Shoaib ~
There is no Marc Harris Organization - at least not any more. Called
"one of the biggest offshore scams of all times," its head, Marc
Harris, was brought back to the U.S. to face numerous charges.
After eluding angry customers and U.S. prosecutors, Marc Harris was
expelled from Nicaragua and brought back to the U.S. where he was
charged with 19 counts of money laundering and various other counts.
You can read of the account on the Miami Herald online here:
- http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/6067232.htm
or the Billings (Montana) Gazette online here:
- http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?tl=1&display=rednews/2003/06/11/build/world/w-66-nicaragua.inc
or check any of the recent news articles of his return to the U.S. on
Google News here:
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&edition=&q=%22marc+harris%22&btnG=Search+News
Sorry this isn't the news you hoped it would be,
Serenata |
Request for Answer Clarification by
shoaib-ga
on
30 Jun 2003 16:26 PDT
Serenata-ga please note that I have read the information
provided by you and I have come to know that 'Harris
organization' is involved in 'some minor' fraud cases but
that does not mean that the huge firm of Harris organization
has gone out of the business of international financial
services because of those some minor fraud cases and it
also does not mean that Harris organization has been declared
'bankrupt'. Please provide "clarification" to my statement so
that I shall be able to apply to the firm of Harris
organization for international financial service. Thanks for
your help from shoaib-ga.
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Clarification of Answer by
serenata-ga
on
30 Jun 2003 18:04 PDT
Shoaib ~
Marc Harris formed an organization called Mark Harris Organization ...
which allegedly did not invest the funds it received from advertising
offshore investments to avoid taxes.
Here is some more information about this "organization":
From Quatloos Scams & Frauds Exposed:
"Marc Harris of the Harris Organization. Once respected as a prodigy
and the "boy wonder" of the offshore world, Marc's reputation faded
fast after it was learned that he was looting his clients' accounts to
fund his lavish lifestyle, and that several directors and investors in
the Harris Organization were known drug traffickers."
- http://www.quatloos.com/quatlosers/marc_harris.htm
From Offshore Business & Research Report, dated January 16, 2003:
Three UK-registered companies that investors/clients were led to
believe were going public have been dissolved, namely The Marc M.
Harris Group PLC ... "
- http://www.offshorebusiness.com/KYC/LIVE/kycalert_live.htm
From the Panama Business News:
""Offshore asset protection" specialist Marc Harris has abandoned his
Panama City offices and cut most of his phone lines. The one Panama
City line that we were able to to find still functioning responded
with a recorded message that "due to international events" and the
possibility of "identity theft," people should contact The Harris
Organisation and its network of companies only through a specified fax
number or by email. Meanwhile, The Panama News has received a number
of emails from investors who confided their savings with Harris and
his offshore finance network and now are unable to get their money or
answers about what happened to their money. Most of these emails asked
for information and some asked for this journalist's help."
- http://www.thepanamanews.com/pn/v_08/issue_13/business_02.html
From the Naples (Florida) Daily News:
"Marc Harris has been a target of U.S. investigators for years and has
had operations in Panama and Montserrat shuttered by government
action." (Note "shuttered" meaning closed down)
- http://www.naplesnews.com/03/06/florida/d944408a.htm
KYC News, Focus on Marc Harris Organization:
Includes "a number of documents, including internal management memos,
court rulings, depositions and financial documents, concerning Marc
Harris and The Harris Organization financial services group of Panama,
which defrauded its clients of tens of millions of dollars."
- http://www.kycnews.com/harris_organization.asp
From a report from the US Senate Minority Staff of the Permanent
Subcommittee on Investigations, dated February 5, 2001:
"The Harris Organization, which is the owner of a number of investment
and trust companies licensed in different offshore jurisdictions, is
owned by Marc M. Harris. Harris and the companies he controls have
been found to be behind a number of international bank and investment
frauds, including banks that have been shut down by the British
banking authorities for conducting illegal and fraudulent activities.
More recently, his organization is alleged to have co-mingled and
misapplied client funds and engaged in securities fraud."
- http://govt-aff.senate.gov/psi_finalreport.pdf
Other information sources:
* Tax News Online:
- http://www.tax-news.com/asp/story/story.asp?storyname=12233
* Bad Offshore Asset Protection - Marc Harris:
- http://www.falc.com/marc_harris.htm
Search terms:
"Marc Harris" + fraud
"Marc Harris"
"Marc Harris Organization (& Organisation)"
For all intents and purposes, Marc Harris Organization was/is Marc
Harris himself", and at the moment, Mr Harris is being held without
bond.
The "international financial services" that Marc Harris Organization
claimed to offer were, for the most part, an offshore haven for
investment purposes, and were from the start questionable, at best,
and fraudulent, at worst. Most "investors" who entrusted their money
to him cannot find any evidence of those funds having been invested in
anything at all. (The findings of fraud in the UK banking
investigation - see the US Senate notes above).
I am sure you will find this adequately addresses both your question
and your request for clarification.
Regards,
Serenata
Serenata
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Request for Answer Clarification by
shoaib-ga
on
02 Jul 2003 18:11 PDT
serenata-ga you told that 'investors' who had placed their
money in the Harris organization now cannot find any evidence
of their money, I want to mention here that why not those
investors contact 'local police or international police' so
as to solve the above mentioned problem and my second
question is that I need valid 'postal address, email address
and telephone number' of the Harris organization so that I
shall be able to contact the Harris organization and I shall
be able to receive first hand information about that Harris
organization? Thanks for your help from shoaib-ga.
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Clarification of Answer by
serenata-ga
on
02 Jul 2003 19:02 PDT
Shoaib ...
They have notified authorities, which is part of the reason Mr. Harris
is now locked up pending trial.
Serenata
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Clarification of Answer by
serenata-ga
on
02 Jul 2003 19:09 PDT
Shoaib ...
There is no longer any Harris Organization to contact.
It is really that simple. If they ever find any assets of the now
defunct Harris Organization, they will attempt to seize those assets
or at least freeze them until such time as everything is sorted out.
I am sorry, but there is nothing there for you to apply to.
Thank you for your inquiries.
Serenata
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Clarification of Answer by
serenata-ga
on
02 Jul 2003 20:03 PDT
Shoaib ~
For further informatin regarding Marc Harris Organization, you can contact:
United States Dept. of Justice
Marcos Daniel Jiménez,
United States Attorney
99 NE 4th Street
Miami, FL 33132
Telephone: (305) 961-9001
Fax: (305) 530-7679
Email contact: Reinaldo.Conejo@usdoj.gov
I am sure they will be able to tell you the status of Marc Harris Organization.
Yours,
Serenata
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Request for Answer Clarification by
shoaib-ga
on
02 Jul 2003 20:13 PDT
Serenata-ga please note that I have right now come to know at
the following website address in which it has been told that
Harris organization has shifted to Argentina country and its
website now bears Argentina flag:
http://www.thepanamanews.com/pn/v_07/issue_05/business_01.html
Please note that the new website address of Harris
organization which bears Argentina flag is given below:
www.marc-harris.com.ar
Please note that because Harris organization will now operate
from Argentina country so it means that the government of
Argentina country has allowed the Harris organization to
operate from Argentina country and it also means that Harris
organization is doing "legal business" so this information
provides 'confirmation' to my above mentioned statement that
Harris organization has not gone out of its business because
of those mentioned some minor fraud cases. Please provide
"clarification" to my statement and thanks for your help
from shoaib-ga.
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Clarification of Answer by
serenata-ga
on
02 Jul 2003 21:10 PDT
Dear Shoaib:
Please note the date on those sites and releases ... those are two years old.
Those pages are not recent and much has happened since then.
Good luck, Shoaib, but to repeat, there is no longer any Marc Harris Organization.
So sorry,
Serenata
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Request for Answer Clarification by
shoaib-ga
on
03 Jul 2003 20:29 PDT
Serenata-ga please note that as the business grows 'large or very
large in size' some problems do arise because of the
organization's large structure but that does not mean that the
business should be blacklisted from the government or the
organization has gone out of business for example giant
Microsoft Corporation had recently faced some minor fraud cases
of several millions of US Dollars but that does not mean
that the giant organization of Microsoft Corporation should be
blacklisted from the government of U.S.A. or the Microsoft
Corporation has gone out of its business.
Finally, I want to say that I shall now contact here the
embassy of Argentina and I shall inquire from the embassy that
whether I should conduct the business with the Harris
organization or not and whatever answer I shall receive I
shall then inform to you about its result. I hope this would
clarify this situation. Regards, Shoaib.
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Clarification of Answer by
serenata-ga
on
05 Jul 2003 13:52 PDT
I look forward to it.
Serenata
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Request for Answer Clarification by
shoaib-ga
on
19 Jul 2003 07:33 PDT
Hello Serenata researcher and please note that I have studied
in detail the information about Marc Harris organization
at the below mentioned website and I have now come to know
that there is now no Marc Harris organization and this
organization was an offshore scam and please note that the
information you had provided to me was correct.
http://www.quatloos.com/groups/m-harris.htm
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Clarification of Answer by
serenata-ga
on
19 Jul 2003 12:35 PDT
Thank you for confirming.
Regards,
Serenata
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Request for Answer Clarification by
shoaib-ga
on
24 Dec 2003 14:07 PST
Hello serenata researcher I hope you would be fine. Serenata
researcher I have now contacted you to inquire a little
answer from you. I want to mention that Mr. Marc Harris was
in jail waiting for his 'trial' few months before when I
had posted that question. So therefore if possible for
you then please provide to me the information about the
"decision" the court has given for him? I have a
curiousity to seek that information and many thanks for that
help from Shoaib.
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Clarification of Answer by
serenata-ga
on
24 Dec 2003 15:14 PST
Hello Shoaib ~
Thank you for asking, but I haven't been following the legal problems
of Marc Harris.
The question you have asked is beyond the scope of your original
question and you might want to post a new question for a researcher to
find the answer.
Happy New Year to you.
Serenata
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