Beginning December 2015 our company was induced to begin “leasing†and “purchasing†financial instruments through a Riga, Latvian Group named London City Group represented by a Janis Petrovs. The request for the first payment of approximately $90,000 USD to Nordea Bank came from our consultant, Mr John Diak. Mr Diak claimed to have a very good working relationship and encouraged us to wire the funds for the “lease†of $92mm USD of US Treasury Strips to which a Line of Credit would be issued by another bank. After several weeks of being patient with London City Group SIA, we were induced to pay more money to cover the cost of “Swifting†the instruments. Still nothing was sent to our bank for monetization.
Mr Diak then brought in another gentlemen by the name of Midrog “Mike†Babich to assist. Over a 9 month period, Mr Diak had us wire an additional $340,000 to both Nordea Bank and Swedbank to groups - London City Group SIA, AVUS Inves SIA and First Cable SIA for additional instruments. None of the Bank Guarantees, Standby Letters of Credit or other Financial Instruments were ever delivered to our monetizing banks as promised.
It has become increasingly obvious to our company that none of these individuals or their affiliated companies ever even possessed the financial instruments that were presented to us in writing. Further, a Mr Arturs Atkis of Latvia was most recently involved in the fraud scheme and accepted funds in the name of AVUS Invest SIA.
We’ve asked repeatedly for a refund of the $430,000 that was sent to Latvian Banks - Nordea and Swedbank. All of our requests were left unanswered and the Latvian nationals continued to request more money. Finally, Mr John Diak confided that these were “bad people†and we were told not to send any additional funds to them by Diak.
We have made formal complaints to Nordea Bank and to Swedbank to investigate the fraud that took place at their banks. Further, we have made complaints with the KNAB and will also make complaints with Interpol and the FBI for these crimes.
This entire 9 month ordeal was plagued with nothing but promises, lies and sob stories – especially from Mr Mesicha “Mike†Babich. At times, I felt quite sorry for him, but I soon realized that my company was just getting taken advantage of. Each time that we thought we had a financial instrument arranged, Mr Janis Petrovs, Mr Mike Babich and Mr Arturs Akis would ask for more money and not deliver ANYTHING.
Very sad commentary placed on the value of humanity and good faith.Many times we reached out to these individuals to do the right and appropriate thing and honor the commitments they made for taking our funds. To that end none of the three nor their affiliate companies did absolutely anything.
There’s a common saying translated around the world that good people treat other good people with dignity and respect. We only wished that these “gentleman†had honored their commitments and not basically stolen our funds.
There’s always a chance and a time to do the “right†thing and these three men have been afforded this opportunity now on at least 30-40 occasions.
Most Latvian citizens are very fine people. We just wish that these three “gentlemen†fit into this category.
Visu Å¡o 9 mÄ“neÅ¡u smags pÄrbaudÄ«jums bija plagued ar nekas, bet solÄ«jumus, meliem un šņukstÄ“t stÄstus - it seviÅ¡Ä·i no Mesicha kunga “Mike†Babich. Pie reizes, es jutos diezgan žēl, bet es drÄ«z sapratu, ka mans uzņēmums bija tikai kļūst izmantojuÅ¡i.
Katru reizi, kad mÄ“s domÄjam, mums bija finanÅ¡u instruments sakÄrtots, JÄnis Petrovs kungs, Mike Babich kungs un Arturs Atkis kungs varÄ“tu prasÄ«t vairÄk naudas, un nav sniegusi neko.
Ä»oti bÄ“dÄ«gs komentÄrs likts uz vÄ“rtÄ«bu cilvÄ“ces un godprÄtÄ«gi.
Var reizes mÄ“s sasniedzÄm, lai Å¡Ä«m personÄm darÄ«t tiesÄ«bas un atbilstoÅ¡u lieta, un pildÄ«t saistÄ«bas, ko tÄs uzņēmÄs, lai veiktu mÅ«su lÄ«dzekļus. TÄlab neviens no trim, ne to meitas uzņēmumi bija pilnÄ«gi neko.
Tur ir kopÄ«gs sakot tulkots visÄ pasaulÄ“, ka labi cilvÄ“ki pret citiem labiem cilvÄ“kiem ar cieņu un respektu.
MÄ“s tikai vÄ“lÄ“jÄs, ka Å¡ie “kungs†bija cienÄ«jams savas saistÄ«bas un nav bÅ«tÄ«bÄ nozagts mÅ«su lÄ«dzekļus.
Tur vienmēr ir iespēja un laiks to darīt “pareizi†lieta, un šie trīs vīri tika dota šī iespēja tagad vismaz 30-40 reizes.
LielÄkÄ daļa Latvijas iedzÄ«votÄji ir ļoti smalkas cilvÄ“ki. MÄ“s vienkÄrÅ¡i vÄ“lamies, lai Å¡ie trÄ«s “kungi†iederas Å¡ajÄ kategorijÄ.
