust. Your working on old info!
lol WhatstheUse go back to Fatchops you fool
Whats the use, you state the following,
WhatstheUse
February 22, 2014 at 11:21 pm
The trust will hold common areas plus any properties completed that people do not have the finance to complete on, pons a and paths mantra is a load of bull spun by the anti trust.
So where can you point to that Mr. Ames or indeed Mr. Fatchett has stated this.
This is what Mr. Ames’ solicitors stated in court;
“24. As detailed in paragraphs 14 to 19 of Richard Spector’s Second Witness Statement, and the witness statement of Gareth Fatchett, the Draft Order sought would have the effect of undermining the efforts of the Harlequin group to set up a trust in respect of the common parts of Buccament Bay.”
I dont see any mention of a plus, do you? I am afraid its ponds and paths.
Please point to one document from Harlequin that states otherwise, I think the only bull is coming from you I’m afraid.
WhatstheUse / Ingham – if you’re going to make things up, I suggest you write them down on a note pad beside you so that you can be consistent, and not make a fool of yourself by attacking others who question what you say.
Bullshitters everywhere, not just Ames and Harlequin.
Why do you revert to the same old shit of assuming w oh people are – I’m not Ingham I just happen to agree with his point of view.
Oooooooooh !!! This is getting really good.
A Bob Storey
‘@the poster of 6.43. Here a tip for you, instead of thinking up silly names to post under, read, if you can, response to previous posts. The questions have been answered. You are too thick to understand the answers.’
Where and when did you answer the questions Bob? I cannot see a post from you stating the answers.
Can somebody please remind me, what happens FOR INVESTORS after the trust?
If no financier comes along, Harlequin goes into liquidation and creditors share out what’s left. Those who entered the trust share out the assets in the trust between them i.e. the common areas of bucc bay since they exchanged their contracts for units for a share of the paths and ponds. Not sure what, if anything, that will be worth after liquidation, or in any case.
If a financier does come along, what return will he give to investors? Refund of deposits? No, of course not, else that would make the investment unviable. Share of rental profits? It’s questionable whether the resort generates any profit as it is, so why would a financier agree to Harlequin investor returns as part of his purchase? Of course, those investors who’ve invested in anything other than the completed units at Bucc Bay are going to have to wait for the financier to develope the remaining resorts, out of his own money since Ames has spent every penny invested by clients so far, and then see if he wants to pay them a return in accordance with the contracts they had with Harlequin.
Doesn’t look good does it.
I don’t think there has been much strategic planning in the RL camp for what happens AFTER the trust.
Funny how Ingham has stirred all the anti Ames bunch up with a simple point of view , it’s got fat knacker paddy all upset, the little pervert Newman, and trout put Nikki/ Audrey Dixon (I don’t know who I am, when I was born or what qualifications I have) the pig in knickers trying to get the key to the fountain of youth but has a well battered vag that resembles a butchers dust bin!
Ingham appears to have touched a nerve – is nikki Crozier the Same Audery Dixon that was a brothel madam in Chester le street? Bet she didn’t get May offers!
Anon – RU I thought that RL/Fatchett were going to split after
the trust was set up. At least I remember reading on their site that
they would not be a part of the Trust. They got their money so
why hang around !!!
Permalink Reply by Maria T. Legros on Thursday
Thanks RL for the info and update. Never been on BFP forum never knew it existed. I just went into NC website and there it was with the update on GF’s statement before going to Tokyo. Nice to know he is always looking out for us all.
Permalink Reply by chris davison on Thursday
Paula, I would take anything with the proverbial pinch of salt, unless it’s from a reputable source i.e RL. I think BFP is a terrible place.
However BFP does not censor unless it is idiots like the one who
posted at 12:05. Also BFP has no real reason to host this continuing
mess other than they believe it impacts Barbados in some way. It is
a wonderful place.
Permalink Reply by Patrick yesterday
Hi Chris- yes it is expensive and this would have put many off. I suppose you have to weigh up this fee against your initial investment which varies for many of us. It was my understanding when I spoke to cpc that the fee was capped at 3000. They also have to take into account the fact that if the case is settled out of court they may only receive 70 per cent of their investment back.
Richard- I don’t believe I am wrong. And do you genuinely believe Ames will put the money back into the trust? He does what he likes and hasn’t suddenly changed. Not having it, I wasn’t born yesterday!
Hi Keith- RL have taken on an exceptional case, that cannot be doubted. Other law firms would understandably avoid this and in cpc’s case have approached things on a smaller scale. Every law firm will have its own approach to matters and they obviously believe they have a strong case. Yes the trust is the only way forward for us but these people had decided on the best possible action to regain their money before the days of the trust and we have to respect that.
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Permalink Reply by Regulatory Legal Solicitors yesterday
Horses for courses.
The claimants are suing David & Carol Ames personally. We have a copy of the application and the evidence. So we can see much said about it is simply wrong.
The 24 have paid more money for a different approach. That is a matter for them. We have decided (for right or for wrong) to offer a different approach.
Nothing wrong with either approach. Nor can we criticise Harlequin / Ames for seeking to defend themselves.
I think crozier slates Ingham for one reason!
Remember he asked her to clarify what % she skimmed off for herself for her clients, clarification of her qualifications and clarification Audery Dixon is her dead sister!
Guess what, she couldnt!
Here we have Gareth Fatchett stating that he has copies of the application and evidence, So he says much of what is being said is wrong, given that he acts for 2000 clients and is alleged to have given this evidence to a chosen few and now extracts are appearing on here, is it not time he releases the information to his clients, why behave like God.
Sorry I do not remember that, Paddy the Pie Shifter, could you direct us to where we can see this stated? Im sure we are all interested in this.
Even though Richard Ingham has all the court documents he is attempting to mislead RL Clients, It is now time that RL release all the documents to all their clients and not to the select few who along with Fatchett are trying to railroad the majority into the trust which is flawed.
Permalink Reply by Patrick yesterday
Yes Richard, RL have basically substantiated exactly what I was saying- cpc are targeting the Ames families assets, not completion money.
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Permalink Reply by Richard Ingham yesterday
No that was the first court hearing, not the second. The second hearing was for completion monies, that is why Gareth Fatchett sent a statement to the judge regarding the setting up of the trust.
If it was for personal assets this statement would not have been made as it would have been a personal matter not business.
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Permalink Reply by Patrick yesterday
Well, RL have just stated that the claimants were suing Dave Ames and Carol Ames personally. So let’s just clarify this. Originally they were going for the personal assets, yes? Then you are saying they were targeting completion money, yes? And now RL are saying they are going for the personal assets again, yes?
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Permalink Reply by Richard Ingham yesterday
I’m saying the first court case was to freeze Dave and Carols asserts, the second case was to try and freeze completion monies – next weeks court case – that I don’t know?
I rise for umpteenth time to ask….All the activity is centred on BB, what is happening re investors who put money into the other resorts…resorts that were and never will be built, least of all because the land is not owned by Ames or HP….. If you had invested a good few thousand in say Brazil and all you gonna get is a 2,000th of a share in a path…..not good is it
Why never any mention of anything other than the scam, fraud and Ames/HP WHY, where have all those other investors gone?
I am not sure if this will help, I was sent this tonight by an RL client. This might answer your questions, my contact claims to be in the know and states that the following came from the court case last week. I have no way of authenticating the documents but I trust my contact. I hope this helps.
Two Rivers
36. The land at Two Rivers is earmarked for a further Harlequin resort development, and said to be owned by Two Rivers Beach Resort SA. This is a Dominican company whose value, the Defendants say, is “negligible” (see Mr Corney’s paragraphs 25-27 [1953], and cf the accountant’s report referred to below). Notwithstanding this, the Defendants maintain, somewhat remarkably, that the value of the land owned by the company is US $17.5 million.
37. Although the Defendants maintain that it is this company which owns the land, the Defendants themselves offered it to the Claimants as security in place of their obligations and undertakings under the consent orders of June and October 2013 (see their letters of 15 November 2013 [1976] and 5 December 2013 [1996-7]).
38. Thus the Defendants are using their control of this land for their own personal benefit and effectively treating it as their own. It should therefore be treated as their asset for the purposes of the freezing order and undertakings.
39. The Defendants now appear to accept (paragraph 13 of Mr Spector’s evidence [2167]) that the freezing order ought to cover this land.
40. However, they seek to assert that because of this, they should be free to deal with Buccament Bay as they like. But this is untenable, because:
a. No title deeds or any other satisfactory evidence of title has been produced in relation to the land at Two Rivers, although the Harlequin Group has apparently been selling it to UK investors since 2009.
b. The Defendants have not explained how they are in a position lawfully to use it for their own purposes.
c. The alleged value of US $17.5 million is hard to believe, given that (a) the valuation report relied on by the Defendants does not exhibit the certificate of title, and (b) the company said to own the land, as said above, is said by the Defendants and the accountant to have only a “negligible” value.
41. In short, although there is prima facie material that the Defendants do own Two Rivers beneficially, it is no more than that, and so it forms no basis for saying that Buccament Bay should be discharged from the undertakings and order. If, for instance, it turned out that the Defendants do not beneficially own Two Rivers, or cannot lawfully use it for their own ends, then the Claimants would be left with insufficient assets to enforce against, unless Buccament Bay was also included.
It looks like the CLC camp has got some pretty good lawyering
going on.
This is very interesting.
So we have Fatchett stating in his witness statement, extract taken from the post at 10.08pm the following;
Paragraph 4 of Mr. Facthetts’ witness statement.
“I have advised the investors that, subject to the due diligence (which is currently being carried out,) the best route to secure the investors’ Harlequin investment would be to enter into a trust (“Trust”) which will be secured on land owned by Harlequin including the land at Buccament Bay and at Two Rivers. ”
Point 1. (from anonymous 12.51 am,
para 40 c “the company said to own the land, as said above, is said by the Defendants and the accountant to have only a “negligible” value.”
and para 36 “The land at Two Rivers is earmarked for a further Harlequin resort development, and said to be owned by Two Rivers Beach Resort SA. This is a Dominican company whose value, the Defendants say, is “negligible” (see Mr Corney’s paragraphs 25-27 [1953], and cf the accountant’s report referred to below).”
So why would Mr. Fatchett want to accept an asset with negligible value as an asset for the trust?
Surely after nearly a year working on this Fatchett would have carried out even the most basic due diligence, seriuosly how long is this most basic of due diligence taking.
Point 2.
Who from Harlequin told Fatchett that the land at Two Rivers was to go into the trust? Because apparently Harlequin and their solicitors were prepared to give the same land over to the CLC claimants as far back as June 2013, again in October 2013 and now again in February 2014, as security in that case.
para 37. “Although the Defendants maintain that it is this company which owns the land, the Defendants themselves offered it to the Claimants as security in place of their obligations and undertakings under the consent orders of June and October 2013 (see their letters of 15 November 2013 [1976] and 5 December 2013 [1996-7]).”
Point 3. If there were proof needed that the Ames’ were using the investors assets as their own personal piggy bank, and would probably do so with the completion money, look no further then the following;
para 38. “Thus the Defendants are using their control of this land for their own personal benefit and effectively treating it as their own. It should therefore be treated as their asset for the purposes of the freezing order and undertakings.”
para 39. “The Defendants now appear to accept (paragraph 13 of Mr Spector’s evidence [2167]) that the freezing order ought to cover this land.”
para 40. “However, they seek to assert that because of this, they should be free to deal with Buccament Bay as they like. But this is untenable, because:
a. No title deeds or any other satisfactory evidence of title has been produced in relation to the land at Two Rivers, although the Harlequin Group has apparently been selling it to UK investors since 2009.
b. The Defendants have not explained how they are in a position lawfully to use it for their own purposes.
c. The alleged value of US $17.5 million is hard to believe, given that (a) the valuation report relied on by the Defendants does not exhibit the certificate of title, and (b) the company said to own the land, as said above, is said by the Defendants and the accountant to have only a “negligible” value.”
para 41. “In short, although there is prima facie material that the Defendants do own Two Rivers beneficially, it is no more than that, and so it forms no basis for saying that Buccament Bay should be discharged from the undertakings and order. If, for instance, it turned out that the Defendants do not beneficially own Two Rivers, or cannot lawfully use it for their own ends, then the Claimants would be left with insufficient assets to enforce against, unless Buccament Bay was also included.”
Conclusion;
Whilst Mr. Fatchett caveats his statement and statements with the words subject to due diligence, he appears not to have carried out much in the way of due diligence up to now, he stated that the Two Rivers lands were to be assets in the trust and not withstanding the Ames’ were offering this land in the CLC case as security, the Ames’ appear unable or at least unwilling to provide documents pertaining to this land, see para 40 a.
“No title deeds or any other satisfactory evidence of title has been produced in relation to the land at Two Rivers, although the Harlequin Group has apparently been selling it to UK investors since 2009.”
Given the speed at which Mr. Fatchett has set up the trust company, and those on the RL site wanting the trust established as quickly as possible, is Mr. Fatchett under so much pressure that he has over looked many issues. Or is he happy to take the Ames’ word for it.
It looks like Fatchett has been caught with his pants down around his ankles, feeding his clients a load of bs and keeping them in the dark. No wonder he is at pains to point out that the BFP web site is not to be trusted.
Fatchett trusted Ames, but Ames only gives a shit about Ames, and really does not give a flying monkeys who he drops in it on the way.
I wonder what Richard Ingham has to say about this particular asset for the trust.
To top it all off, if indeed there are cautions on the lands as alluded to on BFP, well you can kiss the trust goodbye for one, and as for finance, well in the future Ames will tell us all he had the finance but as a result of all the negativity generated by the CLC case the financiers backed out.
Now wasn’t it only a few months ago that Ames had finance coming from some Arabs. Now he is telling us the Americans are piling up to invest as well. I would not have thought that was a very bright move on his part, given that the SFO are looking into him this side of the pond.
Even if the little toad just signed an agreement with the yanks, then got lifted this side of the pond, I can see a grand jury going after him in the US for attempted fraud.
His next flight to the US could be at the invitation of the US Marshall service, but then he seriously thinks he has done nothing wrong.
Whatever the case, Fatchett might just be regretting that he bothered getting out of bed the morning he did his witness statement in the interest of Justice.
He did it in the interest of Ames and it is a decision which could eventually cost him dearly.
One has to wonder how long this comment will last on the New “Trip Advisor” site or should we say RL Forum. Lol
Richard, you have been told more than once, including by RL, that the action is against the personal assets of the Ames and not against Harlequin assets. Completion monies should be paid to Harlequin and should not suddenly disappear into anyone else’s pocket as has done with much of the deposit money.
A freezing order should prevent that and if it didn’t it would incur the wrath of the court. No, I don’t think the claimants were thinking of the trust and it is mischievous to imply anyone would think that, but it’s just possible that the trust could benefit. It certainly couldn’t lose out if a freezing order were granted since it would then be the court who decides where the money should go and not the defendants.
You clearly don’t have a problem with the defendants (as opposed to Harlequin) having the completion monies. I do and I would assume most investors, especially those in other Harlequin resorts would also prefer that the defendants did not have unfettered access to it.
There! You have been told once more. Will that change your view on this? I doubt it!
Hi Anonymous,
You have been on this site for years.
However it has not affected your ability to spread rumour upon rumour.
To the poster of 11.58 PM, then look harder.
Can we take a small step back and look at this option
If completions are to take place then why can’t Gareth hold the completion monies for the trust.My opinion is that the trust will take over the resort and therefore the money belongs to the trust.
Obviously by doing the trust the Ames family are effectively handing over the assets to the investors so it follows Gareth should hold the monies.
Some stinkers over on the TA Buccament Bay.
Nikki,
Post the court documents on your site.
You could do this.
@a client of Gareth. Are you serious. The trust is not taking over the resort. Why should the trust have any say over what I will own?
@a client of Gareth
Stop it. This approach does not sit the CPC creation of GF as a bogeyman.
You need to criticise GF and forget the fact Crazier’s lot have received no money yet. Distraction par excellence
@thebody politic . I have no intention to criticise Gareth , it is my understanding that the trust will have buccament bay I didn’t make it up .i was told the assets will be placed in the trust my comment was then why can’t Gareth have the completion monies on behalf of the trust .it seems obvious to me if you give the asset it includes the money at the time of handover . I didn’t mean to cause upset and certainly no criticism of Gareth who I think is doing the best he can for us .
Over on the RL site , Mr Ingham has clarified matters . There will be a board of five trustees who have a say in how the money is spent in consultation with Mr Ames so it looks like it’s a joint operation not a handover.Sorry if I caused any confusion .
shall we guess who they will be??
@client of Gareth
Just like you shouldn’t believe everything posted here, the same goes for RL site. The trust/investors will have no legal control over HP or it’s assets. You will have a board that will consult with Ames from a powerless position. Ames will still be in control.
We can all see how that has worked in the past. If you need the above clarifying I suggest you email RL and ask them direct questions.
Anon – yes let’s guess please
Fatty Broughton, her ugly fat bastard of a daughter Steph, Audry Dixon reincarnated, kiddy fiddler Newman and tree hugged Bob – is that an odds on bet???
How about we guess who the trustees will not be.
Mr storey …. You are one disgusting turd , I am surprised anyone gives you credence .
Nikki,
There are over one million reasons why RL will not engage with you.
Firstly, you appear to be someone else. Secondly, RL will be wary as you now look like a stooge.
All the partial posting of court documents behind anonymous names says it all.
I hope the trustees are Mr Walton who for my opinion seems to understand things .
Mr freeman from the r.l site who always posts intelligently
Gareth for obvious reasons
The trusts bankers whoever they may be
And one non involved person with a background in this business
Acog – what expertise does Walton have apart from choosing wallpapers and tonguing Gareth’s balls?
And who on the trustee board then will have decent construction expertise?
Richard Ingham is a QS.
How about appointing Audrey Dixon as the estate agent ? ha ha ha
I feel we need some freemasons on the trust board. Dave is a freemason, so we need others of a similar ilk.
Cuts out any misunderstandings.
Richard Ingham is a chartered quantity surveyor but runs his own practice – even if he had the time, why would he put his company in the firing line on sites like this . Broughton would have a website set up in 24hrs!
Yes, that’s true.
Maybe we appoint some Patsy’s ?
We can then dictate matters from the background.
Yes That is the Ames plan and now you have told everyone
For those that are real investors like myself , Mr Ingham has explained the full list of assets that are going in the trust and it’s much more far reaching than some of the anonymous posters on here lead you to believe . In fact when you include the operational hotel and land and unsold cabanas it’s quite impressive .
To a client of Gareth.
You are being misled. A full list of assets has been given to the high court and it doesn’t include what you have listed. You should be asking why would they lie to you. A question that perhaps would have served you well before you became involved with Harlequin.
Anonymous – you really are a dimwit! The list of assets given to the court was Ames personal assets and has nothing to do with the trust assets. Why do feel it necessary to try to panic investors with your lies?
Ames is a fraudster simple as that…you cant take £400million and sell properties on land you don’t own and it not be fraud and he involved sip and ifa so as to spread the fraud around a lot of people who were greedy and took the bait….now its going to take a long time to unravel the scam
Have to hand it to Ames it is a very clever mode of operation and does make it difficult for the chasing pack to pick up the threads…..but scam and Ponzi scheme it is most definitely is
It will be unravelled and he will be jailed, just in the meantime he is jetting around first class and shagging anything that has a pulse…..once Carol gets fed up the lies, she with she spill the beans and pull him down, hell hath no fury and all that (she must know he has conned her as well)
Interesting debate going on over at RL
Permalink Reply by Terry Penney 5 hours ago
Richard- it is totally irrelevant wether you consider the completion money to be Ames assets or not. What is relevant is who will be in control of the money. Not the trust, Hp/Ames will be. You are assuming/trusting that he will use the money to build! The trust will have no control over those monies or Ames/hp organisation.
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Permalink Reply by Richard Ingham 5 hours ago
Terry – no that’s not correct, the purpose of the trust and the 5 trust board directors are consulted in how investors money is spent – if not then why are we bothering with a trust? It serves no purpose. With this in mind wouldn’t the Crozier freezing of completion cash be detrimental to the rest of the investors?
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Permalink Reply by Terry Penney 4 hours ago
The trust is an exchange of investors contracts for a charge over the asset being common areas of BB.
If a creditor gets a charge on one of my houses. They have no say on how I manage that property, who I rent it to etc. All it means is that they are 2nd in line,after mortgage company, if I sell it.
The trust and Crozier don’t even come into the completion money. It would have been a choice of Ames or a judge via a freezing order who has control.
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Permalink Reply by Richard Ingham 3 hours ago
Terry – the trust doesn’t just have a charge over ponds and paths, the trust will have a charge on those areas plus any completed properties that haven’t had a title transfer, pieces of land that are yet to be developed and the operational hotel included in this is any completion monies that may be received – as long as they aren’t intercepted by crozier.
Your example of what happens with your house is a particularly unfortunate one to use as an example as in this case rather than in the normal world, you have no influence on the cabana you have bought until you complete.
The trust does come into it when dealing with assets including completion monies – crozier shouldn’t have anything to do with it but would like to.
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Permalink Reply by keith freeman 1 hour ago
To all,
RL and Harlequin worked together at the court.That is how it has to be if the Trust is to succeed.
Does anybody really believe that the wool will be pulled over RLs eyes.
Regards.
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Permalink Reply by keith freeman 23 minutes ago
RL,
Can you let us know when GF finishes the marathon.
Thanks.
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Permalink Reply by Terry Penney 11 minutes ago
Richard- when did Gareth and Ames say anything about putting a charge on anything but common areas? Post the document.
We both know and it is documented in Gareth’s statement (I can post it) from the court case what property to be is to be included. Your assertion that the trust will be in control of Harlequin is simply untrue. A charge is a world away from control.
I am not anti trust but I am anti lies.
Like Gareth, Crozier is representing investors.
This is what Robert Storey stated at 1;54pm, He states the list of assets given to the court were Ames’ personal assets, now how did he know this and indeed why does he state that it was only the personal assets of the Ames family that were listed?
“Robert Storey
February 23, 2014 at 1:54 pm
Anonymous – you really are a dimwit! The list of assets given to the court was Ames personal assets and has nothing to do with the trust assets. Why do feel it necessary to try to panic investors with your lies?”
Yet over on the RL site, Storey asks a contributor on that site how they are privy to the exact content of the court case.
see below
“Permalink Reply by Robert Storey 20 hours ago
Can you explain Jane, how you know Paula was “exactly correct in her assessment of the situation?” Are you privy to the exact content of the court case? Is Paula fully aware of the contents of the same case? If so how?”
I ask why some on clients of Fatchetts claim to have documents relating to the court case whilst many others appear not have obtained them.
In the last 6 hours two contributors to the RL forum claim to have documents from the CLC Court Case. Richard Ingham and Terry Penny.
See below the screen shots from the RL Forum.
Permalink Reply by Richard Ingham 5 hours ago
Paula – thanks for the rant, funny thing is that we appear to broadly agree with each other in that a trust should exist and completion monies should be used to reinvest and not solely for the benefit of a few and in that I include the Ames family.
The only difference we have is that the crozier freezing order was an attempt to freeze completion monies, I have this fact in writing, i do not consider completion monies Ames assets even if you do.
Permalink Reply by Terry Penney 11 minutes ago
Richard- when did Gareth and Ames say anything about putting a charge on anything but common areas? Post the document.
We both know and it is documented in Gareth’s statement (I can post it) from the court case what property to be is to be included. Your assertion that the trust will be in control of Harlequin is simply untrue. A charge is a world away from control.
I am not anti trust but I am anti lies.
Like Gareth, Crozier is representing investors.
Why would crazy crozier post information from the trial under many different names? I think the woman has had some sort of breakdown?
@Anon 2.57, wise up. You assume the Robert Storey posting on here is the same Robert Storey who posts on RL. There can be no impersonation of an ID on RL so work it out for yourself. You think you are being so clever posting comments from RL but you have proved to be a bit thick really. Robert Storey has been at the Tigers all afternoon.
Some questions I would ask of crazy crozier, if I was a client.
1. qualifications?
2. who are you?
3. the Spanish scam?
4. why you changed your name?
5. how much of the fees do you skim?
6. what experience do you have?
7. what did you do in Spain?
8. yeah it’s all your sisters fault
Croizier has been posting details of the case all weekend, hardly professional is it? Drinking again tut tut.
Richard Ingham is a QS.
How about appointing Audrey Dixon as the estate agent ? ha ha ha
Have Crozier in charge of lies, botox and bullshit
If Crozier was born in 1968 I will show my saggy tits in town.
Even with the cosmetic shit she had done she looks about 60.
Horny Corny has lost control of Crozier, she has gone of one of her drinking binges, it happens on a regular basis, plus substance abuse.
The trust will be made up of Ingham, Bob Ladel, 11 Capital, and Fatchet – this has already been decided.
Ingham has already been paid.
Ingham is already on the RL payroll.
Ladel, 11 capital, Ingham will be on the Trust, plus waston the mason.
fatchett makes up the 5
Ever wondered where or what Crozier was doing prior to 2011.
Just asking…
I know, so does Harlequin…. won’t spoil the surprise for you all
Robert Storey
February 23, 2014 at 3:41 pm
@Anon 2.57, wise up. You assume the Robert Storey posting on here is the same Robert Storey who posts on RL. There can be no impersonation of an ID on RL so work it out for yourself. You think you are being so clever posting comments from RL but you have proved to be a bit thick really. Robert Storey has been at the Tigers all afternoon.
Sorry you couldn’t make this up if you wanted, lol, jesus are the investors in Harlequin really as thick as shit lol.
Ok so the Robert Storey who posts on RL is not the Robert Storey who posts on here, but the Robert Storey who posts on here must know the Robert Storey on RL, given that he knows that that Robert Storey is apparently down in the Tigers all afternoon.
http://www.theleader.info/article/209/oasis-boss-appears-in-court/
That would make her about 55?
Account for the cosmetic surgeries and fake tits?
I am the real Robert Storey and I have been to Tesco’s buying a box of wine.
When all are falling I’m……..
So you guys allege that Mrs. Crozier ripped off hundreds of purchasers in Spain, frankly so what. Seriously, she is neither the solicitor on record for the claimants, the barrister representing them nor is she a claimant, in fact she has nothing to do with the proceedings,
I mean, had Harlequin felt that having any dirt on Mrs. Crozier would have assisted them with their current case they would have attempted to play that card, but they didn’t.
So again big deal, Mrs. Crozier ironically is being accused on here and over on the RL site of exactly what Harlequin and the Ames family are being accused of. The difference is that the Ames family and Harlequin are under investigation by the SFO and Essex Police and their son Matt has already been convicted of Fraud and faces sentencing in March.
This post raises huge issues as to the role Mr. Fatchett is playing in all this. He most definitely is supporting Mr. Ames and he has mislead his 2000 clients. Its time he produced the court documents in their entirety and not some sanitized version in his “Due Diligence”.
Anonymous
February 22, 2014 at 8:17 pm
I am an investor and a client of Mr. Fatchett but am dismayed that not only is he unwilling to disseminate the information he holds to his clients but that he is now preventing and removing pertinent posts on his forum.
I am also totally disgusted that he has chosen to share the information he has obtained with a few from his inner circle and I am thankful that one amongst his inner circle has demonstrated some moral integrity by sharing the documents with me.
I am however deeply shocked and wholly dismayed by what I have discovered. And am now going to seek independent legal advice with particular reference to Mr. Fatchetts’ professionalism in this whole process.
I would call upon all investors to read my post.
“Reply by Regulatory Legal Solicitors 13 hours ago
Patrick,
We do not act for Harlequin or the Claimants. We are not in a position to release court documents on this site.
The litigation between the parties is something which we will report on as part of our due diligence.
We have no desire to join ourselves to these proceedings. We are not going to speculate on the tactical moves made by either party. That is a matter for them.
We have confirmed that we provided a witness statement in the proceedings confirming the trust process. ”
Mr. Fatchett in para 3 of his witness statement states the following;
“I act for over 2,000 investors who purchased properties through the Harlequin Group of Companies (“Harlequin”). I am advising these investors on options related to their Harlequin investment including the best route to recover their money or secure their investment.”
Given that Mr. Fatchett acts (takes instruction) for over 2000 investors then the court documents should be released to his clients, after allMr. Facthett is acting for his clients.
Paragraph 5 and 24 of the defendants (Ames) skeleton arguments in the High Court in London are posted below.
From this there is absolutely no doubt that Mr. Fatchett was acting in support of Mr. and Mrs. Ames, for him to state otherwise is absurd.
“The Defendants’ Evidence
5. In resisting the Claimants’ applications, the Defendants rely upon:
5.1 5.2 5.3
The Second Witness Statement of Richard Spector.
The Witness Statement of Samuel E Commissiong.
The Witness Statement of Gareth Fatchett.”
“24. As detailed in paragraphs 14 to 19 of Richard Spector’s Second Witness Statement, and the witness statement of Gareth Fatchett, the Draft Order sought would have the effect of undermining the efforts of the Harlequin group to set up a trust in respect of the common parts of Buccament Bay. As well as undermining the business activities of the Defendants as directors of the Harlequin Group of companies, the Draft Order would have a dramatic prejudicial effect on the thousands of investors who have signed up to the initial stages of the trust to date.”
“33. In addition to the evidence served on behalf of the Claimants in support of this application, the Court is invited to pre-read the Defendants’ evidence in the form of the Second Witness Statement of Richard Spector, the Witness Statement of Sam Commissiong, and the Witness Statement of Gareth Fatchett.”
Now to the assets to be placed in the trust, below is paragraph 4 of Mr. Fatchetts’ witness statement.
Paragraph 4 of Mr. Facthetts’ witness statement.
“I have advised the investors that, subject to the due diligence (which is currently being carried out,) the best route to secure the investors’ Harlequin investment would be to enter into a trust (“Trust”) which will be secured on land owned by Harlequin including the land at Buccament Bay and at Two Rivers. ”
Now lets look at what the Ames family say in their skeleton arguments in the same Court Case about the assets to be placed in the trust.
24. As detailed in paragraphs 14 to 19 of Richard Spector’s Second Witness Statement, and the witness statement of Gareth Fatchett, the Draft Order sought would have the effect of undermining the efforts of the Harlequin group to set up a trust in respect of the common parts of Buccament Bay. As well as undermining the business activities of the Defendants as directors of the Harlequin Group of companies, the Draft Order would have a dramatic prejudicial effect on the thousands of investors who have signed up to the initial stages of the trust to date.
The Ames family through their lawyers have spelt out to the UK High Court the assets to be placed in the trust.
“……..the Harlequin group to set up a trust in respect of the common parts of Buccament Bay.”
No where do the Ames’ solicitors are barristers make reference to the land at Two Rivers being placed into a trust.
Did Gareth Fatchett read the document incorrectly, here is what the Ames’ solicitors say about Two Rivers at paras 26.2 and 27 of their skeleton arguments.
“26.2 As detailed in paragraph 14 to 19 of the Second Witness Statement of Richard Spector, the Claimants have refused a security over Two Rivers, which is unencumbered land valued at $17,500,000……………..”
“27. In addition, it is the case that the Defendants’ undertakings to date are satisfactory in providing the Claimants with protection in respect of their claims. The Claimants have refused a security over Two Rivers, which is unencumbered land valued at $17,500,000, which it is not at their discretion to do.”
So if Harlequin were offering Two Rivers to the claimants as security how can Mr. Fatchett state that the Two Rivers land was going to be secured in the Trust for his 2000 or so clients.
On the issue of due diligence,
This is what Harlequins’ solicitors say in their skeleton arguments,
“11. Further, and or in the alternative to the matters listed above, the Claimants are not entitled to see the Defendants’ confidential information as this is commercially sensitive. The nature of the material that the Defendants would have provided to enable the Baker Clarke letter to be issued would contain commercially sensitive material.”
It will be very difficult if not impossible for Mr. Fatchett to obtain any due diligence material of merit if Mr. and Mrs. Ames are refusing to provide this material to a UK court of law.
There is much debate on the issue of the recent court case over on the RL site, and despite me being an investor and a client of Mr. Fatchetts’ my posts on the RL forum have been removed as quickly as I have posted them. Mr. Fatchett will not take my calls as he seems to be away (Again).
Mr. Richard Ingham another client of Mr. Facthett and a regular contributor to the RL Forum and who also has the documents from the recent court case, has been making statements I presume on behalf of RL, RL have not questioned his posts nor sought to remove them from the RL blog site as they have done with mine.
RL have the court documents, but are unwilling to explain to us, their clients, the ramifications of the claims made by the claimants in their skeleton arguments in the case last week, yet they allow Mr. Ingham a platform in which he can mislead clients like myself on the issues raised.
This has to stop, I have no other platform in which to raise my now ever growing concerns as to the independence and indeed of the validity of the advice Mr. Fatchett is giving us his clients.
Mr. Ingham has stated on the RL forum that the claimants were seeking to freeze and retain the completion monies from Buccament Bay, Mr. Fatchett has been stating to us, his clients, that the assets of Harlequin at Buccament Bay were being put into the trust, the following raises huge questions as to what assets Harlequin actually own, it seems that some of the Buccament Bay assets are held by Mr. Ames.
This from the Claimants Skeleton arguments.
“21. Of more immediate concern for the purposes of the freezing order and this application, the Claimants uncovered evidence that in fact some of the land at Buccament Bay was owned by the First Defendant personally, although none of this land was included in the Defendants’ schedule of assets.”
“22. Thus, in proceedings in the Irish Commercial Court, it turned out that HPSVG’s lawyer in St Vincent, Mr Sam Commissiong, told the court that the First Defendant bought some of the land at Buccament Bay in his own name, and not in the name of any Harlequin company (see Mr Corney’s statement paragraph 9 [1947]).”
“23. In the light of this, the Claimants repeatedly asked the Defendants to provide evidence of title (as is set out at Mr Corney’s paragraphs 11 and 12 [1947]), but the Defendants were unwilling or unable to comply.”
“24. Hence the Claimants’ application for an order that the land in question be treated as part of the Defendant’s assets for the purposes of the freezing order and Defendants’ undertakings.”
This information was provided to me by a member of Mr. Fatchetts’ inner circle, I am an investor paid my £200, I am called a client of RL by Mr. Fatchett, yet I have to resort to going through the back door for information, which is crucial to my decision, in whether I should give up my contractual rights as they pertain to Harlequin in return for a small holding, and give up all rights to seek redress from Harlequin, or seek an alternate route to that of the trust whereby I stand a better chance of recouping something from this mess.
Again I want to also reiterate that I am totally disgusted with Mr. Fatchetts’ behaviour towards his “Client” by giving the chosen few access to documents which affect us all and by seeking to censor debate on the issues on his forum.
@Anon 4.11. You thick twat. Let me spell this out for you.
1)there is only one Robert Storey who posts on RL
2)there are two Robert Storeys who post on here, one is genuine, and one is an impostor.
3) you are incapable of working out which is the genuine person on here, and which one is the impostor, hence your post of 2.57 when you posted a complete load of rubbish.
If you want to play safe stop trying to be smart and post replies to any post by a Robert Storey. Now do you understand.
The RL Robert Storey believes that no one should give a monkeys about Matt Ames, odd that the Robert Storey does give a monkeys about everyone but the Ames family.
Just an observation.
Permalink Reply by Robert Storey on Tuesday
Only 7 minutes after being posted on BFP. Bit slow off the mark there. Did you just cut and paste the link? Quite frankly, does anyone give a monkeys?
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Permalink Reply by chris davison on Tuesday
Yes, I certainly do. You were late jumping to the defense Robert.
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Permalink Reply by Robert Storey on Tuesday
Not jumping to any defence, as it has been pointed out on here previously, so what. Does “Et al” ring any bells with you Chris?
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Permalink Reply by Patrick Doyle 8 hours ago
The apple doesnt fall far from the tree, so they say….
Two Robert Storeys who post on here and one on RL, that makes three, but then again how would you know that there are only two Robert Storeys who post on here, unless perhaps you are both those Robert Storeys.
Looks like Fatchett has 5 days to produce “February 2014 – Deed of Waiver / Advice / Due Diligence output”
Due Diligence process must have been completed by now, “January 2014 – Due Diligence Process”
So 5 days to the trust.
Harlequin Update 2nd December 2013 from Regulatory Legal Solicitors on Vimeo.
Key Points :-
Harlequin Investor Trust Project – to proceed
December 2013 dedicated to chasing up stragglers, obtaining Harlequin Pink Forms / Payments.
Dealing with the common documents – Trust Deed / Deed of Waiver / Security Documents
January 2014 – Due Diligence Process
February 2014 – Deed of Waiver / Advice / Due Diligence output
1st March 2014 – Deed of Waivers signed
The Update also deals with the “other options” and the need for Harlequin to play their part in chasing up stragglers.
From 3rd December 2013 we will commence banking payments into our client account.
Regulatory Legal Solicitors
@Anon 4.37, so you have a new toy “permalink” I suggest you post the whole of the conversations regarding the MA trial including the posts from RL. Go away and try and be constructive rather than childish.
So this is the legal team looking into the trust, now who better to ask some pertinent questions as to the trust, ah yes Mr. Austin,
What with all the allegations, leaks, issues pertaining to the trust etc, lets get Mr. Austin involved, after all thanks to Jon, Matt Ames was caught, charged and subsequently convicted.
And lets get BBC Panorama copied in also.
It is time to shit or get off the pot.
nicola-preston no 5 chambers
richard-jones-qc no 5 chambers
olivia-chaffin-laird no 5 chambers
Robert Storey
February 23, 2014 at 4:45 pm
@Anon 4.37, so you have a new toy “permalink” I suggest you post the whole of the conversations regarding the MA trial including the posts from RL. Go away and try and be constructive rather than childish.
Robert thats all there is, nothing else, this the whole thread, please direct us to where we can find more on the RL site, please.
Did it ever come out in trial documents that Harlequin leases a large portion of land at BB rather than own it? If this is so, how could that land ever be part of a Trust?
Something has really got trout pout really upset, it’s a sensitive thing a woman’s age 😉
@Anon 5.31 I did not say on that thread, I said the whole of the conversations regarding the MA trial. (Note the word conversationS) instead of just using your new toy grind your way through the RL site if you think you have some relevant point to prove ( which is unlikely)
Apologies Robert but we are just referencing individual threads relating to topics on the RL site. Again if there is additional information on Matt Ames hidden in the depths of the RL site to which you refer to, maybe you would be kind enough to direct us to that information, after all you do refer to it.
Making unsubstantiated or uncooberated statements does not help the debate.
I think Honny Corny will be furious at Crozier’s drunken postings over the weekend. Not a very professional why to behave is it?
Can’t polish a turd.
@ worried investor, you are not really a worried investor are you? You are just a Harlequin troll. Why not engage in intelligent debate, would that not be a far better use of your time? The childish comments are doing nothing to further the Ames case or indeed the case for a trust.
Let’s not forget the evil leader of the Masonic cult. I was informed that Chris Corny is a devote Roman Catholic,strongly opposed to Freemasonry.
Good luck Chris.
And how does your post of 4.37 add to the debate? It was sarcastic reference to me not giving a monkeys about the MA. Not true I said “no one gives a monkeys” . You are quite right, unsubstantiated or uncooberated statements does not help the debate, so stop doing it.
I am an investor you total twat. So, lets debate Nikki Crozier, what did she do before 2011? why is she posting on here? why is she damaging the trust? why does she take so much money? what does she do? why did she change her name? why have clients refused to pay anymore, ha ha didn’t think I knew that do you.the whole total case is going down the pan and you wont get anything back for trusting that conning lying bitch.
tick tock
Question for Robert.
Why does Crozier never turn up in court?
Or, why is there no report of Audrey Dixon dying???
Or, no record of Nikki Crozier prior to 2011?
Or, a picture ? A qualification?
Bit odd? Just asking and debating 😉
@ worried investor …. You are not an investor just a silly harlequin muppet .
No one takes you seriously , because your cover is blown . Lol lol
Worried Investor you may not be an investor, you have taken the the name Mrs. Broughton used on the RL site when she posted. So the case is going down the pan, ok fine, I am sure this will be clear for all to see when the court orders are made public this week, so let us wait and see.
And note I did say two court orders, not one. So please when these court orders are perfected, feel free to comment further in the interests of debate. In the mean time please feel free to discuss aspects of the court orders with Mr. Richard Spector of ELS.
Finally the original Robert Storey has returned, the Robert Storey who also posts on the RL site, at least he has the guts to admit who he is from time to time, unlike worried investor.
Open letter to Mr. Corny
Control Crozier.
Be honest, you must be a teeny weeny bit fed up of the BS you are being fed?
Especially being like children by Audrey, ooops sorry Nikki
Did any of you do any DD on her?
Surly, you did after Harlequin??
Hello simon keeping well are you . We miss you but will see you very very soon.
Very well my dear.
You may like this site
http://www.ukdps.co.uk/
Someone please explain why Nikki Crozier/Audrey Dixon is relevant
to a court case if she is not physically in the court and has turned over
to a well respected firm a group of injured parties? All she is and has
been is a consolidator (yes for a fee) and whatever she has done in the
past simply is not relevant. From what I have been reading here and
on the RL site her actions actually have a chance of recovery.
Unfortunately the totally compromised (before it even gets set up)
Trust will alas recover nothing.
She just thinks she is relevant. Dave will go bust before paying Crozier, he has plenty stashed.
When Ames had to declare his assets did he disclose “his” overseas assets? And has anyone discovered what he’s allegedly salted away under his daughters name etc?
Crozier has overstepped the mark, it’s her releasing court papers, this has backfired in a spectacular fashion.
Nikki,
That’s a stupid thing to say about Dave stashing money away, how do you know such things – ridiculous- scaremongering rubbish.
You think I’m Nikki? Well if “she” was watching Wales thrash France in the Legion (S Wales) on Friday night- then maybe I am. So anyone know the answer to my question?
Managing Director aka “The Boss”
Nikki Crozier calls the shots at CPC Worldwide. Having years of experience in the property industry, she’s an authority on how to get people out of sticky situations. Currently completing her Masters degree in European Laws, she knows what she’s on about!
She usually has the answer whether it’s at the local pub quiz, or for your legal issue.
She rarely takes no for an answer and is mainly fuelled by coffee and french cigarettes!
What you see is what you get with Nikki and she prides herself on giving you a straight answer.
How odd…….
http://companycheck.co.uk/company/05667955/CPC-HOLDINGS-LIMITED/directors-shareholders#people-summary
Now who has been naughty CPC Holdings ( must be that pesky sister again)
http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/cpc-holdings-no-compensation-c660613.html
No Compensation
Contact information:
CPC Holdings
Durham, England
United Kingdom
CPC HOLDING/International in Durham. This company was reccommended all over sites in 2011 stating that they could get money back from dealing with MRI, MacAnthony Real Estate, for failure to deliver furniture packs, late completion on off plan property etc. I have not received a penny. They are supposed to be a legal firm that can act if you have been a victim of fraud but they provide no evidence that they have quailified solicitors in this field, UK or Internationally, to act in such cases. They are just more chancers that delay the progress of a real chance to claim compensation. Fed up with off shoots of MRI messing us around. Can anyone proove a payout through CPC Holdings, if not i think you are just staff posting to get a commission. I think the no win no fee was to convince us not to use a real legal firm with genuine lawyers. My research shows a company on Money Saving Expert that people have been looking into as well. Any genuine & true replies will be gladly welcomed.
This was posted over 100 times to spam the complaint, now where have we seen this action before?
Hi,
I’m not trying to Spam this post or anything I hasten to add it’s just that I work for a company called CPC Holding.
My name’s Samantha Roberts and CPC Holding is the company, we help throughout the UK and have recently had an enquiry about MRI here in the office which led to a good bit of research and it being added to our (very long) list of problem companies.
It seems that we’re able to help in a lot of instances and I spoke to my boss and anyone who gives us a ring and quotes the complaints board we are prepared to give you guys a free no obiligation consultation…
I’ve been looking at the mess some of the people are in and it quite simply infuriates me.
It’s our job to solve problems abroad and I think that there’s a lot of members on here that we can help.
The company was formed out of being disgusted at the way some people have been treated in the past and how so many people feel lost in a minefield.
We spend everyday campaigning for clients and helping in any way we can. if anyone wants to ring us you’re more than welcome to just have a chat because I can imagine a lot of people are really upset. 01913782389.
http://www.cpcholding.co.uk
I truly hope we can help some of you.
Posting from the managing director of CPC Worldwide Ltd – CPC Holding
In answer to the several posts placed on here I wish to inform all forum members of the following:
1. CPC Holding are a group of multilingual legal executives backed by a firm of international lawyers who specialise in the field of recovering money lost through delinquent property transactions for UK citizens.
2. We have offices and subsidiary offices in the following locations
Spain – Fuengirola, Malaga, Murcia, Alicante and Tenerife
England – Durham, London
Brazil – Fortaleza, Natal and Recife
3. We work on a no win no fee basis as seen on our websites www,propertyproblemsabroad.co.uk, www,cpcholding.co.uk and www,cpcworldwide.co.uk.
4. We have had several successes in Spain, Portugal, Bulgaria and Brazil, which I will not publish on an open forum. However I am happy to PM people our successes and proofs.
5. Turkey is a new area for us as several UK based clients have contacted us regarding tapu difficulties and loss of deposits .
6. We assess each case on an individual basis and as we work NO WIN NO FEE we tell you straight off if you will succeed or not. Currently we have a Turkish lawyer in Istanbul reviewing the caseload.
I trust this clarifies the matter.
The directorate of CPC Holding
Posted by PaulAtCPC
Did you know the company number for CPC Holding 7697014.
is fake?
There is a legal action ongoing which should point in which direction
the judiciary is leaning. Very much should be known by the end
of this coming week. Nikki-Sticky-Tawdry-Audry Who the hell cares.
What matters is what the judges issue. No more, no less.
CPC Worldwide, “started in July 2010” Nicollete-Elizabeth Crozier became a director (the only one) in July 2011. “The accounts do not need to be audited” Can somebody explain why this is?
“Permalink Reply by S Warden 31 minutes ago
looking at BFP looks like someone very close to the CLC case is posting information one would hope is confidential all over the place.
For certain someone has got it in for the Trust. The question is why?”
S Warden claims that someone in CLC is leaking confidential material all over the place,
The poster on here who is posting information claims they are getting information from the RL camp and there is plenty of evidence that some connected to RL have the court documents, some have even stated this on the RL Forums, see below.
Please also see Note (1) Below as it pertains to the conduct of Mr. Fatchett in this matter.
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Permalink Reply by Richard Ingham 13 hours ago
Paula – thanks for the rant, funny thing is that we appear to broadly agree with each other in that a trust should exist and completion monies should be used to reinvest and not solely for the benefit of a few and in that I include the Ames family.
The only difference we have is that the crozier freezing order was an attempt to freeze completion monies, I have this fact in writing, i do not consider completion monies Ames assets even if you do.
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Permalink Reply by Terry Penney 11 minutes ago
Richard- when did Gareth and Ames say anything about putting a charge on anything but common areas? Post the document.
We both know and it is documented in Gareth’s statement (I can post it) from the court case what property to be is to be included. Your assertion that the trust will be in control of Harlequin is simply untrue. A charge is a world away from control.
I am not anti trust but I am anti lies.
Like Gareth, Crozier is representing investors.
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“Permalink Reply by Regulatory Legal Solicitors on Friday
Horses for courses.
The claimants are suing David & Carol Ames personally. We have a copy of the application and the evidence. So we can see much said about it is simply wrong.
The 24 have paid more money for a different approach. That is a matter for them. We have decided (for right or for wrong) to offer a different approach.
Nothing wrong with either approach. Nor can we criticise Harlequin / Ames for seeking to defend themselves.”
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Permalink Reply by Regulatory Legal Solicitors yesterday
Patrick,
We do not act for Harlequin or the Claimants. We are not in a position to release court documents on this site.
The litigation between the parties is something which we will report on as part of our due diligence.
We have no desire to join ourselves to these proceedings. We are not going to speculate on the tactical moves made by either party. That is a matter for them.
We have confirmed that we provided a witness statement in the proceedings confirming the trust process.
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Note (1).
Given Mr. Fatchetts’ statement above, and his claims that Harlequin have opened privileged documents to him, the question is can these be reasonably and properly withheld from CLC or, indeed, from any other litigant (including CPS/SFO)?
It appears that Mr. Fatchett may have breached the rules on professional ethics, (A matter for the SRA and regulatory bodies perhaps), There was no need for Mr. Fatchett to have seen, (We have a copy of the application and the evidence.) the application and the evidence to be able to produce a statement of fact explaining to the court what the trust was, his roles, etc.
Mr. Fatchett is not party to the litigation and states this, (We do not act for Harlequin or the Claimants. We are not in a position to release court documents on this site……. We have no desire to join ourselves to these proceedings.),so given that he is not a party to the litigation, on what reasonable basis can privileged material from CLC be made available to him?
We can understand Harlequin showing him their stuff-that’s their call. However that for CLC isn’t for Harlequin to disclose to an unconnected third party, and Mr. Fatchett should, indeed, would have known this.
What Mr. Fatchett has done is a breach of Solicitors rules.
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Anon 11:17 BRAVO !!! (or as they say on my side of the pond –
Slam Dunk !!!
This post is not from a regular anti Harlequin troll, those legal eagles out there know full well the ramifications of this. All I can say is get the loo paper and firelighters into the RL offices in Birmingham quick.
And if I were on the RL forum I would be very careful what I would be saying right now.
To the layman, Gareth Fatchett has opened the door into the secret world of Harlequin for those pesky officers from the SFO. On top of facing some serious problems from his governing body. Ouch.
What the hell was Fatchett doing swanning around Japan when only a few short weeks ago this was his update, see below.
And from the recent post Fatchett did himself no favors whatsoever by producing a witness statement for Harlequin.
I also agree I would be very careful what I would be saying on the RL forum right now.
Harlequin Update 2nd December 2013 from Regulatory Legal Solicitors on Vimeo.
Key Points :-
Harlequin Investor Trust Project – to proceed
December 2013 dedicated to chasing up stragglers, obtaining Harlequin Pink Forms / Payments.
Dealing with the common documents – Trust Deed / Deed of Waiver / Security Documents
January 2014 – Due Diligence Process
February 2014 – Deed of Waiver / Advice / Due Diligence output
1st March 2014 – Deed of Waivers signed
The Update also deals with the “other options” and the need for Harlequin to play their part in chasing up stragglers.
From 3rd December 2013 we will commence banking payments into our client account.
Regulatory Legal Solicitors
No wonder the Harlequin RL trolls are in a tail spin, all I can say is wow, what an own goal, It is time investors woke up and started to smell the coffee.
Would be terrible if Jon Austin of the Echo got a hold of all this.
-Mischief Maker – What is the UK equivalent of a Pulitzer? The
man has earned it.
Gareth Fatchett tried to pull the wool over his clients eyes. He has missed dead line after dead line. He has had little success in gaining any due diligence of merit or has basically not bothered.
His FSCS claims look like they are going no where, not whilst Harlequin still has some semblance of blood coursing through its veins. The FSCS claims are, after all, claims of last resort. Fatchetts’ claims that he will appeal the decision of the FSA in relation to redress claims is an act worthy of a BCA ( British Comedy Awards).
Fatchett has an audience of desperate individuals who are the victims of one of the biggest frauds in the UK. And they will cling onto any hope. Putty in Fatchetts’ hands.
Fatchetts’ cozy relationship with Ames has come home to bite him squarely in his ass. It is about time that Fatchett was made accountable for the absolutely shambolic mess he has made of the trust.
Fatchett was warned, anyone, I mean anyone who has had any dealings with the toxic toad and his family end up paying dearly.
lNew word for me –shambolic– I can hardly wait to use it. !!!
Fatchett entered a war where a good few have taken it upon themselves to ensure that Ames and his family will never rip anyone off ever, ever again.
He should have known better, every move he made was being watched.
And to demonstrate such overt support for the toxic toad and his dysfunctional family has lead to serious questions as to his independence and credibility. See Fatchett believes Ames is a decent, honest individual.
His own lack of impartiality on the matter has lead to this. He has only himself to blame. He could have handled this so differently. But he didn’t.
Shambolic; Definition, Chaotic, disorganized or mismanaged.
Its time the SFO stepped in. Put the dog Ames and his wife down. They are no more then leaches. No sorry. Scum pure scum.
What an absolute fucking joke. Fatshit and his christmas jumpers. Swans off to Tokyo on investors money for a marathon. What an arrogant duplicitous prick. Update after update of pure waffle.
A while back I confided in Mr. Fatchett, who later passed on my information to Dave Ames and Simon Terry. Sorry Mr. Fatchet deserves everything he has coming. I stopped being a member of his forum. And the mutual admiration society.
Has anybody complained to the SRA about Fatchett…..prob not, that’s the thing nobody leads, nobody actually does anything other than moan…people ya all need to do something…complain to the SRA over Fatchetts relationship with Ames and the leaking of papers
This mess needs someone with strength to see it through
Pretty obvious Crozier has lost the plot so unprofessional . What a nasty piece of work that woman is. We thought Broughton was bad. People actually pay her for this – amazing
No wonder clients have stopped paying her is it?
Hi Anonymous,
I find it strange that you are still on this forum.
Both you and i know that you are liability to the anti Trust campaign.
Could be a change of name needed.
Ask yourself, who could be spouting all this anti RL propaganda and why?
Then ask, would you want such a person looking after your interests?
Nikki Crozier has officially lost the plot.
Question her methods and you will be kicked out. How many of you ‘paying’ clients has she got now?
Horny Corny will have his hands full (in more way’s than one) 😉 he needs to sort this mess out.
I’m so pleased Reg Legal have conducted themselves with professionalism not taking the bait from Nasty Nutty Nikki.
CLC will have 24 unhappy clients to placate today.
Crozier is getting aggressive with us now, pretty much threatened to get rid of me if I carried on asking questions, my way or the highway.
‘@ Mischief Maker
February 23, 2014 at 11:41 pm
Would be terrible if Jon Austin of the Echo got a hold of all this.’………………….
Who’s to say he hasn’t already?
That would do Crozier no good lol
Heh lets all support Gareth just like those window licking morons on the RL site. Oh look how RL behave them selves. Yeah listening to the bs coming from Ingham all day yesterday. How come Ingham is the new spokesman for Fatchett ?
Go Gareth go go go.
RL could have 2000 + very unhappy clients this week. Some are blaming Mrs. Crozier for all this, but lets see, who has the most to loose?
Well if the judge has gone against Ames or indeed this ” consent” order is not to Ames’ liking well Ames would most definitely have good reason to gripe and stir it up.
Fatchett, well he too has many reasons for stirring it. Firstly, He broke the solicitors rules, but most on the RL forum would not understand this or how. Secondly, the chosen few in RL are being shown documents, the majority are not. Thirdly, Fatchett is being publicly embarrassed by the trust affecting issues that have come up as a result of this case.
But lets all blame Mrs. Crozier shall we, why not. It deflects attention away from the most likely source of all the recent leaks, loose lips Fatchett himself.
Why not blame the Irish builder, surely he is behind this and not Mrs. Crozier. ☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻
Crozier, the Irish builder and Broughton are close. Always found that odd.
Broughton is back with Fatchett, fell out with Irish and Crozier.
Fatchett is very very close to Dave Ames do I find that odder??????
Saw something over on the RL site posted recently that made me laugh and typifies the idiots who invested in Harlequin in the first place.
“Talk to RL, they are dealing with Harlequin at a very high level”……………..
There is only one level and for many many reasons that ain’t very high. Lol ☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻
Bob Ladell is close to Ames, he wanted to run the Trust, not RL – could he be the leak?
He has been very sneaky in the past.
I would not put this past him.
Hi Anonymous,
Today, how is your inability to grasp reality.
The Trust is moving forward.
@Sneaky Bob,
The posts are boring enough to be him, not the ones that have any humor, no way.
Dave does trust him because he married Mrs Ames sister.
Mrs A has gone mad over this.
http://www.cityoflondon.police.uk/news-and-appeals/Pages/Architect-of-environmental-Ponzi-scheme-guilty-of-%C2%A31.6-million-fraud.aspx
Nikki we all know it was you, stop shouting at clients
Reply by S Warden 2 hours ago
I have been thinking about the recent truly bizarre comments on BFP. They fall into two categories pro RL and anti RL / anti-Trust. The anti-bunch, very odd, the posts are very detailed indeed almost legal sounding in some cases. The information could only have come from someone close to the working detail of Harlequin and the court case – work it out for yourself who they could be and why they seem so upset.
Answer; Is Richard Ingham, or Terry Penney, Bob Ladell, thats interesting, did Ingham give him the documents????
Bizarre comments reference Fatchetts’ behaviour, don’t think so, he broke his code of ethics, of that there is no doubt.
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Permalink Reply by Antonio 1 hour ago
Someone has got a loose lips. Only can be few peoples.
Answer; Absolutely, lets see this week when the court order comes out shall we., sorry should that be the courts orders perhaps.?????
Ingham, Crozier, Ladell and Fatchett will be members of the Trust, this has been discussed and is deemed to be a good representation.
“Permalink Reply by keith freeman on January 17, 2014 at 19:04
Hi Susan,
I have lost a huge amount of money with this investment. For seven years i have been dealing with Harlequin.
In my experience the only way forward is the Trust.
I trust RL and they will do all they can for all clients.
I have paid my Trust fee.
Every investor has to make up their own mind.
Regards.”
Keith whilst we have every sympathy for your plight, a few things, You state you have experience and state the only way forward is the trust, Keith we doubt you have ever been in this position before so it would be difficult to have experience of same, that coupled with all your other comments on the RL site demonstrate that you can ill afford to loose your investment.
However this is what you stated today on BFP.
“Hi Anonymous,
Today, how is your inability to grasp reality.
The Trust is moving forward.”
Keith, the facts are there for all to see. For example, Mr. Fatchett could if he so wished clarify the situation as it pertains to the cautions on the various resort lands. This would demonstrate to Mr. Fatchett that the trust he is suggesting cannot legally proceed unless and until the issue of the cautions is dealt with by Harlequin.
Your statement that the trust is moving forward is based solely on the updates from Mr. Fatchett, but to date there are without substance.
The latest post on the RL forum is very telling, one would expect that an investor would seek as much information from as many sources as is humanly possible, some on the RL forum seem to suggest that the only information of substance and credibility emanates from that site. This is sadly not true.
For example the various posts from Richard Ingham yesterday are contradictory to what the Ames’ stated in court as it pertained to the assets to be placed in the trust.
“Permalink Reply by Gabriella Klein 55 minutes ago
If you are reading BFP, why do you then feel compelled to inform the readers on this forum about it? Are you trying to sow doubt and fear?
RL have advised us, I think, to take what’s on BFP at face value – either for the Trust or against it. Many of us have chosen not to read it. None of it is putting off RL from pursuing the Trust. All we have to do is to be patient and wait for the outcome of the due diligence, and take things step by step. Meanwhile, there has been all kinds of speculation about this or that on here which I have not found in the least edifying. Perhaps it is a way of dealing with one’s own anxieties, but for some people reading, it could be confusing and destructive. Some may like to predict an unhappy ending, by way of protecting themselves from disappointment. I would rather drink from the half full cup.
As for “loose lips”, we can imagine who it might be, but we don’t know, in truth.”
Then we must take another example of the reluctance of Mr. Fatchett to make comment on issues pertaining to Harlequin.
This is what RL stated on the 12th of February.
“Permalink Reply by Regulatory Legal Solicitors on February 12, 2014 at 19:35
Matthew Ames was convicted in relation to two unrelated companies. We should refrain from commenting as the matter has not yet been fully disposed of by the court.
As investors in Harlequin, you should focus on securing your investment. Nothing else is relevant at this time.”
Odd that RL made such a comment, their view on the matter was not concurred with by either the Press, London City Police or the CPS who all posted articles on their websites post the Matt Ames trial.
RLs’ reluctance to comment on the Matt Ames case had more to do with appeasing Mr. and Mrs. Ames then any legal impediment from doing so. And that sadly is the problem with Mr. Fatchett and RL, the need as they see it to appease Mr. Ames and his wife at every turn, even to the cost of investors.
What about Nikki Croizers / Audrey Dixon case should RL discuss that too?
http://www.theleader.info/article/209/oasis-boss-appears-in-court/
Fraud in Spain? Why?
2005… so
Once a conman always a conman.
The former employee began noticing irregularities within the company soon after he started in September last year and as he battled for reassurances from Dixon that completions would go through he, along with other staff, were left to face the understandably irate clients.
After realising there was a black hole in the bank funds to the tune of about 2.5 to 3million euros preventing him from completing on clients properties for which they had already paid, he handed in his resignation and has since been victim to Dixon’s vicious streak. “Since leaving Oasis I have learnt of several accusations which have been made against me. None of which have any basis in truth. She is an accomplished liar, any person who has had any dealings with her will attest to this. Her lies have no bounds. Now she is living in a 2million euro villa, driving a Mercedes sports car and a Wrangler Jeep, and has a yacht and berth. It is no coincidence that this is about 70% of the shortfall in the Oasis accounts
Could anyone give me any up to date news on this woman …. A friend of mine is currently dealing with CPC Holding of Durham who have promised to obtain the deeds to his Spanish property he has already forked out in the region of £30k and they are now asking for more to finally obtain the deeds – Alarm bells are FINALLY ringing with him and I decided to do more digging on the company and came across this website … There is very little info on CPC other than what they have written about themselves and the woman he has been dealing with calls herself Nikki Crozier!! – there is also no information to “Google” on her either. My friend describes her as ruthless, haggard and trashy looking but, along with a collective of people, put his trust in the company as he was at his wits end and thought the bank were going to take the property off him. I have advised him to part with no more money and to talk to Durham police – does anyone have any other ideas ? Many thanks
The Trust;
To date Mr. Fatchett has not spelled out what assets are to be held in the trust to his clients, yet for some bizarre reason, was able to state to the UK High court in broad terms what assets were being placed in the trust.
Those being the lands at Buccament Bay and the Two River Resort in the Dominican Republic.
However in the evidence provided to the court by the Ames family, it was clearly stated to the court and to the judge, that the assets being placed in the trust were to comprise solely of the “COMMON” parts of Buccament Bay.
Furthermore the land assets that comprised the “Two Rivers Resort” were not included in the assets to be placed in the trust by the Ames family but were being offered to the CLC claimants as security for their claim.
And what of the letter of intent for the finance, surely either Mr. Facthett and or the Ames family would have made this known to the court, if indeed one existed.
Mr. Facthett has always dangled this “alleged” letter of intent in front of his clients as some sort of carrot, if indeed the letter of intent actually exists, The Ames family could and would have made some reference to it, in defense of the claims, which basically amount to the fact that they and the Harlequin Group are unable to pay the debts that they owe.
Mr. Fatchett felt compelled to make mention of the establishment of a trust albeit caveated by its dependance on the outcome of due diligence, surely the “Piece De Resistance’ would have been the mention of the letter of “INTENT” from the alleged financiers.
The judge would have seen that not only was a trust being established for the benefit of all investors but in addition Harlequin would be in a position of financial strength given the finance. Instead Harlequin produced a bundle of documents where their accountants stated that the assets of Harlequin were negligible, yet the assets of the Ames family personally in the Caribbean were in excess of $17 Million USD.
Lets not forget the trust is only concerned with the assets of Harlequin, not those of the Ames family.
Conclusion;
Indeed if I were Mr. Fatchett I would not want my clients looking at BFP, God forbid if any of them should raise the very interesting points raised as a result of the recent case.
The case last week only demonstrated the lack of due diligence engaged in by Mr. Fatchett and he knows he has been caught out unawares.
Did he take what Ames told him at face value? Is that why his witness statement differed greatly in fact to that of the Ames family.
It is time Mr. Fatchett answered these questions, he is back in the UK this morning, indeed back in his office, and by all accounts engaging in some damage limitation exercise.
That’s nasty she was born in 1968 LOL
I have just read the previous comments on the Audrey Dixon case and I concur.
Yes if one can prove that Audrey Dixon is Mrs. Crozier then yes, a complaint should be made to the police. Just as many complaints have been made to the police about Mr. Ames.
I just feel that the timing of the renewed attacks on CPC and Mrs. Crozier are more than just coincidence, I am sure that Mr. Ames would have seen fit to to alert the authorities to Mrs. Croziers alleged activities along time ago, rather then waiting until after a case, he looks to have lost, in the interim anyway.
But those who are suggesting wrong doing on the part of Mrs. Crozier on this site have the absolute right to bring this matter to the attention of the Police, even if they just have a mere suspicion.
But whilst the allegations against Mrs. Crozier make for interesting reading, it does not affect the claim being brought by the claimants in the CLC case against Mr. Ames.
Nor does it affect the issues which are currently preventing the trust form proceeding,
This should be of greater concern to investors.
But of course no one likes to see fraud being committed, we can also look at the allegations and issues which befell ELS International, the precursor to ELS Legal, the lawyers acting for the Ames family,
Or indeed we can spend time analysing Regulatory Legals role in the Arch Cru redress case and the claims Regulatory Legal made versus the facts as they pertain, but does this really assist investors with their current problems they are facing with Harlequin.
Indeed I woud love to discuss the merits of pursuing criminal cases against the likes of Bill Roache, Michael Le Vell and Dave Lee Travis, and I would also like to invite debate on who indeed shot John F Kennedy.
But will that assist investors in Harlequin, no I really did not think so.
-The Trust That was a slam-dunk assessment.
Over on the RL site we have a Gabriella Klein and Kathryn Tinkler, Garreths real groupies giving it loads. lol. Window licking morons come to mind. Oh to be so naive.
I suppose thats why they invested in the first place.
Or else they just want to shag Fatchett, who knows. Go for it girls.
Fatchett should consider moving to the bible belt in the mid US. He would make a fortune. His performances in the UK are up there with some of the best, Jim Jones, David Koresh, to name but a few.
Last post was not me, lol but I do like the sarcasm however basic.
Makes a change from me shagging him!
@The Trust
Don’t be such a spaz you muppet.
Sorry, it just rhymed 😉
Whats a spaz ?
Slang for “spastic”
same as a window licker
The pro Harlequin brigade do really demonstrate why Harlequin can never work.
Example, Dave Ames question to the Bank.
Oi I am the ehhhh hmmmm the owner of Harlequin. You know them. Best in the world. Ehhh hmmmm. I need money yeah lots of it hmmmm. Give it to me hmmm ehhh.
Bank;
Where is your business plan?
Ames;
Emmmm ahhhhh I can’t give it to you. It’s secret. But I will get my lawyer Garreth to write you a witness statement. He sawed it. He emm aaah he did seen it.
Bank;
We need to see a business plan and audited accounts etc
Dave;
ehhh ahhh Whats them. My lawyer Garreth he seen everyting. In de interests of justice he will give a witness statement. He seen it all. Look I have different witness statements, which won do u like, he will sign de one you like. He is the trust guy, he got 111000 trust forms. Here sign one. I got tousands more in de wife’s office.
Bank;
Don’t think so.
Dave;
Gimme de money for fock sake. Gimme it you spaz. Gimme de money muppet.
So the guy in the wheelchair wasnt the only spastic to invest in Harlequin. Gabriella and Tinker whatever are spastics too. Makes sence RL seem to be running a lunatic asilum.
Hi Anonymous,
I thankyou for your recent phone call.
It seems that you may be accepting that the Trust is the way forward for you!.
Of course you can still change you mind.
It may be better if you want contact, to stick to this Forum.
Keith you are very welcome, but you may have misinterpreted what I said.
The trust is most certainly not a viable option in its present format. What I did say was I would of course support the trust 100% if all the assets of Harlequin are placed in the trust. And the Ames family have been removed from the equation.
Keith I see you like others had your pension funds held by Guardian, I like the approach they are taking.
And I am very supportive of their current stance.
Regards,
Anonymous
PS we must do drinks some evening.
Anonymous,February 24, 2014 at 2:42 pm, Whats a spaz ?
It is an abbreviation of spastic an outdated word for someone who has Cerebral Palsy or a similar disease that causes uncontrolled movements.
When used in an insulting and derogatory way (such as in the posts above) it means ‘incompetent, uncoordinated or retarded’. Unless used correctly in medical terminology, ‘spastic’ or more commonly ‘spaz’ is a word used only by the ignorant these days and is intended to offend.
@ OED vulgar version
I think MONG is a much better adjective.
Adj. Lacking in physical and cerebal ability. General retardation.
Generally: a total spastic
No I don’t need you to help me with my supermarket trolley, you fucking mong
How long are you going to carry on showing yourselves up as a bunch of cruel and nasty bigots?
I bet some of the Harlequin sales people sold ‘an investment’ to people with Down’s Syndrome too. It’s the sort of thing I expect from lowlife scum like them.
Matt Ames preferred the Irish thicko’s, we preferred the North West Coronation Street.
Where is the RL publication we are expecting today? time’s getting on
What publication?
I have been told there have been fireworks in camp Crozier today, very unhappy chappies.
RL publication 25th Jan 2014- below- re publication of all the DD docs re the Trust. On re reading it does say week commencing so guess we’ll have to wait….sigh
“We intend to issue access to the new website in the week commencing the 24th February 2014. The advice element will go live in early March 2014. This process should give all investors enough detail and advice for them to make an informed decision on matters”.
Letter to all investors
Hi Anonymous,
Very kind of you to buy me a drink when the Trust is completed.
Nikki’s group of clients are all decent enough people.
What they will not know is that they have all paid different amounts for her “representation”.
Some have paid twice as much as others because they can afford it.
The monthly retainers are all different. Nikki gets 30% of all monies net of VAT. So it is in her interest to whip her claimants up. More need for action, more cash for Nikki.
How much as Nikki recovered again !
Did the 24 get some sort of ruling today? Any news on the Crozier camp?
There will be no imminent rulings.
After this spat, then things calm down until trial. Some time in 2015. Ames is in no rush.
Nikki and her claimants then become stuck in the process. I bet they have to keep paying.
Nikki – you have spent loads and recovered nothing.
I bet some of the claimants wished they stayed with the trust !
Hi Anonymous,
I thankyou for overnight call,but i do need my sleep.
From our conversation i have grasped your problem.
For years and years you have fought an anti Harlequin campaign.
However you have recently been informed that a relative is buying a property on BB.
From what you have said you feel that blood is thicker than water and you will need to support the Trust.
I suggest that you do not make a hasty decision.
However we both know that the Trust is going ahead.
Broughton paid nothing to Crozier, her job was to get clients.
When Broughton wanted a retainer Crozier kicked her out.
simples. 😉
Camp Crozier you talk rubbish, Broughton is still in the case.
Yes, sorry made it up. All clients very happy at the cash being squandered on augmentation.
Last week was a total wild goose chase, expensive and unnecessary.Unless you get paid for the legal work 😉
I’m not complaining.
Why should some, pay more for the service than others? How can some get it for less?
Nikki, this is a problem. Prove it’s a lie.
I will join the other ‘militants’ until this issue is resolved, the certain freeloader we all dislike is another problem…….
Deal with them both Nikki.
lol… and with RL you all pay the same, but only a select few actually get to see documents or have any influence… funny old world ;).
Nikki has no after the event insurance ! Do clients know this ?
Did the client money go on botox ?
Nikki’s group of clients are all decent enough people.
What they will not know is that they have all paid different amounts for her “representation”.
Some have paid twice as much as others because they can afford it.
The monthly retainers are all different. Nikki gets 30% of all monies net of VAT. So it is in her interest to whip her claimants up. More need for action, more cash for Nikki.
How much as Nikki recovered again !
Chris,
How do you square paying Nikki from client monies ?
“Chris speaks at events and writes on issues relating to fraud and income generation in the public sector. He contributed an article entitled “Revenue Generation” to the Law Society Gazette’s Local Government Supplement 2010 looking at options for local authority legal departments to help boost their authority’s revenues.”
Income generation – the 25 emotive muppets and one bent Spanish Estate Agent . Surely not cricket ?
The world is an unfair place.
EB are the initials for a Buggatti motor car. Sleek, powerful and intoxicating.
They are also the initials for the mad woman who keeps slagging Nikki off. Fell out over the payments for new clients.
Is a short, noisy, boxy, nasty little car with no endearing features. If EB was a car she would be a cube.
No, more of a wide load.
What sort of t*t would drive one of these?
http://www.topgear.com/uk/ssangyong/rodius/verdict
Does Walton have one to ferry round all his illegal immigrants?
Mrs Crozier has really riled you hasn’t she? Mrs Broughton did too. In fact any woman who stands up to Harlequin and the Ames is then subjected to a stream of vile sexual abuse. What a bunch of pig-ignorant misogynist yobs you are.
Why shouldn’t these investors go to law to get their money back?
Is this really the best you can do? Meanwhile how many thousands have been conned out of their life savings?
There you go making totally dirty words up.
Scum dirty scum – I know it’s you Ingham, you pervert
Disgusting
Hi Annonymous,
I am just keeping in touch.
You can contact me on my mobile number.
I am working until but 1am.
Please do not forget that the Trust is progressing well.
Keith f
eff orf there’s a dear
we can see you are spam
Nikki that’s no way to speak to Keith. Now run along and stop leaking confidential documents.
Bob Storey, how is your erection pump doing?
Has Nikki recovered more than £1 ?
Gareth Fatchett has taken it upon himself to post the following on his blog through RL.
Now Mr. Fatchett would of course understand that the judge has not ruled on the application, WHY? because as previously stated on this thread by “IN COURT” the judge instructed both sets of barristers to get together and agree a consent order.
So his statement is correct, however it certainly does not mean that CLC have lost their application.
Mr. Fatchetts’ statement is rather odd, it appears that he is giving the impression that CLC lost their application, however by stating that the applications have not been ruled on by the judge is just that, the judge by Mr. Fatchetts’ statement has yet to make a determination either way, but this will only happen should the parties not agree the consent order in the coming hours / day or so.
What is also very interesting to note about the latest release by RL on their blog, the statement that the completion monies will flow back to the relevant company, odd that mr. Fatchett states this when the whole argument surrounding Harlequin is that much of the monies initially paid never did flow to the relevant companies hence the reason for the current position.
Again Mr. Fatchett makes unsubstantiated statements, how can he be sure that all completion monies will be ploughed back in to the relevant Harlequin company.
And on the trust, whilst Mr. Fatchett has stated that investors will benefit from having assets placed into a trust, he now admits that these assets may be required by a third party financier, so not only will investors forgo their rights to sue Ames and Harlequin, they will also have to assign the assets over to potential third party financiers.
His statement that, “This does allow the trustees to ensure that the monies are being properly used and to provide a level of oversight which is needed.” will need some very detailed documentation put in place ensuring that all investors have a say on this and not just the “Chosen Few” who are members of the the board of trust. Indeed if this scenario was workable one has to ask what role the Ames family would have in any future for Harlequin. The Ames family can and will most probably veto any attempt at taking financial control from them, and there is little that Fatchett will be able to do about this.
The latest statement whilst an attempt at being clever does nothing more then enforce the belief that Fatchett is in bed with Ames, and investors should consider this in any decisions they will have to make.
Permalink Reply by Regulatory Legal Solicitors 1 hour ago
The completion money will not be frozen by the CPC action. We do not want to call it the Crozier action. That is unfair as it personalises things.
The applications made by CPC’s clients have not been ruled on by a judge.
The completion monies will flow back to the relevant Harlequin company. In the future (post trust), we envisage the trustees will need to sign a deed releasing their security.
This does allow the trustees to ensure that the monies are being properly used and to provide a level of oversight which is needed.
Fascinating comment by Robert Storey,
He claims he knows the posters on this site, so why not state it on the RL forum.
Permalink Reply by Robert Storey 19 hours ago
Keith, some “anonymous” person is lifting whole sections of the conversations from here and placing on the BFP site. While quite malicious in the intent, it really is meaningless because a lot of the comments are taken out of context as regards the guist of the thread. Quite pointless, just trying to be a clever chappie, but looking rather silly.
Dear RL, wonder which posts you are reffering to,
Regulatory Legal Solicitors replied to Deon van der Merwe’s discussion I have been told that currently > 100 completions at Buccament Bay is taking place with licenses and title deeds being issued
“Kathryn, We doubt it. Some of the nasty posts last week on BFP summed up some of the people close to the CPC matter. They seem intent on causing disharmony and problems. Fortunately, they do it for their own amusement as no one else really cares.”
Was it this one?
The Trust
February 24, 2014 at 1:35 pm
The Trust;
To date Mr. Fatchett has not spelled out what assets are to be held in the trust to his clients, yet for some bizarre reason, was able to state to the UK High court in broad terms what assets were being placed in the trust.
Those being the lands at Buccament Bay and the Two River Resort in the Dominican Republic.
However in the evidence provided to the court by the Ames family, it was clearly stated to the court and to the judge, that the assets being placed in the trust were to comprise solely of the “COMMON” parts of Buccament Bay.
Furthermore the land assets that comprised the “Two Rivers Resort” were not included in the assets to be placed in the trust by the Ames family but were being offered to the CLC claimants as security for their claim.
And what of the letter of intent for the finance, surely either Mr. Facthett and or the Ames family would have made this known to the court, if indeed one existed.
Mr. Facthett has always dangled this “alleged” letter of intent in front of his clients as some sort of carrot, if indeed the letter of intent actually exists, The Ames family could and would have made some reference to it, in defense of the claims, which basically amount to the fact that they and the Harlequin Group are unable to pay the debts that they owe.
Mr. Fatchett felt compelled to make mention of the establishment of a trust albeit caveated by its dependance on the outcome of due diligence, surely the “Piece De Resistance’ would have been the mention of the letter of “INTENT” from the alleged financiers.
The judge would have seen that not only was a trust being established for the benefit of all investors but in addition Harlequin would be in a position of financial strength given the finance. Instead Harlequin produced a bundle of documents where their accountants stated that the assets of Harlequin were negligible, yet the assets of the Ames family personally in the Caribbean were in excess of $17 Million USD.
Lets not forget the trust is only concerned with the assets of Harlequin, not those of the Ames family.
Conclusion;
Indeed if I were Mr. Fatchett I would not want my clients looking at BFP, God forbid if any of them should raise the very interesting points raised as a result of the recent case.
The case last week only demonstrated the lack of due diligence engaged in by Mr. Fatchett and he knows he has been caught out unawares.
Did he take what Ames told him at face value? Is that why his witness statement differed greatly in fact to that of the Ames family.
It is time Mr. Fatchett answered these questions, he is back in the UK this morning, indeed back in his office, and by all accounts engaging in some damage limitation exercise.
OR THIS ONE?
Bent Solicitor
February 24, 2014 at 12:06 am
Gareth Fatchett tried to pull the wool over his clients eyes. He has missed dead line after dead line. He has had little success in gaining any due diligence of merit or has basically not bothered.
His FSCS claims look like they are going no where, not whilst Harlequin still has some semblance of blood coursing through its veins. The FSCS claims are, after all, claims of last resort. Fatchetts’ claims that he will appeal the decision of the FSA in relation to redress claims is an act worthy of a BCA ( British Comedy Awards).
Fatchett has an audience of desperate individuals who are the victims of one of the biggest frauds in the UK. And they will cling onto any hope. Putty in Fatchetts’ hands.
Fatchetts’ cozy relationship with Ames has come home to bite him squarely in his ass. It is about time that Fatchett was made accountable for the absolutely shambolic mess he has made of the trust.
Fatchett was warned, anyone, I mean anyone who has had any dealings with the toxic toad and his family end up paying dearly.
OR INDEED THIS ONE
Anonymous
February 23, 2014 at 11:17 pm
“Permalink Reply by S Warden 31 minutes ago
looking at BFP looks like someone very close to the CLC case is posting information one would hope is confidential all over the place.
For certain someone has got it in for the Trust. The question is why?”
S Warden claims that someone in CLC is leaking confidential material all over the place,
The poster on here who is posting information claims they are getting information from the RL camp and there is plenty of evidence that some connected to RL have the court documents, some have even stated this on the RL Forums, see below.
Please also see Note (1) Below as it pertains to the conduct of Mr. Fatchett in this matter.
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Permalink Reply by Richard Ingham 13 hours ago
Paula – thanks for the rant, funny thing is that we appear to broadly agree with each other in that a trust should exist and completion monies should be used to reinvest and not solely for the benefit of a few and in that I include the Ames family.
The only difference we have is that the crozier freezing order was an attempt to freeze completion monies, I have this fact in writing, i do not consider completion monies Ames assets even if you do.
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Permalink Reply by Terry Penney 11 minutes ago
Richard- when did Gareth and Ames say anything about putting a charge on anything but common areas? Post the document.
We both know and it is documented in Gareth’s statement (I can post it) from the court case what property to be is to be included. Your assertion that the trust will be in control of Harlequin is simply untrue. A charge is a world away from control.
I am not anti trust but I am anti lies.
Like Gareth, Crozier is representing investors.
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“Permalink Reply by Regulatory Legal Solicitors on Friday
Horses for courses.
The claimants are suing David & Carol Ames personally. We have a copy of the application and the evidence. So we can see much said about it is simply wrong.
The 24 have paid more money for a different approach. That is a matter for them. We have decided (for right or for wrong) to offer a different approach.
Nothing wrong with either approach. Nor can we criticise Harlequin / Ames for seeking to defend themselves.”
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Permalink Reply by Regulatory Legal Solicitors yesterday
Patrick,
We do not act for Harlequin or the Claimants. We are not in a position to release court documents on this site.
The litigation between the parties is something which we will report on as part of our due diligence.
We have no desire to join ourselves to these proceedings. We are not going to speculate on the tactical moves made by either party. That is a matter for them.
We have confirmed that we provided a witness statement in the proceedings confirming the trust process.
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Note (1).
Given Mr. Fatchetts’ statement above, and his claims that Harlequin have opened privileged documents to him, the question is can these be reasonably and properly withheld from CLC or, indeed, from any other litigant (including CPS/SFO)?
It appears that Mr. Fatchett may have breached the rules on professional ethics, (A matter for the SRA and regulatory bodies perhaps), There was no need for Mr. Fatchett to have seen, (We have a copy of the application and the evidence.) the application and the evidence to be able to produce a statement of fact explaining to the court what the trust was, his roles, etc.
Mr. Fatchett is not party to the litigation and states this, (We do not act for Harlequin or the Claimants. We are not in a position to release court documents on this site……. We have no desire to join ourselves to these proceedings.),so given that he is not a party to the litigation, on what reasonable basis can privileged material from CLC be made available to him?
We can understand Harlequin showing him their stuff-that’s their call. However that for CLC isn’t for Harlequin to disclose to an unconnected third party, and Mr. Fatchett should, indeed, would have known this.
What Mr. Fatchett has done is a breach of Solicitors rules.
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I do know everything Gareth said I could be impotent and be an administrator.
Nikki / Audrey / please stop filling this blog with crap or I will ban you from the RL site.
I have changed my name again to Mr. Storey.
Awww Gabriella we enjoyed your contribution to the RL site, and we are sad you are leaving. You have made some very pertinent points as per the Ames involvement in the mess, we are surprised there fore that you show such undying devotion for Mr. Facthett when it is quite clear that he is in bed with Mr. Ames.
I think you are a little miss guided here ” but soon we will have a closed forum, and any quotes from it will be punishable by law.”
Gabriella is Garreth now redefining law as it pertains to internet blog sites ?
“13:35 on February 25, 2014, Gabriella Klein said…
Hi Kathryn
I have decided to stop posting on the forum. Someone is quoting from it on BFP word for word, targeting me in particular, but you and I are mentioned together in one nasty post. I really do not want my name smeared on the Internet, so I’m stopping my comments. That may be that person’s aim, but soon we will have a closed forum, and any quotes from it will be punishable by law.
Be careful what you say on the forum, Kathryn dear, there are some vile people out there involved with Harlequin and its horrible saga.
Gabriella”
AND WHAT DID KATHERINE AND GABRIELLA SAY?
HAVE A LOOK FOR YOUR SELF.
At 17:23 on January 10, 2014, Gabriella Klein said…
Kathryn
What Sonia told you is word for word what she told me too when I s,poke to her in December last. There were some threads about Sonia and what Harlequin were or were not, doing regarding the Trust in December. If you look back at them you will see all the crap that the staff at Harlequin have been spouting. It has to be said that initially, when RL started to get involved with investors in early 2013, they wanted investors to sue Harlequin, until they realised Harlequin had no money left in their pot, so it is not surprising the staff there hate Gareth and RL.
Good wishes
Gabriella
At 16:23 on January 10, 2014, Gabriella Klein said…
Hi Kathryn
That is totally shocking, what you were told about the agents being so busy with completions. As far as I know, from what I have read on the forum, there have been NO completions.
I wonder whether the Harlequin staff knew they were lying, or whether they were fooled by Dave Ames to believe all kinds of rubbish. I think they are all in awe of him, and I would not be surprised if he rewards them with free trips to Buccament Bay, and promises of free cabanas in all the resorts.
Some time ago Sonny Stenning told me he was working with no pay since August 2013. I have heard that Harlequin has scaled down on the number of employees and there are only a handful now working in their office.
Whatever Harlequin people say, I have been taking it all with a great big fistful of salt since 2010, when I started having misgivings. I can not believe how stupid I was to trust the agents who sold me Harlequin.
I hope you are managing the whole nightmare of possibly losing your home. I really feel for you. It must be ghastly.
Please take good care of yourself. Your health matters more than a house or money. You are lucky in the UK that you have free health care, and public services that can help those in need.
Kind regards
Gabriella
At 10:38 on November 25, 2013, Gabriella Klein said…
Kathryn
I am pleased that my input into the forum has helped people, and some like you think I would be suitable to be a trustee. Unfortunately, I live 5,500 miles away from the UK. The flight is 5.5 hours, but my travel time to London is 12 hours door to door. Flights normally cost over £400 return. I would require hotels, transfers, etc. I don’t think I could take it on if it means monthly meetings for the first six months, then bi-monthly afterwards. Besides, it would cost the Trust a great deal to fund my travel. However, thank you once again for asking me if I would be interested.
At 17:56 on November 23, 2013, Mrs Janet smith said…
Hi Kathryn. Yes FA was regal consultants, orinally in west malling now moved to Tonbridge. The guy who used to make regular contact was Peter Morgan.
At 17:40 on November 23, 2013, Gabriella Klein said…
Hi Kathryn
Thank you very much, I do appreciate your kind words.
I got wind of this forum in September and, after attending the investors’ meeting in London in October, I was determined to help make this work. Gareth Fatchett seemed to know what he was talking about and I felt I could trust him and RL. I have time on my hands as I am retired and I decided I would devote as much time and energy as I could to support others who needed it to make their minds up about the Trust. I saw a lot of negativity, blaming, hopelessness among investors, whilst I felt upbeat, and that focusing on the positive outcome is what we needed. There was also a lot of hostility between posters and none of it seemed to be helping the situation, it only engendered more grievances. Thankfully this forum never turned into a BFP mark 2 because there are enough sensible people who are equally determined to make this work. But there have been some very destructive contributions by people out to sabotage the effort of RL, and they have had to be removed from the forum. At one point I, and others, were accused of being paid by RL to post supportive comments on here! My guiding thoughts on this are to be focused, to be pragmatic and to look reality, hard as it may be, in the eye and accept we will only be given this one chance. RL, I feel, needs our backup, and they have thanked me for the support I have provided. I am so glad you are on board with the Trust. All good wishes. Gabriella
Audrey, you were the one posting all the stuff from last weeks court case all over this blog – get a life. tick tock
Great, now prove it.
Why does Broughton not have to pay Crozier? What has she ever done that’s productive?
Why should I continue to pay Crozier £200 PCM for doing what? £5000 a month for all of her clients?
Ingham and Co. were given the information by loose lips Fatchett, they leaked it, get over it.
And why is RL in a tissy over BFP, they have always derided this website and the Harlequin threads, so why do they continue to moan about it.
Indeed Mr. Storey, Mr. Ingham, Mr. Walton , Mr. Fatchett and many others from the RL camp have posted on here on a regular basis, yet get all upset when quotes are then taken from the RL forum and put up here,
A rather odd bunch if you ask me.
“Permalink Reply by Antonio 12 minutes ago
The sooner this a forum is for real people the better. Get out these spies and troubles causing ones.”
Hear, hear, or as those on the RL site might say Here, here, Antonio, lets begin with Fatchett, because he is as about as false as you will find.
@ £200 a month for what, well then stop moaning about it, and stop paying, simple.
Then get a pink slip and join Antonio and Gabriella in Garreths’ trust. It will only cost you £200 + Vat, mind you you will get nothing back, but you will get regular updates and free membership of the secret forum.
Now how is that for a deal.
My mother and Father were conned out of 140,000 euros some years ago by Audrey Dixon. My father went to the Spanish authorities and did everthing in the corect manner! Nothing ever materialised :-(.
I lost my father to leaukemia 18 months ago and as he lay there on his bed I promised I would get his money back…it had eaten away at him all this time his life savings taken by her.
If anyone can give me any up to date information on where she is please e mail me on equaliser6@aol.com……. i will keep you all informed!
@ Croziers cash cow, cause she Ironed Nicholas’ shirts.
it looks like she has struck again, ive only just found this website, i’m a former employee of hers going by lizz crozier – now travel which were based at county durham in the north east of england. I was only employed for a few days as i was laid off due to lack of work. I thought it was very strange there to be honest, they basically had nothing a handful of desks a multitude of telesales staff, loads of phones and two laptops that was it. I left there a few weeks ago and i am still waiting on wages, ive been in contact via a mobile number i had been given on the day of the interview luckily i kept it, Ive got the other guys John Morton who was her partner he has replied but not via phone. There freephone number has been cut off after she told me they had moved to Durham. I am still fighting for my wage they owe me. There was a lot of young local kids (over 16) working for her i do hope they do not think all employers are all the same, she sorry they seem to be one giant con artist, i hope justice is done.
@ the Equaliser, sadly Audrey Dixon died, no point in getting his money back, its no good to him now he is dead too. One can only assume you seek revenge, please do keep us informed.
Love your email address btw. You can email me on bollocks@toughshit.com
@ the equaliser 5:59pm, odd, the CPC that Elizabeth Crozier owns is based in Durham, I have been doing business with them for a year now and in that time they have not moved offices, I was even there an hour ago.
Please see address and contact details, all available from their website, just google CPC Worldwide.
“CPC worldwide Ltd Company Registration No. 07697014
3rd Floor, 7 Old Elvet, Durham, DH1 3HL
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 386 2487 , Fax: +44 (0) 191 374 9174”
From the way you have written your post, you might be confused, you refer to tele sales staff, it was probably a company called Harlequin you were working for, they certainly do not pay, have turned off their free phone number and employ idiots and children and individuals who are unable to form intelligible coherent posts.
If you need help, we think you might find this helpful. All you need to do is text “HOME” to “78070”, they will help you with your plight.
Nikki, you were doing all the posting last week.
That’s obvious. You feel the need to protect your income stream following the criticisms from the judge on your ill conceived application.
What I do not understand is why you attack RL. Your “enemy” is Harlequin.
RL are doing something different to you. On their forum they have been very restrained about you.
All very odd. Thank god nobody cares about you.
Probably one of the most telling comments form one of the few intelligent contributors to the RL Forum.
“Comment by John XXXXX 6 minutes ago
Is there any point in writing any questions on this site? Nobody ever seems to get an official answer. What therefore is the point of it?”
Someone or persons seems to be rattling cages over on the RL forum, wonder who that / they could be????????
“Permalink Reply by S Warden 11 minutes ago
I believe there are some people with ulterior motives lurking in the background, maybe it’s time for this forum to become ‘members only’ ”
Sorry S Warden, firstly welcome back to BFP, nice to see you, secondly, Mr. Fatchett needs to keep his forum open, he has not got enough pink slip victims yet.
He will close it sometime, so hang in there, but in the mean time feel free to visit us over here.
Small technical point.
Why is Harlequin providing GF copies of the CLC application a breach ?
How could GF provide a statement without seeing the subject matter of the application ?
Come on Nikki, if you are going to use the SRA line, at least use it properly.
Nikki, back from the pub ?
You seem to be copying and pasting like mad at present.
Nikki – the pink pound is strong. Do not worry.
Ms Crozier, who other than you, could post the details of the case and why did you do it?
Why don’t you stop lying?
Nikki you have lost the plot and your clients money.
Hi Anonymous,
just on a tea break.
Our friendship had a bit of a rocky start but you now understand where i am coming from.
Only by word of mouth but due diligence is looking great.
I will be in touch.
@ Recovered Nowt , Firstly; what does your online name mean ?
Secondly; You have made a statement of fact, so could you please state how you know that Nikki has been doing the posting all last week.
Thirdly; Could you please direct us to the criticism of the judge regarding the “Ill conceived application”, we would all be fascinated to see this, or should we not wait for the publication of the perfected consent order.
Fourthly; You are correct, the “Enemy” is Harlequin, and given that Mr. Fatchett acts (Although he denies this) and seeks to protect Harlequin then RL are fair game, as indeed is Fatchett.
See a reminder below on Mr. Fatchetts’ involvement with the Ames family and Harlequin, see, if he does not act for Harlequin, then he has breached the ethical guidelines as laid down by his profession. ***
Fifthly; If Fatchett could prove that Nikki was behind all of the nasty adverse comments about RL on this site, then the RL forum would be filled with discussion on the matter, with all sorts of calls for retribution, the fact however remains that Fatchett has no clue as to who is behind the latest posts, so as such needs to be careful about making any public allegations.
Everyone on the RL site knows Richard Ingham has had sight of the documents, he stated this himself, and Terry Penney has had Gareths’ witness statement, see below.
Thank God some are all over Fatchett like a red rag to a bull, because this may prevent more investors loosing everything by joining the “Harlequin” trust.
Permalink Reply by Terry Penney 11 minutes ago
Richard- when did Gareth and Ames say anything about putting a charge on anything but common areas? Post the document.
We both know and it is documented in Gareth’s statement (I can post it) from the court case what property to be is to be included. Your assertion that the trust will be in control of Harlequin is simply untrue. A charge is a world away from control.
I am not anti trust but I am anti lies.
Like Gareth, Crozier is representing investors.
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***“Permalink Reply by Regulatory Legal Solicitors on Friday
Horses for courses.
The claimants are suing David & Carol Ames personally. We have a copy of the application and the evidence. So we can see much said about it is simply wrong.
The 24 have paid more money for a different approach. That is a matter for them. We have decided (for right or for wrong) to offer a different approach.
Nothing wrong with either approach. Nor can we criticise Harlequin / Ames for seeking to defend themselves.”
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Permalink Reply by Regulatory Legal Solicitors yesterday
Patrick,
We do not act for Harlequin or the Claimants. We are not in a position to release court documents on this site.
The litigation between the parties is something which we will report on as part of our due diligence.
We have no desire to join ourselves to these proceedings. We are not going to speculate on the tactical moves made by either party. That is a matter for them.
We have confirmed that we provided a witness statement in the proceedings confirming the trust process.
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Note (1).
Given Mr. Fatchetts’ statement above, and his claims that Harlequin have opened privileged documents to him, the question is can these be reasonably and properly withheld from CLC or, indeed, from any other litigant (including CPS/SFO)?
It appears that Mr. Fatchett may have breached the rules on professional ethics, (A matter for the SRA and regulatory bodies perhaps), There was no need for Mr. Fatchett to have seen, (We have a copy of the application and the evidence.) the application and the evidence to be able to produce a statement of fact explaining to the court what the trust was, his roles, etc.
Mr. Fatchett is not party to the litigation and states this, (We do not act for Harlequin or the Claimants. We are not in a position to release court documents on this site……. We have no desire to join ourselves to these proceedings.),so given that he is not a party to the litigation, on what reasonable basis can privileged material from CLC be made available to him?
We can understand Harlequin showing him their stuff-that’s their call. However that for CLC isn’t for Harlequin to disclose to an unconnected third party, and Mr. Fatchett should, indeed, would have known this.
What Mr. Fatchett has done is a breach of Solicitors rules.
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@ Recovered Nowt
“Small technical point.
Why is Harlequin providing GF copies of the CLC application a breach ?”
It is a severe breach of the ethical guidelines as set out by the SRA and Law Society. Garreth Fatchet should be asked to comment.?
“How could GF provide a statement without seeing the subject matter of the application ?”
In this case he had no need to, as he stated, his witness statement was relevant only to the establishment of the trust as he saw it, indeed as we have seen, his version of the trust as set out in his witness statement differs greatly from that of Harlequin, as set out in their legal arguments, and this point has yet to be addressed by Mr. Fatchett.
@ keith freeman
Sadly I will be unable to visit you this week, I have spoken with your doctor and I hope the new medication might help in some way.
I concur with you that the due diligence pack ready to go to the SFO, Essex Police, Shipleys’ and Jon Austin has indeed been very professionally prepared and looks fantastic, and should put beyond doubt the fraud committed by the the Ames family, and will give comfort to those landowners where the Ames family sold properties that their holdings are safe.
It has been a very long and arduous route, but at last the end is in sight and shortly the Ames family will face the long arm of the law.
I hope once justice is seen to be done that this will help you in your recovery process.
Wishing you all the best.
GF
Can anyone with a legal background and without resorting to juvenile musings actually sum up where we are with CLC and/or RL? preferably in two or three paras?
I have lost all respect for CLC and CPC.
What sort of law firm comment on anonymous blogs pretending to be someone else? The information could only have come from someone who works for them?
So it’s Mr. Corney a solicitor or his PA Nikki Crozier.
The long boring posts are way beyond some muppet sat in court taking notes. I’m surprised Corney has lost control – so quickly.
It’s Crozier the plastic solicitor wanting to sound like she knows what’s going on.
Let’s not forget she is studding for a masters degree in international muppetry. 😉
Nikki,
Why not approach the judge. You can then explain all your postings here.
I suspect you will not be doing that any time soon.
Nikki why not explain why you wasted soooooooooooooooo much of your clients money on a silly hunch?
Such a mess, brought a knife to a gun fight tick tock
@ Masters in being a puppet, Where does one try “studding” in this country, is it in a Collage, or is it an equestrian term, or has it something to do with dogging?
Simon Taylor of Harlequin obtained a masters degree in international muppetry, indeed if memory serves me correctly, it is he who coined the phrase, and it is I, not Nikki, who has posted on this site or is it sight.
Why would Harlequin not share their documents with RL ?
I suspect it wont be the last time that Ames brings a knife to a gunfight. After all he is a sociopath.
Can we stop this “permalink” crap. Ok you have a new toy. No wonder it takes ages for this blog to load up.
On another note, RL are opening a new office in Manchester. I wonder if the cleaning/ironing contract is up for grabs?
All please see extract from NDP Party Press Conference below.
NEW DEMOCRATIC PARTY PRESS CONFERENCE WEDNESDAY 19TH FEBRUARY, 2014 HON. ARNHIM EUSTACE PRESS STATEMENT
Good Morning members of the media, and persons listening to Nice Radio locally and internationally, I have called this press conference to address a number of issues which are important to the people of St. Vincent and the Grenadines and our Vincentians living abroad as well. This morning I wish speak on a number of matters of critical importance to the image and standing of our nation.
DAVID AMES, CAROL AMES AND MATTHEW AMES
We all know that the Harlequin Development Buccament Bay has been a troubled project. We know that lawsuits have been filed against the company and against its principals in the United Kingdom and locally. Today I can tell you that a UK based Law Firm Carter Lemon Camerons LLP represents 23 UK claimants and one US claimant in a group action against David Ames and Carol Ames proceeding in the High Court in London. The claimants are all investors in various Harlequin developments at Buccama here in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and elsewhere in the Caribbean. David Ames we remember is the sole director of Harlequin Developments and was granted Vincentian Citizenship by the Prime Minister. Carol Ames is his wife and Matthew Ames is their son.
The UK and US claimants allege that Mr. and Mrs Ames are responsible for a number of false statements that were made in order to persuade investors to purchase off plan properties at Buccament and elsewhere. One of the allegations is that Mr. and Mrs Ames claimed there was bank finance behind the project when there was not.
Another allegation is that Mr. and Mrs Ames falsely claimed that their investors would all be offered guaranteed mortgage finance on completion. It is also alleged that Mr. and Mrs Ames represented that they owned the land on which they were selling properties when this was not always the case. A further allegation is that the Harlequin scheme was sold in breach of the UK law on promotion of investments set out in the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000.
Mr. and Mrs Ames deny all the allegations and are defending the claim. The claim brought on behalf of these twenty four people is against Mr. and Mrs Ames in person. Mr. and Mrs Ames assets are frozen to a value of £2.5m pending the outcome of this matter.
Their son, Matthew Ames who I am told was previously employed as a manager at Buccament Bay was convicted on multiple counts of fraud in Isleworth Crown Court in London last week. The frauds totaling around £1.6m, related to various phony “green” investment opportunities and were not related to the Harlequin companies. We have been informed that Matthew Ames has been remanded in custody. We understand he was initially held at H.M. Wormwood Scrubs prison in London.
We continue to watch the Harlequin Development at Buccament with much concern.
@ Anonymous, The permalink is not taking up any additional bandwidth. Its a word not a link.
Again some on the RL site like Mr. Storey and Mr. Ingham have in the past been particularly nasty on this site.
Permalink Reply by Regulatory Legal Solicitors 6 hours ago
Kathryn,
We doubt it. Some of the nasty posts last week on BFP summed up some of the people close to the CPC matter. They seem intent on causing disharmony and problems. Fortunately, they do it for their own amusement as no one else really cares.
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Permalink Reply by Maria T. Legros 4 hours ago
Hi Andy
Good to have you back as I most definitely agree with you on every count. There’s been so much scaremongery that even if you don’t want to believe it and hold on to your own ideas, that sort of talk certainly does creep in and makes you very nervous.
Thanks RL for this information, at least we now have it straight from the horses mouth (sorry heee heee) and relax a little. I’ve heard enough about BFP to keep well away from it!!
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Permalink Reply by Andy Oates 3 hours ago
It’s been an interesting time I see, again to reiterate the BFP is for people that feel the need to do what they do, they are not worth the skin they stand up in scaring people the way they do for their own amusement. Anyway enough about the dross of this world.
Thanks R.L. for the clarification as always
I also had some good news, my IFA hasn’t run for the hills, yet anyway, they still live in their £1M plus house, but they are not answering the door though Funny that !
Perhaps they have a secret camera to see who is knocking? lol
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Some words of wisdom from Robert Storey,
Permalink Reply by Michael Slaney on January 18, 2014 at 15:33
Still begs the question as to whether there is any insurance in place – I doubt it
Robert Storey said:
It would be interesting if some one could find out the last time the “flood plain” actually flooded. Certainly not since 2006. At the moment there is more chance of your house being washed away in the uk than SVG. Any insurance company will look at historical information. Peter Binose, that well known ” know all” has talked about “old men remembering a house getting washed away” that hardly constitutes a flood plain in my humble opinion.
An earlier post mentions CPC being paid £200 per month, this in not true, I pay and have been paying $650 per month – why is that?
@ Tricked? Why don’t you direct that question at your solicitor in CLC, I am sure he will answer it. Or if you believe for whatever reason you are being over charged and you do not obtain a satisfactory answer from your solicitor, then take up the matter with the SRA.
BFP may be good at many things, but not sure they can help you with your present query.
My advice when contacting the SRA might be to use your real name, Im not sure they will deal with Tricked?
But I could be wrong.
Audrey Dixon, of Oasis Spanish Property, spoke exclusively to Costa Blanca News saying she believes the Spanish courts must establish how her clients ended up paying for homes which were never delivered.
A former employee of Oasis Spanish Property told CBN last week that 22 clients are owed an average of 120,000 euros each by the company for houses they paid for more than six months ago.
CBN has spoken to 12 of the buyers who complained that the company had retained both staged payments and, in some cases, the full price of a property. Oasis Spanish Property offices in Torrevieja, Benidorm, and Marbella closed down earlier this year.
Speaking from her Marbella home, Ms Dixon, aged 45, said: doing my best to resolve this situation. I won?t stand for being accused of being a thief.?
Ms Dixon explained that she became aware of accounting problems in her company after she moved from Torrevieja to Marbella last September to have a baby ? only to have a miscarriage in January.
She said she decided to have an audit at the beginning of the year to establish where the problems had occurred. ?This could not be done because documentation was missing,? she said. ?We managed to get a list together of all the people that were owed. There were seven and we solved two of the cases, leaving five.?
Several former Oasis Spanish Property clients have since started legal action to retrieve their cash from the company.
Ms Dixon, who failed to turn up for a court appearance in Vera, Almer?a in June to answer questions over alleged financial irregularities in the company, said she had not been told about the case.
She also told CBN she had not received any documentation relating to two more court hearings scheduled in Torrevieja next week. But she revealed that she would be approaching the judiciary with her own case.
?The time is not right yet,? she said. ?I have to get everything in order with my new lawyer and in 15 days I will have everything prepared. We are going to take legal action. In my heart I know who has stolen the money and it has to be for a court to look at this.?
Many of the Oasis Spanish Property buyers have been left in severe financial difficulties. Jean Lund and her disabled husband Brian paid 53,000 euros in staged payments for a retirement home in Torrevieja.
Ms Dixon emailed the couple?s lawyer in March to offer a personal guarantee that the Lunds would receive either the house or a full refund within 14 working days ? but the couple from Hartlepool have received nothing.
The CBN also had a picture of her so now everyone knows what they are looking for……….
Well there is something seriously wrong with our Ms Dixon at the age of 45 and she states she had a miscarrage, well you really should all feel sorry sorrry sorry for her, instead of hounding her to try and retrieve your money back, no doubt she really beleives all her lies, someone like her should be locked away and the key tossed into the sea, look at all the lives she has destroyed, money does not come easy, and why should she think it is ok for everyone to suffer while she sits in her nice paid for home, paid for with your money.
Shield your secrets in a safe repository . Nikki the confidential document poster is about.
Ames and his Masonic cronies have been busy today.
This is how they work, they made Erica ill, got her husband sacked.
Now, they attack CPC because they have won.
Never ever underestimate the power of Dave Ames.
The old guy on the left is a well know underworld figure.
This is one of the methods of how freemasons tear apart and destroy the homes and family units of their victims. I don’t know what they call it, and have learned only through observation.
It involves a three pronged attack of social nature against each of the victims; both the male and the female.
The three dimensions/aspects of the attacks through social circles are:
1) The social circles of both members of the couple.
2) The social circles of the employment of both members of the couple.
3) The social circles of their community.
They attack both the male and female with rumours in each of those three dimensions/aspects of their lives.
The standard method is to attack the three social circles of both the male and female with rumours of the female being unfaithful along with a fabricated pretense for the female’s supposed infidelity and a fabricated pretense of the male’s short comings.
For example:
Rumours are spread throughout the male’s place of employment, their social circles of friends, and the community; simultaneously as rumours are spread throughout the female’s place of employment, their social circles and friends, and the community.
The female is portrayed as being “fed up” with some rumoured short coming of the male, while being portrayed as having a certain talent or specialty or knack of a sexual nature. The purpose of this rumour is to draw attention to her from other men. It portrays the female as being sexually unfaithful for some “good reason”, encouraging other men to make advances towards her.
The male is portrayed as being insufficient to the female, usually along with some rumour of spousal abuse, substance abuse, child abuse, or mental illness. The purpose is to cause other males to lose respect for the male throughout those three environments, as a passive means of encouraging advances towards to the female.
Most men might find someone’s wife attractive, but won’t make sexual advances for respect or appreciation of the male. The use of rumours to this effect, diminish and demonize the male in the perceptions of both the female’s and the male’s peers.
References and inferences (explicit and implicit) are used to jab at, or take shots at the male with suggestions his wife is being sexually unfaithful, to accompany sexual advances from other males.
Should the male observe other men making the advances, the wife’s reactions may encourage and bolster his perceptions of her unfaithfulness. The point is to cause the female to be approached or hit on by other men, while the male is forced to grow suspicious of his wife.
The combination of accusations of unfaithfulness, accompanied by opportunity to punish the male with infidelity, are then perpetually aggravated by the males who seek opportunity for the sexual specialty/talent/knack of the female.
Eventually the stress within the family unit leads to actual acts of infidelity, and often results in actual situations of spousal abuse, substance abuse, and eventual collapse of the family unit.
And this is one method that freemasons will employ slander and defamation through rumour spreading, to destroy a family.
Fatchett, Walton Ingham and Ames are certainly Masons. There will be more.
I actually witnessed this on MORE than one occasion in Warrington.
I was amazed that they were joking about it. I will remain ‘anon’ as I don’t want them causing me trouble.
Not sure who was Ingham or Walton, both fat one a baldy, they were joking and it’s not funny.
This happening now, I must sign off in case they are watching me.
If the purpose is merely to “bring someone down a notch”, then the freemasons may cease their activities once the family unit has collapsed into a broken home. If the purpose is prolonged exploitation of either the male or female, then the slanders and defamation continue indefinitely.
A freemason will within three months, personally victimize every person they have access to. This means that once a freemason has obtained an employment position, within three months, they will have spread rumours and incited animosity of one form or another, throughout the entirety of the place of employment; often pursuing their victims to their family units and social circles also.
Beware the freemason.
The easiest method to find one, is to do that super homo freemason handshake with the thumb massage thing. That handshake is the basic equivalent of giving someone an emotional hand job. The freemason handshake tells the freemason that “I’m there for you”, and “I’ll help you”, and “I’ll slander people with you”.
This an example of the degrees of masonic membership, where each degree is merely knowledge of a more adept form of slander and defamation. They haze each other with the same tools of slander, to establish themselves as immune to their own head games. A freemason who achieves any certain degree, is expected to be able to withstand the given social attack of the degree he hopes to earn, while also expected to be able to carry out the same social attack of the degree he hopes to earn.
These people are less than worms. If you suspect someone of being a freemason, try the thumb massage super homo handshake. If the person responds with it, you have a freemason; and having knowledge of how freemasons think, act, and operate, gives you the advantage at setting them up.
Look at the logo of CLC. 100% squared away,
Why is Dan Abrahams referred to as the “Inner Guard” and Simon Terry the “Junior Deacon” ?
“Anon” – your a liar because Ingham never attended the meeting in Warrington he was unable to attend due to other commitments – so to say you overheard him talking with Walton and Ames about being a mason is pure lies.
Walton and Fatchett are masons Ingham is not.
So much rubbish talked on here!
Dear Ms. Mrs. Legros, firstly welcome to Barbados Free Press, a forum which allows anyone make comments on matters relating to Harlequin, whether pro or anti.
Barbados Free Press (BFP) has allowed everyone to assert their views on the matter of Harlequin without fear of their views being culled unlike on the RL site.
I am glad you are seeking to have the aggression and disrespect shown to your fellow investors somehow curtailed, I believe that the same courtesy should be afforded to all, whether investors or other third party individuals connected in whatever way to Harlequin, but to balance this against the freedom of speech can be a difficult exercise.
You will note however that the bulk of the aggression and disrespect as you refer to has never been directed to investors en masse on this site, but directed against a key number of individuals.
Some members of the RL forum site and indeed prospective trustees, if you forgive me for saying that, have been and still are on the BFP forums, and have engaged in some vile, aggressive and utterly disrespectful behaviour towards others on here. Indeed in the past the same style of approach was taken towards some on the RL site.
Given the awful situation, many find themselves in, as a result of the gross mismanagement by the Ames family of investors funds, and the allegations flying about, you will always have some, who seek to vent their emotions using more colorful methods then that to which we might normally be accustomed to.
Most on here are well used to this and it is a price one has to pay for freedom of speech and expression.
I have however wondered why Mr. Fatchett or indeed now your good self would seek to close the doors of the RL site to the many who have yet not made up their minds on whether to join the trust.
Surely all investors should have the right to join the trust when they feel most comfortable in doing so, the reasoning given by Mr. Fatchett for closing the trust to those who have not yet paid their £200 does not make much sense to me. If what Mr. Fatchett is saying is correct, and the trust will go ahead, then those who have not yet signed up could opt in by paying their £200, but why close off the forum.
If Mr. Fathcett is to be believed 2000 investors have paid their £200, so it must be read that most of these are already committed to the idea of a trust.
Mr. Fatchett is in the process of providing due diligence, and goes onto state that he will make this due diligence available to “all” to critique and add comment to, now this would be difficult if not impossible should he close the forum.
All this does is fuel the conspiracy theorists out there that Mr. Fatchett is hiding something or worse working in league with Mr. Ames.
Ms. Mrs. Legros, I doubt you or indeed the bulk of investors on the RL site would be in a position to critique the due diligence, to do so would beg the question as to why you invested in the first place.
Its just very odd that investors are being railroaded into the idea of a trust without any of the due diligence being made available.
Sadly there are in excess of 150 cautions on Harlequin lands throughout the Caribbean, and this in itself will prevent the trust from going ahead unless and until these are dealt with, in addition to this there are a number of outstanding judgements against Harlequin in the Caribbean, and issues pertaining to what land is owned by the Harlequin entities, one of these cases is currently before the courts in the UK, with argument that some of the Harlequin land is not owned by any Harlequin entity, but by the Ames family directly. The above is not speculation, but fact, and probably one of the reasons why the deadlines for the establishment of the trust, and the issuing of the due diligence have not been met by Gareth Fatchett.
With in excess of 2000 clients Mr. Fatchett will never be able to fully secure the information flow or access to his sites, fake investors have already been created by a number of journalists, and they have paid the £200, to ensure the information flow is maintained, but also to demonstrate the flaws with the trust.
Sadly that is the way it is.
Permalink Reply by Maria T. Legros 3 minutes ago
RL
My view is:-
Due to what is actually being said, repeated and copied into BFP verbatim from this forum and the aggression, disrespect to investors, this should be protected to maximum. Therefore:
1) This should be a site for investors who have joined and believed in the Trust, paid their monies only.
2) Those who do not believe or trust in the Trust have no further interests, it was entirely their choice.
3) Those who are completing should not be on this same site. Any information they need should be directed to one of the 5 Trustees appointed, for them to assess after involving the investors, only what is relevant to this group. After all they will be owners of their own property and will not have further interest in the Trust.
4) Or after the Trust is up and running and the finance is sorted (whichever way) and the new financier is involved, perhaps the latter group will then have to refer their queries to the new financiers.
I now wonder how many other investors agree or disagree with my comments.
Robert – not only are you correct that I was not in attendance at the Warrington meeting, I’m not a mason and I do not have and have not had sight of the Crozier court papers from last week – so all in all the bullshitters are doing well on here!!
Next thing I will be a PI!!
LMFAO
Look like they want to get rid of Storey, Andy Oates and Ingham. lol
Go for it you window licking spineless morons.
Permalink Reply by S Warden 59 minutes ago
Make this site free from the trouble making minority – Trust members ONLY.
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Permalink Reply by Maria T. Legros 54 minutes ago
Glad you feel that way as it has now become an unbelievable site of what is actually going on and some of us need to feel protected by some truly vicious morons who think they can treat people like dirt!!
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Permalink Reply by Patrick 47 minutes ago
I agree Maria with what you have said.
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Permalink Reply by kathryn tinkler 8 minutes ago
Hi Maria, completely agree with your comments. Kathryn
Robert, ‘the defender of Ingham the mason’
It depends what meeting you are referring to, does it not?
You are in contact with Ingham – how odd?
I seen what I seen.
No I’m a 33 degree Mason
Bob, I was taught to be cautious.
Cardinal Fatchett is about to seal the doors to the trust Conclave, Cardinal Ingham, Storey and Walton along with two thousand other cardinals will begin the voting procedure shortly, we will all wait with baited breath to see the white smoke rise from the RL Chapel Forum, as the due diligence papers are burned, signalling the formation of the trust.
I am a PI and a Freemason.
We all will be members of the Trust.
‘Anon’ – well tell us what meeting you are referring to then if your sure Waton and Ingham were having mason talk?
Ingham isn’t a mason and that’s a certainty.
What you saw is a figment of your deluded mind.
Yes I occasionally speak with Ingham – and?
Sensible comments on this forum are once again being replaced by the usual diatribe of bullshit form the Ames clique, in what only can be a desperate attempt at trying to deflect attention away from the matters in hand, that being how Ames and his wife are doing all they can to avoid prosecution.
Gareth Fatchett has taken it upon himself to post the following on his blog through RL.
Now Mr. Fatchett would of course understand that the judge has not ruled on the application, WHY? because as previously stated on this thread by “IN COURT” the judge instructed both sets of barristers to get together and agree a consent order.
So his statement is correct, however it certainly does not mean that CLC have lost their application.
Mr. Fatchetts’ statement is rather odd, it appears that he is giving the impression that CLC lost their application, however by stating that the applications have not been ruled on by the judge is just that, the judge by Mr. Fatchetts’ statement has yet to make a determination either way, but this will only happen should the parties not agree the consent order in the coming hours / day or so.
What is also very interesting to note about the latest release by RL on their blog, the statement that the completion monies will flow back to the relevant company, odd that mr. Fatchett states this when the whole argument surrounding Harlequin is that much of the monies initially paid never did flow to the relevant companies hence the reason for the current position.
Again Mr. Fatchett makes unsubstantiated statements, how can he be sure that all completion monies will be ploughed back in to the relevant Harlequin company.
And on the trust, whilst Mr. Fatchett has stated that investors will benefit from having assets placed into a trust, he now admits that these assets may be required by a third party financier, so not only will investors forgo their rights to sue Ames and Harlequin, they will also have to assign the assets over to potential third party financiers.
His statement that, “This does allow the trustees to ensure that the monies are being properly used and to provide a level of oversight which is needed.” will need some very detailed documentation put in place ensuring that all investors have a say on this and not just the “Chosen Few” who are members of the the board of trust. Indeed if this scenario was workable one has to ask what role the Ames family would have in any future for Harlequin. The Ames family can and will most probably veto any attempt at taking financial control from them, and there is little that Fatchett will be able to do about this.
The latest statement whilst an attempt at being clever does nothing more then enforce the belief that Fatchett is in bed with Ames, and investors should consider this in any decisions they will have to make.
Permalink Reply by Regulatory Legal Solicitors 1 hour ago
The completion money will not be frozen by the CPC action. We do not want to call it the Crozier action. That is unfair as it personalises things.
The applications made by CPC’s clients have not been ruled on by a judge.
The completion monies will flow back to the relevant Harlequin company. In the future (post trust), we envisage the trustees will need to sign a deed releasing their security.
This does allow the trustees to ensure that the monies are being properly used and to provide a level of oversight which is needed.
Bob, do you have a chickens claw? are you a ‘water sportingman’
@ Roberty Storey
You don’t fool me, you too are a Freemason 100% that’s why Ames give you a canbana.
Ingham managed to get the Erica charges dropped because of his police links and fremasons.
Yes that is correct, gets me loads of work too.
‘Anon’ – grow up and stop causing trouble – you certainly don’t know me, Walton or Ingham so trott on you dimwit
Anonymous – whate the substance behind your theory that Ingham had the police charges dropped through freemasonry? More bullshit – who would believe this rubbish?
Dimwit, is the alternative secret word for Hoodwinked, when you are blindfolded in the 7th degree. Your left buttock expose to the Great Senior Bandmaster.
Caught you out Bro. Bob
“Anon” – not in this case it means your retarded.
I see you would rather talk rubbish than answer the questions I asked!
Think we can make our own judgement on you!
http://genr8developments.com/html/who_richard_ingham.html
Wrong Ingham. Our Richard is too fucking stupid to have a credible business, after all he invested in Harlequin along with Gabriella and lusty Legos the whores of the RL site. Oh Gareth we love you, our hero. Oh Gareth,💜💜💜, my are you happy to see us. Oh my ☺☺☺☺you are a big boy aren’t you. Oh Gareth your words bring so much comfort to me.
Idiot – certainly the correct name for you! Your also spineless calling individuals by there real names whilst hiding behind anonymity!
What’s your interest in Harlequin if your not an investor? Good job your a minimum wage slave or you may have invested too!
Idiot – if you lot say Ames/ Walton and Ingham are so close and in the masons. Why would Ingham be an idiot to have invested, wouldn’t he be sorted out by Ames if they are in this together?
Make your mind up dimwit!
Idiot – you sound a little jealous in your last post!
Are you a little jealous of Gareth’s popularity?
I just want to see the Ames family destroyed and left with nothing. I want to feel the pain in Carols heart as she knows she will never probably share another Christmas with little Mattie boy, her first born son. I want to see the tears in her eyes as she is refused entry to visit him in prison given that she herself is being investigated. I want to know how she feels knowing that she will loose Dan soon too and that she might not be alive to see Dan released. I want to know what it feels like never to see her grand children again. I want to know all this. I want to know how Nicola will take all this. I want to know that she will not be able to cope being so far from her Mummy. I want her to feel the pain of loosing her family. No more comfort chats on the phone when she is lonely and depressed. I want to know the stress Nicola is under knowing the rest of her family will be locked away. I want her to fear returning to the UK out of fear of being arrested and loosing her kids. I want them all to feel the pain. The pain I went through loosing my pension. My future.
I wish the same for Dave, but frankly I think he will only be too happy to see the back of his wife and family. He will never face justice. He will run. He will run. And I hope he ends up pennyless in St. Vincent resorting to scavaging,
You asked me Bob. Thats what I and hundreds more hope and wish for.
I dont care about Fatshit and those who crawl in his shadow. They were stupid enough to invest in the first place as was I but I have learned my lesson and know its all gone. Fatshit is only playing people along.
Bob Storey defending the honour of his new found friends over on RL. Bit hypocritical really.
They are a little touchy over there, then like the football hooligans of old come onto BFP and act all brave causing a rocus returning to RL and act as if they had a semblance of intelligence and complain about the conduct on BFP. Living out a fantasy world. Being loved on the RL forum, craving the attention.
And then deriding BFP but at the same token referring to BFP at every turn.
All very sad really. Sad too when you see the almost manic belief that not only will the trust succeed but that the investors will be the masters of their own destiny.
Already discussing on the RL forum how completion monies and external bank finance will be managed.
First company in history to be managed by a majority of very confused, lost and frankly deluded individuals.
Some lets not forget having committed mortgage fraud.
And then we have Fatchett who seriously wants us to believe that a company under a serious criminal investigation by the SFO and Essex Police along with HMRC and the CIB and lets not forget our friends across the pond in the SEC will receive external finance, and then this money will be controlled by some sort of bastardised management committee comprising of Dave Ames and a bunch of part time trustees who report back to trust members and communicate with them via a secure website.
A board of trustees where Ames wants a say in who gets appointed.
Cmon guys wake up and smell the coffee. It is time to enter the real world.
Hi Anonymous,
I must say that it is very kind of you to invite me around for an early breakfast.
This is a change of mind.
I do have a couple of issues on the BFP forum which could be improved.
1/ Aggressive postings that are driving investors away.
2/There also appears to be a lack of honesty by some posters on this site.However i would not include you in this.
I am sure a resolution of these two issues would be gratefully appreciated.
However how far can you stretch an orange?
I will see you in a few minutes.
Idiot – after enduring your boring rant intermingled with your fantasy/ wet dream, the reality is that Ames has plenty stashed, you don’t, it will be you facing poverty – all that bitterness won’t make things right!
Crozier is a thief and a liar, why would anyone trust that woman is beyond me.
Hi Anonymous,
I am just reporting back on the meeting we had, to investors who may be
interested.
It was a short meeting,but it has resolved a couple of issues.
You said: You feel that the numbers of investors joining RL is now to large.
I said :What could BFP offer an investor?
You said:Nothing.
I said:Do you want an investor to loose all their investment?
You said:It will not effect me.
I said: is the game nearly up?
You said:Yes.
I will keep in touch.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2568131/City-stockbroker-jailed-27-5m-boiler-scam-apologises-scruffy-court-appearance-ex-wife-burnt-clothes.html
Ingham the mason.
Walton’s lodge
http://www.thegladstonegroup.org.uk/liverpool-masons/
Dave Ames lodge
Wickford Masonic Hall
9-11 Lower Southend Road
Wickford
Essex
SS11 8AB
Over on the RL forum, the champagne corks are popping as investors discuss how the new finance will be managed. All really bizarre when you take it that it is Fatshit who is causing this hysteria. My my, fast forward a few more months when it becomes apparent that the trust cannot work because of the cautions, judgements etc,
Where will this leave Fatshit. My guess, in some very serious trouble, Fatshit is a very lazy solicitor. An ambulance chasing freeloader, but few on the RL site are asking any questions of merit.
Most are currently consumed by BFP, They are quite the bunch of arse licking losers.
So Mr. Storey, let us see how brave you are now, after months of cyber bullying on this site, oh yeah, you did not start it, yet you engaged in it, will you now explain to the your adoring masses on the RL site, why you engaged in such vitriolic attacks??????????
Oh yes Bob, we have permalinked you, see the bottom of the post.
PS Love your comment “Don’t advocate a decide and rule philosophy, it’s just what the idiots on BFP want.”, Do you classify yourself as an idiot?
We must say your grammar has come on leaps and bounds over on the RL site, they must be a good influence on you, keep up the good work Bob.
You hypocritical ass wipe lol.
Permalink Reply by Maria T. Legros 2 hours ago
Robert I did say that, because your interests will be different to the Trust members, you will be owners of your property – hence investors interest will be different, we will not be independent owners at this time. I mentioned the 5 Trustees because that is what was decided awhile back, who will be voted in by the investors, to look after our interests. There will be things within the Trust that will only be relevant to those within. So why should anyone else be privy to such information? the same as the rest of us do not know how the completers managed to go thus far. All the relevant information for the completers should, of course, be passed on to them.
I saw for the first time the abuse on that place, in fact your name was constant, which I’m sure was not really you and I don’t know how you put up with it, you are made of tough stuff. All I want is for all this to stop as it is out of hand and they are obviously trying to intimidate the very people who talk a lot of sense so that the Trust fails.
These are only my opinion and if others agree, so be it.
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Permalink Reply by S Warden 2 hours ago
I just feel we need to kick the people out who have not joined the Trust.
It’s obvious that someone has got an obsession with cut and pasting things on BFP just to cause trouble.
Who and why………who know and who cares?
There only seem to be about 10 people who post on there anyway.
How many on here?
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Permalink Reply by kathryn tinkler 56 minutes ago
My feelings too, Onwards and upwards, with the many who want the Trust to work. Hi Gabriella, I hope you are well. Kathryn xx
” Hi Gabriella we hope you are well too, wait till you and those others on RL discover the awful truth, it will be a horrible shock to the system.
No trust, no finance, and Fatchett knows this, just ask him for his due diligence, ask him about the cautions, ask him about the ownership of the Hotel Blu, ask him about the land issues on the Marquis Estate, ask him about the land issues at Buccament Bay, ask him about Pembrooke Estates and the statement from that companies owners. Ask him why the panic, ask him what Shipleys have to do in April, Ask him if the SFO / Essex Police will prosecute Ames, Ask him about the proceeds of crime act, Ask him why he saw fit to lie to you guys. Ask him to spell out in detail that the assets placed in the trust will have to come back out of the trust as security for any finance, ask him how this will work, ask him if the Ames family will relinquish financial control of the companies to a board of trustees, ask yourselves do you actually know what you guys are talking about.
Permalink Reply by Robert Storey 4 hours ago
I’m sorry Maria, I cannot agree. The investors completing have as much right to know what is going on as much as anyone else in the trust. Let me put it to you another way, how about HP set up an owners club who don’t tell the trust what they are doing etc. you would call that being secretive and decisive. Don’t advocate a decide and rule philosophy, it’s just what the idiots on BFP want. Wonder how long before I am “permalinked”
Gareth Fatchett has created a giant snowball over on the RL site, and he has now no way of controlling it. Yes Mr. Fatchett, does or did believe that Mr. Ames was another victim in all this, Mr. Fatchett believed that Mr. Ames was too trusting of his advisors, and contractors, and as a result of Mr. Ames’ naivety he was taken advantage of. Well Mr. Fatchett that belief in Mr. Ames may well be the rock you perish on. Mr. Fatchett the History which you are at pains to point out will not progress matters, would have demonstrated to you that anyone who has any involvement with harlequin and the Ames family becomes tarnished.
Whilst your adoring masses are now too blind to see the wood from the trees, your peers are looking upon you with amazement, indeed wondering how the hell you seem to be walking yourself into a mess, you will find difficult, if not impossible to extract yourself from intact.
Investors on the RL forum can take this with a pinch of salt, yet there will be no movement on the trust over the coming weeks. Aside from updates from RL stating that the trust is proceeding. Remember folks, this was the week in which the due diligence documents were to be given to those who paid their fees. At least why dont investors ask why this due diligence is not forthcoming? Mr. Fatchett was quick enough to set deadlines for the receipt of the funds and for the cashing of the cheques and the non refunds of the monies, now why is he not able to produce the due diligence by the dates which he set out in December 2013.?
This is what RL said in December, So why have they not kept to their time table?
Harlequin Update 2nd December 2013 from Regulatory Legal Solicitors on Vimeo.
Key Points :-
Harlequin Investor Trust Project – to proceed ( How far has it proceeded?)
December 2013 dedicated to chasing up stragglers, obtaining Harlequin Pink Forms / Payments. (Cheques have been cashed and refund point has been passed) (From the witness statement of Gareth Fatchett and the Harlequin UPDATE Most Harlequin Pink Forms still outstanding as of Feb 20th. Why???)
Dealing with the common documents – Trust Deed / Deed of Waiver / Security Documents
January 2014 – Due Diligence Process ( Is this ongoing?)
February 2014 – Deed of Waiver / Advice / Due Diligence output (Friday the 28th is the last day of the month)
1st March 2014 – Deed of Waivers signed (Have these been sent out, they are due to be signed on Saturday)
The Update also deals with the “other options” and the need for Harlequin to play their part in chasing up stragglers.
From 3rd December 2013 we will commence banking payments into our client account. (Apparently this is the only process which RL have completed)
Regulatory Legal Solicitors
We all know the biggest idiot on BFP carries his I pod with him to the loo.
Yet over on the RL site, the same idiot is considered by (Other idiots?) his peers as a voice of reason. And indeed along with Ingham a potential candidate as trustee. Wasn’t this the same guy who turned up at Fatchetts’ office for a few quid, in a disheveled state many moons ago, to prove he had title or some such nonsense to a property in Buccama Bay?.
Yes that was Robert Storey but I think he had a different name then (he’s had so many). At one time he used to go by the name of Fatchett Does Not Represent Me.
Now look at him. Cock of the walk ain’t he? lol
Ah yes, FDNRM, from villain to hero. And let’s not forget What’s the Fuss. Another who has taken to the pages of RL , another who the minions on RL now look to for guidance and hope.
Wage slaves ( Harlequin Trolls) are now conspicuous by their absence during the working week hours, one has to assume that their new employers will not tolerate support of their former lord and master. We look forward every evening to the end of the working day and the return of the trolls. One can’t help but notice that the steam is running out of the Harlequin troll’s campaign.
It seems that the Masons work at their best after working hours, as do those who profess to have all the dirt on Crozier, what a sad life, work all day then return home to spend your evening in front of a monitor to troll HP Propaganda, and to what end, so that Dave and Carol can maintain the life of luxury that they have become accustomed to.
I find it odd that there is little or no mention of Matthew Ames, (now incarcerated), by those who have attacked all previous litigation with respect to Harlequin.
@The Permalink Prat. So you think my post at the bottom of the page was a vitriolic attack? How misguided you are. In fact you are misguided full stop. Carry on taking up the bandwidth on this thread. You are successfully doing what many anti HP people have tried, clogging it up with crap.
@RL to painful to watch. You are obviously showing your ignorance of the trust if you think I could/would stand as a trustee.
@The wage slaves. So someone who posts during the day is a troll? And your post was? 2.20 lol. Life is moving on, the trust is moving on, hp is moving on. And you are? Stuck in a time warp.
Now why don’t the posters above just go by the collective name of Anonymous rather than making out you are different people.
Oh and where are the Essex Plod? Where is “open Letter?” Aka Paddys gang?
Matthew Ames being the son of Dave Ames is relevant to the Harlequin debate, then isn’t Nikki Croziers dead criminal sister (if you believe that) just as relevant to the Harlequin debate – I see no difference
All very exciting stuff.
You must be very pleased with your efforts.
Anon 1.26pm –
Do not worry the timetable was revised when the terms of business were issued to clients. You are working on an old timetable. This is not a problem per se, but it is better to be accurate.
Expect the due diligence end of March 2014.
Lets not talk about the scam Nikki was involved in. That’s very different. Totally different.
The victims in that matter didn’t get their money back, but it is very different.
So mote it be …
The RL forum gives us a rare insight into the physiological damage inflicted upon investors as a result of the actions of the Ames family.
Fraud is not a new phenomenon, indeed there have been victims of fraud going back to days when man first roamed the planet.
Fraud is a terrible crime, in that it leaves it’s victims with little or nothing to recoup.
What is so interesting about the Harlequin case, is that those promoting the rescue for investors, see nothing wrong with having the perpetrators of the fraud wholly involved in the continued operations of the business.
RL seem to brush aside the issue of the fraudulent activities of Harlequin and the Ames family, by simply stating that the historical issues will do nothing to help move things forward.
And when I refer to fraudulent activities I include, in this, the abundance of documentary evidence, whereby Harlequin and the Ames family made fraudulent misrepresentations to investors, indeed this is a corner stone of the current CLC case against the Ames family.
A cursory glance at the posts on the RL site would give one the impression that the difficulties surrounding Harlequin are a momentary glitch, soon to be resolved by giving investors meaningful security for the monies they previously invested by way of a trust, and the security to be further augmented, by the injection of third party funding which will allow the completion of resorts and the ultimate delivery of units back to those investors.
No mention is ever made over on the RL site, to any ramifications, an arrest or charging of those involved with Harlequin may have on the future viability of the Harlequin group. No discussion has taken place on what affect the proceeds of crime act may have in relation to the proposed Harlequin trust.
It is as if those on the RL forum live in some parallel universe.
No mention has been made on the issue of the multiple cautions on the Harlequin land assets on the Caribbean. Even at this 11th hour, RL have not been able to state with any certainty what assets will be held in the trust nor what the value of those assets is.
Even at this late hour the witness statement produced by Mr. Fatchett for the defence in the recent CLC UK court application, clearly demonstrates that Mr. Fatchett’s understanding of the assets to be placed in the trust is at odds to that being stated by the Ames family and Harlequin.
In the week that Fatchett was supposed to provide investors with due diligence documents, this bizarre twist only further demonstrates that Mr. Fatchett appears not to have any control of the situation, one also has to wonder whether Mr. Fatchett ever intended to produce the due diligence documents by the last week in February, given his trip to Tokyo to partake in a marathon. It would be hard to believe that this was a last minute event.
Yet investors on the RL forum appear not to want to ask some probing questions of Mr. Fatchett, it is as if they want to believe that all will be ok with their investments and appear terrified to face the reality of the situation, that being that their investments are lost.
The bizarre discussions taking place on the RL forum, where investors are discussing the future decision making processes, where they believe they will have some input, is frankly a figment of their skewed imaginations and a further sign as to how desperate these investors are now becoming.
Just more victims of another abhorrent fraud. A fraud where the losses are real and no amount of smooth talking by a solicitor who is now totally out of his depth will be able to reverse.
Why don’t investors ask the most basic of questions, and why do RL remove those probing questions that have been asked.
Since midnight there have been 7, yes 7 posts about me. Not a record of course, but just goes to show there is still an obsession about me. I feel so proud that I can be a guiding light, a beacon perhaps, to the mindless sops who still frequent this forum. I am humbled. To all my supporters a big thank you for making my day. I’m sure this sign of popularity will be of assistance when the Essex Plod arrive. Xxx
Who is that guy Bob Storey? He has engaged in vitriolic attacks on this site for months, then today goes on the defensive not understanding those posts he answers, what a wanker.
The talk about trustees is strange
How can Paul be a trustee or part of any group when he has had a refund?
When did Nikki’s sister work for Harlequin?
Why do people think that if they are with RL then they are some how more entitled to a refund than the crozier 24?
Each and EVERY investor is entitled to a refund and instead of joining forces the two “solicitors” are on here posting like kids in a playground.
I wonder what the other 4,000 investors are up to?
These forums are about Harlequin and the Ames family and their alleged victims.
So I have to ask what relevance does the Audrey Dixon case in Spain some 10 years ago have with this current discussion. The only similarity was that there have been alleged innocent victims of fraud in both cases. We may as well include the Madoff case too.
Oh I apologise, the purpose of introducing the very limited information on the Audrey Dixon case is to some how link this to Nikki Crozier, by what ever means possible, then discredit Nikki Crozier, but to what end. Surely if Nikki Crozier has engaged in fraud, the police should be notified, then they can deal with that matter.
Did Nikki Crozier or Audrey Dixon market Harlequin properties? If so yes then redress options should be investigated.
Otherwise I fail to understand the relevance of this and how it will impact the claimants in the Ames personal case or indeed how it will impact the potential for a trust.
@Anon 3.43, common paddy, don’t go all coy now. Is that the best you can do.
Now I have got the connection with the Permalink prat. Permalink has a connection to Permapress, which is a washing/ironing term used. Anon/permalink prat, you are Erica! Bingo.
At 2:46 today Robert Storey wrote “carry on taking up the bandwidth
on this thread” Please anyone point out to me WHENEVER he has
posted ANYTHING OF SUBSTANCE. He just likes to post…PERIOD !!!
Robert yes my name is Erica Croziernewmanohallaranmandixon.
Bingo, so who do I confess my sins to?, oh look its 17.00 time for the trolls to come out of their little boxes yipee, wonder what feast of utter bullshit we will face this evening.
Or ball licking types aka Walton the Mason
For the attention of Mr. Richard Spector ELS Ltd.
You may not know me. Are you in a position to assist me. Really I need your help. In essence I am in a bit of a quagmire with my case against Harlequin. The matter I speak of concerns me greatly. Shit I have no one else to turn to. With all that is going on around me I am at my wits end. The case is not for me. Mess after mess faces me every day. You are my only hope. Have you any words of comfort for me. “Made, thats what they told me you will be “Made”. Of course I believed them. Harlequins’ insistence that they will fight the case all the way has me worried about the eventual legal costs I will have to pay should we loose the case. Costs I can ill afford. Aren’t you concerned by my plight. You have to do something.
How long do I have to wait. Long enough to loose my mind. Before long I will loose everything. Ames has destroyed me. Will you help me. Turn a corner they say. On top of this I stand to loose my wife so how can I. You have to help me. And we have nothing to pay our bills with. Sue me goes through my mind every day. Your my only hope. Ass.
Pity CPC don’t appear to have any timetable whatsoever.
As long as the 25 ‘followers’ pay who cares?
By the way, how long were Audrey’s ooops sorry Nikki’s initial time scales and costs?
Time for a reality check?
Walton will be a trustee Ingham the other Mason – just watch. Don’t know who has the strap on?
Love the post Anonymous 5.29 pm. Precedence has been set, rules are rules, if you break them you pay the price. It answers the question raised by Webb of lies, but is he / she bright enough to understand why. Lol
Of course Ames will fight the case…… string it out.
The plan is, you run out of funds and make life easy – no money, no case.
Crozier has put you in a position whereby you must continue to pay (or lose what you have paid so far)
If you don’t win you will have to pay Ames’s costs.
If you win you will have to pay CPC a percentage, my estimate… lucky to get 20% maximum after costs.
Either way you will be looking at 2015 before this gets to Court, properly.
Not a good position.
@Anonymous
February 26, 2014 at 5:29 pm
You weren’t moaning when you decided to take this action, tough shit.
Made ya bed, lie in it.
@ Anonymous brilliant absolutely brilliant. Took me a while to get it. Lol seems like someone dropped the ball, yes absolutely Robert Storey, you make your bed and you lie in it. Although I’m sure that should have been directed at Richard Spector. Again great post Anonymous 5.29 pm. Lol
I still don’t get it???
All will be revealed in good time, does anyone know where the case between Harlequin and Wilkins Kennedy is taking place? Hefin Rees stated in court that the case was starting this week. Anyone got any idea ?
I’m really confused.
Since a Court hearing last week sometime, CLC vs Harlequin there have been countless attacks on individuals, Regulatory Legal and the Trust, in general.
The question is, why such a detailed persistent attack?
Some of the content seems to be legal ‘mumbo jumbo’, very detailed. It would seem logical it’s someone close to the case.
It can’t be Harlequin, unless they want to attack themselves. Why would it be a genuine investor?
It’s very strange behavior indeed.
Better just ignoring BFP totally. It makes no sense.
Please take note of the following. Remember to write everything down. Especially important dates. Critical deadlines need to be met. Every missed deadline has consequences. Deadlines missed will cost you dearly. Expecting forgiveness is futile. No point in even asking. Crying over it will get you no where. Expect the worse and prepare accordingly.
@ Regulatory Predator excellent question? Why the attacks on RL and the Trust. Shhhhh, sure the case stated what assets Harlequin were putting into the trust. And Fatchett said something different. So shhhhh. Just in case anyone else picked up on it.
Gareth Fatchett is in breach of his professional ethics so shhhhhh. Let’s keep this quiet.
There are legal cautions on all the Harlequin properties so again shhhhh. We don’t want anyone to know.
The leaks must be from CLC, sure they lost the case. Shhhhhh cause Dave agreed to keep this win a secret.
Ingham and Terry Penney have no documents, they were pretending shhhh but let’s pretend they were cause that’s a secret too. Shhhhh
So let’s ignore everything unless Fatchett posts it, because you can only trust Fatchett and Harlequin.
Could it be that the evidence from the case shows that the Ames family and not Harlequin own lots of the assets………..for christs sake shhhhhhh, if details of the case get out the trust is over…… Jesus for the love of god shhhhhh.
Garreth Fatchett cannot establish the trust. It’s about time that investors realised the cautions and judgements against Harlequin will preclude this.
There is also no finance, nor did Fatchett or Ames refer to any finance in the recent court case.
Nikki you are making yourself more stupid than you look.
Could anyone give me any up to date news on this woman …. A friend of mine is currently dealing with CPC Holding of Durham who have promised to obtain the deeds to his Spanish property he has already forked out in the region of £30k and they are now asking for more to finally obtain the deeds – Alarm bells are FINALLY ringing with him and I decided to do more digging on the company and came across this website … There is very little info on CPC other than what they have written about themselves and the woman he has been dealing with calls herself Nikki Crozier!! – there is also no information to “Google” on her either. My friend describes her as ruthless, haggard and trashy looking but, along with a collective of people, put his trust in the company as he was at his wits end and thought the bank were going to take the property off him. I have advised him to part with no more money and to talk to Durham police – does anyone have any other ideas ? Many thanks
@Anon 6.39 why not call MacDonald at WK I’m sure he will be able to tell you the time scales. That is if you can find him. Not a good time to be in the garden, so to speak.
Nikki,
About time you did another runner? Maybe a name change?
Mind you, why bother you have so many names on here 😉
Crozier lying Smunt
http://www.theleader.info/26/article/2850/oasis-update/
@Regulatory Predator
Crozier who else?
Corney has a problem.
The Muppets who keep paying her…… fucking Muppets. have a bigger one.
The wage slaves are out in force again tonight.
AN OPEN LETTER TO CPC AND CLC
We want confirmation of the following:
1. Has Nikki Crozier ever changed her name?
2 Why is Broughton not paying any fees?
3. Details of ‘her dead sisters’ scam in Spain
4. What did ‘Nikki’ do in Spain, did she work for Oasis?
5. Is CPC adequately insured?
6. What are the clients fees spent on?
7. Has any of the Crozier family got a criminal record?
8. How much did last weeks cock up in court cost?
We know you won’t answer. 😉
AN OPEN LETTER TO CPC AND CLC
We want confirmation of the following:
1. Has Nikki Crozier ever changed her name?
2 Why is Broughton not paying any fees?
3. Details of ‘her dead sisters’ scam in Spain
4. What did ‘Nikki’ do in Spain, did she work for Oasis?
5. Is CPC adequately insured?
6. What are the clients fees spent on?
7. Has any of the Crozier family got a criminal record?
8. How much did last weeks cock up in court cost?
We know you won’t answer.;)
She lies and cheats.
Did you know she has had regular lets call them ‘meetings’ with more than one solicitor?
Who say’s mixing business with pleasure is a bad thing, especially when clients foot the bill for all these swanky hotels…….
@CoCwa – Well we all know the answer to #7 when it comes
to the Ames family………..
And would love to know the answer to #8 when applied to the
Ames’s ……..
Clients of Ames want answers.
February 26, 2014 at 23:42
AN OPEN LETTER TO Carol AND Dave
We want confirmation of the following:
1. Has Dave Ames ever changed his personal details?
2 Why did Broughton get a refund?
3. Details of your scam in Panama, Thailand, Australia, Jamaica, Grenada.
4. What did Ames do in Spain, why did he sack Oasis?
5. Is Harlequin adequately insured?
6. What were the investors fees spent on, all £400 million.?
7. Has any of the Ames family got a criminal record?
8. How much did last weeks cock up in court cost? or is that question to be directed to ELS?
We know you won’t answer.
Clients of Fatchett want answers.
February 26, 2014 at 23;53
AN OPEN LETTER TO REGULATORY LEGAL AND GARRETH FATCHETT
We want confirmation of the following:
1.Has Gareth Fatchett ever changed his sex?
2 Why are Ingham and Walton not paying any fees?
3. Details of your clients successful redress in the Arch Cru case with proof.
4. What did Garreth do in Dubai, St. Vincent and Barbados, not any due diligence by the sounds of it.?
5. Is Regulatory Legal adequately insured, when it is discovered that Mr. Facthett provided bad advice to 2000 clients?
6. What are the clients fees spent on?
7. How much did the Tailormade cock up in court cost?
8. Where are all the stat demands you had against Harlequin?
We know you won’t answer.
Still no comment on this recent post, I wonder why?
Gareth Fatchett has taken it upon himself to post the following on his blog through RL.
Now Mr. Fatchett would of course understand that the judge has not ruled on the application, WHY? because as previously stated on this thread by “IN COURT” the judge instructed both sets of barristers to get together and agree a consent order.
So his statement is correct, however it certainly does not mean that CLC have lost their application.
Mr. Fatchetts’ statement is rather odd, it appears that he is giving the impression that CLC lost their application, however by stating that the applications have not been ruled on by the judge is just that, the judge by Mr. Fatchetts’ statement has yet to make a determination either way, but this will only happen should the parties not agree the consent order in the coming hours / day or so.
What is also very interesting to note about the latest release by RL on their blog, the statement that the completion monies will flow back to the relevant company, odd that mr. Fatchett states this when the whole argument surrounding Harlequin is that much of the monies initially paid never did flow to the relevant companies hence the reason for the current position.
Again Mr. Fatchett makes unsubstantiated statements, how can he be sure that all completion monies will be ploughed back in to the relevant Harlequin company.
And on the trust, whilst Mr. Fatchett has stated that investors will benefit from having assets placed into a trust, he now admits that these assets may be required by a third party financier, so not only will investors forgo their rights to sue Ames and Harlequin, they will also have to assign the assets over to potential third party financiers.
His statement that, “This does allow the trustees to ensure that the monies are being properly used and to provide a level of oversight which is needed.” will need some very detailed documentation put in place ensuring that all investors have a say on this and not just the “Chosen Few” who are members of the the board of trust. Indeed if this scenario was workable one has to ask what role the Ames family would have in any future for Harlequin. The Ames family can and will most probably veto any attempt at taking financial control from them, and there is little that Fatchett will be able to do about this.
The latest statement whilst an attempt at being clever does nothing more then enforce the belief that Fatchett is in bed with Ames, and investors should consider this in any decisions they will have to make.
Permalink Reply by Regulatory Legal Solicitors 1 hour ago
The completion money will not be frozen by the CPC action. We do not want to call it the Crozier action. That is unfair as it personalises things.
The applications made by CPC’s clients have not been ruled on by a judge.
The completion monies will flow back to the relevant Harlequin company. In the future (post trust), we envisage the trustees will need to sign a deed releasing their security.
This does allow the trustees to ensure that the monies are being properly used and to provide a level of oversight which is needed.
Below is an example of the absolute total contempt to which Garreth Fatchett hold his clients, it also demonstrates that Mr. Facthett has no clue to the laws in the Caribbean. Mr. Richard Inghams’ comments to this poor woman are a disgrace and Mr. Fatchett would or should understand this.
In order for Mr. Ames to allow completions, he must first provide the purchaser with a certificate of clear title to the land being sold. This would include proof that there were for example no cautions or judgements against Harlequin Property SVG Ltd. and that they also have paid all taxes and debts due to the government of SVG.
Andrea, you would be best advised to demand these documents from Mr. Ames prior to agreeing anything with him. Under St. Vincent law given that you have paid a deposit, you have already an equitable right in the land, do not let Mr. Ames or Mr. Commissiong tell you other wise.
When you do get the documents from Mr. Ames have them checked over by a local lawyer in St. Vincent, Mr. Ames and Mr. Commissiong have a habit of forging documents, indeed Mr. Comissiong was caught some time ago forging the signature of the St. Vincent court clerk.
We know there are cautions, liens and judgements against Harlequin Property SVG so please demand these documents.
Permalink Reply by andrea gregory 5 hours ago
I received a letter today from Harlequin SVG. My property is in Buccament Bay on phase 1. It states that after several attempts to contact me ( this the first communication from them since all this mess started over a year ago) to inform me my property is ready for completion. If I have the funds available it is a ‘matter of urgency’ that I go ahead and complete. Of course I have the funds sitting in an account just waiting to be handed over to Mr Ames!!!! I mean I only have a £70,000 loan on my home i’m struggling to meet every month!! Anyway the letter states that if I don’t have the funds they will cancel the purchase of the property I originally agreed to purchase and move my investment to one in phase two! We will notify you of your property number in due course! Can they do this? They go on to say the reason for this decision is that I have breached the terms of the purchase contract by failing to complete on the purchase of the unit, having effectively accepted late delivery of the property (when did I do that!) I couldn’t complete because Harlequin couldn’t get the funding together! They say they are doing this to a small number of purchasers…..are you telling me the majority have the funding in place! I doubt that very much.
How do I respond?
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Permalink Reply by Brian Moore 5 hours ago
Speak to RL! First thing in the morning!
Permalink Reply by S Warden 5 hours ago
I suspect they can, because ‘you’ don’t have the funds to complete. Speak to RL as Brian mentioned. My contracts say’s something like Harlequin will try their best to get a mortgage but not guaranteed.
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Permalink Reply by Richard Ingham 59 minutes ago
Andrea – if you are unable to complete due to not having the ability to complete through lack of funds, what do you expect Harlequin to do? Do you want them to sit and wait for you to save up for the balance? Let the property sit there waiting for you, whenevere that may be? Isn’t it in everybody’s best interests to move you to a later completion and give your property to another investor if there is another investor with the ability to complete? Getting cash back into the business rather than having a completed property sat there with a balance owing,
Sounds like Harlequin are offering you something sensible to me?
Richard is such rubbish. Andrea had a written time frame which
was not honored. She definitely holds the upper hand.
ps – I wonder who is paying Ingham.
Andrea, further to the comment above, please look at your contract very carefully, you are entitled to compensation as a result of the late delivery of your property, you need to pursue Harlequin for this compensation in addition to the previous advice given.
We will ask the SFO to look at this example and direct them to the specific page on the RL forum. Mr. Ames cannot provide you with an official clearance certificate, you need to seek independent legal advice as we suspect that Garreth Fatchett will attempt to get you to accede to Mr. Ames’ request for the good of the “Trust”, if he does we strongly suggest you bring the matter to the attention of the Essex Police and the SFO.
Under St. Vincent law you have rights.
-UW Bravo !!!
Who the hell is Richard Ingham, does he work for RL, and what the hell is Fatchett playing at. Andrea you have an absolute right to compensation, this bloody trust thing is getting way out of hand. Why not ask Ames to repay you from the funds generated by his resale.
Yes bravo UW. Could someone see can they copy that post over to the RL forum before the morning shift of stupidity raises their ugly heads.
To answer the question “who the hell is Richard Ingham” he is the man who was terrorizing Erica B . Perhaps not someone who anyone should listen to
I was told the police had been involved with this man but I don’t know for sure..
Our investigation has unearthed something about Walton.
He is a self-confessed Freemason who ‘deals’ with Eastern Europe and China in his ‘business’
Both these countries have links to organized crime, prostitution, drugs etc.
You can hide a lot in a container of wallpaper 😉
Worldwide property portfolio, BMW driving, Bently driving…… just saying.
Yes , I confirmed with a friend who knows about Richard Ingham and he is the one who terrorised Erica the police where involved but no one seems to know if he was charged or not .
What an excuse for a man.
@tpwow,
Is that how he got his wife in ………….just saying
@Anna
She probably does the recruiting, she apparently is one of them lot…… speak the lingo.
Richard Ingram does not work for RL.
He is a freemasons and therefore they are brothers.
PW is a freemasons and therefore his counsel is important to GF
DA is a very senior freemason . He will be helped by his brethren.
DA’s accountant Mr Baker is a freemasons.
GF is a freemason and will favour his brethren.
That’s just the way of the world….
Why try and fight it.
Reg Legal have been paying Ingham.
He has been helping with the DD, that’s how he has access to documents.
He is a Mason and a quantity surveyor, need I say more.
GF used the money to buy a Rang Rover Autobiography and a Aston Martin Vanquish.
He has a £1m villa in Spain near Malaga which was sold to him by Audrey Dixon / NIkki Crazier at a knock down price.
GF makes money by being successful, so clients get what they want and he gets what he wants. A fair deal.
There are no direct payments to RI He has been paid via the Masonic Bank. It allows secret payments to brethren. He is paid about £5000k per month to further the cause.
Paul Walton is the Northern Manager of the Bank.
You will not have heard of it. It moves quietly in the background.
So mote it be…
Our findings will be passed to the relevant authorities, once concluded.
I am not the Irish builder, Erica Broughton. Call me ‘White Knight’ or WK.
The fact that Mr. Walton paid for his Harlequin investment ‘cash’ tells you all you need to know.
He claims this was a SIPP investment, this is simply untrue. A smoke screen.
The best place to hide a leaf is in a forest. 😉
Walton, like Fatchett, like flash cars and holiday homes all over the World.
Walton’s brother works in the Middle East.
Walton also ships containers from Asia and Eastern Europe to UAE…… Rich Arabs and pretty girls?
More to follow tick tock.
Gareth purchased the Aston Martin Vanquish, from Alistair Burns, because he is now skint and selling his £2.5 million house because he can’t keep up the repayments.
@The profitable world of ‘wallpaper’
Never mind a leaf……
Where do you hide a Tree? Better ask Matt Ames 🙂
@the Permalink prat. Why don’t you just post one comment under one ID rather make out you have lots of mates agreeing with you. 7 “you are such a hero” posts in 1 hour. Did you get the graveyard shift last night.
Anonymous – The question by Andrea was if Harlequin could insist that she moves here completion from Phase 1 to Phase 2, not about whether compensation is due for late delivery.
This is a different question you dimwit, so stick to what has been asked, incidentally if the Cabana had been delivered on time would Andrea of had the funds to pay then? There are payment of damages clauses in some contracts relating to late delivery.
No – will be the answer so she would have been in the same situation.
Hey Walton & Fatchett my Brothers! – where’s this £5k a month your supposed to be paying me through the Masonic Bank!!
What a joke this site is!
Paul/ Gareth my Brothers! I was thinking that if the payment and the back payment wasn’t received into my Venezuelan bank account by close of business today, I may get Audrey Dixon/ Nikki Crozier to sue you for it but she would probably charge me more than the claim is worth and fuck it up aswell!
Be a better bet putting my cash on a Audley Harrisson win than and Audrey Dixon win!
Bro. Ingham.
The Bank of Freemasonry, has had a banking error. I will make lots of promises to pay you and fail on each one.
Well that’s blown my cover well and truly!
Can anyone help me out with my overstock problem?
I will be running a special promotion – a BOG OFF. Buy one get one free.
For this month only, buy a Chinky sex worker get a Jap eye free.
Has there been any movement in the CLC court case within the
past two days?
Anonymous – yes it’s fucked, it’s over!
Our findings will be passed to the relevant authorities, once concluded.
I am not the Irish builder, Erica Broughton. Call me ‘White Knight’ or WK.
Some of these poor foreigners are sold by Walton’s brother into well heeled Arab families, as ‘nannies’ a pseudonym for a sex slaves.
Walton has admitted being in UAE on several occasions. His wife aka ‘The buyer’ travels the World looking for ‘stock’.
We will keep you updated …. more later tick tock.
What’s his number I want one!!!
Bob, me old mate – fancy doing a ‘fractional ownership’ on one?
I’m on my 3rd phillipino thanks bob – they are smashed to pieces when I have finished with them – I’m on quality control for Brother Walton
Can I do the DD? Write the reviews – will I get a discount?
Can I become a Mason? £5000 pcm and a get to dip me wick 😉
Message for you two from Crazy Crozier http://youtu.be/p7OWtY3xQ9M
Our findings will be passed to the relevant authorities, once concluded.
I am not the Irish builder, Erica Broughton. Call me ‘White Knight’ or WK.
You would think with all the money raised from this international vice ring Walton would be able to get his baldy head sorted out?
Maybe next time, at an investor meeting he will arrive with a full head of hair? 😉
I wonder where the ‘cash’ to invest from Harlequin came from?……
And has he really had a refund?
Is he really an investor?
Why is he so close to Fatchett?
These are all questions we are looking at.
Our ‘intel’ suggests links with Eastern Europe, South America, UAE and Asia, dependent on what the buys want.
A sex worked can earn their ‘owner’ £500, 000 pa on a average year much more in UAE.
Strange, Fatchett, Ames and Ingham have links there. Just sayin 😉
So the Crazier 24 are very quiet. Has the return to court taken place yet? Has DA agreed to Craziers request for a meeting? The Permawave post it prat has gone quiet. Has he been told to stop His tutorial on how to cut and paste on a blog?
Looks like everyone is too busy having sexy time, again!
Paul – Maybe you could offer some work to Andrea Gregory so she can raise the funds to complete on her cabana on Buccament Bay that she cant afford? Pointless her just sitting on an assett that she has she may as well put it up for sale and raise the much needed cash?
The false congeniality on the RL site has totally dissolved today.
It seems that it is Robert Storey/Richard Ingham against the
world. God, those two are a nasty pair of losers.
Brother Walton – Why don’t you suggest a little work to Andrea Gregory on the RL Site, she’s short of completion money so maybe you could give her some work in your brothels, after all she’s just sitting on her most valuable assets so she may as well use them?
Andy Oates may also be a good recruit to traffic too because he can sure suck cock, but Mr Shaw on there would be a spent commodity as he has been feiched and gaped by too may army majors. Then again you never know the purchaser may not do any due diligence and buy these specimens blindly – then it will be everyones fault but their own!
Anonymous – Why not tackle Ingham and Storey on RL instead of on here you spinless gutless coward?
Because I am a coward and I like to hide behind my mummy’s skirt and throw insults that’s why
It’s not a nice trait bullying some lady, who gives me the impression is a very decent person.
She’s a half wit idiot who hasn’t got the brains to understand the contract she signed! Greedy investor that could not afford what she bought!
(Close you eyes BFP and don’t read this)…..Sometimes there is a
lot that can be said for censorship. Without it we get the likes of
Whatsthefuss/WhatstheUse./FDNRM.
Tossers the pair Ingham and Storey, like being nasty – remember poor damaged Erica?
FDNRM? Keep up will you. Without censorship we get the likes of anonymous and anonymous, oh and there is always anonymous. Don’t forget anonymous as well.
Erica was damaged a long time before the Harlequin issue – she was used by others. It’s that saying – a little knowledge, get back on here when you have the facts and understand them
@cyber Bullies, hello James.
Hmm.. I wondered where the gutless Mr Muppet Robert had gone today. For one hopeful minute I thought the Essex Police had been round and arrested him. But my dear son told me that they would not travel all the way to Nuneaton.
knit 1, purl 1
Knit together 24
My Dearest Carol, Carol Ames. Lifes a bitch aint it. You pop out that little sprog Mattie some 38 years ago, you held him in your arms, cuddled him and loved him dearly, saw him grow up, get married then have your grand kids, then a few short weeks ago your little fairy tale started falling apart. Awwwwww, so sad, and frankly we were delighted.
There is a very strong chance you will never get to have Mattie call over again with the grand kids, for the next year or so you will have to make a bi weekly journey down to Belmarsh to see your Mattie, then in about 18-24 months you your self will hopefully be sent to Holloway, Fatshit wont be able to save you from that faith. Now question is will you last that long? Some horrible bastards reckon you will not cope and will take too many pills one night, thats a cowards way out, my money is on you getting 10 years, given your sentence is say 2.5-3 years off, gives you about 8 years before you and Mattie can share a Christmas at home. By then if you are still alive you will be 70 and oh yeah you wont be allowed go visit Nichola in Australia boo hoo. Any way hope you are keeping well.
Bye for a while, ps please dont do anything stupid ☻☻☻☻☻☻ive got some huge money on you doing 7-10 years. Dont let me down. Mattie misses you so much. He is looking forward to his first big dick. Lol. Contrary to what you have been told they do bugger little boys like Matt. Ha ha fucking ha.
Evening everybody, well we are in the last few weeks before an attempt will be made to establish the trust. The trust from a legal perspective cannot work. Mr. Fatchett has to all intense and purposes being aiding Mr. Ames and his wife Carol and others in Harlequin in their attempts to avoid prosecution.
Mr. Fatchett will be reported to the SRA and authorities for his actions. Documents will be leaked which will destroy his credibility.
The pressure is about to be ramped up on Mr. Fatchett. Stay tuned.
And a special hello to Robert Storey who has in the past declined to meet us. We will meet Bob, we will meet.
Ralph – what a load bollox!
The reality of the situation is that the majority want the masons to run the show.
We cannot have a trust as this will stop me in my master plan.
This site is much calmer now that the focus has come back to Harlequin.
This is where the focus should be.
Let’s stick to the matters in hand.
Ralph excellent news….but are you going to actually spill the beans and back up the claims ….so many claim to predict the downfall of Ames/HP etc but then the news of impending death never actually produces a body if you follow
Ralph…I for one have missed your input. However for the sake of
accuracy I must correct your English…it should read…”Mr Fatchett
for all intents and purposes has been aiding Mr. Ames…..Sorry I
couldn’t let it go…
Anon – 9.35pm
Ralph O’Halloran – Mann has been predicting the fall of Harlequin since he ripped them off many years ago. To date he has been ineffective in meeting his objective.
It is pitiful watching them both post long windy posts covering the same ground again and again.
We have no influence on events on here. We are mere bystanders.
Yes Ralph all will be revealed tomorrow (yawn) You Ralph have my e mail, telephone number, etc so you can contact me directly. Send me an e mail, phone me but don’t get a lackey or his wife to do it for you. Speak slowly so I can follow your Irish accent. When will you morph into API or Malcom White?
He’s a fatty that Irish one. Tends to suggest a lack of self respect. The gut over the belt is not attractive. Is Dave Mann fat as well ?
Mann looks like a cross between Erica Broughton and Jabba the Hutt – like a big fat drunken sloth!
Bob,
The police have been coming round to your house every day for ages. Nothing,
It must be frustrating for Paddy to be so irrelevant. The whole process is out of control of the anti mob at the moment.
Oh dear. Why are the anti mob so overweight ?
Firstly we are very confident that the SFO will soon be making arrests. We are looking forward to this.
Secondly we must take a bow, Yes we are who you want us to be.
We used to be Mr. Newman. Now again we are Mr. O Halloran and a new member has apparently joined the ensemble, Mr. Dave (I have all the dirt on Ames, so please discredit me ) Man.
Funny but Mr. Man does have all the dirt on Mr. Ames and Carol. And so have we.
That gives me an idea if I could purvey Ericas soiled knickers, pussy by the pound and bottle her rancid kipper juice and arse vinegar, then maybe this new range of products might get me another Bentley?
We helped with information on the Matt Ames case, and we are very happy with the fruits of our labour on that project. Now you guys really have no idea who we are, nor what we have done, but given the game Mr. Fatchett is playing with the trust we will allow him as much rope as he needs to hang himself.
We will expose Fatchett for what he is. But it should be apparent that his little trust is falling apart at the seams.
I just spewed! I bet Erica has a fanny like Brian Mays plug hole!
Ralph returns and the Harlequin idiots like Storey are all over this.
Looks like Ralph sure puts the shits up Harlequin and Ames. Lol discredit Dave Man all you like, he has got all the dirt.
Think Dave Man, Erica and Steph Broughton, and Paddy have been dining out together on the Glasgow Salad
I’m a Yank………what is Glasgow Salad?
Deep fried pies, deep fried pizza, deep fried pies and for dessert deep fried mars bars
We all know who Ralph is. He is a busted flush. He has lots of important information for the authorities, but cannot tell till tomorrow, as usual. Now Ralph is taking credit for the MA conviction. Step aside Jon Austin you were just a pawn. Next we will be hearing about Project Orange lol
The DD is taking RL longer than planned, isn’t it?
I wonder if that is because:
a) They’re not finding the answers they wanted to
and/or
b) Ames isn’t supplying them with the necessary information
Well well well, who’d have thought that was going to be the outcome …
When are you going to make the telephone call Ralph? I will stop in especially for you. Perhaps you can call the Essex plod also, tell them to get in the queue behind you as you are soooooo important. I’m sure they will understand. If not you can also speak to that nice man, now what’s his name, Jack, Jim, Jude? At the SFO. Lol
@Robert Storey – Why are you here? Have they finally kicked you off
the RL blog for being totally unimportant?
Joe Hopkinson Bob, your mate who is leaking info to you. Joe Hopkinson.
Bob Did Maria Legros tell you who Malcolm White is. She said he wrote to her, and you were dying to know more.
@Anon you absolute idiot. That is the biggest laugh I have had all night. You cannot even get a name right.
@ Ralph, read the RL blog, or perhaps you cannot access it anymore? Who knows? Who cares?
Robert Storey the investigator from the SFO you keep alluding to is Joe Hopkinson you gobby little twat. For anyone else zoominfo is a good source.
Storey you gobby little twat for months you have regaled us with tales of how The SFO and Joe Hopkinson confided in you and named witnesses, of course we know he didn’t. It was Ames who gave you the info.
Your mate Fatchett will claim that.
Now why don’t you go back to the RL site and continue with your pity full diatribe over there. We can see what a twat you are even over there.
Who is Malcolm White?, by your reaction he/she/ they seem to be Dave Ames worst nightmare, Ralph? again he/she/they seem to be another of Mr. Ames worst nightmares, you, your just a gobby little twat who even Mr. Fatchett will acknowledge is an embarrassment.
Remember how Fatchett described you when in your FDNRM days you crawled to his office. A dishevelled, scruffy sad individual.
Anyone who wishes to contact Bob can do so at robert-storey@btconnect.com, We are sure he can back up all his claims, so ask him. He appears to be the fountain of all knowledge so perhaps he will respond to requests for information, who knows?
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1.29 am – after a few drinks. Why get so cross with Bob.
I have met Bob and he seemed alright to me.
I am glad RL / CPC are friends again. It was sad that they fell out for a week or so. Much better they work on their own things without providing a ready made distraction for Mr Ames.
Let’s keep focussed to the matters in hand which is Harlequin.
It is not Paddy, Erica, Walton, Fatchett, Ingham, Crozier… etc
It is all about David Ames.
“In 2006 Ames held an EGM in St. Vincent and with the assistance of Mr. Commissiong had Mr. Ferrari and Mr. Manning removed as directors of the company then known as Man Investments, now known as Harlequin Property SVG Ltd.
The EGM was held after Mr. Commissiong discovered that Mr. Ferrari and Mr. Manning were looking to oust Mr. Ames from the company over fears that Mr. Ames was acting in an illegal manner towards his investors.
Mr. Ames managed to oust Mr. Manning and Mr. Ferrari with the vote of Mr. Man and Mr. Commissiong ( Company Secretary ).”
Sent by my Ipad – Padraig
Anonymous – a little advice. You clearly have no ability to swear, there’s no creativity in it, it’s boring and embarrassing.
I suggest you give it a miss as repeating twat a dozen times in a row is s tedious
@Anon 1.29. Oh dear been on the drink again have we. I love these unintelligent personal attacks. It’s so easy to wind you up so you look pathetic. I suppose when you crouched over your computer at 1.29 in the morning, pissed, then the twat word would seem a good option. Guess it really just describes yourself then.
@BFP Robert.
You recently took down a series of posts from someone because you thought they were of a personal nature.
You recently took down some posts from Anon RU aka Inch because of bad language. Are you going to take down the post from Anon 1.29 because of the information in his post, or do we have another example of BFP double standards?
@Lets keep focussed
Hi Paul,
Nice to see you are still playing both ends ( solicitors) to the middle.
Do you not think they have both seen through you and are just using you?
It was great to see you at the Warrington meeting saving yourself before anyone else when the fire alarms went of typical Paul in more ways than one hey!
My number one fan.
@Squeaky squeaky mole in the bunker
March 1, 2014 at 10:39 am
It works for me £5000k per month from Fatchett, free legals and a % of what he gets.
Free holidays from Dave.
Then I sell all the info from Fatchett & Dave to CPC
We find Mr. Fatchetts’ stance towards Harlequin somewhat contradictory, In May 2013 Mr. Fatchett and RL had taken the line that Investors should not complete until the Harlequin business had been restructured.
Now the business has yet to be restructured yet RL are now taking the position that people who are unable to complete should make way for those who can, going so far as to state that a stalemate benefits no one.
RL are now stating that they are not formally advising investors on completions yet in May 2013 stated that they were “Telling” people not to complete.
Please see below an extract from the FT.com on May 17, 2013 6:10 pm by journalist Josephine Cumbo.
And below this, the latest on completions from RL and Garreth Fatchett.
How can RL / Garreth Fatchett explai this apparent u turn.
“We are telling people not to complete until the Harlequin business has been restructured,” said Gareth Fatchett, solicitor with Regulatory Legal. “We are also encouraging clients to submit proof of debt claims with the administrator.”
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4a0dba3e-be0d-11e2-bb35-00144feab7de.html#ixzz2ui9P2GeJ
“Reply by Regulatory Legal Solicitors on Thursday
We have seen the letter. The position is that when Harlequin are ready to complete you are contractually bound to pay the balance. Most people cannot do this due to lack of a Mortgage.
A stalemate benefits no one. Therefore, Harlequin could forfeit your contract (and your deposit or move you to a later phase. Seems to us that the latter is a compromise.)
We are not formally advising investors on completions. If they are uncertain they should instruct lawyers to provide advice.”
plus I got my money back, cash with no 15% – what’s not to like about that?
It’s not a contraction. RL are advising people to take independent advice. That sounds sensible.
The completing investors are all instructing their own lawyers.
A stalemate makes no sense. Unless you desire a collapse that is.
It must hurt being out maneuvered by Dave, then your wife leaving you when the money ran out…… poor little Paddy shame.
Just maybe….
http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/james-shaw/44/65/874
So why were RL taking the stance in May 2013 that Investors should not complete until a restructure of Harlequin had taken place? RL told investors not to complete in May 2013, so why have they stepped back from their statement of May 2013.
Because things change ! So do plans and. Tactics.
Why do some people attach a type of cult status to Mr. Ames? Mr. Ames took a case against the builder and won, did he not? To out maneuver someone, suggests that there is more to the case then meets the eye. In the Caribbean, most will state that Harlequin provided false evidence, forged documents, and lied, and continue to lie, in case after case.In the recent UK court case, Sam Commissiong, lawyer for Harlequin, stated some thing different to what he stated in the Irish court case, some will call it a mistake, others a lie, the legal term is perjury.
So this does not bode well for the information Mr. Ames is giving Mr. Facthett for his due diligence, but is appears Mr. Fatchett is willing to take the Due Diligence at face value.
In the Know –
RL will not rely solely on Ames. That would be madness.
It creates a conspiracy theory to suggest GF will take the Ames mantra at face value,
Silly because GF doesn’t want to be seen as an Ames patsy.
Let’s not forget fatty nicked our cash
http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/developer-ordered-to-pay-15m-damages-237978.html
The court heard during a 31-day trial there was no written contract and money was diverted into personal accounts of Mr O’Halloran to fund lavis purchases, including a wedding, private jet, a racecourse in St Lucia, a car franchise business and renovations to a rented property on the Sandy Lane estate in Barbados.
Harlequin said during construction shells of the buildings went up but they were not connected to essential infrastructure like sewage, water and power leading to the resort opening late and on a smaller scale.
Fancy spending £1000’s on prostitutes, wouldn’t mind if they were women, under ages boys – terrible.
Harlequin, the property investment group engaged in the development of luxury overseas resorts, has won a court case against a former contractor it said had misappropriated money meant for property development.
Padraig O’Halloran, a former ICE Group contractor, misused about £8.5m of some £32.5m sent by Harlequin for the development of its Buccament Bay Resort in St Vincent and the Grenadines, the High Court in Ireland heard.
The millions diverted helped fund a wedding, purchase a private jet and acquire a racecourse in St Lucia, Harlequin said.
The cash was supposed to be used to fund construction work, but the court heard that the development, though made to look as though there had been progress, was missing vital resources such as sewage, water and power. As a result, the resort opened later than originally planned and on a smaller scale.
Richard Ingham is back on BFP I see, or should I say whatsthefuss?
Anything disgusting it’s him.
The court noted allegations that O’Halloran had misappropriated $13 of the $50m paid in total by Harlequin to ICE Group.
“Although the plaintiffs claim they were illegitimate payments and expenditure, they do not form part of the Irish proceedings other than being offered as evidence corroborating his misappropriation of funds,” the judge said.
The court heard that O’Halloran used the money in Ireland to buy properties and passed sums to his father, a co-defendant. He also set aside around $200,000 for a wedding that never happened.
What makes this more than just a run of the mill fraud case is the close involvement of a partner and tax manager at top 25 accountancy firm Wilkins Kennedy.
Martin MacDonald (known as “Mac”) is a partner at Wilkins Kennedy’s Southend office and was retained by Dave and Carol Ames.
“He became a close friend and confidante of Mr and Mrs Ames and, as time went by… he became, to all intents and purposes, the chief financial officer of Harlequin,” the judgement read.
“I am satisfied that the evidence establishes that by the spring of 2010, Mr MacDonald was working in league with the first named defendant (Mr O’Halloran) and he had a serious conflict of interest in continuing to act for Harlequin.”
A former senior director with accountancy firm Wilkins Kennedy has formally apologised over allegations of fraud against embattled property investment firm Harlequin on a website he set up and founded, which included claims the firm was a Ponzi scheme.
Harlequin, whose UK arm entered administration earlier this year, and the family of its chairman David Ames today (4 November) published a joint statement alongside Wilkins Kennedy, its partner Martin MacDonald and former senior director Jeremy Newman announcing an out of court settlement over libel action brought in relation to the now defunct ‘Harlecon’ website.
It’s simple Paddy want’s Ames to fail, at all costs.
Funny Mr. Fatchett proclaimed to investors that the “Good News for Investors is there is to be no appeal in the Irish case” , now there is an appeal, well, what do he expect when Mr. Ames used forged documents, paid witnesses, one of those witnesses has now come forward and had his SVG Lawyer/Barrister lie.
I also have it on good authority that Mr. Hallaran, Mr. Man, Mr. Newman, Mr. MacDonald, Mr. Ferrari, Mr. Manning, Mr. Slade, Mr. Sawkins, the Buthcher Girls and many others have provided the SFO / Essex police with thousands of documents going back to 2006.
But what happened the in excess of £200 million that Ames took after the ICE Group was removed, and Ames sold all the ICE Group assets frozen in SVG.
But in typical fashion the best Harlequin can do is repeat a judgement of some $1.5 million USD. 0.22% of money taken in. In comparison, the Ames family took dividends and illegal loans amounting to in excess of £20 million sterling. This does not include all the land in Ames personal names. So is this not investors money too?
5% versus 0.22%. And why do Harlequin trolls jump from attacking Crozier, to Newman, Hallaran, back to Crozier, back to Hallaran and so on and so forth. Lets not forget who is in custody, and lets not forget who is under criminal investigation. No not Crozier, not Newman, not MacDonald, not Hallaran, oh yeah Ames family, Terry, Taylor, Dalligan, Stenning ( and his taser), Manderfield etc etc etc.
Hefin Rees stood up in a UK court 2 weeks ago. He stated that his clients were being subjected to ongoing slanderous and defamatory attacks on the internet.
Hefin Rees further stated that Harlequin woes were all caused by the Irish Builder and Wilkins Kennedy.
He then waved a bundle of papers in the air stating that Harlequin were starting their lawsuit against Wilkins Kennedy two weeks ago for a whopping $50 million USD.
But strangely enough nothing has appeared in the papers.
A few weeks ago a post appeared on BFP that Ames had sent paper work to Wilkins Kennedy looking for arbitration, not a court case or law suit.
The two claimant companies were Harlequin Property SVG and Harlequin Caribbean Ltd. When the post appeared on here Ames went crying back to Wilkins Kennedy moaning about a leak. He was politely told to go “FUCK OFF” by the powers that be at Wilkins Kennedy.
He was also politely told to “BRING IT ON”,
These are the facts, let the Harlequin trolls do what they do best.
Hallaran, Wilkins Kennedy, Newman, Man, Ferrari, Manning, The SFO etc etc etc are all working hard to bring down the Ames family and it looks like they will succeed. And this has Ames on an absolute rage hence the usual bollocks from Harlequin on here.
Of course O Hallaran, Newman, MacDonald, Man, and plenty more others want to bring the Ames family down.
I doubt even they would deny this. So get over it. They appear hell bent on bringing Ames down and it appears the authorities listened to them.
And no amount of blogging on here will change that.
Richard Ingham
You are an insensitive,pompous,arrogant,hearlless, troublemaking bastard. You need a punch on the nose.
Now…..Dave Ames is making enemies of his oldest and most loyal investors.everyone who is not already aware of his current antics needs to be informed,
Harlequin are now attempting to force investors in Buccament Bay who do not have funds of their own to complete the purchase of cabanas in Phase 1(some 113 in total) to move their investment to an unspecified unit in Phase 2. This,according to Ames will allow other investors who do have funds to complete to take over these “stolen” units, thereby injecting funds into the business(?).How low can the Ames family go?He says the original investors are in breach of contract.This disgraceful move raises many questions.Who are these phantom investors? Would anyone of them care to confirm they are prepared to step in and take away a unit from a fellow investor? NOTE, it also appears Fatchett and RL also think this a good idea!!! AMES WANTS ALL FULLY BUILT UNITS IN HIS OWN NAME TO OFFER THEM AS SECURITY FOR A BANK LOAN!!! This is exactly what his former business associate, Richard Horton, did in Thailand.
Right from the outset, Ames offered “100% finance guaranteed”How many investors would have remortgaged their homes ( and lost them in the process) knowing what they know now? Each and every investor in all resorts needs to very aware of how low Ames will go. If indeed there are investors ready to step in, which I very much doubt,are you willing to put more funding with this CON ARTIST? A LEOPARD NEVER CHANGES IT’S SPOTS.Note also that the proposed Management Agreement also contains many causes for concern.Are we surprised at this?
In setting up the trust, Ames wants you to Waive your right to sue him. Note this takes place BEFORE any third party finance is in place , which he now says in his latest e- mail will be in the SUMMER!!! I am surprised no one has taken this up !!
NOBODY has yet completed or received title !!!!
Surely it is time for the SFO to step in. This latest move by Ames is the last straw for many.This CATASTROPHIC investment has destroyed so many lives and needs to be stopped NOW.The trust will not save your investment, mark my words.
As for the conviction of Matthew Ames…..By his own admission, he was taught everything he knew by his father. This should set alarm bells ringing, if they are not already.
As a one time passionate supporter of Ames,I have had enough! Believe you me, that says everything!!
the conviction of Matthew Ames, by his own admission,
I also have it on good authority that Mr. Ingham has not got the financial wherewithal to complete. If, Ames is doing any ‘dirty little deals’ we will be watching.
Where would someone like him get the cash?
Just sayin…….
@Georgie Boy
Ames has been offering huge incentives to complete, up to 40% in many cases, as long as it’s cash.
What do you think will happen with it?
@Ralph has many guises, you have just proved you know nothing regarding completions.
Ralph Has Many Guises – think you better check your snout (we know he doesn’t exist you just make things up) but I think you will find that Mr Ingham is in the first group of completions – ask him yourself on RL site
@Ames is a prolific liar. Those are not the facts and DA will be “bringing it on” So O’Halloran, WK, Newman, MacDonald are all working hard to bring DA down. So far O’Halloran has been implicated in fraud, WK are about to defend a $50m lawsuit, Newman has had to sell his house and move into rented accommodation to pay his legal fees and damages, MacDonald is tending his garden and the SFO have done nothing. Yes it really does look like they will succeed doesn’t it. They would do better to admit they are onto a loser and move on.
Georgie Boy – you know where I am all day long – if you don’t go ask Erica you will get the address of her! When you have don’t that come over and see me and punch me on the nose – I will give you one free shot so make sure it counts.
Stop hiding in anonymity and make it happen!
Ralph Has Many Guises – you sound like one of the low life peasants that cannot afford to complete and are jealous of others who are completing! What’s the problem? It’s only the cost of one of my Bentleys! I could pimp your ugly wife out for a couple of quid an hour if that helps, some clients like fat ugly smelly retarded women like your wife? Drop me a line if your interested!
Georgie – don’t confront Ingham he is a dangerous nasty individual who mixes in dubious circles (not Masonic) – turns out he has done a bit of time in a past life and is having problems obtaining an Alien landholders licence in SVG because of it – he thought after 5 years it expired but the police check has come up with a trace
Ralph Has Many Guises – one other thing I forgot to say, Ingham has a legitimate business as a front to something else. He has a few warehouses and stores things that normal warehouses won’t – if you get my drift?
We clearly have Mr.Ingham rattled. The last posts are all his.
His, and any other ‘deals’ will not stand up to investigations by the authorities, they will be overturned, when we prove malfeasance
Pay your closing costs, lose them as well.
You repugnant little bully of a man.
@Bit of Advice
We have Mr. Ingham under surveillance, that’s all we need to say.
Ralph – I am not Ingham I can assure you, why you so cocky?
Ralph of course you do! That post is so funny! Now the PI is under surveillance!
What are these deals you keep talking about? Another figment of your fucked up deluded mind?
It’s only a couple of hours ago you were saying Ingham wasn’t completing – better make your mind up which it is and keep it consistent!
Nikki – is Ralph what you call yourself when your on the wine?
@ Anonymous 6.33 pm. The alleged Harlequin vs Wilkins Kennedy Case is huge. $ 50 million USD. Yet strangely it has not appeared any where, trade journals or otherwise.
Mr. MacDonald is still an active partner of Wilkins Kennedy, still employed and active, a phone call to the Wilkins Kennedy Southend Office on Monday would confirm this. I made the call and spoke with Mr. MacDonald. I suggest you should try the same.
You state the SFO have done nothing. Is this a statement of fact or just your views based on the speed of the investigation. I know I probably should not say this, but I have just completed my witness statement to the SFO. Why would they be going to the bother of acquiring witness statements if they were doing nothing?
I doubt they are obliged to keep Mr. and Mrs. Ames updated on a regular basis. Saying that however they did update everyone a few weeks back.
Again how do you know Mr. Newman had to sell his house to pay his legal costs and damages, again this appears to be pure supposition on your part, I have been told that Mr. Newman has recently invested heavily in a development project in South America, and is employing ex Ridgeview and ICE Group employes on the development. But you will claim I am lying, yet you fail to substantiate your claims.
There was Arbitration in the Harlecon case and I believe the statement released was the subject of debate and analysis in the past, so I unlike Harlequin am not going to go over old ground, safe to say the arbitration was subject to an NDA, so no one really knows what was said or done. For all we know everything could have been settled for a pound.
I cannot speak for Dave Ames, so if he is going to bring it on, frankly he needs to get on with it. And I expect the trade journals to run the story.
Wilkins Kennedy are one of the top 20 accountancy firms in the UK, they are not going to roll over and fork out 50 million dollars to a guy currently being investigated for criminal fraud.
Mr. O Halloran is appealing the Irish Judgement in that Civil Case, again, none of us know the grounds for the appeal, and therefore it would be odd for anyone to state that the appeal is won or lost by either party.
If I recall Ingham was given threats on here that if he turned up at the Warrington meeting he would get taught a lesson – Ingham turned up and never hid, whilst you idiots threaten and hide in anonymity on here – who’s the cowards?
While you all argue the Pink Pound continue to roll in.
Thanks for that.
Robert you are a truly pathetic man….. oooow big tough Dick the woman abuser – get you aroused does it?
Go and rub one out on your Ipad in the bog
Robert, good evening, and good evening to Ralph has many guises.
Robert why is it that we illicit such a reaction from Dave and his loyal supporters? You have no idea who we are nor who we have spoken to.
So please let us carry out our task, a task we will most definitely succeed in, that is to ensure that Dave, Carol, Dan, Nichola and Matt to a lessor extent (given his current predicament) will never be in a position to benefit from others money again.
We are close to success, and will keep you updated.
@Ralph.
Robert is just a sad lonely old man who prefers his wine from a box. He has found a friend, Ingham, they share a passion for abusing women online.
Anonymous or is it Andy Oates?- which women has Ingham abused? The answer is none, now try and get something right
Angela – wondered how long it would take some splitarses to pull the sexist card – run off back to the kitchen
That LinkedIn profile of Andy Shaw is a different person to the one on RL forum who thinks he’s a moderator and gives out his orders.
The Andy on RL site has never seen any action, he’s was in the catering corps and the pretend soldiers of the TA. He claims to have PTS, what from shall we ask, he’s just a benefit abuser too lazy to work but blames his time in the catering corps!!! He would have loved some frontline action but he’s too much a coward,
Apolgies I called James, Andy, he’s that insignificant in all this I can’t even remember the benefit cheats name!
Hello again Richard the plastic gangster. The tough guy who likes bulling women online.
Gives you a little hard on? Pervert. If you met a real man you would shit your pants – nonce.
Andy Shaw Catering Corps
Brother Paul Walton Purveyor of Pussy to the Masonic Fraternity
Paul Walton Purveyor of Pussy to Masonic Fraternity
Whatsthefuss
Yorkipoo
Bog Hopper Hates the Trust
WhatstheUse
Bit of Advice
LoL – if I was all those people I would be the only one on the site!
Pity Philip George didn’t spend as much time doing his due dilligence as he does about people’s ID – maybe he wouldn’t have lost his £140k?
Angela – although Richard can speak for himself, I have only ever seen people threaten him physically not the other way around, at least when threatened not to attend meetings he’s been there and not hidden anonymously?
As for hardons that must be a subject that you know little about – I doubt a woman with your looks ever gave anybody a hardon! LMFAO!
@Andy Shaw Catering Corps or should I say Richard Ingham.
You need to stick to bullying women.
Mixing me up with Andy Oats I take it as a compliment.
@WhatstheFuss
Richard yawn……
When’s Ralph going to knock on Inghams door and show him what a real man is? Go on impress Angela!
Funny Ames spent millions on his security just in case Ralph knocked on his door. And Ames was very serious about the threats he received. Of course 1. Ralph would have to be the builder and 2. Ames was not bullshitting.
James why don’t you ask Richard the question on RL site, you may get an answer as I can’t answer for him?
What’s the bullying women about he does but you and your mate Andy are a pair of girls!
Go run around with some plastic guns tomorrow it’s the nearest you have been to any action, mental yes PTS no way!
Angela? Hippos yawn??
Anon – that fat fuck paddy couldn’t knock his way out of a paper bag – stick to the eating competitions paddy!
Angela – seems like it could be paddy who’s a real man, maybe he could tackle your badly packed kebab? He must be desperate and lonely enough to consider breaking your abstinence?
We can’t wait to find out who the “Financier” is and we will then pass on all our screenshots to them well done Dave Ames and his bully boy mates, you wonder why the trust won’t work? you and the word trust make me ROTFL. 🙂
At last we get to the core of the matter – rubbish posted by Broughton/ Crozier/ Broughton/ Fat Paddy, anonymously stirring the shit all day in other people’s names just to cause trouble and have pretend screen shots.
Now it makes sense!
Ames wants and needs the trust so he isn’t behind the posts!
Ingham is close to Fatchett and Walton as it has been well recorded so why would he be anti-trust.
Looks like you lot have been taken in by Fat Paddy and his cronies!
The trust can’t work for 3 main reasons. 1 there are a huge number of cautions on all the Harlequin lands. 2 there are only a maximum of 2000 investors signed up to the trust. 3 the trust will not survive a legal attack by a liquidator or the non trust members as it has no basis in law in St. Vincent, the trust folks is being set up under UK law.
Now are the 2000 really going to give up all their rights to sue Ames for a few ponds and footpaths? Go ahead folks, be our guest. All you are doing is giving Ames some hope in a criminal prosecution. But go ahead guys. Give everything up.
Brother Walton ect
Don;t tell us the new “financiers” details we have made our own enquiries and we know who they are they are a globally recognised firm who specialize in areas such as these http://nealeswaste-px.rtrk.co.uk/Hazardous_Waste.htm
Now we know you have very serious mental health issues but ……..like there really is a “financier” Lol
We have read for months the Masonic link of Ames, Fatchett and Ingham. That Ingham Walton and Fatchett are close and that these people will be trust members,
Ingham has stated he is pro trust and an investor. Ingham hates with a passion Paddy/ Crozier/ Broughton/ Newman – remember he gave the court a witness statement against them last year, so he won’t do anything to help their cause,
So why would he post anti investor posts? Answer is he wouldn’t and has stated publicly that he stopped posting on here when he spoke with the police.
So who would benefit from all this turmoil? Only paddy and his band of merry men!
It’s clear to me that they have been posting on here using provocative names to cause disharmony!
Don’t fall for the scam – paddy and his supporters are behind the posts posts!
Ralph aka far Irish bastard how’s your surveillance at Inghams house going? You hiding under a marquee? I think a. 30 stone lump of lard would have had blending in issues??
Anyway have you decided yet if Ingham is completing or not? First you state he was too skint to complete then changed your tune to he was but your going to make him lose his completion fees. Which is it then you dumb Irish sweaty stinking morbidly obese idiot?
My my, tut tut, what is it about us that gets everyone so riled up. Gosh wonder what it could be.
Anyhow back to reality, Dave, Carol, Dan and a good number of others really need the trust to work, that way they hope to convince Shipleys LLP to do a CVA. Now that would be nice, pity so many trust in Fatchett, history seems to repeat itself, trusting your IFA, now Fatchett, hmmm we will see.
Of course your defence in your criminal trial will be, “What Fraud, My Investors Love Me, look some even joined a trust and trust me so much they have undertaken not to sue me for 5 years.
The jury could be convinced, you might even win your case and sue the police for 100’s of millions, add this to the 50 million from WK, you don’t need to sell anymore, litigation makes you more money. But will Carol be able to take the stress, how is she, bet she is taking this very badly, but do you really care about Carol. We don’t think so.
See we do have a number of moles on the RL forum, in fact one of us paid the 200 + VAT, so see, we get to see the due diligence after all, and then we get a chance to dissect it, for all you guys and girls. We won’t charge you guys for the analysis, and we have lots of friends, so we do hope Garreth does not try to fudge it.
Dave, do you remember the Canadian Bankers you thought were going to give you finance, well it was us who had a quiet word in their ear, yes, of course you remember.
So please, you promised end mortgages, what did you say in the Grove? Oh yes, you don’t need banks, funny that, and funnier that some really think that you can now get finance.
Maybe we should call you Dave Trump, or who was that guy from Texas, ah yes Dave Stanford.
Sorry if we have upset people, oh yeah Bob, we have not mentioned Ingham, we only post under Ralph. PS has Dave paid Malcolm’s brother back yet, he really should not play games with Jaimaicans, would not be good for his health, now would it?
Nite nite folks, sleep tight, dream of all those ponds, paths and oops cautions, including Dave’s cautions, oh yea he has some too. Always one step ahead of all you guys, but we know he is the victim in all this or at least some of you out there would want us to believe that.
Again nite nite.
@Ralph.
You forgot to mention the special deals for Bob Storey etc.and what Ames will do with completion monies.
Ralph Has Many Guises – Ralph dint mention any special deals because firstly if here was any he wouldn’t be privy to them, secondly there most likely isn’t any, and lastly Ames can do any deals he likes.
You made an arse of yourself last night when you stated Ingham couldn’t complete because he had no cash, then changed it to he was but it must be a deal.
You have no credibility you seek just to cause trouble for Harlequin and certain individuals
Bunker Mentality – not that you could, but supposing it was possible for you to scupper the refinancing of Harlequin, why would you do that? What benefit would liquidation be?
It’s people like you that needs attacking not individuals who have a different opinion on completions/ DD etc
Small point – the security grants will be made in SVG. Therefore, any challenge would happen there. In the SVG we trust ! (so to speak).
There are 19 caution in St Lucia. No more.
David Ames looks to have stolen millions.
Matt Ames has been convicted of fraud.
Padraig O’Halloran has been found to have ripped Harlequin off.
Jeremy Newman was forced to settle and apologise in relation to Harlecon.
Nicky Crazier/Audrey Dixon could be a fraudster from Spain (or not). Funny story if entirely untrue.
Wilkins Kennedy look to be guilty of acting with a conflict of interest
Erica Broughton became obsessed and took photos of the house of a fellow investor, which is not entirely normal behaviour.
Richard Ingram comes across as a bully, which is not good.
David Manning is like a spurned lover. Ames ripped him off and he is hell bent on revenge.
These people are the main contributors to BFP. Nothing sane can happen with these people. End of.
Who has Richard Ingham bullied? It was deemed by the police that Ingham had no case to answer. I haven’t seen him be a bully on RL site, I have seen others attempt to bully him for a difference of opinion.
If you assume it from here then don’t forget many people post under different names.
It’s most amusing to sit back and see Richard Ingham trying his best to be a gangster, O’ Halloran trying not to be accused of nicking $13 million.
All we need now is Dave to tell us his business model is robust and all is well
Mr. Storey is getting a return on his investment ( he doesn’t own)…and finance is just round the corner.
Roberty, you have been defending Ames for years, so you are a bit of a cock. All these, and more are Richard. It’s not funny.
Don’t forget it was him that sent Erica mad as a box of frogs.
Andy Shaw Catering Corps
Brother Paul Walton Purveyor of Pussy to the Masonic Fraternity
Paul Walton Purveyor of Pussy to Masonic Fraternity
Whatsthefuss
Yorkipoo
Bog Hopper Hates the Trust
WhatstheUse
Bit of Advice
Hippo Yawn
Paddy the Salad Dodger
Carott crotch
Bully – no they are not because I use some of those names when I choose and I’m not Richard!
Erica was mad a long time prior to all this and if you recall it was Cliff Jones that put the Ingham bullshit in her mind.
What did Ingham do to send her mad – bearing in mind the police have investigated this matter
When did Ingham pretend to be a gangster, he has always said he runs a honest business! what happened and I know your not interested in facts, was a poster threatened to punch him on the nose and Ingham said instead of talking about it do it!
Was Ingham not being intimidated when the arsehole wrote that to him??
All is Well – don’t know what TV shows you watch or what cosy suburb you live in but when somebody threatens you like what happened to Ingham yesterday and they call the cowards bluff that doesn’t make them a gangster.
In Warrington he was threatened by the Paddy bunch that if he showed his face he would be beaten up – he never hid and nobody said a word.
You would have hidden and pissed your pants – well if you didn’t hide behind anonymity.
Was it paddy who pretended to be a gangster and cost us investors millions in bodyguards to Ames – you have a fucked up view on life
How odd Bully Talks Bullyshit, 3 long posts defending someone who is not you?????????????
Crozier and bunch – your doing well on here making up loads of posts to deflect the spotlight off you.
Nikki – It’s easier than providing your qualifications, dead sisters death certificate. Clarification on the Spain Fraud, explanation why you tried and failed to freeze completions monies etc
It’s a lot easier to post and pretend to be Ingham – funny why permalinks stop when your pretending to be somebody else.
Mind you your proficient in pretending to be somebody else!
Bully – isn’t that pot and kettle?
Robert long post slagging people off are ok but long posts defending them aren’t – interesting point of view! Funny these attacks all came about because Ingham had an opinion on RL that investors should have done some DD of their own – hardly a way out offensive opinion to provoke all these attacks??
I can confirm that it is correct that Ingham is in the first batch of completions – so Ralph of many guises you need to check your sources!Whilst I have no time for the prick not all posts on here are him it’s others causing trouble.
Crozier crowd doing well this weekend clogging up the site and deflecting attention away from them. Last week it was Walton, this Ingham, who will it be next?
Has to be somebody new because they can’t keep the bullshit flowing as there’s no substance behind it!
Looks like RL have a few trolls of their own that migrate between there and here
@Anon 7.23 March 1st
In answer to your rambling post with many questions, try these answers.
1) the WK action is not in the press because it is not news until it happens. Wouldn’t want anyone getting sued for speculation would we.
2)why would you want to phone MacDonald unless you are one of his cohorts? He’s still there for window dressing. Firing him would be an admission of guilt.
3)who have the SFO arrested, no one. Lots of companies get investigated without action.
4)update DA/CA? Yes they do. They know exactly who has made accusations against them. They have to have that information so they can prepare a defence if needed.
5)Newman and his house? Social media my son. It’s a fact. They were in their old house for 18 years, but it has bad memories. If you can phone MacDonald then you can phone Newman. There again you know it’s true.
6)WK won’t roll over, but their insurers will. It’s them who will have to pick up the bill and legal costs.
One think, if anyone could give a genuine answer – if Ingham is as nasty rotten individual that’s irrelevant to us all then why does Gareth Fatchett bother to keep so close to him? Same with Walton?
We read all last weekend that Fatchett had given Ingham access to court papers! Why are Walton and Ingham treated differently to fatchetts other clients?
Why were Walton’s reports never circulated?
Let me tell you why, it was to see the plans for a new Masonic Lodge for Gonzy in SVG, just like the one Ames built in Wickford.
That’s why Ames is so senior in the Lodge – money, our money he keeps giving away.
Bob you would defend the actions of Hitler.
Simple Ingram is a Freemason, like the rest of em.
There are a lot more masons in the investors that Walton and Ingham so why those 2?
How could hatchet give Ingam the court paper when he was in Japan with Walton?
It was Ames that give them to Inham
No, it was Crozier who gave them to Walton, who sold them to ingham in return for a sex slave.
No, no, it was Dave Ames who gave them to Ingham, who sold them to Walton, who gave them to Fatchett, who exchanged them with Crozier for some sex tapes on the Irish builder
Ok so why would either Ames or Fatchett give Ingham the court papers? What is the purpose?
Ingham got the straight from the court from a Masonic link there
Judge Dread – why was Walton and Fatchett in Japan? Thought it was for a marathon? Can’t be for that reason, Walton doesn’t look like an athlete to me!
Walton was on a buying trip, the Japanese school girl look is very popular.
This is all about sex, money and Masons.
BB will be a hot spot for Masonic sex tourists, not all like the ‘local produce’.
Whilst this may be a little too controversial for some, not all of Hitlers ideas were bad.
Take for example homosexuality, filthy disgusting people, unnatural.
Gypsies, we only need to look at the problem we have with these lot from Eastern Europe – robbers all of them – Gypsy stock.
So, not all bad ideas.
Mr Storey, even for you that’s below the belt.
I cannot believe that some on here think that posts that use my ID are actually from me. I have posted once today, and I don’t think it is difficult to work out which one it is. Some on here are very guilable.
@BFP as usual your biased one eyed approach to censorship is exposed again.
Mr Storey – I believe that you could be arrested in Germany for
posting something like that.
Robert – they believe the ID used is that person – fucking retards. No wonder Ames picked their pockets!
Dear Mr. Ingham aka whatthefuss,
It’s not socially acceptable to use the word retard anymore. It does appear you, and Mr. Storey have the same social graces; you’re made for each other – as the old saying goes ‘birds of a feather flock together’
Next you will be saying you never visit BFP, silly silly,nasty man Mr. Ingram
Mr. Ingham did Ames not ‘pick your pocket’ to the tune of a couple of £100k?
Now that really must make you feel a tad silly?
You’ve got to pick a couple of £100k or two lol 😉
Oliver – you really need to ask Ingham that question as I’m not privy to the investment with Ames, maybe if you ask Ingham he may wish to say. I have just adopted the ID! Looks from the RL website he did have an investment and he’s not satisfied. Also seen on here he’s completing – who knows isn’t that private?
Oliver – what have you been pick pocketed for? Your not here for no reason! Are you a Crozier dimwit who has been pick pocketed every month!
Well you should not say anything on the forum should you!
She at least gets results
Picked Pockets – she hasn’t recovered a penny to date, failed to secure completion monies, but taken plenty of fees. The rough old slag is a crook, unqualified and has an identity crisis!
Ames doesn’t care about Crozier he’s got plenty hidden. She will drain her clients of every last penny.
Oliver you lot want to make your minds up last night Ralph said Ingham had a super duper deal today he’s been scammed – edging your bets that one of you will be right! Fucking nobheads
@annon 7.23 march 1st
For some reason this didn’t load up earlier today, so let’s give it another go.
1)it’s not made the press because it hasn’t happened yet. The press won’t print something unless it’s been actioned. Watch this space though.
2)why would you want to phone MacDonald unless he’s one of your cohorts? He’s been kept on because he’s part of the defence team only.
3)who exactly have the SFO arrested yet? Lots of perple and companies get investigated without any action taking place.
4) update to DA/CA by the SFO, yes they do. They know exactly who have made complaints against them, they have to as part of their possible defence.
5)Newman and his house, social media is a font of all knowledge. “18 years in an unhappy house” . Seeing as you can phone MacDonald phone Newman about his move and the reasons for it. But there again you know it’s true.
6)WK won’t roll over, but there again their insurers might, especially with the court costs which they could have to pay in defending the case.
Bob & Richard, hey we know it’s tough, Dave lettin’ ya down an’ all, specially when ya bin good stickin up ‘f ‘im.
but, as sure az eggs iz eggs he ‘as had ya pants down
How’s Ames let his 2 mates down? Interesting snippet of fuck all that posting!
Well between the pair of you he has had £350k and give you sweet fanny Adams, but, hey you guys seem happy. 😉
It simply gets worse on here.
Ingham, Storey, Walton etc., have been getting some negative comments, but why? They are investors, two of them completing? One received his money back? Could the Irish builder be the one behind all these posts?
It seems the only logical conclusion. He seems intent on stirring up things and deliberately sending out misinformation lies, and offensive remarks, along with ‘stealing’ peoples ID’s.
Aww…shucks, Well I never—- If you want to be a HP troll
you’ll need to do a lot better than that.
Bob the nob etc -aka Andy Oates – you must have difficulty understanding postings – Ingham has been on here and said he isn’t happy with the investment and Andy neither are you. Everybody is in the same position at present with a lucky few on the cusp of obtaining title.
You seem jealous to me that Storey and Ingham are completing with Ingham taking advantage of Moving from phase 2 to 1.
It’s every man for himself, Andy, jealousy will only make your mental state worse. would you not do the same if you had 2 bob to rub together?
@Croziers Pumped Up Croziers Pissflaps aka Richard the woman hater.
Do you beat your wife up?
As a child were you cruel to small animals?
Did your wife have fertility treatment ? Or are the kids from her shagging around with Ames ….is he paying the maintenance regularly lol lol
Firstly have you seen Crozier you couldn’t pick on her she’s like one of the fat slags in viz.
As for my wife of course when I’ve been out for a couple of pints of do as your told and dinner is not ready I give her the odd rabbit punch!
Don’t you do that to your boyfriend Andy you dirty shit stabbing bastard?
When Bob is wanking off on his Ipad, he just spooned a bit off for Inghams Mrs…. sent it in a bit of bog roll
Richard the Jaffa, you just stick to the internet/ glossy magazines and your wrist – with your looks you won’t be inundated with offers! You will never know what fatherhood is about!
Anyway Andy stay away from kids you know you can’t be trusted they aren’t sex toys for you and your freak of nature boyfriend!
All very relevant to Harlequin investments this isn’t it? Doing a good job furor paddy and fucking up the trust aren’t you?
From all the recent posts it is very clear that it is a small few who support Harlequin who are engaging in these pathetic posts.
Disrupt some of the more interesting posts on order to deflect attention. Is this the company that have taken £ 400 million from investors. Apparently so.
And some of the posts whilst not as vile on the RL site are similar in the way they are formed grammatically. Sad to think that so called intelligent investors on the RL site come to BFP and act like idiotic thugs, bullies, but in reality cowards.
Only a sick fucker would bring a persons baby into this disgraceful forum – Andy you are a disgrace, it takes a tough guy to anonymously slag a baby – you have a touch of the Broughtons you will want pictures next
James Shaw and Andy Oates it looks like you have disgraced yourself good and proper – you have lost any credibility, there are some subjects that are off topic
Andy,just be careful your not as anonymous as you may think on here. Ames/ Fatchett/ Walton/ Ingham are thick as thieves and 2 of the 4 has your address so effectively your details are known to them all
Mr.Ingham, like most bullies you don’t like it when you’re on the receiving end of what you like to dish out.
You know what they say, if you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
Of course it’s not you, you never visit this site do you. 😉
@Robert Storey
Who mentioned babies?
I doubt Ingham reads this blog now, all he is interested in is the outcome of his completion, so I guess he won’t care and doesn’t take it too seriously.
Why don’t you say these things in RL forum to make sure he sees it? Oh that’s right you want anonymity!
Read Richard the Jaffa posts that’s about a 1 year old baby, people will make their own minds up how valid that child is to this forum
Have I missed something? I have read the last few days posts and can’t find any offensive written by Ingham, plenty of insults aimed at him tho by apparently intelligent RL forum members coming on here but not disguising themselves too well
Richard won’t read posts on herein a Sunday. He’s too busy in the morning going to his church service and in the afternoon and evening visits the sick and disabled including war veterans to give them spirit, hope and sympathy on behalf of the East Riding Masonic lodge
Like most bullies he has backed down when he gets a taste of his own medicine.
While you are all winding each other up, I am collecting pink pounds.
Keep going as you are the best sales agents ever.
Ralph has many guises – apart from the fact he is the one who has been bullied, it’s a bit pointless because he won’t see it and secondly he won’t care unless it directly effects him – I can’t see any winner in Shaw and Oates and Ingham but paddy is enjoying the disharmony!
Funny thing is I just text Ingham and he said he knew nothing about the going ons at BFP, he thought I was talking about the fuckwit James Shaw and Andy Oates the pedo that he had a row with on RL message board – asked him to have a read on here but said he couldn’t be less interested, so RHMG/ Shaw and Oates better post on RL if they want to make contact with him.
Actually I think Oates and Shaw have made a right cock of themselves today it’s so obvious it’s them! I think this has been a terrible day for those 2 never mind a victory.
I’m surprised at Shaw but Oates is a weasely little character who likes to hide behind a keyboard where he’s safe.
Should that not be affects not effects? Richard, you have exposed yourself again.
Please stop posting as Robert Storey, it’s just not convincing.
@Oates and Shaw what a Pair of Daft Lads
Hello Richard.
You see Richard; one really needs to vary your writing style in order to have a chance of it looking slightly convincing. It’s better not to keep coming out with profanities and grammatical errors.
unless ofcourse they arnt ment to be errors that is a very different style of writing but you are all the same errors what you do. Its not a nice caricature trate beeing horrible.
@Daft Dick nobody is listening your wasting your time trying to contact him on here!
One thing that is obvious is the writing style of Andy Oates. Why don’t you email Ingham through RL then there’s no doubt who your arguing with?
Daft Dick you wish Ingham was listening but even though you realise this, you haven’t the balls to contact him even though you have the ability to! Bit yellow???
Daft Dick talking to himself with nobody listening, justifying horrible posts because Ingham is horrible?? What logic is that? That’s just odd!!
Andy for fucks sake you have turned this into playground cat calling on here. It’s so tedious!!
Andy Oates why don’t you get Brother Walton to import you a small Eastern European boy to bore his arse off rather than bore the arse of the rest of us about Ingham? We are not interested in your obsession with him it’s irrelevant you plonker!
The following is a post by Andy on RL site;
R.L.
Can’t you do something to get rid of the dross that seem to have on going personal battles and issues of there own, which should be settled on the playground not on here.
This should be used for helping people not point scoring against each other.
With Tailormade going belly up, genuine worried people are going to be looking for reassurance from this forum not, from what I’m reading, utter crap, between a minority of people who should have the sense to know better
So what you do is come on here and fill this forum for somebody to read, hoping they come on here, what has Ingham done so bad that your getting a Broughton like obsession with hiim?
@Ralph Has Many Guises, you stated that you had surveillance on Ingham why was this deemed necessary and what have you discovered if anything?
Andy Oates obsession of hatred comes because Ingham & Storey have the funds lodged with Williams & Williams in SVG to complete at BB and get title once the ALHL is released by the government.Andy Oates is bitter and twisted because he is too skint to do the same and is taking his frustrations on these 2 individuals.
Keep it up Andy, nothing better than fellow investors arguing and destroying their own investments on here! Well done.
How can Mr. Bob, the benefits burger flipper afford to complete? Thank you for confirming some underhanded Ames deal is going on for a few of his followers.
We have plans to derail them.
@Ralph, plans? This should be a laugh. What are they? Don’t tell me they have been given to the authorities. Lol Where are Essex plod today. It’s 9.20 and the front door has not been battered down yet.
@open letter, your quiet, wonder why you idiot.
Ralph, don’t be so disrespectful to Bob Storey, it was Ingham over the weekend, Walton the week before, now your going to attack Bob all week? Bob is a retired person of more than 65 years of age who has worked in managerial roles for many years and saved for his retirement. He has paid for his cabana in full so has just the closing costs to find.
Please do not be so rude and ignorant calling him burger flipper etc it’s embarrassing to read.
You sound like you may have migrated from RL forum
@Jealousy – the Green Eyed Monster
And Ames ripped him off.
Closing cost’s are ball bustingly painful…. the rate they are progressing at Bob could have popped his clogs before completion.
Then what?
@Jealousy – the Green Eyed Monster
Don’t worry about Walton & Ingham, we have their nefarious activities under observation.
The authorities have been informed.
The word for today is malfeasance 😉
More to follow……..
Ralph;so that gives you the right to be rude and nasty and call him a burgerflipper because closing costs are expensive? where’s the logic in that?
What dirty tricks do you think a retired pensioner can pull?
As for Ingham if he is up to something go and knock on the door of his business with your SFO “friends” and deal with them but pleae, not on a forum!!! We can’t take that approach serious!
Hello Richard,
Deary me, don’t you not keep up with current affairs, grey crime is on the increase.
Robert is very a very rude and nasty man.
Jimmy Savile ……. 😉 he was a pensioner.
Another wishy washy meaningless reply! When will we ever get anything of substance?
@Ralph, “and Ames ripped him off” did he? How was that then? Don’t tell me, all will be revealed in the next couple of days lol
Oats and Shaw aka various Ralphs have become the equivalent of a pair of Chuckle Brothers on here!
Andy Oates isn’t he that spazzy on crutches with plenty to say? Thought he was physically retarded but he’s showing himself that he’s a mental spaz too!
Hey Bob – Spazzy Andy Oates may be on benefits like you? Maybe he could get off the scroungers list and flip a burger or 2. He looks a good flipper – he moves like a fish out of water!
Andy Oates,How can a cripple on benefits afford to complete?
Hey hop along! Looks like Inghams surveillance is streets ahead if your! Already identified as a crippled idiot with a midlands accent by any chance!
I’m shocked how cruel people can be, however being subjected to similar regarding my own child, why should I be surprised. Life has a funny why of paying such people back.
Hey you stupid trolls.
Don’t forget about the vile convicted fraudster Matthew Ames (son of Carol Ames) is going to be sentenced on 14 March.
Yes, we can have a party, Mrs. Ames is taking things badly.
Lets stick to the matters in hand.
Ames Jnr is going down.
Ames Snr is running out of ideas / money
Picking on each other achieves nothing at all.
Anonymous, what was said about your son? That he wasn’t yours and was created from a spunk covered Kleenex from Bob Storey?
People who are crippled ex veterans should know better than to say such things; if they do then everything is fair game!
And to think that you people once ruled an Empire !!!
Just re-read Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s “Charge of the Light Brigade”.
It should give pause for thought for some of latest posters.
Looks like the anti HP evening shift is coming on. Who will get the graveyard shift. What wonderful expletives will we get at 1.00 am tonight? I cannot wait!
DA has asked me to lead camp-fire sing alongs on the beach when
VINLEC finally pulls switch..
It’s a disgrace, makes me ashamed to be English.
Don’t think anti HP posts are required, HP did enough. Took $700m from people and gave them nothing in return. That is enough to anger anyone. Oh, and helped themselves to millions of it at the same time. Great company, great people.
Just like the bottom feeding IFA’s like Talormade. Karma has got them now
ha ha ha.
I wonder what happened to the mighty Crozier court case, last week or so they said? Maybe CLC have not recovered from their bloody nose and a a rollicking from the Judge……. Clients still paying you ?
How do you know they got a bloody nose and a rollicking?
Loose lips sink ships. 😉 especially unhappy clients
So just errant unverified speculation?
So Robert Storey you must be dying to tell us all about that ‘Crozier court case’. Someone has told you all about it no?
No drunken rantings from the graveyard shift, no threats about the Essex plod and the SFO battering down the front door, no Permalink prat cutting and pasting the latest from RL. Where are the anti HP trolls? Come on Paddy, the troops need motivating. Perhaps the penny has dropped at last. Even the posting of an e mail and home address got naff all response.
This site is slowing down now. A new story is needed as this one is fading fast.
Let’s focus on Ames, he is the key to all this.
Keep the muppets paying until they run out of funds.
Did she ever tell her clients how much that little cock up last week cost her clients? I will £35,000 + vat
Ouch..two nasty reviews on TA, one yesterday..”Beware” and one 5 days old but only posted today “There`s a leak in your Buccament Bay Bucket”.
Really does not paint a good picture for Investors.
@Anonymous
Makes you wonder if this report Walton done will ever surface, maybe become part of the DD?
If it was actually ever done?
I just put this here to get Bob Storey in a spin.
We travelled in January . We really thought that ( as described by the British Airways site ) this was a magnificent resort, 5 star, great dining options and ( as on the most expensive side ) a little exclusive. This is our honest opinion, we have travelled the Caribbean and Asia extensively. I have no prior axe to grind. The resort suffered major flood damage – we learnt upon arrival – on Xmas eve. Some parts were totally devastated. The whole resort looks tired, even our free upgrade ( we certainly would NOT have paid ) was to a Beach villa. All mouth and trousers, not up to scratch. The food in the only 2 restaurants varied from very good to dire. Running out of butter and tea at breakfast to no steak or shrimp in the steakhouse. The only thing 5 star was the 80’s pop group on my iPhone. Seriously Mr David Ames your hotel is a legend in your own imagination . The staff are saving your bacon, for if it were not for them you’d be bust. By the end of our ‘holiday’ we just laughed, ‘cos crying wouldn’t get you home any quicker. Dirty beach loungers, rain water sitting on the tiled floor of the makeshift-jack of all-trade restaurant, plastic glasses. Now I take particular offence when, as an adult and at night, I’m served drinks in well worn plastic cups. I totally understand that during the day and near to the pool plastic is necessary, but at night siting away from the pool or even at the Bar? Kids don’t pay £6k for a 11 night holiday, ADULTS do. If I wanted to sup my G&T from a plastic beaker then I’d camp out at IKEA. The food is a major let down. How many nights are curry night ? I would suggest that curry was on the menu 4 nights on the trot because it’s cheap. As there were so few guests there, I guess you were trimming the overheads? By the way if you do want to play Russian Roulette with your hard earned cash, make sure you get the weekly newsletter. It will give you advance warning of the let downs to come. We didn’t get a newsletter for the first week. Oh, there’s a theme here. We also didn’t get a transfer from the Airport. Harlequin Resorts who booked the Liat flight didn’t remember to book a transfer from St Vincent Airport to the hotel. The same bunch also forgot another fairly crucial point – NO HOTEL RESERVATION . Poor old BA holidays getting a right royal rocket , when the Hotel Group can’t even tell their own resort that guests are arriving and require accommodation. This is the biggest let down for a holiday we’ve ever experienced. I am fully aware that others find this resort perfection beyond belief . I truthfully find this nigh on impossible to comprehend. It could be great. Finish the building site at the back, stock your larders with food, serve drinks correctly and don’t forget that the folks who pay good money expect what is advertised. Sorry, but one star is fair as the potential is there. Clearly we’ll never return as nothing will really change. Perhaps you should have your holiday and THEN pay as you see fit. Discuss//
Stayed January 2014, travelled as a couple
AN OPEN LETTER TO CPC AND CLC
1. Has ‘Nikki Crozier’ ever changed her name?
2 Why is Broughton not paying her fees?
3. Details of ‘her dead sisters’ scam in Spain
4. What did ‘Nikki’ do for work in Spain, did she work for Oasis?
5. Is CPC adequately insured?
6. What are clients fees spent on?
7. Has any of the Crozier family got a criminal record?
8. How much did last weeks court appearance cost?
9. Why have some clients stopped paying?
10. How long before we get a result?
11. What % does Crozier skim?
12. Her qualifications?
13. Why did she meet up with Fatchett and Ames?
14. What did she do prior to ‘appearing’ a few years ago?
15 How long did she serve in Spanish prison?
It’s gone on long enough now – answer the F***king questions.
@Anon 8.51 is that the best you can come back with, 2 TA reviews. Really scraping the “bucket” now. Come on Paddy, life is starting to get tedious now. Where are the threats, the insults, the nasty comments we have come to expect? Where is Ralph? Working on his new expose which will be revealed, eh well later. Even a visit from the Essex plod would brighten the day up. Were the WK papers served yesterday? Where is peter Binose? Caught sleeping on a flood plane and got washed out to sea. Well one can hope.
It got your attention though, didn’t it ? Twat.
Oh I see the Crozier attack is starting again ….. Looks like she and her team hit another win .
What’s that now team crozier 3 -team Ames 0
If you weren’t so predictable it would be laughable …….
Robert Storey – If you were not so hateful you just might, just
have a little credence. Locals like Peter Binose are the only
line of defense between a terribly corrupt PM, and a totally
corrupt British con man and the truth.
Here is a blast from the not too distant past
http://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/10384004.Harlequin_Property_investors_fear_for_their_homes/
Robert Storey – what penny are you referring to as dropping? Did or did Ames not head up a company that took US$700m from investors, and then build some 110 of the 9000 contracted units? Did he or did he not enrich himself by paying himself dividends, and take loans, from that money that was supposed to be for building units in the Caribbean? Paddy, Crozier etc did not make him do that, and as you appear to be one of the only ones to actually be being paid by Harlequin, one can only wonder as to why you are one of the lucky ones. You do appear to be an obnoxious fellow of weak substance, the likes of which luckily there are not many. With that said, Robert Storey is also an irrelevance to this scam (albeit an ethically challenged supporter of it), just like Paddy, Newman and any others this is being pinned on by desperate Harlequinites. The fact is people’s contracts were breached, money has disappeared and not been spent on what it was supposed to be, the architect of this paid himself and his family millions. This was done via selling products via fraudulently misleading sales spiels and techniques, on land that was not owned entirely and for property that had no planning permission. This is what the authorities at some point will focus on, as well as the associated scams (buying property in other people’s names using investor money) and lies told, not Crozier or anyone else. Either way, nothing is going to make this scam a workable business, there is no recovery of investment possible.
Funny Bob Storey continues to fight the fight not only here but on the RL site as well, goading all and sundry.
Well Bob, I have it on very good authority that Ames, his wife, son (Dan), along with a number of others will be arrested and charged very shortly.
Then, my friend, the proceeds of crime act will kick in. There will be no CVA because Shipleys LLP are preparing a case to recover the monies Ames stole from them. And that case looks like it’s taking the form of a criminal complaint.
Yes Harlequin are very much in a tail spin right now. Even Garreth will concede that the Trust will not save Ames and his cohorts from criminal prosecution. You my friend can continue goading and frankly rabbiting on here till dooms day, it will make no difference what so ever to the outcome. You will then disappear once the Ames family have been charged, and of course if ever confronted, will deny ever having come onto Barbados Free Press, given that you are a true keyboard coward.
But please continue your little tirade along with Mr. Ingham and others. You all have done more then anyone else to demonstrate that the Ames family and Harlequin are nothing more than a bunch of cowardly thieves. Best of luck Bob, I was going to add that I hope you don’t find yourself on this position again, but there is no fear of that given the total losses you will have incurred with your investment.
All you are, is a sad, pathetic and frankly terrified gullible fool. Terrified because you stand to loose the bulk of your retirement fund.
LOSE VS LOOSE: A Modest Proposal
by Eric Pinder
I think I’m going to “loose” my mind the next time someone misspells the word lose.
A man-eating tiger on the loose and a New England Patriots quarterback who rarely loses provide perfect examples of the difference between lose and loose. What am I talking about? Read on.
“Lose” is a verb. You can lose your wallet, lose a game, or (like me) lose your mind. Paul Simon even thought of fifty (well, five, but I guess that didn’t make as good a title) ways to lose a lover.
A bet you’re unlikely to win is a losing proposition. If you’re playing Scrabble and your opponent is winning, that means you’re losing. You’re not loosing. No matter how lopsided the score, you can take comfort from the fact that you’re never, ever loosing a game–unless the board is stuck in a tree branch after a tornado and you’re knocking it loose.
You can be a winner or a loser. But you’re only looser if you just practiced yoga.
“Loose” is sometimes a verb and often an adjective and, increasingly, a pain in the neck to proofreaders, editors, and perfectionist grammar nazis everywhere. Because almost no one uses it correctly anymore.
You have loose change in your pocket. Loose clothes don’t fit very tightly. The dog slipped his leash and has gotten loose. If you’re loosing chaos on the world, you’re wreaking havoc. You’re only losing chaos if your girlfriend’s name is Chaos and she wants to break up.
A zookeeper can lose a Siberian tiger. (The tiger might die, or zookeeper might forget which cage he put the tiger in.) Or a tiger might get loose (i.e. escape), as happened at the San Diego zoo in December 2007. A zookeeper can even loose (i.e. set free) a tiger by opening the cage door, but, well, that wouldn’t be a good idea.
As grammar nazis go, I’m a fairly benign one. I don’t get bent out of shape when the express lane at the supermarket is labeled “ten items or less” instead of “ten items or fewer.” (Arguably they’re both correct.) The annoyingly widespread habit of putting an apostrophe in every word that ends in S, whether it needs it or not, does bring my blood pressure to a boil. (On a sign in town: “USED CAR’S FOR SALE” Used car’s what for sale?) But with proper medication I keep that under control.
Loose vs lose, however, threatens to make my brain implode.
I’m not sure what happened in 2005 to cause 80% of the English-speaking world to suddenly forget the difference between loose and lose, loosing and losing. I never noticed this error before. Suddenly it’s everywhere. Even professionally edited newspapers and magazines and Internet articles are starting to make the mistake.
The problem has become so endemic that I automatically flinch as soon as I see the word “loose” in a manuscript or student paper. I expect it to be wrong, and it usually is. Even on the rare occasions that it’s not used incorrectly, my pencil still instinctively moves to cross out and correct the offending word, and it takes my brain a second to catch up and realize, “Oh, wait, you got it right.”
What puzzles me most about this trend is that “loose” is such a common, useful word. If we absolutely have to have a widespread misspelling of lose, at least let it be something like luse. That way we won’t lose loose. (There, I’ve loosed luse on the world, in the hope that it will stop us from losing loosing. For extra credit, please diagram that sentence.)
I’m curious about pronunciation. Are there people who learned to read phonetically who see a phrase such as “loose change” and hear in their heads the pronunciation for “lose change”? For the moment, at least:
“Loose” rhymes with the end of caboose.
“Lose” rhymes with ruse.
So please, please, for the love of all that’s holy, lose that extra ‘o’. Unless you’re actually, intentionally using the word loose. But I fear we nitpickers are fighting a “loosing” battle here.
”and has gotten loose” – Bloody Yanks.
@Anonymous
March 5, 2014 at 1:11 am
I really hope you are correct, the Ames family deserve locking up.
However, I doubt somehow, you have any more information on this than the next person – wishful thinking on your behalf?
Fatchett will report what he finds, he won’t fall for that trick.
If Shipley’s don’t agree to a CVA and call in the loads Ames will no doubt go bust for a 3rd time – then we are all a screwed then….. including the CPC lot.
We all know Harlequin if F***cked, it’s just how much.
@Julie London, yes that’s why Peter Binose had to withdraw his article and reissue because of a legal threat. Not always right is he.
RS – When has a legal threat ever had anything to do with the truth?
Some parts of the English-speaking world have really dumb slander
laws. It seems to be a cottage industry with PM Gonsalves suing
people in SVG.
@robert storey ….. So you are saying BInose was threatened by the Ames legal machine …… Where does he get the money to keep paying for Hefin Rees and little Spector. Could it be is he using investor funds to pay legal fees . Surely not .
So is Binose on The List now Bob? That growing List of all the individuals bent on bringing down Harlequin for personal, illegitimate, nefarious reasons. Does that mean he should expect to be the recipient of a barrage of crude racial stereotyping, personal insults based on his appearance and a series of accusations based on what he may, or may not, have done in the past (whether factual or not)?
@anon 11.16 ….. How true , pretty soon all the dirt imagined , contrived , half truths and blatant slander will be spouted off by the trolls of Harlequin …… .this all consuming vitriol makes me ashamed to be British . No doubt when the due diligence is finally made public , Gareth will be under attack again , it seems anyone who dare to speak out against this vile individual Ames is a target for attack by his overpaid troll army.
I’m hoping so , I’ve sent my cv in to Harlequin for the position of junior troll .
@ The bar, junior troll isn’t a bad place to start and HP do offer very good troll apprenticeships. If you stick with it long enough the rewards can be excellent. Some of HP’s more senior trolls receive regular monthly payments and have been promised title to their own foot-bridges.
@Anon 11.16, do you mean the crude racial stereotyping, personal insults etc etc etc of the type that I have been subject to? How should I know except that anyone who just cuts and pastes a whole Wikipedia page and calls it his own needs to answer some questions, don’t you think?
@Sid who are these people who receive regular monthly payments you talk about?
Masonic trolls. Commonly referred to as Trasons.
Is Andy Oakes the idiot who wore his slippers to the Warrington meeting? This poor investment must really be taking its toll on And if he can’t afford a pair of shoes to go out in?
Is this a possibility?
http://www.actionfraud.police.uk/fraud-az-bankruptcy-fraud
Just asking Guys!
The biggest risk is if Ames does go bust, forget freezing order, forget the Trust and if you’re a cash investor or committed mortgage fraud you are really up shit creek.
@Half empty – I doubt if anyone would ague that Ames is solvent.
The freezing order will get first dibs on any of Ames cash, surly?
@ Sid,
Trasons
That made me smile in a sardonic sort of way
Now, now Sid don’t be naughty, you know the Masons will come and get you 🙂 You are now officially on the naughty step.
You must now say sorry to Grandmaster Mouse Ames.
If Ames is declares himself personally bankrupt the freezing order does not have any preference – you just join the rest of the creditors.
If ,Harlequin (the company) goes bust, this will make Ames personally bankrupt.
So maybe, people should be careful what they wish for 🙂
Cash investors may want to think hard about this.
Harlequin is already bust. The money went years ago. David Ames is not a director of most of the Harlequin companies so why should he declare himself bankrupt? He’s still playing you all though. What a master of deceit.
You should get yourself a better understanding of English insolvency law before you start spouting off on here or better still get yourselves a proper lawyer and contact the SFO and Essex Police.
The Nasty Number One Son Matthew Ames is due to be sentenced on two counts of fraud on 14th March. We can’t wait to see the look on his arrogant face. Which one of the Ames family will be next we wonder? They are scum and belong in jail.
@Busted all of you.
Please enlighten me, as you are obviously better informed than me.
One for the curvy ladies.I love you all..
We know where we is at …
Ames is a crookster.
Who will go bust first?
Ames?
Harlequin?
Tailormade directors?
Tailormade new co?
IFA’s?
Pension transfer companies?
SIPP companies?
SVG companies?
Matt Ames?
What’s the odds? Have I missed anyone?
Look Walton with his new head of hair???
Dave Ames never actually sold any properties himself, all the agents and SIPP companies mis sold the products and as a result caused all these problems, you stupid moron.
The airport will be built soon and the trouble makers sorted out. BB will do from strength to strength.
Reg legal disco
Is it me, or did the Business Model slide a little bit off?
“@Busted all of you.
Please enlighten me, as you are obviously better informed than me.”
As I said get yourself a proper lawyer. And DON’T sign away your rights to sue the swindling crooks.
Carter Lemon Camerons LLP might be a good start – they know just how slippery the Ames can be. If you can’t afford it, and we all know how Ames cynically bleeds his victims dry in the law courts, at least go to the SFO and report the bastard shites so they can’t swindle anymore people out of their hard-earned pensions.
Help put the lying shits behind bars where they belong. Go to this link and report them now. At least you’ll feel slightly vindicated.
http://www.sfo.gov.uk/our-work/our-cases/case-progress/harlequin-property.aspx
And don’t believe Robert Storey’s fantasies about being in with the SFO. He makes it up.
Does anyone remember that You Tube clip of Dave Ames telling a radio show host, ‘we’re just putting the finishing touches to the marina at Buccament Bay’? His speech impediment deteriorates when that lie spills out of his mouth.
@Busted all of you (help put the shits behind bars where they belong)
Would that be the same CLC that blew £40,000 of clients money in one day? And got it wrong?
The same CLC, that will be taking monthly fees for the next couple of years?
The same CLC, if they lose have saddled their clients with £75,000 of costs?
The same CLC, that has a very mysterious ‘Nikki’ working for them?
The same CLC, who is running out of money for this case?
The same CLC, who has a tiered client payment system, got a few quid , you pay for the poor people?
The same CLC, who have had 100’s £1000’s and returned… erm – nothing.
The same CLC that let ‘Nikki’ lie and bully clients?
The same CLC, who should not have 50% of clients in this case.
I think that looks like the wrong horse to me!!! 😉
But hey, it’s your money.
meh!
Please be kind to me, it’s my first day on the job.
You all better work with Mr. Ames (a true visionary) and Regulatory Legal, because if you don’t…….
1. Harlequin will go but, so will Mr. Ames – you all get bugger all.
2. The the SIPP investors try to go it alone, they cock it up and lose the
FDCS claim.
3. The CPC freezing order is scuppred
The only two that benefit from Mr. Ames going bust is The chubby Irish builder and WK.
Just think about that…….
@the idiot of 8.11. Don’t bring me into this with your “RS is in with the SFO” like the rest of your post it’s fantasy. Where IS the Essex plod.
I see the fool who just cannot keep of YouTube is back. Give it up, it’s boring as hell.
Mr. Storey, I must take issue with that. Those youtube postings contain hidden subliminal messages to get the anti Harlequin believers converted.
Robert, with the greatest of respect, it is you who have regaled us with your tales of your visits to the SFO, and the information they imparted to you.
This was you Robert, no one else. So the only person dragging yourself into that particular hornets nest is your good self.
@Anon, and I have visited the SFO? Are you on drugs? This is laughable.
Today Harlequin are filing the court papers against Wilkins Kennedy for professional negligence.
Expect the anti-Harlequin trolls to create more mischief than usual!!
Where does Harlequin (read Dave Ames and his shit-hot gang for that) get all this money for suing other people? Those top-notch lawyers cost a shed load.
Can’t wait for next Friday when the pustule-faced Matthew gets his just deserts. Bring it on. There’s gonna be some weepin’ and wailin’ in Wickford that night.
@ The Apprenticed Harlequin Troll
March 6, 2014 at 9:00 am
Please be kind to me, it’s my first day on the job.
Well you better do something quick about that troll sportman over on TA. He’s making a right arse of himself. And Harlequin.
terribly quiet in ‘ere tonight
Jeff – Nikki C is probably out.
Why has the Wilkins Kennedy case not hit the papers? It is supposed to be a huge case. Can anyone answer that?
Robert Storey, or at least a Robert Storey is now claiming he did not go to the SFO, of course the original, FDNRM, Mr. Storey, has always claimed that it was the SFO who approached him not the other way around.
On a sadder note Carol Ames has been diagnosed with Cancer, in addition she is also suffering from severe depression. We take this opportunity to wish her a speedy recovery and our thoughts and wishes are with her at this time.
We do hope this awful news does not distract Dave from the very difficult task of rebuilding his families’ business, given the carnage that the builder and Wilkins Kennedy wreaked upon Harlequin and the personal vendettas against Dave, as a result of jealousy. Few if any were looking and succeeding to give the common folk of this country a means to better their lives, Dave was doing this and indeed will succeed despite the terrible damage caused by the Builder and Wilkins Kennedy.
It really is time for everyone to join the trust, Investors need this, the architects of the trust, the Ames family, want the trust to work. Some say the trust is a way to prevent Dave from being prosecuted by the SFO. This could not be further from the truth. Dave has engaged fully with the SFO and privately they have confided that Dave has no case to answer. Dave was disgusted with Matt Ames’ behaviour, Dave removed Matt from any involvement with Harlequin because he understood and was not prepared to tolerate the unethical behaviour of his son. Matt Ames’ crimes have nothing to do with his parents, any undue criticism of the Harlequin operation should be directed towards Wilkins Kennedy, who were tasked with ensuring investors monies were secured. It is they who approved the dividends and encouraged Dave to offer the very generous commissions.
Buccament Bay Rooms on Sale.
Wonder why the sudden need to reduce prices so drastically? Occupancy low? Cash needed urgently? Both? It was supposed to be the high occupancy and high room rates that would produce returns for “investors”
Throw that plan out the window I suppose, lets get what we can , while we can.
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@Sad News..Can you provide the name of just one of the common folk whose life is better because of David Ames.I`m sure there are thousands of people who have lost their life savings or pensions that would find that statement insulting and completely untrue.
Surely an unpaid crying fisherman on Beguia must count as
one “being offered a better life”
takes out onion – “Dave was disgusted with Matt Ames’ behaviour, Dave removed Matt from any involvement with Harlequin because he understood and was not prepared to tolerate the unethical behaviour of his son”
and yet less than six months ago Matt Ames was de facto manager at Buccament Bay, lording it over staff and guests alike. Desperate attempt to once again blame any and everyone than themselves.
Anonymous – Bob Storeys life is better as a result of Dave Ames
@sad news. “It was they (Wilkins Kennedy) who approved the dividends”!! Are you serious?! It is a company’s directors who “approve the dividends” not their accountants. I’ve never heard anything so ridiculous in my life. Wilkins Kennedy are not the Irish builder; the chances of Harrlequin winning a court case against them are nil. Another smoke screen from the irrepressible Mr Ames. Does he seriously think the SFO will accept his analysis that this mess was created by the Irish Builder for not building, the agents and IFAs for mis-selling and the accountants for designing the business model and allowing him and his vile family to take millions of investors cash as their own. None of the problems are down to him or his convicted fraudster son?! What exactly were the Ames’s doing when all this was going on? Were they all innocent bystanders?
Good Lord – If Bob’s life is better because of Harlequin just
how tragic was it before ?
@sad news 8.41 look you thick dimwit, for the last time i did not visit the SFO, they visited me. would you like the date and time, maybe a transcript of the meeting. In your dreams. now get over it.
the WK papers have been served on their insurers, not WK themselves, that’s why it has not made the news..
@anon 10.32, my life is good, always has been and always will be. Thank you.
There’s a leak in your buccament bay bucket
Posted Feb 27, 2014
We travelled in January . We really thought that ( as described by the British Airways site ) this was a magnificent resort, 5 star, great dining options and ( as on the most expensive side ) a little exclusive. This is our honest opinion, we have travelled the Caribbean and Asia extensively. I have no prior axe to grind. The resort suffered major flood damage – we learnt upon arrival – on Xmas eve. Some parts were totally devastated. The whole resort looks tired, even our free upgrade ( we certainly would NOT have paid ) was to a Beach villa. All mouth and trousers, not up to scratch. The food in the only 2 restaurants varied from very good to dire. Running out of butter and tea at breakfast to no steak or shrimp in the steakhouse. The only thing 5 star was the 80’s pop group on my iPhone. Seriously Mr David Ames your hotel is a legend in your own imagination . The staff are saving your bacon, for if it were not for them you’d be bust. By the end of our ‘holiday’ we just laughed, ‘cos crying wouldn’t get you home any quicker. Dirty beach loungers, rain water sitting on the tiled floor of the makeshift-jack of all-trade restaurant, plastic glasses. Now I take particular offence when, as an adult and at night, I’m served drinks in well worn plastic cups. I totally understand that during the day and near to the pool plastic is necessary, but at night siting away from the pool or even at the Bar? Kids don’t pay £6k for a 11 night holiday, ADULTS do. If I wanted to sup my G&T from a plastic beaker then I’d camp out at IKEA. The food is a major let down. How many nights are curry night ? I would suggest that curry was on the menu 4 nights on the trot because it’s cheap. As there were so few guests there, I guess you were trimming the overheads? By the way if you do want to play Russian Roulette with your hard earned cash, make sure you get the weekly newsletter. It will give you advance warning of the let downs to come. We didn’t get a newsletter for the first week. Oh, there’s a theme here. We also didn’t get a transfer from the Airport. Harlequin Resorts who booked the Liat flight didn’t remember to book a transfer from St Vincent Airport to the hotel. The same bunch also forgot another fairly crucial point – NO HOTEL RESERVATION . Poor old BA holidays getting a right royal rocket , when the Hotel Group can’t even tell their own resort that guests are arriving and require accommodation. This is the biggest let down for a holiday we’ve ever experienced. I am fully aware that others find this resort perfection beyond belief . I truthfully find this nigh on impossible to comprehend. It could be great. Finish the building site at the back, stock your larders with food, serve drinks correctly and don’t forget that the folks who pay good money expect what is advertised. Sorry, but one star is fair as the potential is there. Clearly we’ll never return as nothing will really change. Perhaps you should have your holiday and THEN pay as you see fit. Discuss//
Bob has the best life in the world and he made the best investment in the world ! All the rest of you green eyed people can piss off . He doesn’t give a monkeys ass what you think.
Karma will come .. It always does.
Robert, thats exactly what I said, the SFO came to you.
I don’t think Sad News’s post is a serious one. Of course accountants don’t determine company policy. Ames is on camera telling the world on several occasions how his business model is risk free. He is on a radio show saying the marina at BB is almost finished, despite it not being started. His business sent out the ridiculous claims of returns (how Blu was going to make 90% returns based on rates compared to genuine quality established well run beachfront product as opposed to a loss making roadside inn), his business sent all the forecasts to agents and offered them the commissions. He took a loan from the business for his own gain, he took dividends and strangely paid all family members, he hired the Irish builder and he chose not to have a contract, he purchased planes, he is recorded as talking about ferries from Barbados or St Lucia to Buccament Bay with its own customs and immigration clearance, he approved sales on land now owned, he failed to get planning permission, he appointed his son to oversee BB whilst his trial was pending, he approved under the table payments to various ministers of various islands, he approved spending millions in legal fees to shut down any negative publicity rather than actually responding with information that would make that go away, he has been trading insolvent for many years, he has destroyed people’s lives. The problems of Harlequin began long before the Irish builder even came on the scene. Hundreds of millions of pounds has gone missing on his watch, he has breached all those contracts, he is a to wealthier than when this debacle began, he has enriched himself at the expense of his investors and has not delivered anything he said, he paid himself huge sums when the businesses he was putting together on behalf of invests either did not exist, did not have planning permission or were losing massive sums of money, the losses for which were paid for using investor money. He lured investors in who thought they were buying a property, but instead were actually “investing” in a business which was using this new money to plug massive losses in BB, or to fund legal battles. If there is law and justice, all of this will result in a very long prison sentence. If his son gets 2 years, or 4 years, he should get 250 times that as that is the size of this scam.
Did I miss something?
What happened to the terms of the CPC 23 agreement that was going to be sorted out – was it last Wednesday?
Did it get agreed? What was agreed?
Dave Ames informed what’s left of his staff, that CLC lost their application, and furthermore have agreed a settlement with Dave and Carol for the distress caused to them. The terms of the agreement are the subject of an NDA, and Ames claims that CLC were not prepared to issue a joint press release on the issue.
We shall see if of course there is any truth whatsoever on this apparently absurd claim.
Robert Storey or should I say a Robert Storey, claimed that legal papers were served on Wilkins Kennedy’s insurers yesterday and not Wilkins Kennedy, to to this implies that Harlequin are now suing Wilkins Kennedy’s insurers and not Wilkins Kennedy, which to be frank is a whole load of Bollocks.
Robert Storey appears to have no understanding how civil suits work. Ames feeds him with a whole heap of shit, and Storey laps it up, either this or Storey is complicit in the fraud.
Robert Storey has also demonstrated his ignorance in understanding how the SFO operate, it is rather odd that a gentleman would have been singled out by the SFO and approached not having initially made contact with them.
Robert Storey has always stated that he was obtaining a return. He has stated this to Gareth Fatchett, so presumably he stated this to the SFO.
Given that Storey had not, at the time completed on the property, the visit from the SFO was not as Storey would have , a visit by the SFO to get Storeys’ version of events, in that he was very satisfied with his investment given that he was getting a return, but more to do with proving that Ames was paying illegal returns to some investors, who had not completed and by way of a Ponzi scheme.
Storey appears not to grasp the reality of the situation he finds himself in, and goads the authorities etc in a surreptitious manner.
If I was Storey I would be keeping a low profile, it is apparent to many that Storey was being used to try and legitimise the Harlequin operation in some way, in order to provide a defence to the Ames family and Harlequin in any future prosecution, instead Storey may have aided and abetted the Ames family.
The question is whether Storey was deliberately complicit in the fraud or just a stupid idiot.
He is probably both !!!
@Harlequin Insider. Blah blah blah. So you don’t think that WK would have any insurance to cover them for employer misconduct, In case an employee was involved in fraud of a client. And you say I don’t have an understanding how civil actions work. And if you were as informed as you say you were then you would know the reason why the SFO contacted me, I have stated this previously. Now just give it up, you are clutching at straws. Wait a minute there is a knock on the door. Is it Essex plod? Nah just the paper boy after his bill. Mind how you go, waiting for your next fictional works.
I’ve got the job …… I am officially a junior troll , my training programme involves –
Abuse writing
Insults and sexual innuendo
Downright lies
Housewife attacks
And other duties as may be given from time to time .
Robert, sadly you may have lost the plot, Ames claims he is suing Wilkins Kennedy, not some third party insurers, in addition, if as you yourself have stated on many occasions that Wilkins Kennedy and or one of its partners have engaged in fraud, this will cancel the insurance policy.
Ames is talking crap and frankly so are you. But good to see that you are still working in league with Mr. Joe Hopkinson of the SFO.
How did Ames get on with the CLC case or is that subject of an NDA?
A week to go now before Matt is sentenced, care to place a wager, will give you even money on an 8 year sentence and a pay back order.
@Anon/Harlequin Insider, or whatever you are calling yourself next, you see this is the laugh. If I am talking such rubbish, if my facts are wrong then why do you feel the need to make the sort of comments you do. You seem to have an unnatural fixation with me. Are your fixation with the SFO? Do you think that in some way I am going to be at all worried about your continual references to Joe? Why do you think that large companies take out insurance policies? It’s so that if they are sued for employee misconduct then the insurance company picks up the bill. It’s employee liability. Still keep up your fixation with me. It really is pitiful. Still no sign of the Essex plod. Still I’m sure you know all about them don’t you.
Here is some more rubbish from your gob, bob. Visit the RL site
“Reply by Robert Storey 54 minutes ago
Actually James you are not correct about no one trusting HP anymore. Completions are taking place, buyers are out there. People do have confidence in HP, if they did not then they would not be completing.
James said:
I’ve got the money but I’m not giving it to them at least until the trust is set up. Your argument is flawed Richard because it doesn’t take into account that nobody trusts Harlequin anymore. If this were a normal company with any sort of integrity then no problem. I would let them hand my property to another investor if there were any reason to expect Harlequin would actually ever build the next phase of BB but in my opinion there is very little chance of that happening.”
@ Robert Storey
Professional firms take out professional indemnity insurance. It covers them for negligence by the firm and it’s employees. It’s not for employee misconduct. Fraud by an employee is not covered by the policy.
The RL due diligence will surprise a few on here.
Has Fatchett been caught with his pants down again, this time on the issue of finance??????? He previously claimed to have seen a letter of intent, but is now saying this was along time ago. lol you could not make this shit up.
Extract from RL site;
Reply by Patrick
I would suggest that between 2-3 weeks after the due diligence has been issued will be enough time to make an informed decision. I think most people just want to get this buttoned up now and move on with life. Let’s hope the due diligence findings surprise us with a positive outcome.
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Reply by P Fowles
Would the finance be in place before the trust close?why would anyone sign a waiver without confirmation of finance?
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Reply by P Fowles
P Fowles said:
Would the finance be in place before the trust close?why would anyone sign a waiver without confirmation of finance?
everyone should be very very careful signing there rights away,with no concrete confirmation of finance for all to see.
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Reply by Dermot McCracken
@ P Fowles, very valid point though, we have a gun to our head as no trust then its all over, but it is time we all had some more concrete information about the finance, not just Ames saying he has some one interested,
I see to remember that with the ‘guaranteed mortgages’ some time ago , so yes time has come.
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Reply by Regulatory Legal Solicitors
Patrick,
The due diligence process will allow you to understand the current state of Harlequin.
The trust is not raising finance. It is acting as a vehicle to hold the securities offered by Harlequin.
The trust is needed to allow the company the ability to finance.
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Reply by Dermot McCracken
I understand that , however it would be nice of Harlequin to be a bit more forth coming with some information on the finance side, I think they owe that to us.
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Reply by Maria T. Legros
RL has seen the letter of intent by the Financier so it is definitely on the cards (at least on paper).
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Reply by Patrick
I agree Dermot. It would be nice to have an update to confirm the potential financier is still interested. It has been quite a few months since they produced the letter of intent. Times change, especially with the current global tensions. It would be nice if RL could maybe meet the potential financier and then people might trust the fact that potential finance is imminent.
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Reply by Regulatory Legal Solicitors
Patrick,
We would be prepared to sign an NDA and meet any of the financiers. That really is a decision that Harlequin have to make. We feel that any such move would help investors to feel more comfortable.
Our role does not include raising finance at the present time.
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Reply by Regulatory Legal Solicitors
Maria,
That was way back in October 2013. We have been informed by Harlequin that there has been activity since that date. We will be raising queries about the finance with Harlequin as part of our due diligence.
Maria T. Legros said:
RL has seen the letter of intent by the Financier so it is definitely on the cards (at least on paper).
@st GD, and you know the terms of the WK insurance? Wow that’s some admission.
@in the know. Stalking again? What happened to the Permalink prat? How sad are you just cutting and pasting something from RL? Are people completing? The answer is yes. So what part of the post is rubbish then?
A Mexican Standoff in the true sense……you show me your first etc,etc
October 2013 is nearly 6 months ago. That is an age in Harlequin land.
The financiers involved will have changed and changed again in that time.
My bet is that the due diligence report into Harlequin done by RL will be a shocker. In many ways, it has to be if you believe half of what is said on here !
My question is what happens if RL label Harlequin a disaster ! It is not beyond the bounds of possibility.
RL get attacked for being too close to Ames. However, it seems to me that they are clever enough to disprove this by giving a warts and all picture.
An investor on the RL site is suggesting that any investor completing must be mad at this stage if they do not wait for the due diligence.
I tend to agree. Any thoughts ?
Anonymous – 9.20pm
Nikki – stop it. You are already in a hole. Stop digging.
No insurance will queer the deal…….
@st GD, go to the web site of Tower insurance, a company who supply Indemnity insurance. Look at the paragraph under the heading of ” crime” I think that will answer your post.
*Towergate
Bob we have eft the permalink in just for you,
For everyone else, given that Harlequin have issued proceedings against Wilkins Kennedy, where is all the money coming from to fight these cases????????
The Ames personal assets are frozen so where is the money coming from, Garreth Fatchett says they are all but broke, so where is the money coming from???????
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Dear Investor,
To update you, on Thursday 6th March 2014, Harlequin issued proceedings for professional negligence against Wilkins Kennedy in the High Court, London.
We will keep you informed of developments as appropriate.
Regards,
Harlequin
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Permalink Reply by Regulatory Legal Solicitors
The due diligence will be released end of March 2014. We are well on with the process.
It is clear that many investors want to see this before making any decisions. This has to be right as this is the only way informed decisions will be made.
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Permalink Reply by keith freeman
I suspect that most investors know that the majority of finance put in by investors has been spent. It may have been badly spent or otherwise,it is gone.
When RL arrived they quickly found out the liquidity was next to nothing.I believe RL have confirmed this.
RL proposed the Trust to try and salvage something for investors.
For all investors Harlequin has been a disaster.However i do not see the point in repeating this month after month.We need to move forward from where we are now.
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Permalink Reply by Regulatory Legal Solicitors
Keith,
The liquidity is wafer thin. Hence the need to get on with things.
We cannot change what has happened. The due diligence will allow investors (many for the first time) to understand the position Harlequin is in.
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Hi Bob thanks for that, this is what we found on the Towergate website,
Where we come from “exclusions” mean “exclusions”, maybe in Nuneaton “exclusions” means “inclusions”. ???????????
http://www.towergateinsurance.co.uk/liability/directors-and-officers-insurance
See below.
Directors and officers insurance exclusions
Deliberate or dishonest acts
A dishonest or fraudulent act.
Acts intended to secure a personal profit to which the insured is not legally entitled.
Prior claims, investigations and circumstances
Any claims or investigations to which you were aware of arisen prior to the start of the policy
Prior litigation
Any litigation arisen prior to the start of the policy
Defined benefit pension schemes
An excess will apply to claims not successfully defended against the company
These are just some of the key exclusions/limitations, full details will be found in policy wordings.
Bob, people have confidence in Harlequin? They must also think that Lehman Brothers is doing well, that Bernie Madoff looks after his clients, and that Ames taking thousands of deposits without owning property or having permissions, and of course building 2% of it all, was just bad luck. Those with confidence I fear do deserve to lose their money as they are quite simply the worst business people conceivable.
Who is that Robert Storey guy? Is he playing with a full deck? Apparently he cannot read.
And why does he defend Harlequin so vigorously. It clear to everyone that he has not got a clue.
@ Graham Hyde, the Due Diligence will have to be a shocker, if RL produced Due Diligence that demonstrated that Harlequin were a sound business, but for the fact of Wilkins Kennedy and the builder, then where would Fatchett be with his redress claims?
It stands to reason it has to be a shocker.
The Due Diligence and Valuations will for the most part be a cut and paste jobby from the ongoing CLC proceedings and discovery in that case.
This CLC/Harlequin Due Diligence and Valuations are currently being tested in Court, Fatchett gets the documents for free, takes £200 + Vat from investors, easy money, {to date he has taken £800,000 +, to provide what any investor would have discovered by attending court.
I am interested to see how RL’s approach will be interpreted once Harlequin collapses (which – I’ll state for the umpteenth time – will happen). The following will be digested by the law society and other bodies:
1. RL convinced clients that their only hope was the trust. It was “trust or bust”.
2. RL convinced their clients that liquidation meant they would get nothing back from their investment. If they joined the trust, they would get more than nothing.
3. RL convinced their clients that if the trust was formed, a financier would step in and rescue Harlequin. RL stated they had seen the proof of the financier and they knew that financier was genuine.
4. RL have strongly advised their clients to disregard other internet forums relating to Harlequin and to only read their forum.
5. RL have formed a close working relationship with Ames and Harlequin.
6. RL provided a witness statement for Ames’ defence team during a case where Harlequin clients were suing to recover their deposits due to them under their contracts.
7. RL are not commenting on posts on their site by their clients stating that everything is going to be OK once the trust is in place. That is deception on the part of RL.
8. RL is allowing their clients to believe that the set-up of the trust will enable them to obtain the refund of their deposits. This is deception on the part of RL.
9. RL are allowing their clients to believe that RL will be involved in the trust. If this is the case, RL will want paying for their involvement (of course). To not inform their clients of this is deception.
@St GD/Anon 10.06. not very good at finding the facts are we.
Professional indemnity insurance for financial institutions and financial services
Financial institutions often have complex insurance needs, so partnering with a knowledgeable and experienced broker is vital. Towergate Professional Indemnity has a dedicated financial institutions team based in our offices in Manchester. There are a small number of specialist insurers active in this space, so having access to both local, London and Lloyds insurers, gives us wide reaching capabilities. For some professions, we also have our own in-house underwriting capability.
Insurance we provide:
Professional indemnity
Provides cover for the firm against claims of negligence, error or omissions. Claims can come from a variety of sources and jurisdictions which can include losses due to advice or negligence in carrying out professional duties.
Directors & Officers
D&O cover protects the directors of the business from claims brought against them as a named person. This cover protects the director against claims they have been negligent in their duties and responsibilities to the company and its stakeholders.
Crime
This cover provides protection to the firm against criminal acts committed by employees or third parties such as, theft, fraud, forgery, computer crime and robbery. The cover will indemnify the company against losses incurred through these criminal acts.
Mergers and acquisitions
Warranties and indemnity cover provides protection to either the seller or buyer during mergers and acquisitions transactions. The buyer can arrange a policy to protect them against any falsification or non disclosure in relation to the warranties and indemnities provided by the seller in forming the SPA contract. sellers can also arrange a policy to protect them against claims by the buyer.
We can provide Insurance & Risk management services to the following firms:
• Hedge Funds
• Fund Managers & Funds Directors
• Asset Managers
• VCTs
• Mutual Funds
Read the bit about theft/fraud etc.
Re Anon 10.19, at least I have a name. Oh sorry so do you ANONYMOUS LOL
Deception ?
Emotive language. However, this is the place for emotive language.
RL’s forum has been very useful. People at least try to have a sensible discussion.
What else is on offer ?
RB – The RL forum is like the choir preaching to a choir that individually
has slightly different interpretations of their belief. As a dedicated
sceptic its all a pile of claptrap.
@ Robert Storey
For professional firms, insurance against negligence is normal. Cover for fraud / criminal acts is available but in my experience is not normally taken out.
I am afraid that Googling information from insurance brokers’ websites is no substitute for having had experience of arranging this insurance for a firm or for dealing with claims against it.
By the way, the information you have posted is related to financial institutions not accountants.
@Graham Hyde
The DD will report on facts nothing more nothing less, I strongly suspect it won’t make very nice reading.
I note a dentist was jailed for 8 years for fraud. The judge made an order for proceeds of crime. The amount was £1.2 million.
I wonder if that will lead them to Harlequin??
email from HP
Dear Investor,
To update you, on Thursday 6th March 2014, Harlequin issued proceedings for professional negligence against Wilkins Kennedy in the High Court, London.
We will keep you informed of developments as appropriate.
Regards,
Harlequin
All,
Due Diligence / Trust Deed / Entry into the Trust
We are on target to deliver the due diligence by the end of March 2014. Many investors are now actively deferring any decisions until they have read our advice. We think this is wise, as it allows everyone to make an informed choice. We are discussing the logistics with Harlequin. However, the outline plan is to deliver :-
(a) the Due Diligence report
(b) a copy of the executed trust deed
(c) the documentation required to enter into the trust
Independent Advice
We have received advice from the 3rd party law firm and we expect the trust to be executed by David Ames in the next few weeks. With the trust set up, we will then issue investors with the documentation which needs to be signed to become a beneficiary under the trust arrangement. The decision as to whether you wish to join the trust will require you to consider the due diligence report / advice. Both RL and the 3rd party law firm feel that investors making an informed choice is the only way to proceed. We cannot have a situation where investors simply sign away rights without understanding the ramifications of their actions. From a regulatory/legal perspective we feel such an approach would not stand up to examination.
Trust Closing Date
We intend to place a closing date by which beneficiaries can opt in. We have not agreed a period of time as yet. However, we feel that either end of April / May gives sufficient time for investors to make up their minds. Remember, we have a two week break for Easter.
Support
We will support the advice process over the telephone and at meetings. We feel it crucial that every investors makes an informed choice. We can see no other way.
Pink Forms – Harlequin
Harlequin have sought permission from those people who have sent them pink forms to release them to us. Please do not assume that Harlequin have passed on your pink form to us. They have not. We cannot send you the secure site information (which contains the due diligence / trust documents / advice) if we do not know who you are.
You can either consent to Harlequin passing us the pink form or simply send us a form direct. As long as we know who you are by the time we get to the mailing process, then you will be allowed access to the secure site.
Conclusion
We are very close to the end of the due diligence process. The trust document is 99% done. The documents to enter into the trust need a little more work, but will be ready by the end of March 2014.
The logistics needed to deliver all the legal documents (9000+) will be complicated. The support process to deal with 6000+ investors will be challenging. We will do our best !
Our next update will be in the week commencing the 17th March 2014. We are meeting Harlequin in the early part of that week and will hopefully be able to announce the finer detail of the process.
Regulatory Legal Solicitors
With easter coming late, BB should have a good April, so should give time for Ames to take any revenues he can from April and then May the trust begins where there may be more scrutiny. Perfect timing.
Who then is responsible for cash flowing the losses over the low season?
If people are closing, is there a rental/management agreement in place detailing how, when and what reports are sent to the purchasers, as well as clarity on how they get paid? (if the resort loses money, of course then noone will get paid) Again, in the event of losses, how are they covered, are losses brought forward? Are there operating standards, is there a management agreement for the management company operating the resort? How does the food and beverage component of the all-inclusive affect the returns, how are those costs allocated, not to mention spa/free tours etc? Assume there are audited accounts to show the true position (you would never sign any new document, trust or otherwise, unless you knew the real position)? Or at least a statement from a reputable accountant outlining the true position if the accounts are inaudible?
The above is of course one small aspect of the DD, but ultimately is the reason people invested so clarity should be sought there. The rest of the DD involving whether assets are free and clear, outstanding claims, creditors, ability of owners to complete given they were relying on mortgages etc will all be interesting.
Where is Ames getting all the money to fund the current litigation?
todays thoughts –
I understand that Dave Ames purchased and refurbished hotels in the Caribbean with investors money, wonder what is happening with these assets ?,
And in whose name were they purchased? DD should reveal that.
Who finds it odd that Ames sold property on land he didn’t own but purchased swathes of land in Thailand but hasn’t sold any properties on that land?
Why does Crozier have a two tier payment system?
Court proceedings issued against Wilkins Kennedy in the Technology & Construction Court. All verified.
Funny that the two claimants may not survive to see this matter out.
CPC,
Thank you for all the help with the due diligence. The Pink Money keeps coming in. At least we do not have all that silly expensive litigation to fund. No profit in that !
It has been great that you pay for it, serve it on Ames and he lets us have a look. Very helpful !
Heads we win, tails you lose !
Dave Ames and Gareth Fatchett are under a Masonic oath to help each other in times of trouble.
@Masonicoaf
Am I right in saying that David Ames is a very senior freemason ?
The pictures I have seen suggest so.
It certainly seems so, my agent confirmed this.
Most of the members of Harlequin are Freemason’s as are the firms they deal with – it sort of makes sense.
How else would he be able to carry on without a care in the world?
Reblogged this on Ufohunterorguk.com.
Any update on the recent CLC case?
Could it just be possible that Ames is negotiating with CLC and part
of the deal is a court imposed silence on both parties. Its the only
thing that makes any sense to me…………..
The deal with CLC has been done without need for a court order. Let’s just say Nikki Crozier will not be carping about it. Then again, neither will Dave.
Score draw.
Well double duh..what do you mean?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2575868/Heartless-woman-scammed-trusting-British-pensioners-life-savings-Turkish-property-scam-jailed.html
CPC will be boxed off until trial. They will have to spend heavily to prepare for trial. The trial will not happen until mid 2015 due to the length of any trial and Carol’s fragile mental stale.
In some ways a masterstroke by Dave’s lawyers as apart from anonymous blogging, the 24 cannot do anything but wait and wait. ..
Roll forwarded until 2015. What landscape will the 25 find when they arrive ?
Radically different. Either in liquidation or re-financed. Either solution does not create a great place to land.
Prior to that period the monthly payments continue. For most this is a monthly period on top of the mortgage they are already paying for their deposit
The pips will squeak ! Dave will ramp up the costs again and again and again.
Hardly cricket, but you know what’s what.
Looks like Mrs Ames will be too sick to attend court. No judge will go against an expensive doctors report.
Simple but effective I must say.
2015 minimum.
Then another year minimum of fees
Is it worth throwing more money at it?
20% max if you win, minus what you paid?
And if you lose……………….. well that’s a bigger problem.
Go and do the math.
@in the know. Isn’t there some contradiction in your two posts of 10.24 and 8.36? “A deal has been done with CPC without the need for a court order” then “CPC will be boxed off until the trial” So which is it?
Just deserts for the Ames?
Karma:The sum of a person’s actions in this and previous states of existence, viewed as deciding their fate in future existences.
Is the CARICOM ministers’ meeting being HQ’d at Buccament
tomorrow? If so I wonder if they are being required to put cash
up front.
The writ against WK mentions O’Halloran extensively.
When you contrast his greedy taking of money, then Ames looks on a moral par.
Within the past several days the RL-site has turned into a misogynistic
back and forth between – (loyal readers of this thread will know exactly
who the women debasing duo are) – our two friends who are jointly
referred to as the Harlequin Trolls. Its a shame neither have any
sense of self-awareness at all.
@Anonymous 7:50pm and what’s your point? Isn’t that what forums are like? It’s no different to any other?
@anon 7.50 so what? It’s a pity you don’t have any sense of identity.
The Wilkins Kennedy writ does little to dispel the stereotype of the greedy, sharp and dishonest Irish navvy type.
The only upside is that it was done for love.
The tragedy being that when the money stopped, the love stopped.
Having see fat Paddy it’s little wonder he had to pay for a shag, unless it’s freebie Erica.
Robert isn’t capable of original thought and has to ask for guidance sometimes – that’s why his spelling and grammar are so inconsistent (it’s not all down to the Lidl winebox you know). LOL.
Richard is just an evil nasty piece of work. They are a couple of pathetically inadequate individuals really and they’ve got nothing much else in their lives. Bullying, misogyny and provocation makes them feel important and it gives them a kick. A bit like wanking!
Well the anti HP trolls are running now. No comment about Crazier and CPC. No comment regarding the WK papers being served. When all else fails look for a bad TA review? Nope even that has run out of steam. I know what let’s post something totally irrelevant about 2 people.
It’s you Bob we know it is. Don’t forget to change your name back.
Odd, but the WK litigation is more about Mr O’Halloran stealing Harlequin money and using the Wilkins Kennedy partner as a patsy.
No honour amongst thieves now I suspect.
@BA can you confirm who is the party named as the defendants, is it WK or their insuranance company?
WK are the defendants. The one and only defendant !
And Oates – are you the bloke in Warrington that goes out in his slippers?
Yes he’s the uncoordinated spaz on crutches
Looks like Philip George has had hid comments deleted on RL he’s lost his mind, his cash, his investment, his pension, I hope he has a poverty stricken old age freezing and pissing his pants in a council home, getting what he deserves
Agents running scared or just a coincidence that quite a few big players have gazette notices and trying to wind the companies up .
Jack Kestor – I would bet big that 98%+ of those who read these
posts would agree…
Robert Ingham and Robert Storey,you are both heartless bastards, taking the mick out of investors who find themselves in a difficult position not being able to complete on properties in Phase 1 at Buccament Bay , due to Dave Ames breaking his contract to provide completion finance. If you are so concerned for Dave Ames being short of cash to continue building, you should mortgage your own homes and give the proceeds to Ames, getting nothing in return. This is the position many investors are in. Perhaps then you will have a better understanding of the plight of these investors!
It is true then! Ames was always leading everyone up the garden path! Ames has created the so-called “stalemate”, no one else.
How can Carol Ames ask for any investor in Phase 1 to move with no offer of financial consideration? Most investors bought in Phase 1 some 6-8 years ago and have received no returns whatsoever, even though these properties have been rented out coming up to four years now! During all this time, the Ames family have been living the high life. Many investors have also had to pay their own interest on the loans they took out on their homes since Ames renaged on paying this as in their contracts. Many have lost their homes as a result
WHY SHOULD ANYONE BOTHER TO JOIN THE TRUST, WHEN ALL AMES DOES IS PLAY DIRTY TRICKS?
AMES IS DOING MORE THAN ANYONE TO DESTROY THE SETTING UP OF THE TRUST. NOBODY BELIEVES A WORD HE SAYS ANYMORE.
The INVESTORS are the tue owners of Buccament Bay, not the Ames family.
On the 21st of February, Dave Ames issued an update headed “Finance and the Trust”. In this he confirms he has a letter of intent from one financier. He goes on to say he is meeting with other financial institutions and he is confident (where have we heard this before?) he will have finance in place by “the summer”. This only after the trust has been set uo and everybody has signed the waiver. YEAH RIGHT!
I BELIEVE AMES IS TRYING TO ACQUIRE PHASE 1 FOR HIMSELF IN ORDER TO OFFER THESE UNITS AS SECURITY FOR A BANK LOAN. WHAT DOES ANYONE ELSE THINK?
P.S. Won’t be long now Carol before your crooked little boy gets his just desserts. You must be so proud of him!
Yes Georgie Boy you are so knowledgable you cannot even get two people’s names right!
So the court proceedings have begun against WK, yet where is award winning journalist Jon Austin or IFAonline? Bit slow off the mark on this arnt they?
Why has it taken so long to begin this process when HP have talked openly about taking legal action against WK for months, if not years?
@ Anonymous March 11, 2014 at 3:49 pm
Perhaps Jon Austin, the award-winning journalist is saving himself for Friday’s sentencing of the convicted fraudster Matthew Ames, son of Carol and Dave Ames. Matt’ll be on his way to The Scrubs, and no doubt Carol will be screeching and blubbering all over anyone who will pay attention.
We know it’s you Robert Storey posting as Anonymous 3:49 pm. My, my aren’t you the spunky little Keyboard Warrior lately? Not! You don’t like Jon Austin much do you? And we know why. lol
@ Georgie Boy Richard Ingham didn’t take the micky out of anybody he just said if you were unable to complete on your property presently then you should move to Phase 2 – Whats the problem with that??
@mbgsof. Why would you think I have posted at 3 49 when I posted with my own ID at 12.07? What a bizarre assumption. Who are “we” by the way. Quite the spunky ANONYMOUS keyboard warriors lately? Not. LOL
And I thought it was Robert Ingham
It would give me great pleasure if the arrogant jumped up Ingham pays he balance and the it all goes t*ts up.
Won’t be so smarmy then.
@georgieboy
All the waivers are conditional on the security being given.
Ames will not be able to swerve,
If Ingham completes and has title and the resort goest it’s up he and his fellow owners will be in a better position than those in the trust! The trust members will get nothing, the people with title will have to do a deal with the people who pick the resort up for a song!
@WhatstheStorey (Ingham)
If, you ever complete. 😉
If, Harlequin does not go bust before.
if, it goes bust after you are in trouble because you overpaid.
if, you are lucky ha! ha! ha!
Iffy stiffy – I’m not Ingham but from what was written by him on the RL site he said he may complete after RL publish their due diligence.
You seem a bit jealous if I may say so of the people like Bob Storey who can and are completing.
Wishing bad fortune on your fellow investors have a funny way of coming back to haunt you!
Is Ingham completing on your property or something? Is that why your so petulant?
Pink Pounds – just keep rolling in ….
I am surprised that Bob Storey is completing, only a few days he was telling everyone on the RL forum that he is unemployed and possibly losing the family home ( but not moaning about it …. good for you Bob)
But if unemployable , soon to be on the streets bob can complete, it gives us all hope.
Dave Ames probably promised him some special deal, to get more cash from the old duffer.
And the Ingham old duffer too.
Pair of old Queens.
Anyone confirm the rumor Crozier is being removed?
Two scenarios for completion
1)
So lets say you complete and hand over the extra money ?
The DD comes in and looks Very Bad ?
No Investor will now ever come on board ?
HP goes into Liquidation ?
= The end of your money and your completed unit
2.)
You pay over your extra money and you complete ?
The DD is better than expected ?
HP may not go into liquidation ?
A slim chance that an investor is waiting in the wings ?
= Your whole investment is gambling on an investor coming on board and using the same business model as HP ( wont happen ), Very low occupancy rates on an unfinished resort meaning poor returns. A unit probably not worth the money you paid for it. A Unit that nobody will buy off you … Bottom line, that is not a great business move.
So I say to you all and Robert included – Go ahead and hand over your money … It matters not to me or any other investors at this point.. You have my blessing to do so
Why do you think Crazier is being removed ?
Just a quick troll before my shift starts.
Well, Crazier has been put in a box. All will be made clear soon, however, it’s all part of our Great Visionary’s master plan.
They never seen it coming 😉
Our great leader will prove that the Irish builder has been filling his pockets and having sexy time with investors money.
The next few months will expose things that will shock you to the core.
One little snippet, Mr. Ames has a certified IQ of 161, he is a true genius.
Very quiet from Paddy’s gang today. Are they all at Cheltenham with the Gee Gees? Now the WK papers have been served do they realise the game is up? Will it be settled OOC so the extent of Paddies fraud doesn’t get aired in public again? Would the SFO and Essex police go after Paddy? So many questions.
“Now the WK papers have been served do they realise the game is up? ”
Why would you assume that one necessarily relates to the other? Is that how you think the legal process works — serve the papers, and guilt can just be taken as read? It was mentioned on here that WK intend to fight this — I’m not a betting one, but I know who I’d back if I were.
Ultimately there’s questions all over the place, Bob, but precedent says that they don’t get answered — I’ve got one for starters; what happened to the £400 million? And another actually, where are all the resorts that people paid for?
Now the papers have been served my bet is this won’t get to court. WK insurance will pay up. It’s to big a case for WK to loose, if they do their reputation will be shot. Of course the questions you have asked if DA was charged and was in court, but there again that hasn’t happened.
Robert BS: your thinking is all in a muddle there.
Don’t forget the Essex police and the SFO are still investigating Harlequin, Dave Ames and other members of his shit family. Why should they be interested in prosecuting O’Halloran? Ames v O’Halloran was not a criminal case. Why didn’t Dave Ames go to the police with his allegations of fraud against O’Halloran if he was so convinced a crime had taken place?
Where is the missing £400million quid? What did Dave Ames do with it? Who is paying for the legal costs?
And for the umpteenth time it’s lose NOT loose!
Too not to.
De DA de DA spelling police are about. Are they with Essex Plod? Still investigating, but no one charged. Perhaps the SFO have no jurisdiction over Paddy if he is an Irish citizen? Is that why the case was heard in Ireland? Perhaps they will go after Newman and MacDonald. Now that would be interesting as Newman went to the SFO about DA.
Don’t forget this bit BS Bob
Where is the missing £400million quid? What did Dave Ames do with it? Who is paying for the legal costs?
Instead of posting crap why don’t you wise up and try and address some serious questions?
Was Ames involved with both the Amaryllis Beach Hotel and
the Alamanda (H-Hotel) in Barbados? I’ve also wondered why the
investors in Bds projects would not form a separate “class-action”
suit as opposed to being part of a tenuous “trust”. Just wondering…
@mmtwga, I might address some of your questions if you stopped posting under multiple IDs. What’s it going to be next time, how about Anonymous, that would be a new one LOL.
So I’m posting crap, which bit would that be, or am I coming up with uncomfortable points regarding WK? If I’m posting crap why do you keep trying to divert the issues?
ROBERT STOREY
Where is the missing £400million quid? What did Dave Ames do with it? Who is paying for the legal costs?
The legal costs? You mean you do t know. Sorry I could tell you but according to you I am full of BS so you will just have to whistle.
Bob
Can you not answer these three simple questions? Why hide behind silly phrases like, ‘You mean you do t know.’? And, ‘Sorry I could tell you but according to you I am full of BS so you will just have to whistle.’
Where is the missing £400million quid?
What did Dave Ames do with it?
Who is paying for the legal costs?
@Robert Storey
March 12, 2014 at 2:33 pm
It’s a very odd one.
Maybe that’s why the Irish builder want’s to shut down Harlequin? He may get ‘looked at’ by the authorities.
The the Proceeds of crime act may take all the presents he lavished on his rug muncher girlfriend.
I need a way to make a quick – buck.
Just a bit short of cash, for my holiday to Monte Carlo.
@ Peregrine falcon – tomorrow when you are sober you just might
want to re-read your post. It needs a bit of editing…….
I could do with one of these….
robert Storey really is clueless: 3.14 pm “…My bet is this won’t get to court. WK insurance will pay up. It’s to (sic) big a case to loose, if they do their reputation will be shot.”
WK’s PI insurer will decide whether they go to court or whether they settle not WK! That’s how PI insurance works! It’s the insurance company’s money – the insured doesn’t simply instruct them to pay out because it doesn’t want to go to court. How naive you are and how completely lacking in any business knowledge or insight.
I bet if I got one of these I could get me a woman.
@Anonymous
March 12, 2014 at 8:47 pm
It’s not drank it’s der drugs.
If I got a Jet and a boat, would she fancy me then?
So anonymous 8.53 it has finally been admitted that it will be in the hands of the insurer. How ironic that it was being denied on here that a company like WK would have PI insurance. If you had been in any way following this thread then you would have known that. I think it was St George’s Dragon who argued against the PI insurance for WK. I know exactly how business works in these cases. What you need to do is keep up.
@mmtwga. Can I answer those questions? Yes I could, but not to someone who says I’m full of BS. Not very subtle are you when you want to know something.
No, you would need to rent a fancy car….
In about 36-hours will be the beginning of the fall of the
House of Ames…….and I for one can hardly wait.
Jordon aka Katie Price loves horses, so you would really need a race track to be in with a chance.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/katie-price-kieran-cheltenham-festival-3230248
@ Robert Storey
It certainly wasn’t me who “argued against the PI insurance for WK”; it is more than likely a requirement of their professional body that they have it. My point was in respect of fraud and insurance cover in respect of employees’ wrongful acts which in my experience is not common.
@sgd, ok it’s a mute point but not worth getting into an argument about. This thread is too long to track back. The point is that the papers have been served on WK insurers which I think we can all agree on.
At Bullshit Bob the Loser
“@mmtwga. Can I answer those questions? Yes I could, but not to someone who says I’m full of BS. Not very subtle are you when you want to know something.”
Troll on Robert Storey you stupid old fool. You have no idea what you are talking about. You can’t even answer a straight question.
Maybe he’s not straight…
Oi, Bob BS
It’s a moot point you thicko!
Don’t a lot of us wish you were mute though?
@mmtwga yes but I know the answers and you don’t. Carry on with the silly comments. Who cares what you think no one on here that’s for sure. Now run along.
Answers are:
1. Where did the 400 go? – 240m on commissions, millions on old hotels, couple of million on planes and their refurb and upkeep, a few million in loans to the Ames, a few million on legal fees, 20m plus on losses at BB, couple of million on losses at Blu, a few million on H Hotel work, 13m or so defrauded by an Irish builder, maybe 50m spent on bulding BB, a few million to Andy Townsend, Gary Player and co, a few million on finance payments for purchasers.
2. What did Ames do with it? – see above. He paid himself handsomely, who knows where he is keeping his personal money.
3. How is he paying for legal fees? – there musti be some of the investor money still left somewhere that has as yet not been spent. Alternatively he did pay himself millions so he has money to fight with.
4. Where are the resorts? – BB, 110 units built. Merricks – none started, other than a couple of show homes, full planning not given. Marquis – none started, planning not given and all land not owned by Harlequin. Dom Rep resorts – none started.
@BS earlier this afternoon you asked why the SFO or police don’t go after O’Halloran. For this to happen they would have to have reasonable suspicions that a crime had been committed. How can a crime be committed when there was no contractual agreement between Harlequin and ICE? As there was no contract regulating what services were to be provided at what cost how can a crime have been committed. Any investor monies that wrongfully ended up in O’ Halloran’s pocket did so quite simply because the funds were released by Harlequin without any basic any basic controls in place to protect investors. End of.
And you bleat on about the spelling police when anyone highlights basic errors that frankly a primary school pupil should have mastered. Your constant use of “your” when your mean “you’re” and “loose” for “lose” and “to” for “too” really does indicate a low level of intellectual capacity. So I think you would be better to stop posting and read the output of others who have a more secure purchase on reality.
So Dave Ames lost his latest battle with CLC and CPC, and had to pay costs,
And faces imprisonment if he fails to supply correct information to CLC.
Its time the bullshitters woke up and smelled the coffee.
Anon11 Agee with how Ames spent money, but I bet the finance of the 100% finance scheme cost more than a few million, when considering how long harlequin were paying the interest on many of the loans.
Harlequin made a lot of sales initially through the 100% finance scheme, and these loans were serviced until the plug was eventually pulled.
If Ames does not go to prison and is not stripped of all his assets for how he misused investors pensions and life savings, this will send out a clear message to the criminal community, the UK government supports the mis selling of pensions and investments and hides behind its duty to address this, because they are ‘unregulated’.
I am personally not getting too excited about the trust, after giving Harlequin my pension and 8 years, and see Ames piss it up the wall,
I could do with a little help here.
It’s about relationships. I’m a bit rotund, ugly and speak funny. However, I have all the trappings of success, the boat, the cars, the mansion, worldwide investments. I even love animals.
I have a huge budget for my wedding and can spend many £1000’s on the love of my life, cars, gifts.
Money is no object because, well, it’s just not.
The problem is, my mate (well he says he is) He said if ever my money ran out, my wench would run off too.
This can’t be true, could it?
@Court News.
What utter tosh. This is simply another lie from the CLC Trolls
@Anon 11.30 what a pity that you have to spoil an interesting post with the second paragraph. You see the point of a blog is to exchange thoughts and ideas on a subject. As soon as you start to bring it down to “my spelling is better than your (spelling ok?) spelling then you are just being the playground bully. You think I should stop posting because others can spell better than me? What a very odd person you are, and of course, a bully of the worst kind. Oh and your (spelling ok?) reasoning I about the SFO is completely wrong. My question was completely rhetorical. A simple search would tell you why the SFO would/could not go after O’Halloran. But I guess that would just be beneath you. Now bore off and bully someone else.
@Fools in love?
That would depend if you have a contract in place.
“a mute point” – would that be mute as in silent, or a professional mourner? Oh dear, Sideshow Bob’s daily grapple with the English language continues. Even if you disregard his mangled spelling the context makes no sense, perhaps staying mute might be the best option?
Meanwhile, back in the real world, I see that St James’s Hotel Group has bought the Forestdale Hotels portfolio from the administrators. Goes to show that even in austerity UK there is a market for failing hotels and I would bet that is still the most likely outcome for HP. Unfortunately only having two functioning hotels, one of which is at the very bottom of the market (Hotel Blu selling for under £100 per night as confirmed by recent reviewer) will not make it an attractive proposition for any prospective buyer.
As usual BBaywatch behind the times. My post above applies to you also. Pathetic playground bully trying to score cheap points rather than discuss important ones. The fact you have not been on here for some time says it all, nothing to say.
You’re not making much sense this morning Bob the BS.
You cannot ignore the fact that the SFO and the Essex Police continue to investigate Dave Ames, his family and Harlequin. £400million is missing. Harlequin companies have been dissolved or placed in administration. The resorts are not completed. Thousands of people are going to lose their pensions and homes.
It’s nearly a year since director Carol Ames, of Brock Hill, Wickford, put her name to that statement saying, ‘The company is or is likely to become unable to pay its debts.’
Oh and Matthew Ames, a former Sales Director and shareholder who sold many of those disastrous investments to unwitting investors, is being sentenced tomorrow on two entirely unrelated fraud charges. He has also been disqualified from being a director.
You can argue and nitpick as much as you like (you seem incapable of discussion) but you cannot defend the indefensible. The whole mess stinks!
You conveniently missed off the Irish builder nicking millions and WK involvement.
I agree you can’t defend the fact Paddy lost the Irish Court case.
you cannot defend the indefensible 😉
Well some of us a have a life… but the salient points, as reiterated by ‘The writing’s’ (and others) are still correct. Nothing but the usual bluster and boorishness on here recently – but I do check in from time to time just to see Sideshow Bob’s latest comedy offering 😉
@ Sandy Lane and Racing Times
Thanks for pointing that out. I do not condone O’Halloran. There are so many crooks and spivs involved in this sorry mess.
As for WK only time will tell on that one. We’ll see.
@BBaywatch, you have a life, as an Internet bully, known as a troll. Nothing to add just to criticise. Silly ID, silly comments. Please done come back again for a long time.
@the writings on the wall. Try to keep to one ID, or can you not remember what you posted as last night.
I thought the biggest troll around here was BS Bob.
Out of interest, Bob, what do you think that you have to add (seeing as that is an accusation that you are now levelling elsewhere)? It could be that there is something, but if so, I have yet to see it. I would be interested in you substantiating your rebuttal of the allegations re the CLC case. It could be that you are right (I have no idea), but simply saying “that isn’t true” doesn’t exactly represent a meaningful contribution.
@Anon how naive of you to think that the post of 8.35 was from me. Just out of interest what do you have to add?
I believe that post was from you Bob.
Why is that naive? It’s exactly the sort of thing that you’d usually say — and you’ve posted since without referencing any suggestion that it wasn’t you.
Re your response; It’s like attempting to reason with a child. You do untold damage to the credibility of Harlequin, you really do — if the standard of argument that you display is the best they can rustle up, it’s clearly a fairly dismal state of affairs. Your wilful refusal to ever actually answer a question makes it transparently clear you don’t have the answers — this is simply not how a credible individual, standing on credible ground, conducts themselves.
@Anon 11.41, well I can assure you it wasn’t.
@Anon 12.08, I didn’t comment because only an idiot would think it was from me, just like you are. Yes you are really credible posting as “Anonymous” Which one are you today Anon 11.41, 11.11, or any others that post on here. The Anonymous keyboard warriors strikes again. The funny thing is that you insist on posting such inane comments about me. Now that is what I call childish.
@BS so predictable.
Surely the more relevant and pertinent issues are those actually being raised — but no, you’d rather obsess over identities (forgetting all the while that you stubbornly tried to maintain your anonymity yourself until you were outed).
Surprisingly, I’m not overly concerned about your judgement in any event — it is after all the same judgement that led you to pour tens of thousands of pounds into this whole thing (and that apparently still leads you to think it was worth it). Good decision, Bob, great choice.
Which Anon answered that? Who knows, who cares. You are becoming tedious and boring now. Jog on like a good boy.
Court News
March 13, 2014 at 12:41 am
So Dave Ames lost his latest battle with CLC and CPC, and had to pay costs,
And faces imprisonment if he fails to supply correct information to CLC.
Its time the bullshitters woke up and smelled the coffee.
Robert Storey
March 13, 2014 at 8:35 am
@Court News.
What utter tosh. This is simply another lie from the CLC Trolls
——————
No smoke with out fire!
@BS “Jog on,” what, because you told me to? I don’t think so Bobby.
I am curious as to why the chatter re the CLC/CPC case has stopped dead: Precedent suggests that if there were anything representing any sort of victory for Harlequin (even by degrees), someone would be shouting about it — but it is strange that there’s nothing from the other side either. Presumably some sort of NDA has been agreed.
@Anon 2.20, I did not “tell” you to, I suggested you do because no one is interested in your “anonymous” rantings. Re CLC, if only you knew. LOL
@Anon 2:20 Yes, but with an alleged 24 claimants even with a
NDA it is strange that not one has blabbed anything…
Perhaps they are in state of shock. “why oh why did I do this” could be the collective cry. Who knows? LOL
Bob blabbed and he shouldn’t have! That’s why he’s claiming he didn’t post at 8:35 am. I bet he got his knuckles rapped! lol
As I said no smoke with out fire.
Oh my god. The holes in Harlequin mean it cannot be saved.
@BS no one’s been interested in anything that you have to say ever, and yet you persist (I know that you’ll be wanting to ask “why people keep on mentioning your name then” — the answer to which is that they’re mocking you because you make yourself such an easy target). Thinking about it, didn’t you say that you were leaving this site some months ago? Why are you still here? I would ask you to substantiate your “if only you knew” comment — but experience tells me there’s no point (reading this, you’ll I know that you’ll now be wanting to make another comment about anonymity — you see that’s how predictable you are).
@anon 2.31 I would agree — on the balance of probabilities, I would say that it would be Harlequin who would be more likely to leak “good” news though, as it serves them more (if the claimants have been successful, they have nothing left to prove and nothing meaningful to gain by being vocal about it). It’s all very odd.
Anon 2:54 Right you are that Bob “announced he was leaving this site”.
However I would wager that he received a private communique from
the RL site advising him to tone it down over there and since he has
absolutely no gainful employ he came back to be just as ridiculous
on this -the much maligned- BFP site.
@anon, I bet it’s difficult keeping up with the conversations you keep having with yourself. You see your analysis about the balance of probabilities would be that HP would leak good news is without foundation. If that was the case did HP leak the results of the Newman case last year? In fact it was Newman himself who stated that he had to sell his house in Bray and move to rented accommodation in Walton on Thames to pay his legal fees and damages. And no one on RL tells me to tone it down. On the contrary it is others who get their wrists slapped.
@twotw. You could not be further wrong if you tried. No fire, not even an ember.
After posting sloppy English and risibly poor spelling in a series of recent posts, Bob’s post at 3:25pm is unusually literate and he seems able to express himself adequately. Funny that!
The thing is Bob that writing style just doesn’t sound like you at all. I think your kecks are on fire by the way.
@TWOTW agreed! It is a little suspicious — also having developed a habit of never offering any sort of substantiating evidence, suddenly there’s an attempt to actually make a reasoned case (albeit a bit of a feeble one).
@twotw I prefer Keks or Kex. Not on fire, too damp for that.
@anon (not another one!) see no point in trying to have any reasonable discussion with all you Anons. I could discuss the WK legal fees but no point at all. Why is it feeble? Not even a reason why you think so. Now that’s feeble.
Bobby needs tissues cos he’s wet his knickers again.
Excellent order , many congrats to CLC and CPC .
Sorry bobby it’s real and carries the high court stamp .not a NDA for miles around.
@BS sorry Bob, it doesn’t work that way; you don’t get to call the shots as to when an argument should be substantiated and when it shouldn’t. You ignore pretty much any direct question asked of you, and prefer to obsess instead about anonymous identities in a fairly transparent attempt to obfuscate the fact that you know virtually nothing about virtually nothing: when you start to actually explain your various contentions, you can expect a reasoned response in return, until that point you can assume that everyone thinks that you’re just spouting drivvel.
I know that you’ll be wanting to say that you don’t care about what any of us anons (!) think, but unfortunately you have positioned yourself as a de facto Harlequin apologist — and thus where it appears that you have nothing of any verifiable substance to say, by consequence it appears that neither do they (this is after all an open forum). Were I them, I would be profoundly embarrassed by the way that you conduct yourself on here, so completely does it undermine any semblance of basic professional integrity.
Any unconnected individual looking on must surely be thinking “if it’s people of this level of sophistication that invested in — and were convinced of the potential — of all this, it explains a great deal.” Speaking personally, I’m genuinely really interested to hear the case for Harlequin’s long term viability — if you’re the best they can do, it’s not looking great.
@Anon best laugh I’ve had all day. “You know virtually nothing about virtually nothing” BIG L O L. Ever heard of double negatives? To know nothing about nothing means to know everything. It should be “nothing about anything” . Keep singing Yes we have no bananas, The spelling and grammar police drop a big bollox. Hahahaha.
@HQ etc if there is no NDA then publish the results of the court hearing. Wonder why you have not done that.
@HQ13X02764, what can you tell us about the CLC/CPC order?
@BS Oh Bob, you thick idiot, that’s not a double negative — the use of “about” clearly establishes an inferred structural relationship between both negatives, that means that they are contingent but not reflexive. It’s a linguistic device Bob, makes the language a bit more interesting. Probably best not to try and make arguments regarding the correct use of grammar, it’s clearly not your forte (sort of as ill-judged as you offering investment advice).
I am slightly surprised that no statement has been issued re the case last week — would that not be appropriate in the circumstances? Surely the outcome potentially impacts other investors, and so by consequence information regarding it, for better or worse, should be made available? Is that not the normal form in these sort of circumstances?
@BS the post above is mine; I apologise for calling you a thick idiot, I shouldn’t have done that.
@Sid , I am reading it now very comprehensive , I will get it up here on this site as soon as possible . It’s quite long winded though.
Q – Is drivvel really a word?
A – Of course it is, we all use it and knoww what it means !
Read and weep, Dave the conman got conned by the Irish conman.
Paddy stag do in Monte Carlo
Purchase of a house in Ireland
£395,520 including jewellry ect………………….
$1,500,000 paid for Paddies Plane
Bit odd how some people think Paddy was a decent chap.
I was totally gob-smacked reading what Ames was paying O’Halloran per WEEK!
SURELY he couldn’t have been that much of an idiot???!! I mean, I know he had absolutely no experience of construction, and was surround by conmen, but fucking hell, did he by any chance send any money to anyone in Nigeria for a flight for them to pick up the papers they required to claim their inheritance?
It’s quite incredible to read that summary judgement and not suspect that Ames must have been up to something. I’ve always believed he was a total idiot, but half a million $ per WEEK????
And when at any time were there 1,000 men on that site. Lying bastards.
@Anon if you had been trying to justify your double negative by quoting the negative concord then your argument might have had a point, but there again we are not speaking Portuguese and others. But in English the double negative is a positive. The contingent negative variation refers to electrical changes. But I would not expect you to understand that.
I wonder if Matt is pacing his cell. Twelve hours to go. Now if
HQ13X02746 posts a Crozier victory we’ll end the week with a
one-two punch.
@Anon – reasons unknown
$1 million per week
@BS been googling points of grammar have we Bob? Probably start with the basics, so that the old “your” versus “you’re” confusion, and “lose” versus “loose” don’t continue to be so problematic. I’m sure that this is a bit dull for everybody else, but in the interests of education I will just explain this for you (though I’ll admit to being a little surprised at your conduct here, given your disdain for the “spelling police” on other occasions”);
The construction “virtually nothing about virtually nothing” has two clear constituent elements that suggest a sort of hierarchical gradation; thus, the latter mention of “virtually nothing” refers to subgroups of knowledge (if you will), whilst the former refers to knowledge within these subgroups. Understanding this fairly simple device, to know “virtually nothing about virtually nothing” clearly alludes to knowing not very much information, about now very many areas of information. I hope that clears it up.
Can anyone else follow the garbage above? This is a forum about HP not a stupid spelling lesson. I’m sure you get off on this some how, are you a school teacher? Yes I think you must be, the school playground attitude by the school playground bully. Surprised at my conduct here, I feel a detention coming on. You really need to get out more.
Looks like Dave and Carol got a bit of a kicking. So much for the theory that the CLC team lost. A copy of the Order is at https://anonfiles.com/file/8198c24715c3ea82ee497c1e195a5711
My money is on anon7:12 even though Maltese is the only
know language with a double “x” but no language has a
double “v”. If so Esso could have become Evvon instead of Exxon.
But guys he is 100% correct about the English. Try translating it
into Latin and then back into English and he will be shown to be correct.
@anon 7.08. There you go , that old one two again…….
Not a good move posting all the names is it?
All this does is shut up CLC no one will get any settlement until 2016
so carry on paying that crook Crozier. LOL
How can Ames offer land that’s not his?
Now we know it is 25 and EB is one of them.
Freebie Erica 🙂
24 x £300 per month……
Great reading, thanks HQ13X02764.
Cheers to the CPC 25. Glad to see they’re making good towards recovering what is rightfully theirs.
Very funny really…..all Bob comments on is EB being a party.
What about the ruling Bob?
if they don’t go bust first, you spaz and the small matter of winning.
makes bog hopper look like a right t wat
The Provision of Information schedule to the order will have been very uncomfortable for Ames.
Is Jim Baker daft enough to get dragged down by Ames ?
This thread is so entertaining. Having a crack at BS is such an easy sport. He sets them up and all the Anons just have to put it in the back of the net. If anyone remembers the excellent series MASH it is rather like those wonderful exchanges between Hawkeye and Frank.
And amongst the best of those exchanges…
Frank: Why does everyone take an instant dislike to me?
Hawkeye: It saves time Frank
Anon 9.13 Now that made me lol
Is anyone in the US having a problem with the link that
HQ13X02764 provided? I keep accessing Pink Gossip/Moviefone.
Anon 9.13 – yes, that was funny. Perfect retort to Backward Bob
Anon 9.51 – click on the black download button, not the red one. You’re obviously instinctively drawn towards porn links without seeing that there is an alternative option 🙂
Anon – RU Thanks, I’m much too old for porn (damn!)
I think we are screwed this is going down faster than a Malaysian Airliner now – I think we need to face facts its been a slow death but its now imminent – Harlequin will topple before a trust and Dave Ames wont be around to see the WK case he will be in nick with Matthew
Could this possibly be the same WhatstheFuss of six months ago?
Where are the pro-Harlequin trolls tonight?
Is there another TOWIE series premier?
Anyway, just for the late comers …
https://anonfiles.com/file/8198c24715c3ea82ee497c1e195a5711
Good news for Matt today…he gets out pf prison….the bad news it is only to go and thank the judge foe letting him stay for another five or six years :-0)
Dave, Carol and Dan next and down the chain it will go….even Nunneaton Bob may get to stay a while
I can’t see any mention of sentencing on the Isleworth Crown Court listings today. Any ideas?
The Court Listings are not available until 10am.
The Isleworth Court listings for today and Monday are on the Court Serve website. Are you saying that they are subject to change until 10am on the day?
This could push Mrs. Ames over the edge; she could become so ill she will not see the inside of a court room for years – where does that leave us?
Now the magnitude of what that fat Irish punt has been stealing is ‘out’, does this not put the like’s of Broughton in a rather insidious position? Being she was the savior of all investors 🙂
More like the savior of her own pocket and her Irish loverboy
Seems to me that the court published the names and addresses.
A matter of public record…
That’s not the point and you know it.
Crozier posted them, what a big gob she has….
Why’s that CHT?
Does that mean you and the rest of the Harlequin bully-boy thugs are going to intimidate those people who have been identified?
Don’t forget the plaintiffs have a legitimate claim that has been recognised by the Court.
Matt Ames’s sentencing has been delayed for a couple of weeks.
Matthew Ames is not on the Court Listing for today.
Anon, 9:40 why postponed do you know?
I do although I’m not sure that I should discuss it at the moment. Sufficed to say Fat Matt is still likely to be facing a prison term.
If a prison term is handed down, as would seem likely given the severity of the fraud, how would an appeal be done? In a case like this does the criminal get sent to prison and then mount an appeal from there or does their sentence not start until after an appeal has failed?
So, BS, yesterday you said (assuming was you) re CLC “if you only knew. LOL.” Would you care to expand on that comment now that everyone does know? I’m sure that I’m not the only one a little confused as to why you should be so apparently excited about the outcome, it certainly doesn’t seem great from your pov.
BS doesn’t know what to think about anything until he is told. Yesterday he was probably taking initiative by trying to interpret the document himself.
So, my take on this is that now as 4pm on the 10th of March has passed, either Mr and Mrs Ames managed to produce the documentation that was expected of them (which seems unlikely to say the least) or they will have reached a settlement with Crozier and Co. Or have I missed something?
Dear Harlequin Investor,
Following on from the investor trust seminars in early February, we would like to summarise the main points that we feel require due consideration prior to, and subsequent inclusion within the proposed trust structure:
The trust is being formed to provide the unification required to promote a stable platform in order for progress to be made on the developments. Regulatory Legal inform us that the trust is being used to secure the assets acquired by Harlequin, in favour of the investors.
It is hoped that a stable platform will enable finance to be acquired on the terms necessary for the Harlequin model to produce positive returns for investors. It should be noted the better the terms, the more chance investors have of their investment being financially viable.
Gareth Fatchett has confirmed that Regulatory Legal have received advice from a London law firm in relation to the trust and deed of waiver. We encourage investors to ensure they have access to independent verification.
Gareth Fatchett also confirmed that by investors waiving their rights to sue Harlequin, this compromise would be reciprocated by Harlequin, meaning that Harlequin would waive their rights to sue investors for not completing when initially contracted to do so. However we would urge investors to obtain a thorough understanding of this point, as any compromise would need to be fair and equitable for all parties. We are also keen to understand the consequences of investors being unable (or unwilling) to provide further funds to the projects. It is hoped that this has been accounted for with the proposed trust and any future re-structure. Regulatory Legal inform us that the due diligence is the cornerstone of this compromise.
It is hoped that the collective assets to be held within the trust for the benefit of investors’, are a fair representation of the funds provided by investors. Regulatory Legal and Harlequin will be responsible for this critical stage of the process.
Gareth went on to confirm that once the trust is set up, he along with members of the Harlequin team and Jim Baker will step aside and a team of 5-6 trustees (elected by investors) would carry out the required roles and make the necessary decisions on behalf of investors. The trustees main responsibilities will be arranging finance, managing the build schedules and the management of the resorts. Regulatory Legal also inform us that it is likely that a professional trustee will be appointed initially to oversee the implementation of the security package.
We feel it is important for all parties to consider what options are available for re-structuring the current model without external finance. As it may not be possible to acquire finance, or any proposed finance may have unfavourable terms, resulting in investors receiving little or no return on their investment. It may well be prudent to prove the financial feasibility of the model prior to obtaining external finance, as this may well put the trustees in a stronger position when negotiating the terms on which finance could be provided. It is felt that one key component is for Harlequin to be transparent in any re-financing or re-structuring of their model.
We hope this communication provides you with sufficient information. We aim to provide a further update in early April following a meeting with Gareth Fatchett.
Regards
TailorMade Alternative Investments
@Anon 11.40 It must be play time. Are you on playground duty today, do you have your whistle? Or are you marking some children’s books, English of course.
Sid,
No deal will be done with Crazier, you know Dave loves litigation and Crazier needs the fees she has no other work.
Good to see some positive publicity for BB and the island of SVG. The recent Caricom conference held at Buccament Bay can only enhance the reputation of the hotel and the island of SVG. Below is a link to some of the pictures taken of the event.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/arq7j7rh29a5tzq/qGVYgoDzzx
Bob, have you got amnesia? You were the one who started the whole double negative thing. Props to you for your hilarious little jokes though — the funniest bit was when you tried to spin something about good news in amongst everything else that’s just appeared on this thread. That was really funny.
Bob, you silly little old man – even Dave asked you to stop being embarrassing.
Is Yiannakis Kadis from the Crazier 25 the same Yiannakis Kadis who lives in Swindon?
@Senior Harlequin Troll, were you the apprentice Harlequin Troll because I think you have over promoted yourself.
Good grief – to think that England could contain two Yiannakis Kadis’
I doubt even if metropolitan Athens does.
Does anyone honestly believe that the trustees are going to manage to build enough properties to satisfy 9000 contracts when none have been honoured to date? Where are these 9000 properties going to be located? As there is nowhere near enough ground space I assume they are planning on erecting skyscrapers! Then we need to believe that these 9000 properties will be occupied by fee paying guests who will spend enough money to not only cover overheads but also offer a return to investors. But by the time it becomes obvious (if it isn’t already) that this can’t happen RL will have honoured their commitment to ‘establish a trust’ making a tidy sum in the process and will have skipped off into the sunset. I think too many people are confusing ‘establishing a trust’ with ‘establishing a viable business plan that leads to a happy ending’. From the outset, HP has been nothing more than a vehicle to enable a handful of people to cash in without having to give anything back. The trust may give investors more security than they have now, but big f@cking whoop. I don’t buy into the ‘something is better than nothing’ way of thinking….if the ‘something’ is actually ‘next to nothing’. I’ve said this before, but if I were an outsider looking in rather than being up to my neck in this mess, I would find the whole thing incredibly comical. As it is I am actually stunned by how very f@cking stupid I have been to walk blindly into something so blatantly wrong. It’s been an expensive lesson, but an education is all I will ever get out of this crock of sh1t.
I want to see a plan that shows how 9000 properties will be built and how they will be funded. This plan has to exist or HP have clearly been making it up as they go. Try and picture how many properties that is. If the average street in the uk has 20 houses, that would be 450 streets. It is obviously not possible to build that many properties of any size or type anywhere in the world for holiday rental. What a nonsense.
Sid, regrettably I share your concerns about this — and it’s a subject that has been conspicuous by its absence amongst all the talk regarding the trust. The fact that it has taken so long to build under a couple of hundred of villas and rooms, suggest the mammoth nature of the task in erecting 9000. The finance necessary has been estimated in the billions; who will lend this sum of money, and how will they be convinced of the the likelihood of getting it back? I’m happy to be convinced otherwise, but I can’t see how it is anything other than pie in the sky. The fact that he-who-shall-remain-nameless gets excited about a conference being held at BB, is a fairly telling insight into the general disparity between the reality of what actually is, and what is allegedly intended. It’s really become impossible to see the whole thing as anything other than some sort of mass delusion. The only way I can see that it would work, would be if another developer was interested in taking a project of this scale on — but in that event, presumably they’d just start themselves from scratch? The land doesn’t exactly appear to be a golden ticket, and it’s not as if the brand means much. The fact that none of the incumbent big players in the market have ever shown any interest in doing anything similar tells its own story I suppose. It seems as if all eggs must be placed in the BB bucket — but that doesn’t stretch far amongst all of those involved. I simply can’t see for the life of me who would be prepared to put up the cash, or why. To my mind, this is the single most salient issue in the whole thing, and yet it barely gets mentioned.
Sid no one will answer you but here is another question. How can the paths and ponds be held in trust if they are part of the Crozier deal?
Ah yes, that good news from BB just keeps on coming doesn’t it. Latest comment from a guest who has just returned –
“We have just come back from a weeks stay at Buccament Bay. We found it largely good Not as good as our day pass stay last year but still most of it was good. Mostly due to the amazing staff. If it wasn’t for the staff this place would be only half as good. They still have big plumbing problems. And any problems you have just do not get sorted ! I suspect most of the really glowing reviews are by the shareholders/investors.”
No doubt Sideshow Bob will be on to TA like a shot, complaining about negativity while shilling for England trying to prop up his lord and master.
Sid, my commiserations, an unenviable position to be in. I can’t see how a Trust or any other investor lead rescue plan can make an iota of difference to the inevitable, regardless of possible new funding. There never ever was a market for these type of hotels in the locations chosen and adding that amount of capacity in the current market would be madness, simply no justification for it. But then, HP never was about building real hotels, always a fantasy construct to magic money out of nothing.
I think we should all be focusing less on the detail and just apply a bit of common sense to the situation. To say turning HP around is a mammoth task is a mammoth understatement. I mean, 9000 properties…..c’mon!
And for the record before anyone chips in to say I am being anti HP, anti RL, anti trust etc…..I’m not.
I would love for someone to tell me I’m wrong and that 9000 properties can be built and occupied in a short space of time. Not just that a trust can be established (which I think we can agree on), let’s look past that. If anyone can, please do speak up and say that it is possible to build what’s been sold. Come on people….now’s your time to shine….
Ah yes BlinkeredBBaywatch. Do you have a browser alert that just highlights any negative post on TA. I could counter with a positive one but your biased views are just boring now. Zzzzzzzz
Failing that, let’s argue about spelling and grammar.
So that’s BBW responded to Bob. Any suggestions about my comments? Any inside information on how we will all be happy in the end?
Ah yes, the Anonymous school teacher must have lessons this afternoon. His pupils must look at the learned one in awe.
Sid, if I may say, your approach and outlook is refreshingly candid and sane — I would echo BBaywatch’s commiserations; it’s the way that this whole thing has impacted on the likes of yourself that is particularly tragic and terrible.
It’s actually quite reassuring to see that some investors have managed to cling to their marbles, and offer a lucid and intelligent perspective on this in spite of everything. Can I ask — and obviously you don’t have to answer this — at what stage you started to have misgivings about the viability of this whole thing?
Not a clue Sid. Bigger minds than mine don’t know what the end game is, so I stand no chance.
@Anon, good question. I invested early, getting on for 8 years ago. At that time I was only made aware that BB was being built and that there was the possibility that another resort was in the planning. That’s not to say the other resorts weren’t in the pipeline, but that I wasn’t told about them. If I’d known then that there were 2 dozen resorts I would have run as fast as my legs would carry me. I didn’t expect my properties to complete until the end of 2010 when I was told the completion date had slipped by 1 year, which I thought was reasonable so didn’t panic. At the end of 2011 I was told the same thing and given the same excuse at which point I lost patience and asked for my money back, only to be told that Matthew Ames wouldn’t approve a refund….brilliant! What a guy. Whatever did become of him? I have tried to stay optimistic over the years in the hope that some miracle would happen, but it’s gone on for long enough now and any blind man can see the we are all being lead through an exercise to make money for some and keep others out of prison. That’s just my opinion of course, but I think I know enough about this topic for it to be an educated one.
So Sid if you had the chance to complete, would you?
No. Here’s why;
1) I would consider myself an absolute idiot to dare hand over any more money to anyone who has treated me so poorly for so long. That’s not being personal, that’s just being sensible.
2) I don’t believe for a minute that my properties will ever command the rental rates I was promised 8 years ago. Actually, that’s probably being unfair as I’m sure inflation will ensure I would get this rate by the year 2099. It’s worth adding that without this ‘contracted’ rental income I would never have invested.
3) Even if this rental income were achieved by HP, what have they ever done to make me believe I would see a penny of it?
4) If I did complete I don’t believe I would ever be able to exit as that would need a new buyer and who would invest now given the years of bad publicity. Even if a new buyer were found the transaction would be managed by HP who I would have to rely on to pay me.
5) At some point the whole operation could go pop. We may not want to admit it, but how can we go from where we are today to having 9000 happy campers? And if it does implode, I want to have as little money as possible invested in it.
I could probably come up with a few more, but think that paints the picture.
@Sid -for the operation to work for me there would need to be the full resignation of the Ames family and a full sale and rebranding of the resorts .
In principle the idea Ames had was great but he is totally out of his depth an an experienced constructor/operator. Needs to take over
Sid for me to carry on it would have to be the only place on earth not affected by a nuclear holocaust.
@BlinkeredBBaywatch are you going to post the follow up post on TA from Barry24682468? Perhaps it’s not negative enough for you? It won’t have popped up on your browser as negative enough. Go on take those blinkers off, come out of the bunker and embrace some better reviews. Looking forward to the airport opening?
Croziers recent actions suppose that Two Rivers is actually in Mr. Ames name.
If it’s not, that’s a very expensive mistake for her clients?
Well, CLC clients, as we know Ms Crozier is not a solicitor – but likes to pretend she is never did she those qualifications did we!!
£40,000 down the pan 🙂
SHT ……. Of course the land is in Mr Ames name or at least one of his companies . Don’t be so idiotic . Are you really saying there is no land purchased ????????
Exactly what are the CLC clients suing for? The return of their
deposits (with/without interest). And exactly who are they suing –
the Ames personally or both Ames and Harlequin? It seems strange
that legal sequesters have been issued on both.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2580115/Did-gypsies-cut-Middlesbrough-mans-penis-revenge-Police-search-A66-missing-manhood.html
It’s nice where Whatsthefuss lives!! Probably his idiot thug associates had something to with this? I hear they do his dirty work for him?
Ingham is a horrible evil nasty person
well, well well, well well, the things you find out having a quiet drink with friends in the pub. Can’t give the details for obvious reasons, but events are moving and it won’t be good for HP. The house of cards is very close to collapse.
I was, of course, more than happy to fill in some of the blanks in my friends knowledge of HP and the major players. He knew a lot already, but a little background is always helpful.
– BB – You have in intrigued me for a year but I still can’t figure out if
your “boot on the ground” is in BGI or SVG. Give us a hint !!!
All good. Money keeps coming.
@blinkeredBBaywatch, are you Ralph in disguise? “I know something and all will be revealed tomorrow” Heard it all before. Zzzzzzzz
Anon – if I were in BGI you would find me in John Moores Bar, in SVG at the New York – but are they ‘pubs’?
BB – Understood !!!
Sid, a very reasonable a realistic position and viewpoint you have. I hope you are one of the smart ones to get a caution placed on HP assets here, then just sit back and watch. That is the only kind of security you can get/worth getting, and you could even issue a winding up order or similar. Everything else is prolonging the agony.
There are cautions in St Lucia.
Nowhere else.
In actual fact I would go as far as saying that if anyone can find any in Barbados I will eat my hat !
Agree,sadly it would seem that a lot of investors are just hoping that finance materialises and properties are built,without looking at the long term. They will then be responsible for the massive mortgage/debt and any repayments and if the debt not covered by returns will default if they cannot afford to cover the finance. The value of any property will only ever be what a buyer is willing to pay. So whatever hp or anyone else says is the value of your asset due to the nature of the contract the true value is the profit that your unit makes or roi.have been following and posting since 2008 my concerns which unfortunately have been proven correct. Just a shame the Fca didn’t act sooner as from reading other publications it would seem that they have had lots of warnings..
Let me let you into a little secret.
Crozier will be removed, she has overstepped the mark.
Mr. ‘Horny Corny’ will have no choice but to cut her loose.
Sink or swim.
Let me make it clear, we have done due diligence on those who want to damage your investment.
@Mr Lips – So just how does that little bit of information affect the
outcome. I’d wager not one iota.
Why did the Matt Ames sentence get cancelled today ……….. Has he turned renegade on daddy for a better deal ? Or do you Brits not do that states evidence thing ?….
Well either I’m stupid or it doesn’t add up , I just read that judgement and its for Two million dollars not 13million as said here before . The accountants didn’t even have to show up ?…………confused you bet !
Mr. Ames will take all the time in the world with the CLC, until they wont pay / cant pay.
The 25 have one big problem its name is ‘Freebie Fatty Broughton’.
Why should she get her legal work for free and you muppets pay for her?
It seems pretty clear that you’re all relying on that version off events, and that tactic as relayed to you by the Grand Master – it seems pretty clear too that it’s not working out as planned (why you persist in the gullbility is bewildering). I can almost understand why you all feel impervious to the reach of the justice system, but fortunately much brighter minds are a lot more steps ahead – you might like to think this master strategy will work, but to do so demonstrates a level of ignorance bordering on idiocy. Why you’re all so obsessed with Broughton is mystifying, fortunately it’s also utterly irrelevant.
Broughton is in contestant contact with the Irish thief, so is Crozier, just sayin… makes you wonder why?
RS – What is contestant contact?
@Anon 12.27 don’t ask me, ask the person who posted in my name.
Does amaze me that the Crozier court order hasn’t appeared on the RL site yet. Eyes wide shut still?
Maybe ……….. I would assume he has seen it.
Crozier, or should we say Audrey 😉 Have the police been round yet? Do your clients know the truth yet? They will soon.
http://www.spanishpropertyinsight.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6917
Being such a international hot shot legal beagle you would think she could have all those nasty lies removed about her ‘dead sister’
I would, wouldn’t you?
The alleged owner of a Costa Blanca estate agent Oasis Spanish Property, the one which reportedly collapsed with estimated debts of more than 2.5 million Euro, claimed before the press last week that she in innocent. A report on Costa Blanca News quoted her as saying that she believes the Spanish courts must establish how her clients ended up paying for homes which were never delivered. The owner of the ailed company, Audrey Dixon claimed this time that she had been doing her best to resolve this situation. “I won’t stand for being accused of being a thief,” she said. The week before last, the local media reported quoting a former employee of Oasis Spanish Property that 22 clients are owed an average of 120,000 Euro each by the company for houses they paid for more than six months ago. Some clients also launched similar complains to the media and some of them had reportedly filed legal suite against the alleged firm to retrieve their cash from the company. These customers complained that the company had retained both staged payments and, in some cases, the full price of a property. Oasis Spanish Property offices in Torrevieja, Benidorm, Mojacar and Marbella closed down earlier this year.
When a person initiates a negative message or difficult attitude
The truth is out there………..
Her name is Nikki
The name is Nikki
Nikki – Kikki – Schmikki
Who the hell cares
My the trolls are doing overtime tonight ………….. Could it be because someone posted that order on Gareth’s site.
Irrelevant posts designed to derail , totally ok on here gladly not so on the trust site. Oops sorry I forgot to be on the real site you need to be an investor and your not .
But nobody on Gareth’s site has a clue what it means. Just sitting there dumbly, waiting for Gareth to update them, or not, whilst slagging off BFP which always has the info up days before anywhere else.
Still, if the RL clients choose to ignore the intelligent postings and info buried on here amongst the shit posted by Harlequin trolls and Storey, that’s up to them. There’s no helping them.
so if Corney has the assets what does that leave for the trust???
Whatever is left when you subtract £2.5m. Plus whatever Ames spends up to the time when the £2.5m is handed over to the successful claimants.
They have to win first dickwad
@Is the trust bust?
What will you do when Crozier does a runner again?
And currently, on the basis of the terms of the order, it looks like the court believes they have every chance of doing so.
@Anon – reasons unknown
You can tell the future now WOW
Anon R U , you are 100% correct in your points . It’s a pity that trolls ruin intelligent threads however I guess that’s what they are paid to do.
Anyway the trial will sort out the truth from the lies as it did in the Irish case
I’ve been accurately predicting the turn of events since 2007. I’m a fucking genius.
1,000 mistakes Anon-reasons unknown the biggest being today
@Anon Reasons Unknown. You really are a thick twat.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2581449/At-Savers-cash-small-pension-pots-After-Mail-campaign-new-rules-benefit-150-000-people-year.html
The 25 Muppets.
£40,000 for day in court, on a ‘hunch’ Mr. Ames could have told them the land was in the company name.
However, he just wanted them to spend money they can’t afford. Especially, as some aren’t paying their way…….. Freebie Broughton for one.
😉
Crozier won’t be around for long – the past has a habit of catching up with you.
The fat thick Irish builder has been silenced, now he has been exposed.
@WTF …… Well he isn’t so thick , private jet , racetrack, house and a dream wedding.
Why hasn’t the house , racetrack and jet been sold to recover losses?..
No idea. Only someone close to the slob would know that.
@Anon RU of 10.39 nice to know I’m still in your thoughts. Just like an itch under the skin, irritating you. Loving it!
From reading many of the posts on this forum, one would easily believe that it was a combination of Broughton, Crozier and the Irish builder that cheated thousands of investors out of their life savings, pensions and left them with loans they cannot afford to pay, and worthless SIPPs – with annual charges.
Lets not forget, as project manager, it was Dave Ames duty to ensure that he chosen the right team, put the legal contracts in place to ensure his clients interests were protected, monitored developmental work, and ensured the financial targets were adhered to.
When Dave Ames decided that he no longer had to honour the contracts,it would have been nice to be included in this decision. The harlequin sales team were show to beparticularly diluded and out of touch with reality, telling clients that they just needed to be patient, and eventually their units would be completed.
. At what point did it occur to Dave Ames that he needed additional funding to complete the 9000 hotel rooms, and that he was , very conservatively, 1 billion pounds behind budget, obviously it was not at the end of 2011, when his company were still promoting the sale fairy tale completion dates and guarantees. Dave Ames would have quite happily continued mis selling this ponzi scheme , and if it was not for the intervention of the financial authorities, there would have been thousands more finding themselves in the same mess with find ourselves in now.
I have to question the value of the trust. How many investors are being included in the first round of allocations, and what do you think the chances are of being included in the next round of allocations, with worthless contracts and a new investment company on board ?
We have been cheated out of our money, Dave Ames does not have a solution to resolve the mess he caused, he needs to be spending some time with matt.
Ames won’t be spending any time with Matt apart from visiting time! You all thin Dave Ames is a bumbling oaf the fact is he has protected himself very well from prosecution by selling through agents. You think he’s dumb?
But wasn’t Harlequin Management Services (South East) Ltd described as the primary agent? I believe many of the sales were made directly through them.
DavidAmes is certainly not stupid , he achieved to sell to either five , six or if you believe Richard Ingham 9000 people . All of who believed in the idea he had . That is not the action of a stupid person.he also managed to diffuse a disaster when Hmsse went into administration, I was at the meeting when it happened . Over on R.L people are worried about the due diligence released by Harlequin . Obviously a lot of it would be commercially sensitive and there is defiantly a problem here , how do you give the proof with out exposing your business secrets. CD on R.L states all documents must be given and passed to trust participants , RS highlights the commercially sensitive nature of the hotels operationally .
It’s a difficult call .
No full disclosure, means no 3rd party investment means no future for Harlequin (shock horror).
The reason for Harlequin’s non-coorporation is not fear of disclosing “business” secrets but “Dirty” secrets. Full financial disclosure would prove the operation is a ponzi scheme.
It is funny that anyone would try to give the excuse that Ames is reluctant to give full disclosure because hiding his successful business magic. He took £400m, has built a couple of hundreds of units, has one company in the group wiped out, it’s likely the others are trading insolently, and he is BEGGING for investment on a no questions asked basis. And yet there is no external financier anywhere. Just desperate existing investors ready to throw more cash at Ames, for what? What a joke.
@anon RU . Gareth Fatchett has stated on the R.l site that there is a letter of intention . It is obvious going to form part of there diligence process as its impossible to progress without money to build .
Someone asked earlier about recovery from the Irish case and every bit of money is needed back in the pot . I’m sure racetracks , planes and houses have a value .
Also maybe -and this is just an idea no one has said this to me , couldn’t Buccament Bay be sold as a going concern to build out the other resorts?
9000 investors 6000 properties
Letter of Intent count for nothing.
RL clearly know that what’s under the bonnet is very unpleasant. Probably more than they imagined.
I expect RL to lay this bare and do their job. Many investors want a magic wand. There is no wand.
RL are going to progress to redress claims and get money back that way.
Within a month, this cruel joke will be just about over.
@Et tu brute ?
I believe, most investors think Harlequin can be fixed, then will get their 10% return and live happily ever after.
This will not be the case.
The poor buggers who invested cash – nothing has changed, they still are the most vulnerable.
SIPP investors will get redress via FSCS.
The Due Diligence will be worse than you can imagine. Be prepared.
Better to be cautious.
Over on RL site CD is threatening to withdraw if full disclosure isn’t forthcoming rejecting totally the commercial sensitivity that BS expressed concerns about .
One solution could be Gareth gives a formal undertaking to the investors that his advice is to join the trust .most people would be happy with that as its a solicitors advice . Just a thought I know it won’t be popular but neither will loosing the money totally
who is CD?
It’s losing not loosing 😉 you know who upset people get about spellin!
Is this the largest ponzi scheme in UK history, and how has Dave Ames escaped justice to date ?
When the UK government approved Harlequin resorts for SIPP inclusion, was finance ever questioned ?
Oh it the person who put the court order on Gareth’s site Chris Davidson , this person is angry that there may not be full operational disclosure of the hotels .
@aeg “who”? Or do you mean how?
The UK govt did not approve the Harlequin resorts for SIPP inclusion, that is not how it works.
The concept that DAve Ames was smart by using sales agents so he can avoid jail is utterly false. It does not disprove he set up the structure whereby people were being lured into an investment that was not designed to end up with built and profitable resorts, but instead to make commissions which clearly were paid out to agents and the Ames. He has said he is the owner of Harlequin, his family are directors, he is the owner of the companies which contracted for the purchases of the property – he is going to have to take full legal responsibility for the loss of millions of pounds of people’s pension funds. Yes, agents and IFAs will also likely face some penalties, but it was his scheme all along and he will face justice for what he has done.
Re BS and sensitive resort information – BS is paid a return and is essentially on the payroll to do all he can to defend and protect the Harlequin position so his comments lack credibility entirely. Of course detailed accounts are required to analyse the resort’s performance and therefore value – it is the only thing that could be worth anything. If it has indeed been losing money hand over fist, it would have next to no monetary value as a business and the land also could be worthless if there is no way to generate development profits from it (if as has been stated some 1000 more units are already committed to being built, and 30% of the deposit for those has been spent) So selling BB as a way to finance other resorts is a non started one would think. You are talking hundreds of millions when the common areas of BB are worth probably a couple of million.
I am not sure how selling through agents will help to protect Ames. The agents were only selling the investment Dave Ames had masterminded, and openly spoken about on video, and promoted on the harlequin website, and sold by his in house agents.
This is just a thought but,
Many of the agents that sold this project made a lot of money in commission and reinvested part of their commission at Buccament Bay and other resorts . Many are in a better position to complete,then the victims of this ponzi scheme, and so can take over the hotel rooms that the victims of the scheme cannot complete on. ( The agent that sold me this investment feels confident of getting a phase 1 hotel room, although his hotel rooms at buccament bay and st lucia are not started )
But with 6000 investors and one hundred hotel rooms, how does dave ames ensure investors have no rights over the completed hotel rooms, and reward the agents that continue to remain loyal.
He gets the 6000 investors to sign a form, reliquishing their rights to any of the assets at buccament bay, in return for a fraction of what they originally were promised.
@anon 8.44. And what am I being paid a return on? Could that be an investment? Only I know the answer to that one. I have an opinion which I am sure you would wish to stifle. If my comments lack credibility why do you feel the need to comment on them? Fear perhaps? What part of my comments lack credibility? Try discussing the merits of the argument rather than comment about the poster. You should try it.
I know that harlequin and at least some of the agents that sold the ponzi scheme tried to reassure investors there money was safe because
1. land at the resorts had no borrowings and exceeded the value of their debts
2. The government had only approved the resorts for SIPP inclusion after going over the investments with a fine tooth comb
3.Dave reassured investors that outside investment was not needed
The only defence I have heard, is that all happened in the past, and so is no longer relevant.
@Anon 8.44, and grow up, stalking me on one site and posting you opinions on this one. How stupid are you?
Bob Storey – this is a serious question so please do not take it the wrong way. What exactly is your argument? I personally do not think you lack credibility so would be interested in your take.
@Anon 9.23, if you are the same Anon 8.44 then your comment was “so his comments lack credibility entirely”. Make your mind up.
@Potless
March 16, 2014 at 7:08 pm
THIS IS HOW
Poor Paddy, caught with his fingers in this till by Dave. Had his international playboy lifestyle cost short 😉
He now struggles to find work because of the highly publicised court case involving defrauding his employer.
Not good on your CV!
Little wonder he is so nasty.
Poor Dave and Carol, caught with their fingers in the till by the SFO, Essex police and the investors who wised up. The Ames’ comfy lifestyle curtailed and their properties and assets frozen. [wink]
Now they struggle to be taken seriously because of their lies and the fact that £400 million entrusted to them is missing.
Where they are going they won’t need a cv.
Little wonder they are so litigious and nasty to boot.
You must have wifi on your jet lol
I don’t own a jet.
I also find O’Halloran as odious as the Ames.
@pbk, charged by the SFO or Essex police? No. Therefor not been caught with any figures in any till.
I didn’t say charged.
[yet]!
If they haven’t ben charged then they haven’t been caught have they
Nonsense!
Of course they can be caught and not charged.
Innocent until proved guilty. I think that’s how the legal system still works.
Yeah! about as innocent as Matt Ames was before the jury made up their minds. But I agree. Let’s wait and see what’s in store for the rest of the obnoxious family shall we?
Anon, you are right, innocent until proved guilty is how it works, but in light of the Matt Ames verdict, you have to forgive people for being of the opinion that Mr and Mrs Ames may well not be so innocent.
Are the majority of contracts in breach or not? Has he built what he sold to people or not? Have the Ames benefitted financially from the sales in the form of dividends, loans or otherwise? Don’t necessarily need a court to determine that.
We all know all of that.You keep missing of the fat Paddy maleficence.
All,
Due Diligence
We have met with Harlequin for most of the day to iron out elements of the trust drafting / due diligence process. The meeting was constructive. We have pencilled in the following :-
(a) trust is signed by David Ames by end of next week (target), but certainly by the end of March 2014.
(b) RL will write to all investors inviting them to review the trust document (which will be held online). This will happen early April 2014.
(c) RL / Harlequin will agree the format of the proposed Trust Entry / Deed of Waiver. This document needs to be turned into a specific document for each and every investor. The Harlequin back office are going to take the strain of this process. RL will mandate this task to Harlequin so they can use their “HUKs” client database.
(d) RL will issue the draft due diligence to Harlequin for comment. The documents (some of which are sensitive in nature) will be displayed on a secure website.
(e) RL will issue Due Diligence pack to investors who are part of the Pink Form process. The secure website will require a password / token to allow entry. Strict caution should be observed with the password.
(f) We have already pencilled in speaking to agents / IFA’s and SIPP providers so they can ask questions and relay information to their investors. We have meetings for them on the 28th London and the 31st Warrington. This type of engagement is crucial as many investors use their agent / IFA / SIPP as their main conduit.
Investor Support
It is envisaged that investors will have questions / queries which will be dealt with by RL. RL will support this by phone and potentially in further investor meetings (if demand exists).
Trust Closing Date
There will be a trust closing date. This will be agreed, but will more than likely be 2 calendar months from document issue.
Conclusion
Our due diligence process is 85% done. We are waiting for some information from overseas which needs to be slotted in.
We have raised queries with Harlequin and they are in the process of responding. This is entirely normal and in line with other processes of a similar nature.
Regulatory Legal Solicitors
@no smoke, Irish builder clearly not one of the good guys ad is pretty odious himself. Very obviously a man you would not do business with, and certainly not without a water tight contract. Ames did without any form of contract. His malfeasance however does not answer the previous three questions. They are part of the reason things did not go well, but a small part. If the Ames plan was to get completion payments to move onto the next phase, why did he not? The Irish builder did not affect that, nor all that went on before he arrived, or after he left the scene, namely misselling etc.
The above Trust mail is just pure and utter rubbish. It is staggering investors/purchasers are taking this route. But then it was unimaginable to invest in this in the first place, the agony is prolonged.
You have bee shafted, conned, ripped off by the Ames and HP, to the tune of £400 MILLION, yet you post here about nothing, then you consider joining a trust that will own absolutely f all of anything of any value, that removes your right to press a claim against DA or HP for five years and this is gonna save all your houses/pensions
Apart from a few, f me if DA started another business you would all jump on board, You have been screwed over and gonna get zero back and you all think its wonderfull, and you gonna be part of a trust…unbelievable
NO WONDER YOU GOT SCREWED IN THE FIRST PLACE…WAKE UP
I had to leave the RL website, because questions regarding how the refinancing of Buccament Bay would actually help 99% of investors were completely ignored, and anyone asking these questions would expect to be torn apart by certain members of the group, with obvious attempts to suppress any negative comments towards the harlequin ponzi scheme, and the actions of Dave Ames .
anyone that questions whether they have been ripped off or not only needs to look at their contract, at what they have received for their money,, look at the harlequin timescales and look at how the resorts were mis sold, and then contact harlequin and ask some simple, straight forward questions and see what answers they get.
Dave Ames MAY have started this with honourable intentions, but was quickly out of his depth, with little control over budgets, resources , timescales. his total focus was sales, and soon lost sight that investors were actually expected a return for their money.
As time progressed, the situatlion worsened, but this was all hidden from investors, so that he could continue selling to new investors with no care of duty towards his clients..
@Potless you are reading a different RL site to me. Your comments regarding being torn apart by certain members of the group, with obvious attempts to suppress negative comments, do not ring true on the RL site that I have been reading. Unless you are the clowns Andy Oates or P Fowles. Perhaps you are Phillip George? What an idiot he was.
@Potless.
You toss pot, don’t come back – wont be missed.
Update: March 2014
During the course of 2013 I stood in front of thousands of purchasers and informed them about all of the issues and problems we were encountering. These difficulties were an unfortunate result of the actions of Paudie O’Halloran, the contractor who was found guilty of fraudulently misappropriating over $13,000,000 from Harlequin.
In addition I explained the restructuring of the business to purchasers. I believe that we are now in a position where we are confident that the the aims of the business will soon be back on track. As I mentioned at the time, the Trust is a vital part of the future of the business, without it, finance houses and other potential lenders will be reluctant to finance our projects.
The good news is that, as I mentioned in my update of 21st February 2014, I visited a significant group recently that will provide us with access to finance our projects and have been working with their legal department since to explore what could be a significant deal. Negotiations are progressing well and they are interested in working with us to develop all of our resorts. I will continue to keep you updated regarding this. None of this would be possible without the Trust being implemented. We have a meeting with R Legal very shortly and are close to agreeing the Trust documentation which will be sent out soon. On receipt of the documentation you will receive to enter into the Trust, I would ask you all to sign and return the document as early as possible. Please remember that we have had this document verified by a leading independent firm of solicitors in London to ensure the interests of our investors are considered.
As we reported last week, we have now commenced action in the High Court in London against Wilkins Kennedy for professional negligence. Last year I told you that we believed the claim would be for around £30 million. The issued claim is actually for nearer US$70 million. We can’t be sure when the trial will take place but we can say for certain that we believe we have an extremely strong case against Wilkins Kennedy. We are also really pleased that one of the country’s leading QC’s in this field is leading the case for us. You will remember that, in the case in Ireland, the Judgment stated that “by the spring of 2010 Mr MacDonald [of Wilkins Kennedy] was working in league with the builder and that there was a serious conflict of interest”.
I have just returned from Buccament Bay Resort where we hosted the Caricom Conference for over 300 dignitaries, including 16 Prime Ministers, senior ministerial representatives from countries such as New Zealand and Turkey, as well as the United Nations. The success of the Conference has led to a number of other enquiries for us to host other conferences. We enclose a link to photos taken at the event, which was held in a building at the Water Front Village:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/arq7j7rh29a5tzq/qGVYgoDzzx
I’m sure you agree it was a fantastic setting and it was extremely well received by all the countries present, as well as the Caricom Committee. The conference was also broadcast live on TV stations throughout the Caribbean and other parts of the world, so for us to host the event is some achievement. We put this conference together in just six weeks and, because of the high quality of our conference centre design and fit out, we have the makings of one of the finest conference facilities in the Caribbean.
I am pleased to report that bookings for Buccament Bay Resort continue to rise and the guests I met were extremely positive about the Resort, which must give all investors confidence for the future. The resort also featured in a double page spread in The Mail on Sunday Travelmail supplement following a stay by Coronation Street’s Catherine Tyldesley.
I then visited blu, St Lucia, which again continues to grow in stature, with the vast majority of guests coming from the US, Canada, and other parts of Central America. We have great plans for this hotel and are looking for investors with a minimum of £30,000 to complete on a property there. With this money we will upgrade the purchaser’s room to a new high-end design, which will enable a better room rate to be obtained. The rest of the money will be spent on building a Jack’s restaurant, which will also raise the hotel’s already successful profile. Feedback from guests in the hotel is extremely positive.
We have approximately ninety people completing on their properties in Buccament Bay Resort in the coming weeks and we are extremely close to completing the formalities of transferring title. Unfortunately it has taken longer than we had hoped to complete this process but we are nearly there. If you are in a position to raise sufficient funding to complete on a property we suggest that you seriously consider doing so.
If you have purchased at another Harlequin project, we are happy to work with you to transfer your interest to Buccament Bay Resort or blu, St Lucia. In conclusion, I hope this provides you with confidence that the business is improving and we will work closely with the likes of R Legal to ensure openness and clarity as the Trust gets off the ground.
Kind regards,
Dave Ames
Chairman
As the Trust seems to move towards completion one question that investors should be asking re the Due Diligence process is who are the Caribbean travel and tourism industry experts who have been consulted regarding the viability of the existing and proposed hotels?
Revealing such information would have no commercial impact and the transparency would do a great deal to add to the credibility of the process. The fact that this has not been done speaks volumes about the reliability of the DD in my opinion.
Re Mr Ames statement, recent guests at both BB and Hotel Blu have commented on how cheap their holidays were. One at BB describing it as “cheap as chips” and the other revealing that they paid less than £100 per night for Hotel Blu. How will rates this low be able to repay any or all of the investors? And more importantly how will the level of profitability which inevitably will be low attract any external investor? Unless of course that investor intends to purchase at ‘distressed’ rates, and then investors stand to take a major haircut.
@ BB
Not a haircut, a bloody scalping. Some idiots still believe they will get the 10% return pitiful really.
This was on CaribbeanWarehouse yesterday
7 Nights Finest All Inclusive at Buccament Bay from only £839pp + FREE Sunset Cruise + FREE Candlelight Dinner + 3 FREE Spa Treatments + More FREE extras, saving up to a massive £1,728 per couple.
Where’s the profit in that?
@Cheap as chips
You twit!
That’s plenty to pay 10% return then 50% room rate and build out the resorts, plus refund the odd i or 2 disgruntled investors.
How dare you cast doubt on our great visionary’s master plan. This is why it’s commercially sensitive.
@Potless, I think your comment this morning frames the whole situation perfectly….”Dave Ames MAY have started this with honourable intentions, but was quickly out of his depth, with little control over budgets, resources , timescales. his total focus was sales, and soon lost sight that investors were actually expected a return for their money.
As time progressed, the situatlion worsened, but this was all hidden from investors, so that he could continue selling to new investors with no care of duty towards his clients.”
@Sid – not sure where you came in but it is even more complicated than that. Originally Harlequin were offering straightforward off plan property purchases, a hotel was to be included in the plan, but the investors would be buying homes not hotel units. HP has reinvented and altered its past more times than the Soviet era generals have been airbrushed out of the photos of them taking the salute on top of Lenin’s mausoleum so it is hard to keep up.
Ames has always aped what others are doing and has never been an innovator or lead in this field. The extensive use of CGI to sell was copied from rivals and although he missed the introduction of the fractional ownership business model, the need for that was bypassed once he was able to sell it as a SIPP investment (how is beyond me but we’ll let that pass) as the way that was sold bought in money in vast amounts.
There has never been a coherent strategy or plan and although conspiracy theories will naturally come to the surface in this kind of situation I wouldn’t dismiss good old fashioned stupidity as the prime reason for failure.
So many myths and half truths either created by HP or by their apologists and others, one of the more pernicious being that SIPP investors will automatically receive compensation, which is far from the truth.
if u ever meet the bloke u’d know he’s a con man
@BlinkeredBBaywatch my my not only are you an “expert” in the travel industry, but now you are able to give financial advise. You really are amazing. This this new found knowledge of the SIPP market come from having a few beers the other night with your mate?
AMES The king of updates
How many positive updates can Ames produce? It seems that he believes in himself for sure. Is it really possible that anyone of the investors would believe him after so many failures?
BS Bob, it’s ‘advice’ not advise you daft old loser.
oh surely BS Bob would call himself an old looser though
Raising finance for projects anywhere is not easy these days, Caribbean as tough as anywhere. Finance is raised based on ability to repay the loans, as well as having adequate security that is easily sellable at a distressed price if needs be. The above update appears somewhat misleading. Whilst ensuring that the principle of the business is not going to get sued by his investors is clearly important for any lender, the business fundamentals are more important. The security of common areas of a resort is not something a lender is going to get excited about, even if that resort made a lot of money. How can he sell those areas? If the resort loses money, then security is of no value. the update sounds like an attempt to frighten investors into signing up because financing is only possible with the Trust. Financing is simply a dream for these projects based on what is currently known.
Seasoned hoteliers and developers in St vincent, St Lucia and Barbados have never seen the viability of massive resorts of the kind being planned by Harlequin, 10% guarantees or no 10% guarantees. One was attempted in St Lucia, Le Paradis, and sadly failed, despite the efforts of a seasoned businessman. It is perplexing why investors felt that someone from the UK with no prior experience in successful business, never mind resort development and management, could essentially create a new industry in those islands. There have been many updates from this firm, and to my knowledge none of them have come to fruition. It is interesting that this is still going and this forum still rages on, investors have nothing to show for their investment – allegedly 400m pounds was taken, and the main reason given so far has been the misappropriation of 8m pounds by the builder. This also does not quite add up. There are a number of questions of course, some have been asked and many not asked, but is it worth waiting for the answers, or better to register your caution and move on with life which is short enough…
@creepy as chips. Are you allowed to surf the web when you should be teaching? Or is it still playtime? Don’t forget your whistle.
Do teachers have whistles?
They do in the bizarre world of BS Bob
@ Sid
Teachers used to have canes too! And blackboard rubbers that we hurled at the heads of the stupid kids who wouldn’t listen.
That was a long time ago. Many of those stupid kids went on to invest everything they owned with Harlequin Properties. Maybe you threw those blackboard rubbers a bit too hard!
Touche’ Sid…touche’
Sorry Sid, I seem to have missed thwacking that nasty little Ames Minor.
Please someone with legal knowledge in SVG a question. Unless
ALL the outstanding/unresolved legal proceedings initiated several
years ago against Harlequin are ruled on how can anyone complete
and be given a title guarantee to any of the individual properties
at Buccament.
How do you know what outstanding/unresolved legal proceedings are outstanding? Perhaps there are none in SVG? That’s why a legal solicitor is employed in SVG.
what happened to the Anna Kanga case?
What about the five Americans who won but were mover paid?
What about them?
Anna Kanga? Who knows.
Useful reading for cash investors who don’t have the FCA redress route:
Click to access JB_Commercial_Fraud_seminar_030708_web.pdf
Source: Jonathan Bellamy of 39 Essex St.
A spokesperson for Regulatory Legal, which acts on behalf of 1,100 unhappy Harlequin investors, said: “The court listing in St. Vincent and the Grenadines shows an increase in litigation against Mr Ames and Harlequin.
“This increased court activity is not a good thing for Harlequin, particularly as they are seeking to restructure. It is hardly confidence boosting.”
12 Jun 2013 ifaonline
The best chortle Iv’e had all evening is Robert Storey telling
others on the RL site that they lack “internet etiquette”.
Where the Hell is this guy coming from?
Click to access st-vincents-high-court.pdf
Scroll down to the bottom of the document. The cases against Harlequin companies in the Caribbean are not resolved yet.
I’ll ask again……how can anyone close without resolution?
Anonymous
11:45 pm
Ames has some crooked friends in high places. I doubt the cases in SVG will ever get resolved (or Barbados for that matter). They will just drag on and on and Ames will bleed them dry just like he always does because he knows it works.
Wouldn’t you love to know how we are completing! We are always a good few steps ahead of you!
Why are you bothered anyway? Are you Crozier after the completion monies?
@Anon 11.35 stalking again are we? You should be tucked up with your medication at that time.
WhatstheFuss
You were told that by your mate Dave who took your £200k cash, you dipstick.
That not the only thing you have in common with your old codger mate Storey is it 😉
If you are going to complete you are a proper muppet, BB will go bust Ames just want’s your cash to pay off Crozier – Jeeze some people
dig deeper and further back 10 yrs +……. Ames’s not nice
Once Ames has raised £2.5m he can be released from the freezing order and can carry on as before. By which time the investors will have been persuaded to sign away their legal rights to sue the little shit.
Talk about sleep walking into disaster.
When I spoke with Ames several years ago he wasn’t particularly nice. I wasn’t impressed with his attitude or his communication skills and recall being very worried that this man was in charge of my investment. I was also surprised that someone who came across so poorly could have convinced so many people to invest….and still am!
@court lists Strand
March 19, 2014 at 10:48 am
You assume the Trust will go ahead? 😉
Shames is Ames junior got gift of the gab and could have done well legitimately … but decided to go the ‘wrong way’
There’s a lot of lucre to be made. So, yes, the Trust will probably go ahead and completions too!
Dummer & Bummer (AKA James Shaw & Spastic Oates) Don’t you keep up to date with whats gone on dear chaps? Ingham purchased a Dubai property from Ames at a discount the same as what his investment was at BB.
This has caused a shit storm with Shipleys!
Ingham & Ames go back a long way so don’t kid yourself they don’t look after each other!
Not sure what is more painful to watch – seeing a crook stay free, or ongoing mind-blowing stupidity from “investors”. Ames is hiding in plain sight having breached all your contracts and noone (or very very few) is doing anything about it, but even worse “investors” are being persuaded to sign a Trust that does not benefit them one iota but benefits Ames. Frankly, if Ames does manage to pull this off, he deserves to walk free with all your hard earned savings and enjoy life on a beach somewhere laughing about this. His performance, as Sid pointed out, is hardly convincing and still succeeded in his scam.
Can Regulatory Legal also confirm why certain individuals, I will name names later, have not been charged trust fees by RL, when these individuals are of high net worth and not hardship cases.
Talk about taking the piss out of the rest of us!!
Does anyone have an update on the unfortunate Indigo diver who
was air-evac’d to BGI after suffering the bends at BB?
Ho ho Ha ha yippy-yai-ye…..Bobby Story is about one nano-second
away from being banned from the RL site…….
Stalking again. What you don’t realise is that you think you are anonymous on BFP. Don’t believe it.
Ohh… Bobby BS Storey is that a threat? That’s not nice “internet etiquette” now is it? And there’s you carping and griping about bullying posters. Fackin’ hypocrite that you are.
Gutless faceless internet troll. How clever you are reading posts on RL then posting comments on here. Feckin anonymous keyboard warrior that you are. Not. Zzzzzzzzzzzzz
Have a nice nap now Bobby BS.
@Whres Dubai Money Gone?
Ames has had your pants down and give you one up the wrong un good an proper.
Whres Dubai Money Gone?
Such awful spelling.
Bob Storey actually thinks Ames will look after him for all his nutty postings. How will he feel when it turns out to be fools gold.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2584360/Conman-lived-like-king-sprawling-Majorca-complex-duped-trusting-ex-pats-5-MILLION-investment-fraud-pay-650-000.html
Interesting similarities in that Ames got to a vulnerable group. The SFO looked into this in 2009, so it takes time and that was for a 5m fraud. The Ames fraud is 400m, massive. It will take time, but the resulting penalties will be commensurately bigger and lots of those involved closely with the scam will also be taken down.
Does anyone know how close HP are to resolving their banking system problem so my monthly payments can re-start? It’s been 14 months now so I’m starting to doubt HP’s claim that it’s a problem with Barclays, though I am looking forward the back dated payments that Mr Ames promised!
Why does Bob Storey need any favours from Ames? He has purchased his property and will get title if he pays stamp duty.
Its you jealous peasants who cannot afford their investments that need Dave Ames help
Rather a peasant than a thief!
Bob it’s wings dear, not wheels.
get it right purleeeze
I think the poster was referring to Andy Oates wheel chair with the name! Thick shit!
Sid
I am afraid Dave Ames, true to form, misled investors at the first investors meeting, when he promised monthly payments would start again . You see, he didn’t have the courage to tell investors the truth, all the money had run out, used up by his marketing machine and servicing a huge monthly debt., a legacy of the 100% finance scheme, in additon to having no money, he had also built huge debts. In the mind of Dave Ames, his business model was a success
Mr Ames had completely under estimated the cost of a building the resorts, paying the staff , marketing and had not factored in delays, legal costs. etc., of course this had to be hidden from new investors, who would have invested knowing the true state of Harlequin’s financial position
Why’s Bob a thief? Jealous that he got paid a rental income on his property? I guess you would have sent the cheque bac
How’s the saving for the balance going?
I am surprised that Bob Storey is completing on his purchase, on the RL website he told us he is unemployed and possibly going to lose the family home. This does not seem the ideal person to raise a mortgage on an overseas property .
It’s funny how dave ames defended his business model for so many years, assured us that he didnt need external finance, used our money to defend his reputation, and when it did fail, turn around and try to put the blame on investors.
well it would be funny, if we weren’t living with the consequences.
Potless – bob has paid cash for his property, no morgage!
Some people could afford the investment, whereas others couldn’t!
Wow Wind beneath my wheels, , Bob is unemployed, possibly going to lose the family home, so we assume cannot keep up mortgage payments, but has hundred(s) thousands to complete at buccament Bay, and money for completion costs,
this all sounds reasonable to you ?
do you look down your nose at people that cannot complete, because they purchased through the 100% finance scheme, believing they would receive their deposit back in a few years,. I know from a conversation with Matt Ames, he was very unhappy that investors did not have the funds to complete.
Plotless – yes I don’t give a shit about those greedy investors who couldn’t afford the investment they purchased – greedy people got what they deserved in my book, I hope they lose their deposit
@Wind Beneath My Wheels…….if Bob has paid cash then why the
hell has he paid RL to be part of the Trust? 1+1=2 no matter how
you calculate it. (Although at this point I bet RL would gladly
reimburse Bob his 250.)
Wind beneath my wheels, do you think Matt Ames,is greedy and got what he deserves.,
Wind beneath my wheels, are you completing at Buccament Bay , or did you not invest ?
= you make too many assumptions, Bob may be on the RL site but he hasn’t paid any cash.
Plotless I don’t know enough about what Matt did and I do know what he got either
Plotless – i got a deal
Why don’t you as RL why some people were never charged the £240 to join the trust ? These weren’t hardship cases
Wind Beneath my wheels, you do not know enough about Matt Ames to comment, even though he is written about on this very website, has been convicted of fraud and setting up a ponzi scheme and yet knowing nothing about the investors, , other than them putting down an deposit , and not being able to complete you can immediately accuse them of all greedy and launch an scathing attack??????
I do not assume anything, I think you are confusing my posts with someone else.
I ask again, do you not find it strange that bob storey can afford to complete at buccament bay, which is very unstable investment, but cannot save the family home ?
Plotless – I said poster = made assumptions.
I haven’t taken any interest in the Matt Ames case.
Bob Storey isn’t finding cash now to complete at BB it’s been paid in full for a long time hence why rental income has been paid
@potless, and you will never know. You assume far too much.
Robert Storey, you told the RL forum that you are unemployed and could be losing the family home. YOu were trying to argue that you are facing similar financial hardships that others find themselves in,… the difference
being, you dont moan about it.
at the same time, we are to believe you had sufficient cash to complete and are receiving a rental income,.
many of the people that have invested, had poor performing pensions and investments, and were given a great sales pitch, in which they were told they could invest and then receive their deposit back in the future, and
you can now abuse these people…… , really
you are on the thread about Mathew Ames son setting up a ponzi scheme, and yet you have no thoughts ?
how much credibility do you think you have ?
@Potless, “you can now abuse these people” really and where would that be? I have abused nobody on RL. Find instances if you can. In fact I think you will find the opposite is true. Do you think I give a toss about credibility? Hell no.. And why am I on this thread, try the Anon 14th February 10.59. That’s why I have no thoughts on it. Now run along and stop talking about things you know nothing about.
Robert Storey, the abusing people statement was actually aimed at wind beneath my wheels.
what do you think about wind beneath my wheels statement
” I don’t give a shit about those greedy investors who couldn’t afford the investment they purchased – greedy people got what they deserved in my book, I hope they lose their deposit”
and yet has no thoughts about Matt ames, while actually posting on a thread about
harlequins-matthew-ames-guilty-of-ponzi-scheme-fraud-will-father-david-ames-be-next/
@potless, this thread ceased being about Matt Ames a long time ago.
It’s difficult for Richard Ingham to disguise the fact he his dyslexic. No matter what names he posts under it’s obvious.
Robert Storey March 19, 2014 at 11:40 pm
‘…I have abused nobody on RL.’
You have abused and threatened plenty on here though Bob BS.
Bob that’s all you do is abuse people you nasty little man.
You are that stupid you think every post in my name on here is from me. You pair of idiots.
That’s confusing – more than one Robert Storey!
Have both paid in full for a cabana on Buccament Bay?
Only one of you to answer at a time please. Let’s hear from the idiot one first. The other one can reply afterwards.
Yes my name is Richard, I gave Dave loads of money.
Yes my name is Bob, I gave Dave loads of money.
Dave will look after us, despite the fact he has shafted everyone else.
We believe him, want to complete.
Dave is Great, Dave is good, Dave is God. Dave is a visionary.
Long live Dave.
You are a liar too Bob BS. Of course that post was from you.
What planet are you on, yes the post of 9.26 was from me. I did not say it was not. You need to sit down in a dark room for a while.
You obviously don’t remember – must have been the Lidl wine box. I think possibly you are the one who needs a darkened room Bob BS.
For the record, I could comfortably complete on my units though there are 2 major stumbling blocks in the way; 1) They aren’t yet built even though they were scheduled for completion 5 years ago and are still not expected to complete for years i.e. never. 2) I don’t want to throw more good money after bad. Also, I committed to 4 properties primarily in the basis that I would get GUARANTEED mortgages. I haven’t misinterpreted that the mortgages are guaranteed, it says so clearly in my contracts. The big question is would I have committed to 4 units if I had to find all of the money myself and mortgages weren’t guaranteed? The big answer is NO. I may have taken 1, but definitely not 4. The 2nd big questions is, were my units mis-sold to me? To which the answer is, Yes, too f@cking right they were. The 3rd big question is aren’t there laws to prevent that kind of thing happening?…..yes there are.
@cgcac, rather than throw your cheap accusations about, post on here the evidence that you think you have. Do some work, substantiate your claim or go away. And it’s ALDI by the way.
@Sid, why don’t you consolidate your 4 properties into 1 that has been built?
Hi Bob, I had considered that as a plan B and would probably do so if I had enough faith that I would see a return.
Sid, why not talk to HP about it? Unless you have a dialog then you will not know what the options are. Having a chat will cost you nothing and it may help you.
Caveat emptor folks
let the buyer beware
This really has become “theatre of the absurd”
There is no Godot just as there is/will be no closings.
@Sid,
When you speak to Ames, ask him about the couple of million quid spent in Thailand on property. Last time I looked it was not in the Caribbean. 😉
Sure BS will have some defence of that blip
Sid, I’d pull out and sue the bastard.
There are plenty of places for sale in Barbados, Bequia (and the rest of the Grenadine islands), St Lucia and Grenada with better returns and a lot more transparency.
@Sid, I’m sure you will but just ignore the silly comments. Just think about yourself. GL can ask these questions for himself.
Yes let’s ignore the millions spent in Thailand it’s just silly. Just like this missing Dubai money owed to Shipleys.
That’s silly.
Brazil is even more silly.
Lot’s of silly going around….
Why would anyone want to talk to HP? They have demonstrably and repeatedly lied to everyone for years, and clearly are operating what in any civilised country is a scam (taking money for units they simply cannot build, on land they do not own, using sales techniques that are just misleading such as guaranteed mortgages and massive returns) Those who still hope and listen are demonstrating how they were sucked in in the first place. Robert Storey for example is one of thousands getting a return and consistently defends the indefensible, which suggests collusion or at least an agreement with Harlequin as to what he has to do to get his money. This is not what your contracts stated, it did not say you had to belittle yourself and become a reviled internet troll to get your money. If you do need to invest more to complete, why would you, the return is not going to be there ever. Better off keeping what money you have to try to invest more wisely, or use it to get a lawyer to place a caution against assets for your breached contract.
‘We’re just putting the finishing touches to the marina at Buccament Bay.’ quote by Dave Ames.
How silly is that?
Bob is just a stupid old man, thinks he is going to see his £150k cash not a hope.
@Sid, as you can see it is impossible to have a balanced discussion regarding YOUR situation without the trolls interjecting with spurious comments.
@Anon 12.05 my my we are getting desperate now. Perhaps I could contact you for counselling? Ah but you are anonymous, by name and by nature.
Sid
Robert Storey may be on to something with his suggestion that you speak to HP about consolidating your 4 deposits into a single fully paid up, built property on BB. (That’s assuming 4 deposits do add up to one fully paid up property).
Providing you do not have to shell out any more money what do you have to lose!
Of course it is open to debate whether HP would entertain a proposition that doesn’t bring them in any more money but that in itself would be a good test of whether they have turned a new leaf and, at last, are willing to do the right thing.
All,
Wilkins Kennedy Litigation
Many investors will remember discussion of litigation against the former accountants used by Harlequin.
We have posted a copy of the Particulars of Claim / Claim Form and Appendices on to the “Wilkins Kennedy” tab of our website.
The documents are quite long, but make interesting reading. The amounts involved are significant. The chronology reads like something from a novel. That said, we have to caveat things by stating that we expect this matter to be fully defended.
Regulatory Legal Solicitors
An important point that trust members or those closing would need to know that answer to is in the event that Buccament Bay loses money, who will be responsible for funding those losses?
Buccament Bay is haemorrhaging money! And where are the long-overdue accounts?
After reading the Wilkens Kennedy particulars I am trying to fill in
some blanks in the time line so that I can follow –
two questions arise:
1 – Is there any information in the public domain in reference to the
termination of Ridgeview Construction?
(something really strange seems to have occurred at that time)
2 – What was the date of the inception of Harlecon?
Bob, I appreciate your suggestion and will give it some more thought.
There is a legal obligation in SVG (same as for England) for Harlequin Properties (SVG) Ltd to produce audited accounts each year. None have been filed since those for the period to 30 April 2007.
Why is this please?
Ask Bob Storey, his reasoning should be a whopper !!!
Now this is how to promote a five star destination in The Caribbean
http://www.forbes.com/sites/lauriewerner/2014/02/12/a-splash-in-the-grenadines/
It is also an interesting history of just why it is so hard to establish a new product in an unrecognized destination – even when you know what you are doing. Just goes to show how completely out of his depth Ames was. Any investor contemplating putting more money into either BB or any other part of the Harlequin ’empire’ should read and take note. Remember the old adage ‘your first loss is your best loss”.
Where did the funding come from to support Harlequin Air? Where are those two old planes that Dave Ames bought? Daniel and Carol Ames are still directors of Harlequin Air Limited, although it is reported as a ‘non-trading’ company.
Dave Ames is a true visionary.
The vision was simple; to extract money from investors and spend it with gay abandon.
Bob, that is not anyway inferring that Mr. Ames is gay 😉
More’s the pity……..we’d know how to deal with him
We should make him take the gay test 😉
Dr Christian – Cure Me I’m Gay…… Bob’s new bum chum
Only last year Ames was selling two Quin and the ‘H Hotels’ brand in Barbados. What happened there? Who bought into it?
The old Allamanda is now a derelict building site to the embarrassment of local people.
What are you going to do about it Dave Ames?
@wbmw, to quote the great orator Andy Oates “I have an opinion and I will be heard” This is unless you have a different opinion to him then it’s Stuff off.
@cgcac, why not ask about the accounts after April 2007. Oh I know, that the period when WK where invoicing HP but their employees were engaged in fraud.
@Wind Beneath My Wheels
March 20, 2014 at 7:51 pm
Hello Richard, few have your level of unnecessary nastiness.
Oh FFS Bob BS 8.33pm give it a rest. Why don’t YOU tell us where and when the audited accounts for the Caribbean Harlequin companies were published? We want to know.
BTW, your allusion to WK is way off.
So if anyone is any doubt where $54m went read the documents for the court submission against WK. The thieving Irish git and his mates, Newman and MacDonald. Wonder if the SFO should be investigating WK?
Shouldn’t it be mesa grande cara ? I really don’t know.
Cabanas going etc. etc. I don’t have a clue what you are talking about. Who are “we”?
Wonder where the £344 Million went never mind the £54 Million
Just saying
Anon 9:21 – It is some sort of new math.
Not on rl site,however 1 question only. If you had acted improperly would you effectively ask the sfo to investigate knowing how deep they would delve. If you had anything to hide would be suicide / sentencing yourself ….
Well some one certainly did.
@Bbaywatch – a relevant post. Very hard for SVG to run profitable hotels, no matter how good the quality. There is no doubting the quality of Raffles when in Canouan. Palm Island, PSV do okay, have changed hands a few times as has Canouan as stated. Palm Island run by very experienced group who have massive marketing and routes to market behind them, but still not too many keys so can make it work. So many great sites in the Grens to set up a hotel but without the access just does not work. Mayreau another great spot, but again at this stage a large hotel would not work, perhaps not even a small hotel. How many islands/resorts do well without good access? St Bart’s, Anguilla (very seasonal, hard to make money and hotels having tough time), the list is short. Noone has developed a large hotel in St Vincent for a reason, almost as silly as developing a 2000 room hotel on the east coast of St Lucia. Evidently an Essex double glazing salesman thought he knew better. An obvious man to back! An international airport will help St Vincent – but will airlines fly there, will it be finished soon? Too great a risk for your money, especially if your money is pension money and not play money.
Anonymous
March 20, 2014 at 10:14 pm
Not on rl site,however 1 question only. If you had acted improperly would you effectively ask the sfo to investigate knowing how deep they would delve. If you had anything to hide would be suicide / sentencing yourself ….
Are you implying that Dave Ames himself called in the SFO to investigate? If that is the case then you are completely mistaken.
From the SFO website: ‘The Serious Fraud Office (SFO), together with Essex Police, is looking into complaints in relation to the Harlequin group.’
http://www.sfo.gov.uk/our-work/our-cases/case-progress/harlequin- property.aspx
It really is staggering what Ames and his sales people will tell investors and what they will believe.
Fat Matt Ames will be sentenced this afternoon at 2pm. I will post the judgement as soon as I know.
Robert Storey (Teller)
I would love your spin on the property purchased in Dubai and Thailand, by Diddly Dave.
Or am i just being silly?
@La Garto, I don’t think anyone is suggesting DA called in the SFO to investigate himself!
@Silly Post, I would love you to understand that it is STOREY. In your very silly connotation it would be STORY. Where is that English teacher when you need him.
You are being deliberately stupid. Bob read the post.
It quite clearly says:
“…If you had acted improperly would you effectively ask the sfo to investigate knowing how deep they would delve.”
Any bets on how long convicted fraudster Ames Junior is going to be banged up for?
OK Mr Storey,
I would also be interested to hear your opinion on the properties purchased in Dubai and Thailand by Dave Ames.
As you know, the Dubai property affects the administration.
@ lar garto. i was referring to JN alerting the SFO. if he had been underhand the last thing he would do is ask the SFO to investigate. trust this clarifies.
anonymous March 21, 2014 at 9:30 am
Yes it does, thank you. My apologies.
Unfortunately some of the more unscrupulous IFAs told investors that the FSO, HMCR and the FCA ‘had gone over the Harlequin with a fine toothcomb’ thereby implying that the investment had been given a seal of approval.
Thank God for whistle blowers.
FSA HMRC SFO
bloody keyboard!
@La Garto, “are you implying that DA called the SFO to investigate”? That’s pretty clear in its question. Deliberately stupid back at ya.
Bob
Any bets on how long convicted fraudster Ames Junior is going to be banged up for?
7 years.
Poor old duffer Bob, defending Ames by saying the Irish builder lied to him about the build.
Did Ames never check?
Just sayin……
Yes Richard it will be to you.
Tartan Piss Stained Slippers March 21, 2014 at 1:46 pm
Why do I care about Matt Ames? Because he’s a fackin’ evil crook and helped take money off the Harlequin investors as well as the investors in his own nasty scam. Must have learnt it at his mother’s breast and his daddy’s knee.
BTW I am not an investor.
7 years
@Tartan Piss Stained Slippers
How was your DD on Ames?
You Invested cash, ouch!
Thinking of completion? Risky, little wonder the stress is making you so nasty.
Why is the nastiness directed at fellow investors, why not the guy who duped you?
pls confirm … matty ames 7 years ???
I wager eight years.
FWTBT. You need to read the WK court papers. They all lied to DA. “Where’s the water equipment”? Ans”in Barbados” DA “let’s go and see it then” ans. “eh, um, eh”
He is just like his Dad.
20 months.
So not as bad as it could have been . Judge must have concluded it was more reckless than intentional. He’ll be out in 6 months on license.
Maybe he’ll make a comeback as resort manager for the Winter 2014 period ?
@Tartan Piss Stained Slippers
Matthew Ames is far from an “ok bloke”. He is manipulative, arrogant, dishonest, amoral, excuse of a human being. He only cares about himself. He doesn’t even hold his own wife and children in much regard, as I have witnessed myself by his, shall we say, dalliances.
PS – Ames family, try to sue me for libel. I have have proof to back up my claims!
MATTHEW DAVID AMES HAS BEEN SENTENCED TO 3 YEARS AND 4 MONTHS. Will probably be out in 2.
Mum Carol and brother Daniel were in court today. No sign of Dave Ames. His defence team argued that Fat Matt was naive when thinking he wasn’t breaking the law, therefore there is speculation that the judge may have been more lenient.
I have it on good authority too that Fat Matt is currently undergoing a divorce.
u reckon soppy mandy will go 4 divorce …. oblivious to everything … altho’ has left her ….maybe his young chick will wait for him 🙂
@Brother Ames, more bullshit. You knew absolutely nothing. As usual.
@Tartan Piss Stained Slippers
You’re clearly a complete imbecile. You a man that steels from pensioners is OK? You think it’s ok to destroy families?
He now faces a “proceeds of crime trial”. I think it’s fair to say he has lost everything. His home; his family and any credibility.
He may face a “nice open prison”, as you put it, but years away from your children. The shame he must feel as a father. Well worth it? I highly doubt it!
I don’t even know why I bothered to respond to you. You’re quite obviously ignorant and brain dead or just another internet troll looking for a wind up. Either way mate, get a life!
@Anonymous at 4:01 pm
“maybe his young chick will wait for him”
You don’t actually think anyone with eye sight would wait for Fat Matt? He only ever got the girls cos he splashed the cash. Now he hasn’t got that, he’ll have to come very well acquainted with his right hand! Or maybe he’ll enjoy the bum sex too much when he’s inside.
@Verdict
at 3:32 pm
20 months.
“So not as bad as it could have been . Judge must have concluded it was more reckless than intentional. He’ll be out in 6 months on license”
Don’t know where you got this bullshit sentence from. I KNOW and have previously posted Matt Ames’s sentence and here I can now back it up:
http://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/local_news/11094749.Fraudster_Matthew_Ames_sentenced_to_three_years/?ref=nt
Selling returns he knew were not achievable? Selling things that do not exist? It does sound familiar.
@anon in the know. 40 months is not 20 months. Where you get out in 6 months on license is baffling. From the sentencing council. For sentences of a year or more an offender will be released after serving half their sentence and the other half on licence. Plus they may be eligible for release on home curfew 135 days prior to their automatic release date. Therefor 40/2 = 20. 20- 4.5 (135 days) = 15.5 months. Less any remand time if applicable. Simples.
Nice to see the Echo were on the ball on this. Have they reported the HP. Vs WK action yet?
Oh Robert, give it a rest. Question is will he have a home to be
released to?
Oh Anonymous, give yourself a name.
Lets be realistic. High ticket cases require ultra high ticket legal
teams. And no entity has resources for legal representation to
match an insurance company. On the remote off-chance that DA
does receive favorable adjudication the legal expenses are about
guaranteed to eat up everything. Just what law firm is the DA
team going up against re:WK?
You only get a 50% reduction in sentence if you plead guilty
Matt did not plead guilty did he, so will serve more like 26.6 months.
@anon, read the submission pages, there are only 79 and 111. Your assumptions re the legal costs are way off the mark.
Bob what do you think about a ex director and share holder of Harlequin going to prison – following his Dad business plan?
Just sayin an all…..
Charged, found guilty, sent down. Not much else to add.
Robert Storey when I start my Ponzi Scheme will you please
be my p.r. guy? Like a Duracell battery you just keep on going
and going and going and going.
Jeremy Newman crowing about Matt Ames going down. Wonder why he has made no comment about the Wilking Kennedy submission. Wonder why the Echo have kept quiet?
Hopefully the SFO will have completed there investigateions within the next 26.6 months!
Which anonymous are you? You have posted 5 times in the last 2 hours.
Because the world knows that Dave Ames has been running a massive ponzi scheme for years and people want to see him go down – all neutral observers have had enough of him, not sure about investors but should imagine they have too. His son’s scam is a drop in the ocean in relation to his scam. Or the builder’s scam.
Matt Ames got off fairly lightly, sentence wise.
However, fraud does not tend to look good on your CV, being banned for being a director for 13 years is no fun.
How will he earn money?
POCA
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/29/contents
Could link into Harlequin??
That’s not taking into account the family issue this will cause.
So he is in the shit.
The Mason’s got Matt an easy ride, just because of Ames snr
Roughly if its 2 months per million that would make DA’s
ultimate fate circa 66 years. Anything over 20 for him is
tantamount to life.
Magna est veritas et praevalebit !!!
I’m at a total loss as to what you mean, or which side you favor,
or never knew that Latin had a comma…………..
Matt Ames sentencing reaches the Daily Mail, who give us more insight into todays sentencing hearing:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2586338/Conman-hired-James-Middleton-promote-bogus-rainforest-protection-scheme-used-swindle-ethical-investors-1-6m-jailed.html
What I found to be interesting here, is that Matts barrister, when pleading for a light sentence, explains that Matt is able to return to work and earn £10k PER MONTH. Considering Matt posted a photo of himself with Stacey Soloman in the Harlequin Offices in October last year, are we to presume he is able to earn that monthly wage through Harlequin?
If Ames (snr) gets done like his son or goes bust – bye bye freezing order.
I can also now reveal that Matt Ames’s original sentence hearing on the 14th March was delayed because a Panorama film crew was present at court.
Looks like someone has found Google translate. Maybe, they have a Yorkshire to English option.
Bob what figure would find acceptable for your leader to take in dividends?
I love it ! Assuming of course that the “impossible” is some
sort of vulgate. Keep it up guy (wbmw)
Cogito ergo doleo
Descartes would have understood.
Ingham has got to be one of the most despicable posters
ever.
I have no idea – but Storey and Ingham hate his guts.
Enough said…
Ames snr close to being charged.
I had to save myself so Talk Talk I did Daddy!!!
@Anon 11.33 I don’t hate his guts. I just think that his comments are way off the mark. He likes to dish it out but as soon as he gets some back complains to RL. A bit gutless really.
Dear All,
Please find below a brief Harlequin update.
Buccament Bay Resort features in the Mail on Sunday
Those of you who read the Mail on Sunday on 16th March would have noticed a double-page spread featuring Buccament Bay Resort. The article was written by popular actress Catherine Tyldesley, star of ITV’s Coronation Street, who stayed on resort in December of last year and had nothing but great things to say about her “perfect” time at our flagship hotel.
This excellent coverage wrought instant rewards with a number of bookings coming in on the day of publication from the tour operator named in the article.
Read what Catherine had to say about her time on resort here: Caribbean coronation: Corrie star Catherine Tyldesley finds her ideal break in St Vincent
Catherine’s holiday also appeared in an earlier Mail Online article.
Pat Cash returns to Buccament Bay Resort
The legend himself will be coaching at Buccament Bay Resort’s Pat Cash Tennis Club from 4th to 9th April 2014, which will no doubt prove extremely popular with guests.
Complete on a blu, St Lucia property
Following our last update, we’ve had a great reaction from investors interested in switching investments in order to complete on a property at blu, St Lucia. As previously stated, investors seeking to complete at blu, St Lucia will require a minimum of £30,000. These funds will be used to upgrade the purchaser’s room to the new superior design, which includes a new bathroom as shown below, and to open the new Jack’s restaurant, which will surely be a huge hit for tourists and locals alike who visit the popular Rodney Bay Village.
Breaking news………..
Richard Ingham lerns ow two writ inlatin
@RS – You must be correct……the amount of scatology has
amazingly decreased of late.
Of course not internet in Canada Bob the nob.
http://www.lovemoney.com/blogs/scams-and-rip-offs/scams/27516/dont-be-enticed-into-this-banned-investment?source=1000557
@Dumber and even Dumber. You too thick to understand which are my posts and which aren’t. Now who’s the nob? Nob.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2586839/Financial-adviser-stole-226-508-life-savings-six-pensioners-blow-FOOTBALL-GAMBLING.html
Ingham is in Erica’s unruly bush 😉
It’s a pity the amount of misogyny and filth hasn’t decreased. I can only imagine what B Bandit and the rest of his dreary witless playmates must be like in real life. What a repellent excuse for human beings.
If BFP removed all the posts that are obscene and those that have nothing to add to the HP/DA debate, this post would have about ten posts…….peeps lose £400 million and all they want to do is insult each other
crazy old world at time
It is a very intricate scam, and all about Ames trying to stay out of prison now. His son sent down for a much smaller scam, Ames knows what his fate will be once he is charged. Anyone signing up to the trust and giving up contractual rights needs head read.
Last year I spoke with Matt Ames & questioned how harlequin were still able to offer guaranteed buybacks and 10% rentals towards the end of 2011, with finances in such a state.
The reply went something like this, “well, you know that
Arsenal are one of the richest clubs in England, well, if their ticket sales stopped for 3 or 4 months, they would experience cash flow problems, well Harlequin were the same, when the SIPPS dried up, they experienced cash flow problems and were no longer able to honour the guarantees.
I pushed Matt Ames on this point,” so, the only requirement harlequin needed to sell guaranteed mortgages and rentals was cash flow for 3 or 4 months”,
yes he replied.
Thing is, “redifining ponzi schemes”, most of the Harlequin investors reading this blog will have no idea what your statement means.
And let’s face it, the authorities let Harlequin get away with it anyway. That is truly disgraceful.
For info, readers, Matt confirmed the Harlequin model was a ponzi scheme. In other words, new investors’ cash was used to pay interest / mortgage payments for earlier investments.
And the cash was not used to actually build and create a sustainable business as was their contractual obligation. New sales simply meant being able to prolong the scam. Ask Matt Ames about construction costs, planning, resort trends in the destinations of their resorts and am sure you would have had an equally gobsmacking reply. At least you can take comfort in knowing Dave Ames and many involved will ultimately end up in prison, compiling the case for such a large scam just takes time.
Before speaking to matt ames, I had a conversation with Dan Dalligan, I believe he is / was head of sales. I mentioned Matt Ames being charged with fraud, Dan threatened to get harlequin lawyers onto me for saying such things. He criticized me for reading stuff on the Internet and not going to harlequin for answers, so I asked some questions, such as how many hotels were completed, how was my money spent, was Buccament bay making a profit, he told me I had no right to ask these questions.
Over on Trip Advisor the shills keep right on shilling. The trouble is that the chav coach keeps giving himself away with a recognizable style. The risible spelling quite reminiscent of a distracted performer on an iPad. Best of the recent is the referral to the delights of a “fillet minion”. Every time that they try to make themselves seem sophisticated and knowledgeable it results in yet another howler. I gather that at least one of the bunch of recent comped guests was a travel agent so, as ever, nothing changes in the great marketing scam.
You assume that the waiver document will not have some clauses that ensure Ames actually deliver’s certain things, or he will get sued and all bets are off……
@TVFMP – the true howler was your wry description of
…”distracted performer on an iPad”. I wonder who that could be.
Hello Richard, how are the spelling lessons doing?
@BBaywatch, it is now nearly 24 hours since this review was posted on the TA site, yet you seem to have missed it. Why is that? Let me guess, its because it says something POSITIVE about BB. Now read the post below carefully and repeat after me “I must not be so blinkered”.
56. Re: Why are reviews re Buccament Bay so disparate?
yesterday, 16:56
So just posted my review having spent a fab week at BB. My honest reaction? Yes there are a few logistical problems and yes maybe for a true 5 star resort they could do with replacing a few bits of furniture and new towels, BUT that said I can’t see how anyone could not have a great holiday at BB and the vast majority of the set up is high end.
It seems obvious to me having now travelled that the resort is to a degree treading water waiting for the new airport but I hope that they get there as they deserve to for the staff and management I met. Also as I may not post again to this forum (as having travel and given my view what would the point be) I hope that the author of this topic doesn’t get his way by creating to much trouble on these forums in an attempt to cause issues for BB. Don’t be mislead by fake reviews or trouble causing negative posts BB is a great resort if you have paid the right price. AN HONEST REVIEW WITH NO AXE TO GRIND EITHER WAY
“BB is a great resort if you have paid the right price”…expecially
if you have been comped.
You’re not your.
tsk!
Not very good at spelling are you?
Yes that poster Nigel on Trip Advisor has already admitted he is in the travel business ‘and sells holidays over the phone’. Then has the cheek to say don’t be misled by the fake reviews.
Well Richard, so you do pay attention in your lessons. To think, several months back you could not spell Jill.
Good boy, run along now, lots of trolling to do.
Intresting why the fat Irishman has been silenced.
Thats because the HD trolls have moved on to WK as the
next great white hope. Such is life in la-la-land !
To all the sad followers of RL and their rescue plan, have you done a DD on RL? Have you asked RL for a list of those who have sent in their pink slips and if they have sent in £240? You might find that some have not had to contribute, and I don’t mean hardship cases. Just some of the favoured ones.
Back to reality.
http://www.moneymarketing.co.uk/news-and-analysis/regulation/harlequin-chairmans-son-jailed-for-3-years-for-16m-fraud/2008318.article
@RL and their dirty little deal
£240 do it give a toss? No. £400 million yes.
you Dick
Do “it” give a toss? You are in detention. Mug.
“The fraud is not thought to be connected to collapsed overseas property firm HP” Your point is?
Spellcheck does not correct for a lack of education.No axe to grind.
From TA review:
“Contrast that with Champaign available all day every day, one of the best fillet minion at Jacks “
To be fair, you have to be a proper tool to get yourself banned from RL’s forum.
A few managed it !
Yes what did happen to Phillip George?
So, back on topic…Will father David Ames be next? One down, two, maybe three to go?
I wonder what Matthew Ames is having for his tea tonight? Prison food will mess even further with his zitty pustular complexion and corpulent paunch.
Think about
His poor needy mother …cancer an’ all
His poor needy granny and aunty who live in ‘grace and favour’ properties.
His poor necessitous STBX wife. What will happen to her ‘Chav Marimba’ property?
[takes out onion and weeps into hankies for all of these newly-impoverished ].
And then I expect fack-all will happen because the Ames will get away with it again and again.
@Richard Ingham
The great big tough, keyboard warrior who loves to bully women and racially abuse people.
This low life, mocks disabled investors and thinks that’s funny.
A truly horrible excuse for a man.
The irony of this whole saga is that he claim to be a cash investor, so he has actually no chance of getting his money back.
Perhaps there is a God after all.
Don’t expect another reply from me you odious little man.
Spelling police! “He claimS to be “
If you’ve never seen racism on here then you’ve never read
the tripe from Katherine……
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2588276/5-Madoff-ex-workers-convicted-cases-1st-trial.html
Ingham has some serious psychological issues.
After reading the dailymail (two above) I wonder if both Ingham
and Storey will be added to the rogues gallery we shall shortly see?
Well for starters…….they have urged all investors capable of doing so
to “complete” ……….
When this can of worms is opened, and it will be, you will find Ingham and Storey disappointed.
Ames will shit on them, just like the many 1000’s before them.
The sad thing is they actually think he will do right by them.
@Anonymous
March 24, 2014 at 9:32 pm
Ingham is just sick, Storey is senile. They are just very unpleasant individuals.
@Anon 9.54 you you think old age is fair game then? Just like a spaz and racism. Very odd standards you have.
The Shaw and Oates show. Sounds like a 70s pop group. Why do you think you are still deceiving people with your fake IDs? What a pair of muppets you both are.
It would appear Mr. Ingham likes to give it but not take it!!!
Maybe Bob receives nob?
Latest TA review quite positive but a bit worrying that a 5 Star ,”award winning” resort would run out of food and champagne. Review also mentions poor management. Now where is Matt when you need him?
Expect negative bits to be highlighted by BBaywatch soon. He must have some sort of alert prompt on his PC that flashes up anything negative.
Bob a bit like you then? Jump to HP defense like a good little troll – don’t worry Dave will shaft you good an proper – right at the last moment.
Still stalking. Get a life you dimwit.
Dont forget..on TA, Bob Storey is “Sportingman”..the great Harlequin Defender! I wonder how much he gets paid for the crap he writes there?
Don’t forget Anonymous posts as anonymous because he cannot think of an original ID. Stalking, an occupation for anonymous people. Anonymous by name, anonymous of thought. Dimwit.
Well – Bobby…I suppose 36 & FDNRM were original. Who the hell
do you think you are kidding !!! (Translate “original” as clever.)
The anonymous dimwit. You see in the old days on BFP if you kept posting as “Anonymous” then BFP gave you an ID number, hence the ID of 36. Perhaps that is a bit too complicated for you to understand. FDNRM actually stood for something to make a point. Now do you understand what FDNRM stands for? Perhaps that is a bit too complicated for you to understand also. I also posted that I was changing my ID. So you see if have been original ( clever) in my IDs.
Now Anonymous how clever is your ID of Anonymous? Jesus this a real tuffy. Perhaps you are trying to kid some one, dimwit.
A sad idiot is Bob Storey. Even invested in Harlequin, say no more.
TOUGHY !!!!!!!!
@ Anonymous March 25, 2014 at 9:26 pm
Hey, don’t be so hard on knob storey.
He really thinks he’s some kind of genius for coming up with multiple ids and thinks he surpassed even that level of genius when he was unmasked because of his own stupidity, so he “cleverly” started posting under his now known real name, as if he had a choice!
Others also post under the name Robert Storey but as he often points out, readers should be able to recognise the real Robert Storey. He is the idiot poster.
Frankly there isn’t a bigger idiot on the planet. he also believes that when anyone responds negatively to his pathetic posts, he is being stalked which all adds to his delusions of grandeur.
The truth is he is a gullible, very frightened mug who has put all his money into a property on Buccament Bay which he is going to lose and he knows it. He has to defend HP to the hilt in his desperate attempt to save the property hence the ridiculous pro HP stance he takes in his posts.
Hard as it is, try to feel sorry for him. He has now been banned from RL so he only has here to post.
Yes, it has been noted the gruesome pair have both been banned from the RL forum. Good riddance to the evil scum!
I do not know who would give Ames ” a minimum of £30,000 to complete on a room in Blu St Lucia”. No-one with any intelligence would give him 30 pence, let alone £30,000. Maybe Richard Ingham or Robert Storey are up for it. i suspect Ames is after the thousands of pension cash pots shortly to be released following the recent budget. Luv v ly Jubbly, back on the road again!
The due dilligence, we are all so eagerly awaiting, will include, so we are told, how Dave Ames is going to raise the funding to continue building out the resorts. Don’t be surprised if there are no specific details- most likely we shall be told, as before, investors are queuing up to put money in. Don’t be fooled.
Remember Ames has twice been bankrupt, has a poor credit history, is poor at settling his debts and has a poor track record of financial managament. Would you take such a high risk? Maybe Dave Ames’ best friend Richard Ingham is the source of finance.
I see that Ames list of assets that were frozen included a house for his mother-in -law and one for his sister.No doubt these were paid for using investor’s deposits. Maybe he has bought one for Richard Ingham as well in return for laundering the Dubai property.
What’s happened to that lying bastard Simon Taylor of late? I remember his presentation at an investor meeting at Miskin Manor, Cardiff in late 2011, in which he stated that Harlequin Air would have 10 planes by the following July! He also said the wood for the Spa at Buccament Bay was currently being steam processed in readiness for the building of the Spa to commence! What a liar and a con-man!!!
It is beneath contempt what these people have done to the genuine investor.
Richard Ingham and Robert Storey are not genuine investors. They are just plants,paid to speak up for Ames.
By the way, has anyone, including Richard Ingham and Robert Storey completed and received their title deeds? Completions have been “near” for some years now (as has the finance for mortgages).
When the collapse finally arrives, the SFO will move in on the Ames family and their existing and former staff, all of whom will be implicated in this scam. This will include you Richard Ingham and Robert Storey. Enjoy your liberty while you can.
P.S. Carol, How is Matty enjoying his new home. Are his children proud of daddy’s acheivements? What do the neighbours have to say? His wife will be well shut of him, once the divorce goes through. Will you be allowed to see the gandchildren?
I believe people should close on Blu because of what Harlequin’s Johnathan Parslow used to tell investors and agents, namely they would get about an 85% return, based on similar hotels and he quoted Cap Maison, the Bodyholiday and East Winds, all hotels in a much higher category and with a beach. ADR at Blu is less than 100 pounds with occupancy of about 30%, the other three are over 400 with occupancy between 60 and 90%. Another example of blatant lying that went on and still goes on. Fascinating that people still would do business and hand more money over to this company.
will let u know if kids are proud of dad … know enough people in benfleet at school who I’m sure will laugh at his demise …. little Mandy swanning around like a queen …. no more !!!
Looks like fraudster Matt Ames and the screeching harpie are going to lose the £700k Chav Marimba property.
Award winning journalist Jon Austin’s report here:
Vince Cable and victims of fraudster eyeing his luxury £700,000 home
http://www.basildonrecorder.co.uk/news/11101423.Vince_Cable_and_victims_of_fraudster_eyeing_his_luxury___700_000_home/?ref=var_0
Hilarious, offering to keep his son out of jail for fraud by paying him US$16k per month by another scam, also being investigated for fraud. Could not make this up, you could expect this in some parts of the world, surprised to see this in the UK. People want to give more money to this guy? Lawyers want to suggest a trust involving them?
Wonder why “award winning journalist Jon Austin” has said nothing about the Wilkins Kennedy claim? Perhaps he only reports what he has been fed.
@ Anon 2:54pm
Why don’t you contact him yourself and fill him in?
jon.austin@nqe.com
He’s an “Award winning journalist” Perhaps he should carry out some investigation work, the sort of thing you would expect a journalist to do.
Well, I’m sure he’d love to hear from you.
BTW Your posts read just like those written by Robert Storey.
BTW your posts read just like those from, well who knows..
Your post doesn’t make any sense at all.
I actually feel pleased his wife is leaving him, he is stuffed. By the time he gets out Harlequin will be liquidated and Daddy will be equally stuffed.
To the poster of 7.47. Haha, so I’m an idiot am I? Have I lost all my pension though SIPP providers? No my pension is in a pot which thanks to the new pension rules wil be in my picket soon. Of course I have an option to post under whatever name I want, just like you. Only I choose to be honest, not like you. Frightened? I don’t think so, put all my money into BB? Lol now go and play with your Blackberry.
@Bob the Nob..”Of course I have an option to post under whatever name I want, just like you. Only I choose to be honest, not like you. “..if this is so why are you still posting on EA forums as “Sportingman”?…come on, be at least a consistent liar.
TA forums
Don’t you mean TA muppet. You twat I use that ID for several forums. Anonymous dick head.
Bobby
Try more water with that ALDI wine box.
‘wil be in my picket soon…’
Priceless.
Oh no anonymous, you made a mistake! Not so clever as you make out. Go back to marking your books for school tomorrow.
@ygtpapot boring boring boring zzzzz
Whilst it is amusing seeing one of the last people on the Harlequin payroll make a total fool of himself and continue to underline what kind of devious company Harlequin is, can the SFO please hurry up and arrest Ames snr so this charade can finally be put to bed as it was with his son?
Zzzzzzz. You will have to get a life then, perhaps even a name.
Ingham has been silenced, Ames told him to shut it.
I’ve enjoyed following this story for months. 99% of the posters are complete idiots but it’s keeping me entertained. Please continue.
@Ingham because he has your money and you’re his bitch.
A rumor out of Flag Land Base the scientology hq in Clearwater,
Florida is that David Miscavige was seriously interested in BB
at a drastic discount. But nixed the idea because of SVG politics.
Who knows it could be the Moonies next.
I see Bobby’s latest post on TA has been removed by moderators as it was ‘determined to be inappropriate by the TripAdvisor community.’
The nasty little troll can’t get anything right tonight. lol
Well there’s gratitude for you! I try to encourage understanding and sympathy for a hapless idiot and all I get in return are disparaging allusions towards my blackberry. There’s no helping some people!
I’m glad Gareth cast out these evil pair.
Does anyone know which prison Matt Ames has been sent down to? I’m sure many people hope that this is the first in a line of successful convictions that will see the world protected from a toxic and revolting family that has lived off the hard-won proceeds of other people’s work.
Interesting that post Matt Ames’ sentencing every commentator and report on the matter that I have read has linked him to Harlequin Property in almost the first paragraph. The two businesses are clearly seen as being very closely related, almost indistinguishable? This is borne out by the news that, if he had escaped a custodial sentence, he would have been offered the job as manager at BB. Reveals as lies the announcements by HP and their supporters that he was completely disassociated from HP. Quite clearly the family is still as thick as thieves – well what did you expect?
I also see that the US Department of Justice is reported as investigating, and although this is uncorroborated, it certainly makes sense when US nationals are involved in litigation with HP. There are now investigations ongoing into every part of the HP operation and its agents and unfortunately it will take time before these will result in further prosecutions. Don’t forget that it took years to bring the case against Madoff and Stanford. It does rather look as if Dr Gonsalves has a very nasty stink bomb right under his nose, one which just might off just before the next election.
Lots of posts are still on TA, lots of posts in that thread have been deleted. If you are going to stalk someone at least try and do a half decent job. The nasty little stalker can’t get anything right .lol
Investigators will start with one simple premise, follow the money. They will see it flow from an investor, to Harlequin and then paid out to Harlequin directors and its agents before honouring any part of the contract for which the money was paid over. This would confirm it as a scam and they will then try to establish the full extent of the payments, who was part of the scam, who profited, who did so legally and who did so illegally, which jurisdiction the scam was committed, ensure their charges would stick (in this case it has been a wily scheme with overseas contracts) and once satisfied they will move in. Obviously it is taking time to be satisfied, but if they did move in, and particularly if the US justice department is involved, many others outside the main culprits (the Ames family) will also be charged or will give evidence against Ames in return for a lighter penalty.
Whatever happened to the group of 5 or 6 American investors
from St Lucia that several years ago had rulings against HD-BucBay?
I believe these rulings were by the SVG courts.
He could get some money / loan off Aussie farmer …… Mr DA’s daughter’s hubby …. owns quite a bit of land in Oz …….. somewehere near Narrogin in WA ???
It is interesting that a convicted fraudster was being offered the job to manage Buccament Bay, at a salary far higher than is the normal basic salary for Caribbean General Managers. This with him not only being a convicted fraudster but also with no training whatsoever in that field nor experience. His only stint was whilst awaiting trial and according to staff he was appalling. Does anyone still doubt that Dave and Carol Ames treat Buccament Bay and investor money as their own play thing and private piggy bank? An inexperienced fraudster looking after your asset whilst on a massive wage? And son of someone who pretty much fits same description?
Just goes to show, the “know alls” know “f*** all”
@Richard Ingham
March 27, 2014 at 3:42 pm
You are a Cowan.
Is Richard Ingram one of the three who demanded the secrets from our master Hiram ?
He is positioned in the North, blocking the entrance.
Fortunately our master stood steadfast and would not disclose that which he had been entrusted.
Oh most high !
Ingram is a wannabe thug successful only in elevating his importance in his own mind.
Anybody who rebuffs criticism of Harlequin, promotes the potential of the scam and defends the claims of the uneducated, under qualified, incompetent bunch of spivs employed by Harlequin should simply be ignored. And Ingram, you have done all these things on social media.
Go on Ingram, invest more, don’t lose faith, and do not on any account instigate legal proceedings against Ames for fraudulent deception and misrepresentation.
And please, please continue to patronise all other investors as you’ve invested cash and have bought outright and they can’t afford to.
It’s satirical beauty watching you fuck yourself up the arse on account of your Harlequin investment. Fortunately, you will be one of the biggest losers. And you deserve it son.
I can barely wait for “Harlequin – The Movie”
Tragedy
Comedy
Other
Take your pick !!!
Anon Reasons Unknown, redefining culture in the Caribbean. That thick that he cannot even spell posters names correctly.
H.A.A. (Horses Arse Agitator): What a wonderful way to describe the great Storey Teller (Bullshit Bobby), prior to his sudden demise on R.L. (For the spelling police – I know it should be Story). H.A.A. H.A.A. H.A.A. H.A.A. Lol.
Demise on RL.? I think not. You have the wrong person. I’m still on RL
@Anon 11.09 aka Jack Kester. “horses ass” seems a favorite expression of yours.
@Robert Storey: “Demise on RL.? I think not. You have the wrong person. I’m still on RL”
B.S. Bobby: Your well diminished RL fan base are missing you (Not). Purlease stay on this forum you can bullshit to your hearts content. Gallop on – H.A.A. H.A.A. Lol.
By the way; apart from the word Horses the ‘H’ can also stand for your favourite Cabana provider – either one describes you to a Tee. Toodle, Loo.
@Anon. Well at least I had a fan base, you had er, well nothing in fact. Perhaps a bit of a pond and a path?
Oh no H.A.A. I’ve got a lot more than that, I can assure you. I certainly wont be burger flipping or sitting totally deluded in my loo abusing an ipad. H.A.A. H.A.A. Lol.
Last comment from me (for the moment) as your boring me now. Bye H.A.A.
Robert you’re just a nasty old man. I bet if a little kid kicks a football over your fence you would stab it and chuck it back.
Go and toss off your only mate Ingrham.
Who is Ingrham? Don’t know that one.
@Anon 2.32, no nor me too. Just deciding what to invest my liberated pension pot in. A SIPP perhaps? Lol
@Anonymous 5:23pm: A classic Horses Arse Agitator response (H.A.A.) – aka B.S. Bobby.
@bob 3.03pm…as an investment I hear Teak forests are popular….see if Matt Ames has any left…Im sure you can negotiate a good price because of your close contact with his Daddy.
@Anon 7.53, not me saddo. Not very clever as a Sherlock are you.
@Anon 8.30. Nah might go for another unit in BB. Where else can I get a 10% return. I can sit in my Cabanna and look at ponds and paths owned by those trust people.
Some of the regular posters on the RL site are beginning to question
the DD. Seems like Fatchett is still in the control of Ames. This is so
sick. No books…no Trust !!! Which makes a lot of sense to me.
What the saddos on the RL site don’t realise is that while the SFO investigation is still going on then the information held in the HP books could be part of the defence case if it ever comes to court. Is Ames likely to open that up now with the threat still hanging over him?
@bob 11.16pm…good for you..getting 10% return,and having legal title to your cabana at BB! You are a very clever investor Bob….get a few more units before they are all snapped up.
so Gareth Fatchett states “we find the idea that any investor would contemplate joining the trust without understanding the current position of Harlequin bizarre”
RL say “we will not be recommending people join anything if they do not have the raw information to make an informed decision”
Sounds like thanks for the £250k for setting up the trust, but RL are going to make a sharp exit left.
Horses Arse Agitator (aka – B.S. Storey) 11:16: “Nah might go for another unit in BB. Where else can I get a 10% return. I can sit in my Cabanna and look at ponds and paths owned by those trust people”.
You poor deluded soul. How about a -10% return to go with the previous losses you’ve made (and you really have made them – the result of dancing with the devil).
However, every cloud has a potential silver lining. To all concerned – SIPP rich Robber Storey is willing to purchase all unhappy Harlequin investor’s unwanted Cabañas to enhance his burger flipper’s income – any takers? H.A.A. H.A.A. Lol
P.S. Still no contributions to R.L. – Wonder why, (painful being neutered, isn’t it?) Toodle Loo.
@anon 11.53. Believe me I’ve made no losses. How do you think I have? Very odd comment. Regarding RL, neutered? Not me. Nothing to add. It’s all about DD and the trust. No comments to make at all ha ha. SIPP rich? I don’t have a SIPP. You obviously cannot read can you. Toodle pip.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101472860 Interesting to see how in the US the money is tracked and those who benefited from the scam have to give it back. At this point it is beyond doubt that Harlequin have taken huge sums of money and it has disappeared without fulfilling the contracts that were entered into. It is up to others to prove it was a scam rather than colossal incompetence, but will be interesting to see who will be chased for money to give back to the victims.
Back when I studied the Holocaust in school,
I remember thinking, “How did Hitler get over six million people to follow along blindly and not fight back?”Then I realised, that I am watching my fellow English people take exactly the same path!
We all trusted one man several years ago and look where that got us…..No one is going to help us all they all want is our money be careful who you trust. Trust is a burden that you place upon others
What a vile post!
You obviously didn’t acquire any knowledge from your lessons when you ‘studied the Holocaust in school’.
‘Trust is a burden that you place upon others.’
Where do you people find this crap?
Some people who think they are so clever really are quite thick. Despite what anyone thinks about Ames no one has died. Your analogy is sick
The game is nearly up.
Ames will refuse to allow RL to disclose all they know. RL will advise no one joins trust until they do.
Will Ames blink ? If not, it’s over.
Ironically, if the real figures comes out, it’s over.
Your move Mr Ames.
RL continues to amaze and confound me (not sure which the most).
They have written that they could not recommend joining the trust
unless Harlequin provides full disclosure on one hand and on the other
“Harlequin could refuse to allow us to disclose some of the information
we hold”. Well double-duh !!!. As a law firm are not they required
both legally and ethically to disclose to the authorities ANY INFOR-
MATION that would show HD has been operating as a PONZI scheme
and is at this very moment double and triple selling properties. If
they don’t aren’t they equally guilty?
Not if the information had been passed over under a NDA. What RL know and what they can disclose are two separate things.
Not unless they are representing Harlequin, which effectively they have been. GF has been a little too influenced by DA.
Seems that the law works a bit differently here in the States. Why
wouldn’t they be honor bound to present to a judge and request
that the NDA be rescinded?
Strict caution here, do not sign until you get legal advice.
The Trust process and documentation has been independently verified by a third party law firm, which will provide an advice note stating the same in the documentation.It is anticipated that the Trust documentation will start going out to investors from next week.
We urge all investors to sign and return the Trust documents as soon as possible to ensure that, as envisaged, the agreed security can be transferred to the Trust to provide security for your investments and the Trust can operate successfully.
Is Dave Ames trying to circumvent investors getting legal advice, ‘Trust me sign here?’
I have the situation in my sights worry not…..
If Mr Fatchett has information that is concerning how can he with hold this from his clients or indeed the authorities, this is not acting in their best interests is it?
Anonymous – 12.21
If information has been passed under an NDA (which is standard practice) then RL cannot release it. They need permission.
If that permission is not forthcoming then RL will report this to their clients. They do not act for Harlequin, so it is fairly obvious that they cannot tell their clients to proceed unless the material information is disclosed.
That will result in investor being advised not to join the trust. Ironically, the O’Halloran, Newman, Crozier, Broughton dream will be delivered by RL.
Harlequin are then in a corner. Disclose and the powder keg goes off, refuse and the ship sinks anyway.
In this scenario, would you rather be RL or DA ?
Judging from your post I’d rather be in the “O’Halloran, Newman,
Crozier and Broughton dream (team).
Don’t all NDA’s have two sides? What if the other side goes
ahead and post a disclosure. Could do it anonymously on
BFP.
I would not like to be in the Crozier side if Harlequin along with DA goes bust.
HP will drag down Ames personally – they will get SFA.
Careful what you wish for……..
Horses Ass Jack Kester is on RL talking out of his ass again.
Kathryn having a love in with James Shaw and Andy Oates. Oh happy days. The poor fools.
Poor deranged Andy Oates, just cannot help making his childish comments. Keep it up Andy, banning order on the way.
@ Happy SIPP investor
Why do you think the CLC action went for freezing the Ames’ personal assets? This is a link to the first freezing order:
http://www.ifaonline.co.uk/ifaonline/news/2268722/harlequin-bosses-served-with-gbp11m-asset-freezing-order
Dave Ames is not a director of any of the Harlequin companies and never has been. It is probable that Dave Ames’ previous (two) bankruptcies legally prevented him from being a director of any company hence his family members were appointed directorships of the Harlequin companies.
Harlequin Management Services (South East) is in administration (it’s bust anyway). When the whole charade finally goes tits up The Wifey will play the sick card and dopey Dan will be the patsy.
Robert Storey – if you’re out there let us know that you’re okay.
It been two days. (Some sort of record – I think)…
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DA has the bankruptcy as a last F**k you…… to Broughton.
@Dodging the Marshalsea, freezing order May 2013, almost 12 months ago. This is really going at a pace. Keep up the good work. Lol
In the Harlequin pantheon of notables has anyone ever
heard of Ronald Stephen Maber-Jones…
In the Harlequin pantheon of notables has anyone ever
heard of Audrey apparently, she is Nikki Croziers sister, but no public records of that …… shit happens when you change your name……
According to Google a software consultant in Wales
Re BS Bob’s recent absence
Maybe his ‘fee’ for being a shill for Harlequin didn’t turn up and he’s gone on strike. lol
intheknow
March 30, 2014 at 9:19 pm
DA has the bankruptcy as a last F**k you…… to Broughton.
Erm, no he’s already f-cked ALL of you! Sadly, most of you still don’t seem to realise it.
Well, I had to look up the word Shill.
A shill, also called a plant or a stooge, is a person who publicly helps a person or organization without disclosing that they have a close relationship with the person or organization.
“Shill” typically refers to someone who purposely gives onlookers the impression that they are an enthusiastic independent customer of a seller (or marketer of ideas) for whom they are secretly working. The person or group who hires the shill is using crowd psychology to encourage other onlookers or audience members to purchase the goods or services (or accept the ideas being marketed). Shills are often employed by professional marketing campaigns. “Plant” and “stooge” more commonly refer to any person who is secretly in league with another person or organization while pretending to be neutral or actually a part of the organization he is planted in, such as a magician’s audience, a political party, or an intelligence organization (see double agent).[citation needed]
Shilling is illegal in many circumstances and in many jurisdictions[1] because of the potential for fraud and damage; however if a shill does not place uninformed parties at a risk of loss, but merely generates “buzz,” the shill’s actions may be legal. For example, a person planted in an audience to laugh and applaud when desired (see claque), or to participate in on-stage activities as a “random member of the audience,” is a type of legal shill.[citation needed]
Shill can also be used pejoratively to describe a critic who appears either all-too-eager to heap glowing praise upon mediocre offerings, or who acts as an apologist for glaring flaws. In this sense, such a critic would be an indirect shill for the industry at large, because said critic’s income is tied to the prosperity of the industry.
Convenient Ingham is a ‘cash’ investor, a few things seem a little ‘fishy’
1. no 3 rd party verification, eg SIPP’s
2. where did he get the cash?
3. is he really an investor, or a shill? ( like that word;))
Why would he be so defensive when he is looking at losing the whole lot when Harlequin inevitably goes into bankruptcy.
Ames once said at a meeting he was getting letters, like a curse asking the question..
‘WAS IT WORTH IT?’
As his business is teetering on the brink of insolvency, jail for his son, and possibly family,divorce, SFO, and a poorly wife…..
‘WAS IT WORTH IT?’
Shill Fee: B.S. Bobby now pontificating on new thread . Did you really think he could do without his deluded daily fix)? Thread is:-
“Harlequin fraudster: Matthew Ames jailed 40 months in fake carbon credits scam”
Benfleet boys just laughing at the Ames downfall ….. paver, dbl glazing, Millionaire…. don’t take rocket scientist to work out they’re all dodgy …. how any of u got sucked in we just don’t know ???? b4 investing should’ve had chat with us in the pub …… Zach or Anchor … would’ve put u straight
@Anon 7.23. Just been looking at TA. Try and keep up. If you are going to stalk at least try. Sado.
Strange how all the trust members are Freemasons? Just saying….
Someone told me the aptly named short storey (he who is too thick to get the spellings) aka Co Co Cabana was stalking and abusing here as well. Won’t be long before he is “shut up” The names you’ve accumalated by posters elswhere fit perfectly Mr think I’ve swindled a cabana- and don’t give a monkeys for those in dire straights – storey. An evil littel t***
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