金融犯罪防止強化の必要性－全国小売酒販組合中央会年金詐欺を事例に＊
英文タイトル
For strong policies against financial crimes － in the cases of 'ICG' and 'the All Japan Liquir Merchants Cooperative Association'.
Yoshihiko Motoyama
Summary
For strong policies against financial crimes － in the cases of 'ICG' and ''.
the All Japan Liquir Merchants Cooperative Association
Five former directors of the Imperial Consolidated Group was charged with fraud on 14 June, 2006. The Imperial Consolidated Group were companies in a global investment business that collapsed in 2002 with a shortfall of over £100 million in its UK operation.
Five men appeared at Lincoln District Magistrates Court on 14 June, 2006 on charges of conspiracy to defraud in relation to the operation of the Imperial Consolidated Group of Companies ("ICG"). ICG was a group of companies which ran investment schemes, purporting to place the funds raised primarily within its own UK-based consumer credit and commercial loans businesses.
One of five men was William Godley who played the crusial role in the case of pension fund of the All Japan Liquor merchant Association.
ICG offered investment opportunities to investors all over the world and
purported to place a large proportion of the invested funds into its own UK-based consumer credit and commercial loans businesses. The Group evolved during the mid to late 1990s, with its head office in former RAF buildings at Binbrook airfield, Lincolnshire. It attracted private investment largely offshore through a network of highly paid introducers and through its own offices across a number of foreign jurisdictions. The UK investment companies went into administration on 10 June 2002 as part of the worldwide collapse of the Group. The Administrators Creditors Report of March 2006 for one of the Group's core UK companies estimated a shortfall of over £100 million and a dividend payment to unsecured creditors around 1 penny in the pound. This loss is additional to further sizeable losses made by other component parts of ICG.
The defendants were all key players in running the group and were directors of various ICG companies throughout its period of its operation.
A Japanese pension fund lost up to $125m (pounds 70m)in the collapse of the UK-based Invaro Group, which had links to the Imperial Consolidated scandal. The losses at the All Japan Liquor Merchants Cooperative Association (AJLMA) fund left some 20,000 Japanese people without a pension. The chances of any money being returned are said to be "probably quite small".
Police in Japan are investigating the AJLMA losses and have raided offices in Japan. A former officer of the fund has been arrested.
Invaro, a Liverpool-based litigation-funding company, was run by Terry Lindon, one of the UK's most prominent black businessmen. It went into voluntary liquidation in June 2004.
We need strong policies to prevent this kind of financial crimes.
キーワード インペリアル・コンソリデーティッド・グループ、 詐欺、 クレディ・スイス
keywords Imperial Consolidated Group, fraud, Credit Suisse
