{"id":14778,"date":"2011-11-08T08:48:21","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T13:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=14778"},"modified":"2011-11-08T09:30:05","modified_gmt":"2011-11-08T14:30:05","slug":"owen-bethel-plagued-by-money-laundering-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/11\/owen-bethel-plagued-by-money-laundering-scandal","title":{"rendered":"Owen Bethel Plagued By Money Laundering Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_14806\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14806\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14806\" title=\"owen-bethel\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/owen-bethel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/owen-bethel.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/owen-bethel-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14806\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Owen Bethel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>BAHAMIAN broker\/dealer yesterday told Tribune Business it had &#8220;fully cooperated&#8221; with investigations into a securities fraud that saw $25 million flow through its bank accounts, rejecting accusations it had &#8216;misled&#8217; its correspondent Canadian broker over the beneficial ownership of several accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Owen Bethel, head of the Montaque Group, whose Montaque Capital Partners arm is in the process of being placed into Bahamian Supreme Court-supervised liquidation over unrelated matters, told Tribune Business that Global Securities Corporation had always known that he and Edison Sumner were the beneficial\/registered owners of nominee companies used as the &#8216;beneficial owners&#8217; of brokerage accounts his firm established with the Canadian company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Owen Bethel, head of the Montaque Group, rejected accusations of having misled its Canadian broker over several bank accounts, through which $25 million passed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[93,257],"class_list":["post-14778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-corruption","tag-money-laundering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}