TEXAS BILLIONAIRE ALLEN STANFORD ACCUSED OF FRAUD
Stanford fraud charges tricker panic
Fraud charges laid against Allen Stanford sparked panic across the Caribbean. Stanford and his companies, among them Stanford International Bank Ltd. (a private offshore investment bank in Antigua), Stanford Group Co. and Stanford Capital Management LLC are subject to a fraud inquiry.
According to The Daily Herald “The ripple effects of the “massive ongoing fraud” charges against Texan billionaire Allen Stanford are seeping into the Netherlands Antilles where several people and businesses have invested in Stanford International Bank.” Victims in the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba may contact the …
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THE DISMANTLING OF THE NETHERLANDS ANTILLES
Info Bulletin Dismantling available
The country The Netherlands Antilles (‘het Land de Nederlandse Antillen’) will cease to exist, presumably in 2010. Like Aruba, although slightly different, Curacao and St. Maarten will receive the status of autonomous country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands in accordance with referendums held on both islands. Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba will each receive the status of Dutch municipality (a.k.a. Kingdom Island).
The Ministry of Constitutional and Interior Affairs has published a number of info bulletins on the dismantling of the Netherlands Antilles:
A DUTCH CARIBBEAN BUSINESS LICENSE
License required
According to the Netherlands Antilles Ordinance on the Establishment of a Business (Landsverordening betreffende vestiging van ondernemingen, PB 1946 nr. 43), a license is required to establish a company (vestigingsvergunning) as well as one to operate a company as an individual director who is not a “citizen” (directievergunning).
According to the published policy of the Department of Economic Affairs (Dienst Economische Zaken) that is responsible for the enforcement of the Ordinance, a “citizen” is a natural person who is born in the Netherlands Antilles, or one of whose parents was born in the Netherlands Antilles or someone who …
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