Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Singapore money laundering penalties show IPIC -1MDB settlement based on false ,fraudulent valuation of relevant assets

by Ganesh Sahathevan

May 30, 2017: MAS serves notice of intention to issue a six-year prohibition order each against Kelvin Ang Wee Keng and Lee Chee Waiy, former NRA Capital head of research; and a three-year ban against Kevin Scully, CEO of NRA Capital. Lee was found to have applied inappropriate methodology and assumptions in the valatiuon of Saudi oil company PetroSaudi Oil Services. Scully failed to ensure that Lee exercised sufficient care, judgement and objectivity in the valuation of PetroSaudi, MAS said.
That  PSOL be over-valued is relevant to the value of the so-called "Cayman units".As 1MDB stated:
"In June 2012, the entire USD1.83 billion amount invested by 1MDB in murabaha notes (in the JV with PSI) was repaid, by way of conversion into shares of Petrosaudi Oil Services Limited, for a value of USD2.22 bil," it said.
In September 2012, 1MDB sold its shares in PetroSaudi Oil Services Limited for US$2.318 billion and received fund units in a Cayman registered fund.
 
The Cayman registered fund is managed by Bridge Partners, a Hong Kong-based fund manager. These fund units were owned by 1MDB via its 100% subsidiary, Brazen Sky, and held through BSI Bank Singapore as custodian.
These same units are now to be part of the 1MDB-IPIC settlement but given that the base valuation was false, the value of  the "Cayman units" must also be considered to have been compromised. The reason is simple.The "Cayman units" are supposed to be units in a segregated portfolio fund .Being segregated the fund could only have been financed by the PSOL shares,either in cash (if the fund manager liquidated them) or in kind.Put in another way, this is ,in investment terms, a case of  garbage in, garbage out.
In addition , as  this writer has demonstrated, the series of transactions that led to the acquisition of the Cayman units were entirely cashless(see articles below)

JUN
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REPOSTING:1 MDB confirms Cayman units transaction generated no cash-Analysis from 1 MDB 2013 AR at Sahathevan Blogspot confirmed by 1 MDB itself

Just published by 1 MDB today,confirming what has been published on  Sahathevan Blog since March this year, based on an analysis of 1 MDB's 2013 financial statements:
 
"In September 2012, 1MDB sold its shares in PetroSaudi Oil Services Limited for USD2.318 billion and received fund units in a Cayman registered fund.
"The Cayman registered fund is managed by Bridge Partners, a Hong Kong-based fund manager.
"These fund units were owned by 1MDB via its 100 percent subsidiary, Brazen Sky, and held through BSI Bank Singapore as custodian," it said in a statement today.

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Confirmation : 1 MDB transaction generated no cash

by Ganesh Sahathevan
 
Sarawak Report has just reported   that 1 MDB  banker   "BSI Bank has dismissed documents supplied by 1MDB relating to its Brazen Sky Limited account in Singapore, saying they are false bank statements........ there is no actual cash in the relevant Brazen Sky Limited account."
 
 
This confirms the conclusion reached by this writer in an earlier posting about 1 MDB and its financial affairs,titled:

1 MDB audit: AG must &  will find that loss of RM 7 billion in cash was in accordance with proper procedures,accepted accounting practise

 
In that article 1 MDB's audited 2013 financial statements were presented ,and it was concluded that the transactions 1 MDB's management and directors strenuously  asserted had generated about two billion US dollars in cash, which they said  was eventually placed under 1 MDB subsidiary Brazen Sky Ltd,were  " nothing more than a series of book entries" which 
 
generated no cash.
 
In that article it was shown how,despite 1 MDB
 
management's assertions, the audited  financial
 
statements actually showed that no cash was generated.
 
The Sarawak Report story seems to have confirmed the
 
conclusion.
 
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