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Your article reported on allegations of fraud made against Lloyd's by a small group of disaffected Names. This piece appears to have been stimulated by the upcoming case to be heard by the Commercial Court in London under the title Society of Lloyd's v. Jaffray [Sir William Jaffray is a former Name]. It made no new disclosures and was one-sided, unbalanced and contained many inaccuracies. These old allegations relate back to events of the 1970s and '80s, and no evidence of fraud has ever been produced. Your report purported to comment on the current state...
Your special report on Lloyd's alleged that "possible fraud at Equitas is one of the issues to be aired in the Jaffray suit and is likely to figure in the U.S. criminal investigation." This statement is false. Contrary to your report, no allegations of fraud or of any other nature have been made against Equitas in the Jaffray case. In addition, Equitas is not, and never has been, the subject of a U.S. criminal investigation. Equitas did not begin operations until 1996, years after the allegedly fraudulent acts referred to in your report. The role of Equitas...
...other investors in return for 10 percent of the profits. Not that he got the full kickback - an estimated $70,000 to $110,000 is said to have flowed into his mailbox via cash stuffed in unsigned birthday cards. "The SEC has been very interested in the area of fraud over the Internet, and this case is just an extension of that," notes TIME Wall Street analyst Dan Kadlec. "In fact, they've done a good job of catching things on the Web. It seems laughable that anybody would try to post any secure information that...
...Antitrust violations and fraud are not immune from litigation," Elhague said in response to the objection that cigarettes are a legal product...
...reliability of identification," he says. Giry explains that the cards themselves are inexpensive to produce, so that the only brake on use has been unwillingness of merchants to invest in readers and communications devices. The countries that have not adopted smart cards have been waiting until losses from fraud and theft start to outweigh the costs of updating hardware...