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Current Landsbanki (and Jyske Bank) Lawyers’ Offices Raided by Customs and Excise

16th April 2015 by admin under Legal Action     

Plazas Abogados’ offices in Sotogrande have been raided by 12 Customs and Excise Task Force officers a few hours ago, in connection to the arrest of former Spain’s Vicepresident Rodrigo Rato.

The Spanish Prosecutor ordered members of the Customs and Excise and National Police Forces, with the collaboration of San Roque Court Number 1, to search the offices for any sensitive information as part of a probe into allegations of potential money laundering and embezzlement.

The Spanish Prosecutor accuses Mr. Rato of regularising an unjustified and dubious money flow in 2012.

Plazas Abogados also advises Jyske Bank. 

 Judging by events sorrounding her choice of law firms, its been a pretty weekus horribilis for Yvette Hamilius. Then again, she’s never shied away from her bank’s tax evasion practices.

http://politica.elpais.com/politica/2015/04/16/actualidad/1429202807_685875.html 

http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/2434520/0/registran-bufete-abogados-sotogrande-cadiz-marco-investigacion-sobre-rato/

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Former Landsbanki Head Lawyer Pleads Guilty of Tax Evasion

16th April 2015 by admin under Legal Action     

El abogado Emili Cuatrecasas

Emili Cuatrecasas has pleaded guilty to 8 tax-evasion charges and settled with the State Prosecutor: he will serve a 2-year suspended sentence.

Cuatrecasas’ legal opinion was instrumental in the creation of the Landsbanki Equity Release, to the point that the former would refer to them as their cooperators in marketing literature for the Lex-Life Capital Assurance product:

Our product, Lex Life Capital Assurance-Spain, has been developed in cooporation (sic) with the law firm CUATRECASAS (www.cuatrecasas.com), “Best Spanish Firm of the Year 2005, International Law Office”.

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Landsbanki Sacks Cuatrecasas Law Firm

13th April 2015 by admin under Legal Action     

Following the revelation that the boss of Landsbanki’s legal team in Spain, Emilio Cuatrecasas, had come under fire from the Spanish Tax Office, Yvette Hamilius decided to pull the plug on them and appoint Plazas Abogados, based in Marbella and Sotogrande.

This move comes as a surprise since Plazas Abogados was one of the legal firms that actively participated, in the years 2005-2008, in the perpetration of this widespread scam.

Plazas Abogados have since confirmed that Landsbanki’s product did not aim to avoid IHT, adding that the bank did not offer the Equity Release product to avoid IHT.

Sadly for Plazas, two different lawyers for Cuatrecasas have argued quite the contrary: that the Equity Release was a popular product to minimize IHT and that this was the main reason why they bought into it (sic).

Read Landsbanki’s Torben Bjerregaard explaining all that needs to be known about IHT (translation required): http://www.sydspanien.dk/article.170.html

 

 

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Landsbanki’s Head Lawyer Negotiates with Tax Office to Avoid Prison

5th February 2015 by admin under Legal Action     

Emilio Cuatrecasas, en una foto de archivo

Emilio Cuatrecasas, founder of Cuatrecasas firm, has entered negotiations with the Spanish Prosecution Service and the Tax Office to avoid landing a lengthy prision sentence as part of a plea bargain, according to the web EconomiaDigital.

The case relates to Mr. Cuatrecasas’ tax-creative antics when trying to put personal expenditure (luxury yacht, properties, furniture etc.) as deductible corporate expenses.

Cuatrecasas currently advises tax-evading Landsbanki in Spain.

http://www.economiadigital.es/es/notices/2015/01/cuatrecasas-negocia-con-hacienda-para-evitar-la-carcel-65556.php

 

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Second Spanish Law Firm Confirms Lex Life Misled the Public

9th September 2014 by admin under Legal Action     

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Cuatrecasas, Goncalves Pereira law firm, second by turnover in Spain, has confirmed to lawyers acting for Landsbanki victims that Lex Life and Pensions SA used their name illegally when promoting the Lex Life Capital Assurance in Spain.

According to the deceptive publicity of the ignominious Luxembourg-based company, the named firm had been involved in preparing the sham Equity Release product.

This is the paragraph in question:

Our product, Lex Life Capital Assurance-Spain, has been developed in cooporation (sic) with the law firm CUATRECASAS (www.cuatrecasas.com), “Best Spanish Firm of the Year 2005, International Law Office”.

The advertising also attributed this product the following advantages:

Spanish IHT has a ceiling of 34%, but depending on personal circumstances, the amount can go up by 2.4 times.

The Lex Life Capital Assurance-Spain is an excellent, tax compliant way of mitigating tax exposure and safeguarding inheritance tax.

Cuatrecasas strongly denies any involvement with the above and has confirmed to lawyers acting for the victims that they are considering legal action against the company, or their successors.

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Same Man Behind Jyske and Landsbanki Equity Release

22nd July 2014 by admin under Legal Action     

The man of the picture is unique in that he has sold Equity Release for not one, but two banks!

His first post was with Landsbanki Marbella wherefrom his scaremongering tactics bought immense success to his company.

When the s**t was about to hit the fan, he jumped ship and found cover in Gibraltar, working for a no less amoral company: Jyske Bank.

Although years have passed since this young-ish looking gallant banker posed for the defunct magazine, you may still be able to guess who he is within this list.

Have a guess!

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Mis-selling scandal: Deutsche Bank to Return over 3 million

3rd May 2014 by admin under Legal Action     

Deutsche Bank will have to repay over 3 million Euros to 49 customers who invested, through this bank, inLehman Brothers, Landsbanki and Kaupthing toxic financial products.

In spite of an earlier dismissal of the claim by a Court of First Instance, the Madrid Appeal Court considers that the bank failed in its statutory duties towards their clients: diligence, loyalty and clear information on their products.

According to the ruling, Deutsche Bank failed to explain not only the nature and characteristics of high risk products, such as the “preference shares”  but also, the financial and economical risks of the underlying investments.

The deciding Magistrates stressed that the investors were looking for profitability but shied away from capital losses, adding that there profile was not typical of ‘people gambling away in a roulette hard-earned money saved over a long time.’

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According to the CNMV, Offshore Money Managers is a Cowboy Operation

9th March 2014 by admin under Legal Action, Selling Antics     

OMM, or Offshore Money Managers, has been living very well for far too long on the back of a lie: that it is registered to conduct investment business.

But they are not, and dishonest Mr. Colin McCready knows it far too well in spite of which he has managed to get away with his insurance broker “DGT license” -which he is fully credited with having allowing him to sell car/house/life insurance policies- to conduct investment business, which he holds no license for.

That said, Mr. McCready has also been an exceptionally efficient tax-evading Equity Release travelling salesman (Jyske Bank, Landsbanki…), and that has placed him in the spotlight. Unfortunately for him, he has left a trail of incriminating obnoxious publicity that is causing anguish to countless pensioners.

According to the law under which he is regulated, the following needs to be observed:

Insurance brokers will provide truthful and sufficient information in the promotion, offer and subscription of insurance contracts and, in general, in all its advisory activities.

In the next posts we will publish part of Offshore Money Managers publicity to see if it at all, it does in fact comply with the above.

 

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Icelandic Bank Bosses Jailed

13th December 2013 by admin under Legal Action     

It was a matter of time before someone high up in the banking sector was sent down.

Kaupthing bosses have the dishonour of being the first -surely not the last- top bankers to go to prison for defrauding their company, their clients, their country and presumably too, the Tax Office.

But whilst this case may not be directly connected to Equity Release, it is clear that if someone at the bank came up with the brilliant idea of giving out a massive loan to a Middle East-based wealthy Arab to buy stock from the company, why not give smallish loans to owners of Spanish unencumbered property to invest, for instance, with Lex Life, the company Landsbanki owned?

 

 

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Landsbanki liquidator to sue victims group for defamation

12th January 2013 by admin under Legal Action     

Thick-skinned Yvette Hamilius resilience cannot be explained other than by assuming she has been paid a truckload of money, or blackmailed in some sordid manner, to endure the barrage of persistent attacks from hundreds who feel, and quite rightly may we add, totally conned by the company that she represents.

There is no need to transcribe the article that appeared on the Luxembourgeois online newpaper www.wort.lu but we will add that, if lawyers acting for Ms. Anne Vershchaffel succeed in having foreclosure proceedings, brought by Jyske Bank, declared null and void due to using an unregulated valuation company from Girbraltar on a Spanish property, the 200 or so “customers” of Mrs. Hamilius will be able to sleep a bit better.

Because the concomitant effect of attaining this ruling is not only that Landsbanki will be barred from bringing foreclosure proceedings in Spain as they too used one of such unregulated businesses but also, that the mortgage loans would be automatically void by application of article 6.3 of the Spanish Civil Code:

Legal agreements that contravene obligatory or prohibitive laws are null and void, unless applicable laws envisage a different legal outcome.

 

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