An update from Bar Works’ Franklin Kinard: “I want this fixed as desperately...
Bar Works is Renwick Haddow’s latest investment vehicle. Haddow has a history of disastrous investment schemes, the most notorious being the Capital Alternatives network. Bar Works is going the same...
View ArticleFour conmen who sold rare earth metals have been jailed in the UK. One of...
On 11 May 2017, four men were sentenced in Blackfriars Crown Court in London to jail for selling precious metals as investments. The metals were almost worthless. The conmen duped retail investors out...
View ArticleFranklin Kinard leaves Bar Works: “I have completed my reorganization, and I...
Franklin Kinard sent out another email update yesterday. It’s posted in full below. Kinard is leaving Bar Works. In January 2017, when Konrad Putzer wrote about Bar Works on the New York property...
View ArticleThorn Medical has been bought out by Teknisity Inc.
Thorn Medical is a health care company. It was founded in July 2014 by Jack Kaye, a telecoms entrepreneur. The company was planning a £350 million flotation in 2016. In February 2016, Thorn Medical’s...
View ArticleThe EcoPlanet Bamboo investment saga continues: Who is John Bourbon? And why...
The EcoPlanet Bamboo investment saga continues its slow unravelling. In 2012, EcoPlanet Bamboo (UK) Ltd sold “bamboo bonds” to retail investors (promising returns of up to 895%!). In December 2015,...
View ArticleInvestors file two lawsuits against Bar Works
Since January 2017, REDD-Monitor has written a series of posts about Renwick Haddow’s latest investment scheme, Bar Works, a New York-based co-working startup company. Last week, Law360 reported that...
View ArticleUnited States of America versus Renwick Haddow
On 30 June 2017, the Securities and Exchange Commission filed a legal complaint against Renwick Haddow. The SEC alleges that Haddow fraudulently raised almost US$38 million from investors. The SEC has...
View ArticleHow a big REDD project unravelled in Kelantan, Malaysia
In January 2017, the Kelantan state government in Malaysia signed a REDD deal with a company called Climate Protectors. The REDD project covers an area of 396,000 hectares, one-quarter of the state’s...
View ArticleKoenig Rowe Campbell Alliance: More red flags than a golf course
A company called Koenig Rowe Campbell Alliance is cold calling people in several countries, claiming to be a wealth advisory firm established in 1978. KRC Alliance takes clients’ money and claims to...
View ArticleThorn Medical: “The company is not in a position to meet its financial...
Thorn Medical has written to shareholders to tell them that the company is insolvent and will be placed in voluntary liquidation. Thorn Medical is a healthcare company, founded in July 2014 by Jack...
View ArticleSome questions for Stephen Hooper about the “carbon benefit units” sold from...
April Salumei is a REDD project in Papua New Guinea. Various companies, including Qantas, Eneco Energy Trade, and Norwegian supermarket chain Rema 1000, have bought carbon credits from the April...
View ArticleA company calling itself “Delta Financial Markets” is running a recovery room...
Earlier this week, “Fallguy” left a comment on REDD-Monitor. “Has anyone had dealings with Delta Financial Markets Ltd?”, Fallguy asked. A few years ago, Fallguy was scammed into buying carbon credits...
View ArticleDoes the April Salumei REDD project still exist? More questions for Stephen...
In July 2017, a group of over 150 people who had been scammed into buying “carbon benefit units” got in touch with REDD-Monitor. Several London-based boiler room operations, including Industry RE, had...
View ArticleA company calling itself “Capital Advisory Group” is running a recovery room...
In October 2017, “Oscar” left a comment on REDD-Monitor. “I have been contacted by Capital Advisory Group Ireland re my carbon credits,” Oscar wrote. Five years ago, Oscar was scammed into buying...
View ArticleRenwick Haddow and Bar Works: Extradition process and court cases update
Last year, REDD-Monitor wrote a series of posts about Renwick Haddow’s latest scam, Bar Works. The most recent post was in July 2017, after the Securities and Exchange Commission filed a legal...
View ArticleAsia Beijing Corporation is running a recovery room scam, targeting Bar Works...
Asia Beijing Corporation is cold calling victims of Renwick Haddow’s scam, Bar Works. Asia Beijing Corporation claims to be able to “exchange the toxic asset” for shares in Ant Financial Services...
View ArticleInterview with Kate Heller, VCS Communications Manager, about April Salumei:...
In 2011, a Swiss company called World Markets AG bought five million “carbon benefit units”. They came from the April Salumei REDD project in Papua New Guinea. World Markets sold the “carbon benefit...
View ArticleHow EcoPlanet Bamboo duped World Resources Institute and The Nature Conservancy
A recent article by Angeli Mehta on the website Ethical Corporation reports on a “young company” called EcoPlanet Bamboo. Mehta writes that “EcoPlanet Bamboo is creating permanent jobs for...
View ArticleLondon High Court orders Capital Alternatives to repay £16.9 million. New...
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View ArticleRenwick Haddow appears in court in New York
Renwick Haddow, the man behind the Capital Alternatives network of scam companies, a an alleged Bitcoin fraud and the Bar Works investment scam, has been extradited to the USA. He appeared in a...
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