The summary below was also removed by Google a few weeks ago, and is now re-posted below in a censored form.
This summary was written 12 months ago, and in that time a huge mass of further evidence has been exposed...a horrific example of which will be the subject of my next post.
Chris Coomber
This detailed summary describes the Fraudulent Scheme which Alan Bloom (E&Y’s Global Head of Business Restructuring & Administrator to the Icelandic Bank Kaupthing Singer & Friedlander, or KSF), two of his family members, his Business Partners & several of their associates, executed against the business interests of Property Developers Chris Coomber & Dawn Burrus; directly causing the ruination of their business interests, health and reputations, the loss of their new family home, and most recently, their Personal Bankruptcies.
This summary was written 12 months ago, and in that time a huge mass of further evidence has been exposed...a horrific example of which will be the subject of my next post.
Chris Coomber
DETAILED SUMMARY - THE GREYSTONES FRAUD
This detailed summary describes the Fraudulent Scheme which Alan Bloom (E&Y’s Global Head of Business Restructuring & Administrator to the Icelandic Bank Kaupthing Singer & Friedlander, or KSF), two of his family members, his Business Partners & several of their associates, executed against the business interests of Property Developers Chris Coomber & Dawn Burrus; directly causing the ruination of their business interests, health and reputations, the loss of their new family home, and most recently, their Personal Bankruptcies.
Alan Bloom abused his powers as the Administrator of the collapsed Icelandic Bank Kaupthing Singer & Friedlander, and acted in bad-faith, to unlawfully seize and sell, at a manipulated and artificially low price (i.e. known as an“Undervalue”) and to an inside-party (i.e. known as a “Connected Party”), a near complete development site owned by Chris Coomber & Dawn Burrus, and funded by a loan from KSF.
The objective of the Scheme was to divert a target £3.0mn+ of unlawful profits, broadly equal to the lost investments of Chris Coomber, Dawn Burrus & their friends & family, plus the directly caused and maximised loses of the Bank itself, to Alan Bloom’s family members and associates, and it is reasonably assumed to Alan Bloom himself.
Regardless of whether Alan Bloom abused his powers as Administrator to create a benefit, financial or otherwise, for himself, and regardless of the profits actually secured by the Co-Conspirators, Alan Bloom’s acts & omissions, and those of his Co-Conspirators (named below) represent serious crimes (i.e. Criminal Fraud, Conspiracy to Defraud & Money Laundering) involving long custodial sentences upon conviction.
These allegations are based, after 30+ months of full-time investigations by the Victims Chris Coomber & Dawn Burrus, on 70+ main items of fact(s):
1.Chris Coomber & Dawn Burrus, parents of 3 children, set-up a family owned and run Property Development business in 2006, trading under the name “Coomber Contemporary Homes Ltd”, or C2H.
2.Their second large project was to complete a development site, known as “Greystones”,to create two large luxury contemporary houses in what is a highly desirable private road in the exclusive village of Radlett, Hertfordshire.
3.Greystone Houses Ltd, was set-up in early ’07, as a subsidiary of C2H, to purchase the site and to build and sell these homes, with a loan from Kaupthing Singer & Friedlander, & with approximately £1mn of monies from Chris Coomber & Dawn Burrus, their family members and friends, and a Third Party investment company known as “PSPF LLP”, or “Public Sector Property Finance LLP”.
4.In October ’08 Kaupthing Singer & Friedlander, or KSF, was placed into Administration and 4 Partners of the Accounting Firm E&Y were appointed by the High Court as Administrators, inc. Alan Bloom & Thomas Burton.
5.Administration is a legal & regulatory framework through which failing companies who cannot repay their debts are taken over, by Insolvency Practioners / Administrators, with a view to saving them as going concerns through debt restructuring, or in the event that they cannot be saved, by maximising the recovery for the Business’s creditors.
6.At the time KSF entered Administration, “Greystone Houses Ltd” (GSH) had expended a full 80% of the (c£6mn) budget for the project; a project which was only 4 months away from completion & ongoing sale; at a price of £3.5mn for each house.
7.Upon entering Administration Chris Coomber was advised by KSF that it was unable to pay the £100K that it had just agreed to pay to GSH, under the terms of the Loan Agreement; monies which GSH had spent in the previous month of September ’08; and monies which represented the entire working capital of the business.
8.With KSF unable to say if, or even when, these monies would ever be paid, Chris Coomber was forced to immediately mothball the site, and to temporarily lay off / stand-down the 30+ Staff / Contractors / Advisors working upon the project, pending the confirmation that KSF would continue to support the project as per the terms of the Loan Agreement.
9.This confirmation was fully anticipated, given that it made no commercial sense whatsoever to stop funding the project, and a failure to lend the remaining£1mn of the loan would inevitably result in the unnecessary collapse of all of Chris Coomber & Dawn Burrus’ business interests (and lives), not to mention a £multi-mn loss for the Bank’s Creditors, to whom the Administrators owe their duties.
10.The fact that the E&Y Administrators treated the Greystones loan facility in a different way to the other 200+ facilities is greatly fortified by the Administrators’ own statements in the 6 monthly Administrators’ Progress Reports provided to Creditors:
“During the initial stage of the Administration, the primary objective was to stabilise lending operations as quickly as possible, to protect the value of the loan security…In certain cases it has been necessary to make further advances to customers to preserve value in KSF’s security or to avoid potential claims for damages.” (April ’09, Page 8)
“A detailed facility by facility review has been undertaken and strategies for all exposures and their recovery have been formulated whether that be re-financing, letting the loan run-off, or repayment at par or at an acceptable price if repayment is not possible.” (April ’09, Page 8)
“To date all recoveries have been at or around par…During this period [i.e. Oct ’08 – March ’09] 38 facilities have been repaid”. (April’09, Page 5)
“To date the majority of recoveries have been at or around par.” (October ’09, Page 7)
“We are continuing to meet requests for committed funds where expenditure helps to preserve / enhance the value of the security.” (April ’11, Page 7)
“The focus continues to be to work with borrowers and encourage them to refinance and/or sell completed developments. However, where borrowers are uncooperative and/or are in breach of their loan facilities, steps are taken to realise the value of our security by the appointment of LPA/Fixed Charge receivers or administrators, and to pursue borrowers and guarantors under personal guarantees in order to recover shortfalls.” (October ’11, Page 7)
“It should be noted that access to development finance remains challenging and continues to stifle transactions.”(October ’11, Page 8)
The above statements, with Chris Coomber being anything but “uncooperative” and with no contract breaches being caused by the Borrower, demonstrate that the Greystones loan facility could not have been treated more differently than the other 200+ loans in the Property Loan Book.
The reason being that the Greystones site was the target of a sophisticated Insolvency Fraud, executed “under the cover”of the KSF Administration & intended to financially benefit a number of members of Alan Bloom’s own family, inc. himself.
11.Indeed, at the outset of the Administration, and before the Co-Conspirators began to collude, Chris Coomber received verbal assurances, from KSF staff, that the Bank would continue to provide the Loan Facility for which “Greystone Houses Ltd” had already paid £100K+ in Arrangement Fees and several £100K in Interest; it would just take some time for the Administrators to “settle in” as the new Office Holders of the Bank before the cash position of the Bank to be ascertained, before the payments were resumed, inc. the payment of money already signed-off by KSF to be paid to the Borrower.
12.Specifically, Andrew Samarasinghe, an ex-KSF staff member & the Borrowers main KSF contact since ‘07, has confirmed to Chris Coomber that E&Y staff “told-him”to make what were false representations to Chris Coomber, i) that KSF would support the loan through to completion, and & ii) the Administrators would consider damages. It is these false representations, and E&Y’s subsequent conduct & omissions, which led to (as was the intent) the circumstances under which E&Y called in the loan facility and appointed Receivers, i.e. to “tee-up” the Fraud Scheme.
13.Stated another way, but for the existence of Fraudulent Intent the E&Y Administrators would have supported the loan through to completion, rather than calling the loan in & orchestrating a sale at an artificially low price, to a “Connected Party”.
14.Having been made redundant by the E&Y Administrators, without notice, just days before the Conspirators abused their powers to make the formal decision to sell the site in April ‘09, and knowing what the Victims have experienced over the last 3 years & hence he fearing some kind of retribution by E&Y, Andrew Samarasinghe is currently reluctant to provide a formal Witness Statement.
15.Evidence also demonstrates that KSF’s Banking Director Phillip Ashton also played a role, either knowingly or unknowingly, & in any event recklessly, in the acts & omissions executed in furtherance of this Fraud Scheme.
16.It was during the short “settling in” period at the start of the Administration that the Co-Conspirators identified their opportunity to make a massive albeit illegal profit, within a short space of time, with little project risk, and with even less risk of being caught, let alone being held accountable once caught; given that the Administration is a very opaque process, and their Victim was vulnerable and relatively new to this complex industry.
Figure 1 – The Genesis of the Fraud Scheme
17.Instead of protecting the interests of KSF’s Creditors (which were completely co-incident with those of “C2H Ltd” / “Greystone Houses Ltd”), Alan Bloom, his Cousin and a number of their associates connived to exploit their knowledge of, & coincidental connections with, the prize Greystones site, to exploit KSF’s Administration in order to provide the “cover” under which they would attempt to defraud both the Borrower (“Greystone Houses Ltd”) & the Lender (KSF), to the tune of c£3.0mn.
18.One of the Advisors stood down by Chris Coomber upon KSF entering Administration was“Barry Allsuch & Co” Estate Agents of Radlett, who had been appointed just a few weeks earlier as Sales Agents for the 2 houses. Barry Allsuch and his“right hand man” Paul Bloom were the individual Estate Agents in question.
19.Although this was not exposed until a full 9 months later, Paul Bloom is the sole First Cousin of Alan Bloom the Administrator, with Paul Bloom living in Radlett itself, and with Alan Bloom living just a few minutes’ drive away in Bushey Heath.
20.Evidence now shows that Paul Bloom & Barry Allsuch, acting as “Agent Provocateurs” (having been made aware that Chris Coomber was actively considering appointing a rival Estate Agency because of the emerging reputation of “Barry Allsuch & Co”for “sharp practices”) incited, counselled or otherwise procured Alan Bloom to abuse his Administrators’ powers, & his influence over his more junior E&Y colleagues, to orchestrate the calling in the Greystones loan facility (contrary to the Administrators’ formal strategy agreed with KSFs Creditors, not to mention also being contrary to any sense of moral & commercial probity), appoint LPA Receivers and to sell the site to a “Connected Party” at a large “Undervalue”; to create an illegal £2.5mn+ of target financial gain.
21.Evidence also demonstrates that Chris Coomber’s & Dawn Burrus’ Professional Advisors are all associated with Alan Bloom & his family in different ways, including their Accountant Keith Graham (Westbury Accountants), Nick Pelmont / Paul Cramer (Cramer Pelmont Solicitors…investors in the project), Melvyn Carter& John Alexander (Insolvency Practioners at Carter Backer Winter) and Steven Hunt / Kevin Goldfarb (Insolvency Practioners at Griffins) all have professional and personal links with Alan Bloom, his family and their associates.
22.One such Advisor, Melvyn Carter of Carter Backer Winter, a person later exposed as working upon an Administration (of Dunedin) with Alan Bloom at that very time, specifically telephoned Chris Coomber in November ’08 to inform him that he had met with a representative of KSF (now believed to be Alan Bloom himself…supposedly to discuss another Loan Facility he / his form were involved with), and had been informed that the Administrators had no intention of supporting the Greystone Houses Ltd Loan through to completion, and that Chris Coomber was right not to accept the drawdown as this would prejudice any future Damages Claim.
23.Further, as part of Melvyn Carters’ ongoing attempts to place “Greystone Houses Ltd”into “Protective” Administration (a step which would inevitably trigger the seizure of the site by the Administrators…although that was not mentioned by Mr Carter!) Melvyn Carter falsely advised Chris Coomber that he was trading“trading whilst insolvent” (which he was not) and would face being disqualified as a Director…i.e. unless he agree to place “Greystone Houses Ltd” into Administration.
24.Furthermore, as part of a last ditch attempt to pursued Chris Coomber to place “Greystone Houses Ltd” into Administration, John Alexander (i.e. Melvyn Carter’s colleague and Alan Bloom’s close associate) telephoned Chris Coomber, again making the same false representation (in & of itself a Criminal Act) that Chris Coomber’s interests would be best served by allowing himself, and Melvyn Carter, to be appointed as Administrators of Greystone Houses Ltd.
25.Investigations have demonstrated that Alan Bloom was also incited, counselled or otherwise procured, to abuse his powers as Administrators, by these Advisors, in order attempt to create unauthorised financial gains for themselves, at the expense of the ruination of their own clients, i.e. C2H Ltd & GSH, and Chris Coomber & Dawn Burrus.
26.Evidence further demonstrates that at least 5 of the investors in the Greystones Project, specifically individuals having invested money in this specific site / project through the investment firm “PSPF”, have a relationship / association with Alan Bloom himself.
27.On this basis alone it is reasonable to assume that Alan Bloom also acted (in abuse of his powers) to protect and further the interests of these associates in proceeding as he, & his E&Y staff, did.
28.The target £2.5mn financial gain, pursued through the numerous acts & omissions of Alan Bloom, his fellow Administrators and other E&Y Staff (inc. Fraser Greenshields, Fergal O’Reilly, Christian Judd & Richard Barker) at Alan Bloom’s behest, was to be distributed to a number of parties connected to Alan Bloom, who had colluded as Co-Conspirators in this Joint Enterprise.
29.Unfortunately for the Co-Conspirators they had picked on the wrong Borrower to defraud. Whilst the Co-Conspirators knew that “C2H” / “Greystone Houses Ltd” was financially vulnerable, they did not know that Chris Coomber was an experienced, stubborn and tenacious Business Consultant / Executive with 20+ years of investigative & analysis experience across numerous industries.
30.During 2.5 years of full-time investigations by Chris Coomber, it is now known that Alan Bloom’s family, along with the father & son team Bernard & Andrew Samuels, own a Secured Lending company known as “Alandale Securities”.
31.It is also now known that within literally a few hours of Alan Bloom ordering (through E&Y’s Fergal O’Reilly under delegated powers of Maggie Mills) the calling in of the GSH loan (and demanding immediate repayment of the £3.5mn loan monies in the worst borrowing conditions since WWII) and appointing Receivers, Andrew Samuels, colluding with Alan Bloom & his brother Peter Bloom, set-up the company “Everychance Ltd” in order to purchase, &/or otherwise “deal in”, the Greystones site; at a price which represented less than 40% of the monies invested to date (i.e. at a large “Undervalue”),allowing their illegal gains to be maximised before being shared amongst the Co-Conspirators through the mechanisms depicted & described below.
Figure 2 – The Initial Plan
32.At the behest of Alan Bloom, a number of E&Y Consultants to the Administrators, i.e. Fraser Greenshields, Fergal O’Reilly & Christian Judd, counselled, incited, induced / influenced &/or otherwise procured the Receivers, i.e. Stephen Skinner & Richard Haines, to support the Fraud Scheme.
Figure 3 – Setting the Fraud in Motion
33.The Receivers, with E&Y as one of their largest customers, then aided and abetted their Co-Conspirators to put in place a “sham” of an Evaluation & Sale Process which, via a bogus analysis & decision-making exercise, led to the recommendation (orchestrated & then eagerly accepted by the E&Y Co-Conspirators) to sell the site incomplete / “as was”.
34.In an attempt to further distance themselves from this Fraudulent Transaction, i.e. over and above ensuring that the Receivers supported the Fraud Scheme, Alan Bloom & Fraser Greenshields installed the “one-man-band” Consultant Martin Orrell into the large E&Y Team supporting the Administrators & their E&Y colleagues, ensuring that Mr Orrell was hired by (or “on the books of”) KSF, rather than by E&Y.
35.Evidence demonstrates that Mr Orrell played a central role in ensuring the Greystones site was “sold” (rather than “built-out” by the Bank, as is the norm in such circumstances) to an “inside party”, where the Civil and Criminal Law prevents such “insider-trading”.
36.Even before Chris Coomber had exposed the involvement of the Goodkind family, i.e. including the commercial links between Peter Goodkind & Martin Orrell, Martin Orrell resigned his contract at KSF, at short notice, upon Chris Coomber first disclosing his suspicions as to the role and conduct of Mr Orrell, i.e. in relation to the Greystones site & loan facility.
37.Paul Bloom & Barry Allsuch, to ensure that Chris Coomber was not able to salvage the situation (i.e. recover a proportion of GSH’s massive losses) by partnering with an investor to purchase and then complete the site (remunerated with a proportion of the profits to offset the losses & liabilities caused by Alan Bloom), evolved the Fraudulent Scheme to include, as co-Conspirator, the direct neighbour of the site, Mr Michael Harris.
38.Over the course of several months, Michael Harris cynically posed as a party supposedly motivated by: a) wishing to complete the development as soon as possible to allow his own house to be sold at the maximum price, b) by being a“Good Samaritan” to Chris Coomber & Dawn Burrus & c) making a large& quick profit.
39.Specifically, Michael Harris posed as a highly motivated buyer for the site, and even went so far, in the furtherance of what is now exposed as his own supplementary Fraudulent Scheme, as to launch a Legal Claim at the High Court alleging damages to, and infringement upon, his boundary, by Greystone Houses Ltd.
40.Given the appalling state of the borrowing market at this time (i.e. the ’08 Global Banking Collapse) it was simply impossible for Chris Coomber & Dawn Burrus to raise ANY money in order to allow them to work around their reliance on KSF, i.e. to:
a.Replace the KSF borrowing with new Third Party funding & fund the remaining construction works, either before or after the loan was called in.
OR
b.Complete the project using new Third Party funding, leaving the existing KSF loan balance to be settled upon completion & sale of the 2 houses.
OR EVEN
c.Make a bid for the site themselves, in what is supposed to be a fair and transparent bid process.
41.The Victims were therefore forced to rely upon Michael Harris, a carefully cultivated reliance through which Mr Harris (now known to be a convicted Embezzler) furthered his own supplementary Fraudulent Scheme, whilst “duping”the Victims into believing their business interests could be saved, and their Personal& Commercial insolvencies avoided.
42.Evidence now demonstrates that Michael Harris’s purchase interest was bogus and he had no intention of actually purchasing the site; i.e. he created & exploited Chris Coomber’s & Dawn Burrus’ necessary reliance upon him in order to“skim-off” monies from the sale of the site by various illegal means.
43.Representing just one of those illegal means was a bogus final Bid Process, crafted, upon Chris Coomber raising suspicions of Fraud, upon the conclusion of the initial Sale Process (and with the target £2.5mn financial gain now at risk) by Michael Harris, Paul Bloom, Barry Allsuch & Fraser Greenshields, and executed knowingly through the Receivers by the law firm Freshfields LLP.
44.Whilst it is beyond the scope of this summary, evidence is also available which points to a number of the parties cited within, and their respective associates, also exploiting their relationships with Alan Bloom, to unlawfully extract monies from KSF & other Administrations (inc. Wind Hellas & Bridisco), through various Joint Enterprises involving Alan Bloom, his E&Y colleagues, and various senior members of the Legal Profession.
45.In response to the suspicions of Chris Coomber, the Accused evolved, in “real-time”,the Fraud Scheme to involve Andrew Bloch, supported by his father Robert Bloch, who approached Chris Coomber representing themselves as parties who wished to purchase& complete the site, for Andrew Bloch to then live in one of the houses.
46.Robert& Andrew Bloch made a proposal, similar to that made by Michael Harris, to commission Chris Coomber’s construction company Co-Existence Homes Ltd to complete the site; to allow Chris Coomber, Dawn Burrus & C2H & GSH to recover a proportion of their lost monies, and to avoid Commercial and Personal Bankruptcy.
47.Making a number of appalling false representations; and working “hand-in-hand” with Michael Harris, Barry Allsuch, Paul Bloom, Graham Goodkind; Andrew Bloch & his father Robert Bloch offered to provide the funds for a purchase through Michael Harris’s registered & long term interest (purportedly doing so as Michael Harris allegedly had developed a serious illness in the weeks before the sale), but then withdrew this funding, without notice and at the very last moment, causing the collapse of the two bids through which Chris Coomber & Dawn Burrus mistakenly believed (through deceit) they had an interest in the site.
48.This collapse allowed the sale of the Greystones site to proceed to the lowest bidder, i.e. the lined-up “inside party”, “McGrath Homes Ltd / Vision Contemporary Homes Ltd”. This sale directly caused the collapse of all of the Victim’s business interests, saddling Chris Coomber & Dawn Burrus with massive business& personal debts, including supposedly to KSF via Personal Guarantees, with no means to repay these.
49.Having subsequently discovered that all of Chris Coomber’s & Dawn Burrus’ Advisors (who had informed them that KSF would be legally obliged to pay substantial damages for breaching the Loan Agreement upon entering Administration) had made false representations (no such damages are apparently due for such “On-Demand”Loan Agreements) designed to create financial gains for themselves through the exploitation of their own relationships with Alan Bloom, Chris Coomber’s & Dawn Burrus’ worst fears were confirmed, i.e. they had been “duped”, and were victims of a complex Fraud Scheme.
50.Michael Harris, with his associate Harold Levenson, subsequently evolved their supplementary Fraud Scheme to place undue-influence upon Chris Coomber to“hand-over” 2/3rds of the proceeds of a Damages Claim they proposed to make against KSF, funded by themselves, on behalf of GSH; and to be determined by none other than Alan Bloom & Thomas Burton.
51.Evidence is now available which demonstrates that Michael Harris, in possession of evidence of Fraud in relation to the Administration of KSF (involving Alan Bloom & his Business Partner Andrew Samuels), through Harold Levenson (exposed as an associate of the Samuels family), placed undue-influence upon Alan Bloom in order: a) allow Michael Harris & Harold Levenson to somehow benefit from the Administration of KSF (& it is suspected other Administrations) & b) to support these Fraudsters’ supplementary Fraud Scheme relating to the Greystones site.
52.Having discovered that their site was then sold to a party known as “McGrath Homes”,via a subsidiary named “Vision Contemporary Homes Ltd” (and with the Victim’s main trading name being “Coomber Contemporary Homes Ltd”, and with “Vision”being the favoured name for the site by the Estate Agents Barry Allsuch & Paul Bloom), the Victims’ investigations (comprising many 1000’s of hours of work, an investigation which the Co-Conspirators could never conceive that the Victims would or could undertake) then exposed a number of damning facts:
a.Vision “Contemporary Homes Ltd” (VCHL) was set-up the very day after Alan & Paul Bloom are exposed as having had a phone conversation regarding the Greystones site, which in turn was a day after Chris Coomber had expressed concerns, to Michael Harris, regarding the legitimacy of the Sale Process.
b.VCHL was set-up by an Accountant located within “spitting distance” of the home office of a Paul Grabiner in the village of Brookmans Park in Hertfordshire.
c.With VCHL, according to its first Accounts (to end June ’10), having net current assets of only £2, the allegation that this company is a “Front” (i.e. representing the interests of parties other than its Directors / Shareholders) is greatly fortified; as is the belief that the Accounts of this company have been deliberately drawn-up to show near zero retained profits (these profits, at c£1mn, have been moved into the associated construction company “McGrath Development & Construction Ltd”) as it is these profits of VCHL which represent a portion of the unlawful & hence recoverable gains of the Fraudulent Scheme.
d.The Estate Agent ultimately appointed by “McGrath Homes” to sell the completed Homes, i.e. Statons, has its head office based in Brookmans Park, again within “spitting distance” of those 2 same Accountants.
e.The very junior Statons’ Estate Agent who “just happened” to be seemingly responsible for the sale of these 2 luxury houses in ‘10, is the son of an Accountant who is, in turn, a Business Partner & colleague of Chris Coomber’s & Dawn Burrus’Insolvency Advisors, i.e. Melvyn Carter & John Alexander at the small Accounting firm “Carter Backer Winter”.
f.These parties are also accused of Conspiracy to Defraud, i.e. through participating in the evolving Fraud Scheme, at the heart of which was Alan Bloom, their close associate & friend.
g.Paul Grabiner is now known to be the brother of Ian Grabiner, the CEO of Sir Phillip Green’s Arcadia Group, a party reported in the media to have been permanently relocating his family to the South (from Glasgow) within days of the first house being completed by “Vision Contemporary Homes Ltd”.
h.Ian Grabiner was then exposed as being an associate of:
i.Michael Harris, via their mutual associate Sir Philip Green.
ii.Three investors in the site, through “PSPF”.
iii.Andrew Bloch, via Graham Goodkind…Andrew Bloch’s Business Partner… and the wider Goodkind family.
iv.Martin Orrell, again through the Goodkind family, with Peter Goodkind, Graham Goodkind’s Cousin being a Shareholder in Martin Orrell’s “one-man-band” consultancy company hired into KSF by Alan Bloom.
v.Alan Bloom’s close & long-term colleague / friend, Maurice Moses, an Insolvency Practitioner who“just happens” to have been hired by Alan Bloom, into E&Y’s burgeoning UK Insolvency Practice in February ’09, and within days of the hiring of Martin Orrell.
i.It is on the basis of the facts above that Ian Grabiner is believed to have been a party “lined up” as a purchaser of a completed house from the outset (i.e. before the calling in of the loan in January ’09), with this belief fortified by Ian Grabiner’s ongoing refusal to correspond with Chris Coomber in relation to these matters. I.e. Ian Grabiner has not denied that he had a past purchase interest in one of the houses on the Greystones site, despite being provided a number of opportunities to do so. It is suspected that Ian Grabiner gave up his purchase interest when elements of the Fraud Scheme began to be exposed in June / July ’10.
j.Much evidence also points to the involvement of Daniel Levy, i.e. the Chairman of Tottenham Hotspur FC, as also having a purchase interest in a completed house (suspected as being for a THFC Player), at the same time that Ian Grabiner is believed to have given up his interest, with this evidence including:
i.A report in the Evening Standard in July ’09 that Mr Levy was purchasing a house on the Warren (based upon a sighting of him at the site), with the houses on the Greystones site believed to be the only properties for sale, on The Warren, at that time.
ii.The fact that Mr Levy & his business interests relating to KSF were treated exceptionally favourably by the Administrators of KSF (in a “settlement” signed off by Thomas Burton), inc. being allowed to extract deposits from KSF & convert a loan for a Personal Jet to both interim payment fee AND interest free.
iii.The fact that Mr Levy, through his company ENIC, purchased a highly strategic piece of land, from the E&Y Administrators / Liquidators of “Bridisco Ltd”, a company exposed as being partly owned by the family of E&Y’s Maurice Moses, with Michael Moses (Maurice’s younger brother) having been Business Development Director.
Evidence demonstrates that Alan Bloom’s Business Partners, i.e. The Samuels, also had some kind of “behind the scenes” commercial interest in this key piece of land, in the same way as they did with the Greystones site; indeed the evidence demonstrates that these two “schemes” were initially “hatched” at the same time, in November ’08.
iv.Mr Levy’s parents were exposed as living in an apartment directly next door to Robert Bloch & his wife, with Mr Levy Senior also being exposed as a co-Director of a company with Robert Bloch.
v.Mr Levy is known to be the close friend and business associate of *******, a party known to: 1) be hostile to Chris Coomber (due to an incident near the Greystone site), 2) have lived directly opposite the Greystones site during these events, & 3) to be a business associate of Michael Harris.
vi.Mr Levy’s parents, and other of his family members, have been exposed as members of the small and exclusive Hertsbourne Golf & Country Club, a club located very close to Alan Bloom’s home, and a club at which both Graham & his wife Lisa Goodkind are members, as is Richard Sacker, one of the “PSPF” Partners, who is actually a director of this small & exclusive Club. Evidence has also been exposed which demonstrates that a Membership of this club is held by a party residing at Alan Bloom’s home address.
vii.For the avoidance of doubt, there exists much more evidence which links Daniel Levy and his family to the Co-Conspirators, and to the Greystones site.
k.Whilst Mr Levy denies having had any purchase interest in the Greystones site; he also has refused to disclose why he was present at the site literally a few days before Contract Exchange with “McGrath Homes Ltd”.
l.Not to put too fine a point on it, Chris Coomber & Dawn Burrus do not accept that Daniel Levy had no knowledge of the circumstances of the seizure and sale of the Greystones site in ’09 & believe that Mr Levy has lied in his Affidavit to the Court,& has therefore committed perjury.
Figure 5 – The Allegations & Their Aftermath
m.Evidence exposed most recently demonstrates that during the third week of September ’09, after Sale Contracts were allegedly exchanged upon the site in mid-July ’09, but before Completion of those Contracts, a number of steps were executed by the Accused in furtherance of the objectives of the Fraud Scheme:
i.On or around the 14thSeptember ’09 Chris Coomber provided Jonathan Crystal, a barrister who had enthusiastically offered to act for Chris Coomber & Dawn Burrus on a full Contingency Fee basis (with all other of the 130+ parties not wishing to “go up against” E&Y), with a document summarising the evidence (as it then stood) against Alan Bloom & his Co-Conspirators.
ii.Jonathan Crystal was subsequently exposed as acting in breach of his duties to Chris Coomber to represent the interests of the Accused, rather than those of his Clients. Specifically Jonathan Crystal was exposed as: 1) the brother of Michael Crystal QC, a close associate of Alan Bloom, and a person even working with Alan Bloom at that very moment in time, and 2) having simply handed this evidence over to the Accused, in mid-September, presumably in return for a financial payment.
iii.Upon seeing that, at that time, Chris Coomber had not exposed the involvement of the Samuels’,the Goodkinds, the Grabiners & Daniel Levy, the Co-Conspirators cynically decided to “plough ahead” with the Fraud and soon after completed Sale Contracts on the site, with VCHL.
iv.Whilst VCHL was incorporated in mid-June ‘09, it was not until mid-September, and: 1) just a few days before the scheduled completion of the Sale Contracts and 2) just a few days after the evidence was submitted to the demonstrably corrupt Jonathan Crystal, that Barry McGrath & John Tansley were appointed as the Directors of Vision Contemporary Homes Ltd.
v.At this time, almost to the hour, Bernard & Alan Samuels, i.e. Alan Bloom’s Business Partners, were appointed as the Directors for a company called “Bestdirect Ltd”. This company was actually incorporated on the 30th April ’09, on a day exactly four weeks away from the date decided upon for the final Bid deadline (i.e. the 29th May) and on the very day that Knight Frank were requested to produce a letter confirming (on the basis of a manipulated Options Report produced by the “tame” LPA Receivers) that the c£2mn sale price was “reasonable”…when Greystones Houses Ltd had already spent in excess of £5mn on the near complete site.
vi.Companies House records show that a sum of £50K was paid to a Third Party through this aptly named company (believed to be so named as the Co-Conspirators had agreed it would be best, i.e. less risky, for the LPA Receivers, rather than Barry Allsuch & Co, to supply the buyer and claim the Sales Commission direct &/or for VCHL to purchase the site directfrom GSHL, rather than through Everychance Ltd, who were poised to make the initial purchase before turning a massive & instant profit) after the Bernard & Andrew & Samuels were appointed as Directors, with that Third Party being Barry Allsuch / Paul Bloom &/or the LPA Receivers Stephen Skinner / Richard Haines themselves, i.e. in return for their respective roles in the Fraud Scheme.
Figure 6 – The Final “Seen & Unseen” Sale Process
vii.Companies House records further show that whilst VCHL was set-up on the 15th June’09 (the day after Alan Bloom & Paul Bloom are known to have discussed the site, with these close Cousins having formally stated that this was the first and only time they had discussed the site…blatant lies) Barry McGrath & John Tansley were also appointed as the Directors of VCHL within one or two days of the evidence being disclosed the Victims’ Legal Representative (& Alan Bloom’s Associate) Jonathan Crystal.
viii.It cannot escape mention that Chris Coomber & Dawn Burrus were subjected to direct intimidation immediately (the next day) following the submission of the evidence to Jonathan Crystal and the exposure that his brother is, i.e. Deputy High Court Judge Michael Crystal QC, Alan Bloom’s close associate.
ix.Such was the nature of this intimidation, and the emerging evidence, that Dawn Burrus & Chris Coomber were forced to leave their family home and go “into hiding” where they stayed for a week whilst they alerted the Metropolitan Police, the Serious Fraud Office and the High Court of the circumstances of the case.
x.As described elsewhere herein, “Vision Contemporary Homes Ltd” (VCHL) and “Bestdirect Ltd”(BDL) represent just 2 of the interconnected Front Companies / Money Laundering Vehicles set-up by the cited Co-Conspirators as part of this cynical Fraud Scheme.
n.Clive Goodkind, the Cousin ofGraham & Peter Goodkind, is the Business Partner of Stephen Hunt & Kevin Goldfarb of “Griffins Insolvency Practioners”, the firm who “just happened”:
i.To knowingly & incorrectly advise Chris Coomber that it would be in his best interests for KSF / E&Y to call in the loan in order to claim damages, and there was“nothing” that could be done to prevent this, which were both false representations upon which basis Chris Coomber acted upon, which was the intent.
ii.To have not been introduced to Chris Coomber by Michael Harris, who also attended the meeting at which this bogus advice was given, advice in the interests of Michael Harris, as one of the co-Conspirators.
iii.To employ Adam Harris, Michael Harris’s eldest son.
o.Graham & Lisa Goodkind, through their Accountant who “just happens” to be Ian Grabiner’s brother, became Directors of a company called “Bleinham Finance Ltd”, along with Alan Bloom’s only brother Peter Bloom, in March ’10.
p.“Bleinham Finance Ltd” then “just happens” to have been set-up to provide a completely unsecured loan of c£410K to a company owned by the father & son team Bernard & Andrew Samuels (i.e. the Business Partners of Alan Bloom at “Alandale Securities Ltd”), the same parties who set-up “Everychance Ltd” to purchase the Greystones site the day after Alan Bloom facilitated the calling in of the GSH Loan.
q.The exact sum supposedly loaned as Bridging Finance to B.M. Samuels Finance Group Ltd was£411.87K, with this “just happening” to be same amount as the 20% deposit (i.e. on the purchase price of £2.05mn…plus some legal fees) which the LPA Receivers have disclosed was paid, upon Exchange of Contracts, in July ’09…with that Exchange of Contracts being executed with 24-48hrs of Daniel Levy (Chairman of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club) having been spotted at the Greystones site.
r.With the LPA Receivers having refused to provide Chris Coomber with any documentation relating to the sale of his site (inc. the executed Sale Contract), despite these Receivers having acted as the agents of Greystone Houses Ltd, and having been paid in excess of £100K of fees, it is believed that a Third Party (i.e. other than Barry McGrath / John Tansley) paid the £410K deposit on or around the 13th July ’09, with that Third Party being Graham Goodkind, either on behalf of another party, or for himself as a “lined-up” purchaser of the site.
s.With a 10% deposit being more usual in such a transaction, the 20% deposit accords with the Victims’suspicion that this £400K was effectively the deposits for the “off-plan” sales to the “lined-up” house purchasers, i.e. Graham Goodkind &/or Ian Grabiner& /or Daniel Levy / THFC; with a payment of c£200K representing what would be a normal 10% deposit on house purchases at the massively reduced average price of £2.0mn; a price which represents a mere 57% of the price that the houses were marketed at (i.e. £3.5mn) when the “lined-up” purchasers were forced to pull out of the sales upon the exposure of the initial evidence of Fraud by Chris Coomber.
t.It is further suspected that it was this “down payment” for the two houses which provided the required security (i.e. of two “off-plan” & presumably fully contracted sales) for “Vision Contemporary Homes Ltd” to be able to raise the remainder of the finance for such a project, money which was secured from Close Brothers Bank, with, it is believed, the assistance of Bernard & Andrew Samuels, i.e. as Property Finance Brokers, upon “Everychance Ltd” (funded by NatWest) withdrawing from the purchase.
u.The first accounts of “Vision Contemporary Homes Ltd” also accord with the above, given that the value of the two houses is stated as being £3.94mn, i.e. that company, when the houses were sold at an average price of £2mn each, would just about “break even” on the project, thereby avoiding any Corporation Tax on profits, with the profits / unlawful gains for these builders intended to be taken through a combination of: i) the overbilling / overstatement of the building costs by McGrath Construction & Development Ltd & ii) other cash payments from the final “lined-up / off-plan” purchasers.
v.As the Fraud Scheme evolved, at the point that Chris Coomber formally raised his suspicions of Fraud (initially relating to how Barry Allsuch & Co had inside knowledge of the Bid Process, despite supposedly not being involved at that time), the Co-Conspirators “switched horses”, towards the “final hurdle”.
Figure 7 – The Plan Upon Scrutiny
w.Specifically, facing increasing scrutiny by Chris Coomber, & given concerns related to a Business Partner of Alan Bloom having a commercial interest in a property sold upon the acts & decisions of E&Y Administrators, (although the Victim’s did not know that at the time, and the business relationships were difficult to expose given precautions taken by Alan Bloom & the Samuels) the Co-Conspirators set-up a new vehicle, i.e. “Vision Contemporary Homes Ltd” in mid-June ‘09.
x.As just one example of the cynicism of this Fraud Scheme evidence demonstrates that “Everychance Ltd” was still poised to play a role in the sale transaction just a few days before the initially scheduled completion date of the 18th September’09, i.e. at a time when Chris Coomber had already exposed initial evidence of Fraud.
y.After this switch“Everychance Ltd”, whose accounts reveal that the company was indeed set-up to purchase a property which “fell through”, was wound up; after having incurred c£20K of expenses in preparing to make the subsequently aborted purchase.
z.An examination of the accounts of the company “Goodkind Estates Ltd” demonstrates that this company received monies to the tune of c£410K less £50K as income in the financial year ’10 / ’11, suggesting that Bernard & Andrew Samuels, or another party, returned these monies to Graham & Lisa Goodkind, less £50K…a sum which is believed to have been paid to “Bestdirect Ltd”…in preparation for an onward payment to one or more Third Parties who had played a role in the Scheme, e.g. Barry Allsuch & Paul Bloom.
aa.An examination of the accounts of the company “Goodkind Estates” also shows that this company was owed a sum of £95K by a Third Party in the ’10 / ’11 financial year. The sum of£95K “just happens” to be 10% (i.e. a normal level of deposit paid upon Exchange of Sale Contracts) of the £950K price at which it is believed that Richard Sacker, as Second Charge Holder over the Mountview Road site, attempted to force the sale of this prized asset at (i.e. another sale at an “Undervalue”to a “Connected” Party)…before this part of the Fraud Scheme was thwarted by Chris Coomber, just days before exchange of Sale Contracts.
bb.It is also believed to be highly relevant, i.e. in demonstrating that the Fraud Scheme was still in progress at that time, despite the Civil Fraud case, that within 24 hours of the end of the hearing with Justice Lewison on the 26th January ’09 (with the Goodkinds not known to even be involved at that time), Companies House records show that Graham Goodkind sold his 50 shares in “Goodkind Estates Ltd” to his wife Lisa Goodkind; a step taken it is suspected to minimise the Capital Gains tax liabilities associated with the transactions that were planned as part of the Scheme.
Figure 8 – The Other Companies & Directorships
cc.Throughout the events described above, the firm “PSPF” had been conspicuous in being completely unconcerned that these events have caused them a total loss well in excess of £1mn, inc. monies they also invested (and also supposedly simply lost) in another of Chris Coomber’s & Dawn Burrus’ property development projects, i.e. the site at 1 Mountview Road, Crouch End.
dd.The Victims’investigations demonstrate that the 2 main partners of “PSPF” are associates of a number of the parties named herein, and their absence of concern at supposedly losing £1mn+ of investments was due to the fact that they were colluding with the above (i.e. Graham Goodkind & others) to recover their monies, and their accumulated & massive interest monies, and even further gains, by other (illegal) means.
ee.The points above, together with the other evidence referenced herein, demonstrates that Richard Sacker & Alan Bloom (as an Administrator with the power to trigger the overall Fraud Scheme…by calling in the loan) colluded with their friend & associate Graham Goodkind to set-up / use a number of “Front Companies” in his & his wife’s name; company vehicles through which this overall Fraud Scheme would be executed and the proceeds distributed; to orchestrate a Fraud Scheme which would return not only Richard Sacker’s & his brother’s investment in these sites, and 30% interest per year, but also other further financial gains for himself & Alan Bloom & his family…at the expense of the ruination of Chris Coomber & Dawn Burrus.
ff.The fact that the LPA Receivers (supposedly acting as Agents for “Greystone Houses Ltd”) have refused to provide a copy of the executed Sale Contract, after having initially provided an unexecuted version when a copy was demanded, adds to the Victims’legitimate suspicions that Sale Contracts were not initially exchanged with “Vision Contemporary Homes Ltd” / Barry McGrath, but rather with Andrew & Bernard Samuels, of “Everychance Ltd”.
gg.Upon being challenged about these “Front Companies” / transactions, the parties mentioned above have consistently refused to correspond with Chris Coomber, i.e. they have not taken these now numerous opportunities to deny their interest / involvement in the alleged Fraud Scheme.
Figure 9 – The Flow of Monies
hh.Further fortifying the allegations of Conspiracy to Defraud is the exposure that all of the Receivers who “just happen” to be have been supposed independently appointed over the property assets of Chris Coomber & Dawn Burrus have been exposed as being extremely close associates of each other, inc. Stephen Skinner & Richard Haines (Edward Symmons - Greystones), Alan Gottschalk & Stuart Jones (Savills – Mountview Road) and Ian Lerner (Ian Lerner & Co as was –Mountview Road).
ii.The Victims have also recently discovered that Alan Gottshalk and Stuart Jones are also already“lined up” to act as the Receivers in relation to the final commercial property assets retained by them, in the event that: i) they default on the mortgages over the 6 Apartments at St Peters Mews, in St Albans, Herts. or ii) E&Y exercise KSF’s legal rights in relation to the Second Charges KSF hold over these properties.
jj.With approximately 2,000+ Receivers in the UK, the independent appointments of these specific linked Receivers, over these specific sites, is statistically well beyond the realms of probability, and plausibility.
53.In summary:
a.The above demonstrates that Alan Bloom (& 2 of his family members), and Graham Goodkind (& at least 2 of his family members) have colluded to attempt to defraud both Chris Coomber’s & Dawn Burrus / their companies, and KSF’s Creditors…who have lost what is estimated to be £2mn as a result of this Fraud.
b.The Fraud Scheme was “hatched” soon after KSF entered Administration, and evolved with time as Chris Coomber became involved in the Sale Process and his suspicions of illegality were raised.
c.Despite the Scheme being complex and clever, Chris Coomber, with 20+ Years of Business Consulting experience before he entered the Property Industry, and having been ruined in the process, has worked tirelessly for the last 2.5 years months to “lay bare”the mechanics of the Fraud Scheme, and the identity of the “up front” & the“behind the scenes” Co-Conspirators.
54.Furthermore, whilst the Victims Chris Coomber & Dawn Burrus have attempted to bring a Claim of Civil Fraud & Negligence, in July ’09, against a number of the above parties (specifically Alan Bloom & the other Administrators, Paul Bloom, Peter Bloom, Barry Allsuch, Stephen Skinner & Richard Haines) at the High Court:
a.The involvement of the Goodkind & Grabiner families, and that of the Partners of “PSPF”, was not exposed until after this Claim was dismissed, in highly irregular circumstances and with significant bias demonstrated against the Victims, by Justice Lewison in January ’10.
b.Justice Lewison, and indeed all the Judicial Office Holders who “just happened” to handle the Victims’ Claim at the High Court / Appeal Court, have subsequently been exposed as having numerous relationships, associations & common interests with the Accused, inc. with at least one investor in the site; none of which were disclosed as is obviously the requirement.
c.Justice Lewison’s Judgment was extraordinary in many ways, not least given it “teed” up a Claim in the Administration, by GSH and to be signed off by the E&Y Administrators, with the first c£1mn of any such damages (because of a Debenture Agreement in place) to be paid directly to “PSPF”, thereby allowing the friends / associates of Justice Lewison to recover their investment and significant interest…at the same time that Chris Coomber & Dawn Burrus were ruined.
d.Having disclosed their knowledge of these relationships, and their legitimate concerns regarding the propriety of Judicial Process, the Victims have experienced further brazen bias, at the Royal Courts of Justice.
e.The extent of this prejudice is such that even having exposed these relationships between the Court (and specifically the Officers who “just happened” to handle the Victim’s case(s)) & the Accused, & having exposed an ever-increasing mass of evidence to demonstrate Fraud & Cover-Up, the Court refuse to even acknowledge this evidence, & have gone to extraordinary lengths in order to dismiss ALL of the Victim’s Claims and Applications, to get these allegations“off-the-books”, at the expense of the legal rights of the Victims.
f.The most recent bias has resulted in the Personal Bankruptcies of the Victims just days before Xmas’11 (as a result of Petitions brought by Alan Bloom’s colleague Thomas Burton), ordered at the High Court by a colleague of the Accused Judicial Officers, in the Victims’ known absence, just days before Christmas and with the Court simply ignoring the ever-growing evidence of Fraud that was submitting in writing.
g.The Court also simply ignored a mass Medical Evidence demonstrating that the Victims were unable to prepare attend because of poor health, poor health caused by the Accused and their appalling acts of the last 3 years.
h.The fact that evidence is still being exposed is demonstrated by the fact that the Victims were made aware, in the days before the hearing, of other significant evidence in this case, inc. the exposure of a personal relationship between Paul Bloom and his wife, and Peter Goodkind, and his wife.
i.Further, since this High Court hearing of 19th December ’11, yet more evidence has been exposed demonstrating the central involvement of Alan Bloom’s Business Partners, i.e. The Samuels, in this Fraud Scheme.
j.Upon exposing & then publically disclosing the evidence against Alan Bloom & his E&Y colleagues, a High Court Libel Action was brought against Chris Coomber in July‘09. Chris Coomber did not defend this Libel Claim, despite being in possession of evidence, even in 2010, which demonstrated the truth of the allegations, for the reasons outlined below.
k.It is important to note that defending Libel Claims, under UK law, can easily cost several £100K, and as a result, and given the nature of the law themselves (which places the burden of proof on the Defendant, i.e. “guilty until proved innocent”), such Claims are very seldom successfully defended. Unsurprisingly, it is common knowledge that the UK’s Libel laws are used by the wealthy to protect their reputations, regardless of the fact that they are “guilty as sin”.
l.E&Y’s lawyers, within days of the Libel Claim being launched, offered to drop the Claim in return for an agreement from Chris Coomber to retract the allegations (now fully proven) and make an apology. Chris Coomber not only refused to agree to this, but he also refused to attend the subsequent Libel Hearing, on the basis that producing the evidence, at that time, would compromise what he fully expected to be a Police investigation.
m.The E&Y Libel Action was brought by Geraldine Proudler, a Partner at the law firm Olswang. Ms Proudler has been exposed as having perverted the course of justice on more than one occasion, including by deliberately excluding portions of the Victim’s evidence when submitted documentation to Court, and ensuring that a hearing to request an Injunction for the benefit of E&Y and the Administrators, was held before a Judge with whom she, and several of the Co-Accused, have extensive associations & common interests.
n.Ms Proudler, having been appointed several months before the involvement of members of the Grabiner family was exposed, has also been exposed as having a common commercial interest with more than one member of the Grabiner family.
o.Incredibly, Ms Proudler was also exposed as being a colleague of a Michele Michaelson whose husband is the other of the 2 main Partners of “PSPF”, along with Richard Sacker; with Michele Michaelson herself subsequently discovered to have a personal financial interest in the Greystones site.
p.Upon Ms Proudler being presented evidence of Fraud involving her Client Alan Bloom, Michele Michaelson, with near zero notice, resigned from Olswang.
q.In addition to Geraldine Proudler, many of the main Legal Professionals involved in the long Civil Proceedings at the Royal Courts of Justice, including those representing the Accused AND those supposedly representing the Victims (i.e. in their attempts to regain control of the site & secure damages) have also been exposed as having intimate relationships and associations with the above named Co-Conspirators.
r.These Legal Professionals colluded with their associates (i.e. the Accused) in order to allow this appalling transaction to proceed unchallenged, and to ensure that the Victims’ Claims at the High Court were “stifled” and failed, regardless of the evidence available.
55.In a similar way, and again refusing to drop the allegations in return for a retraction & apology, Chris Coomber, with Dawn Burrus this time, also declined to defend against a High Court Libel Action brought by Daniel Levy & *********.
56.Daniel Levy was able to secure a High Court Judgment required to support an Injunction against Chris Coomber & Dawn Burrus without having to account for himself& the evidence against him in any substantive way, an Injunction through which the Victims, and indeed anyone else, can be imprisoned if they even repeat the allegations.
57.Whilst the Victims, in parallel with their investigations, have attempted to liaise with the Metropolitan Police & the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) regarding what can now readily be demonstrated as being a blatant Fraud and Cover-Up, the approach of both of these institutions has been extraordinary, with the SFO& the Metropolitan Police both having acted to deliberately distance themselves from the allegations, including, for example, by simply losing the evidence each time it is submitted.
58.The Victims have recently exposed intimate links between the SFO and a number of the implicated parties, inc. the incredible exposure that the SFO’s Counsel, Vivian Robinson QC (now resigned…with his role reportedly being to act as a contact point for parties under investigation for Fraud) attended lunches funded by staff from the Insolvency Firm Carter Backer Winter (the small firm at which Melvyn Carter & John Alexander are Partners) on 3 separate occasions, and each time within days of a key event in the Victim’s Civil Proceedings at the High Court.
59.A number of relationships between the Co-Conspirators and senior Politicians, inc. past & present Government Ministers, have also been exposed.
60.On this basis, and given that KSF’s Creditors / fellow Victims include 100+ Council Bodies, 100+ Charities and even 15 Police Authorities (inc. the Met. Police), the Victims legitimately believe that this case is being “stifled” (i.e. by the Met, the SFO and the Courts) in order to prevent the inevitable national scandal that will be caused when the facts cited herein are exposed, as they must be, facts which include the Metropolitan Police failing to act upon allegations of Fraud against a number of parties, inc. themselves.
61.The fact that Ian Grabiner and Phillip Green, as CEO and Owner of Arcadia Group, were appointed, by Prime Minister David Cameron, to produce a report on the Government spending, as part of the Government’s Austerity / Spending initiatives, is in& of itself sufficient to guarantee a public outrage in the event that these facts cited herein are put in the public domain.
62.Whilst these very serious allegations (i.e. of Criminal Fraud) contained herein, have been formally made against the individuals / companies named within this document, no response whatsoever has been received, apart from E&Y’s lawyers Freshfields (themselves named as Co-Conspirators) who simply dismiss these exceptionally well-evidenced allegations as “speculation”, and repeat the statement that they & their Clients are guilty of no wrongdoing.
63.Instead of issuing any denials, or threatening Libel Proceedings, many of these parties have simply blocked the Victims from sending them email correspondence & even making telephone calls to them, i.e. they refuse to correspond in anyway with their Victims. The reader will draw their own inferences from this conduct.
64.Most recently evidence has been exposed which demonstrates that Alan Bloom’s Business Partner Andrew Samuels is further implicated (as is therefore Alan Bloom himself, and Alan Samuels, Andrew’s brother) in attempts to also target Chris Coomber’s & Dawn Burrus’ other Property Development sites with a similar Fraud Scheme to that described above, i.e. the sites at 1 Mountview Road, Crouch End (the site upon which the new Coomber / Burrus family home was to be built) & at St Peters Mews, St Albans (the site which provides the majority of the Coomber / Burrus family income, through rental agreements).
65.A further subsidiary Fraud Scheme was also set in motion by the (now known convicted embezzler) Michael Harris, in conjunction with his associate Harold Levenson, a party recently exposed as an associate of the Samuels family.
66.Specifically Michael Harris & Harold Levenson, attempted to initiate, fund and then“hijack” a Damages Claim, by Greystone Houses Ltd, “In the Administration”, on behalf of Greystone Houses Ltd; promising 1/3rd of the proceeds to Chris Coomber; and reverting to attempted Blackmail when Chris Coomber refused to participate when he “smelled a rat” following a meeting with Harold Levenson and his complicit lawyer.
67.This subsidiary Fraud was intended to further defraud KSF’s Creditors of an additional several £mn (to be distributed by Harris / Levenson amongst the other Co-Conspirators), with the Damages Claim to be signed off by one of the KSF Administrators, believed to be Thomas Burton, at the behest of Alan Bloom.
68.It is the exposure of this subsidiary Fraud Scheme, amongst other evidence, that has provided the motivation for the KSF Administrators to now, after having demonstrated (along with Justice Lewison) a real enthusiasm for such a claim, refuse to concede that Greystone Houses Ltd has ANY valid Damages Claim.
69.This evidence fortifies the allegation that Justice Lewison knowingly and intentionally “sanctioned” this Fraud Scheme (whilst maintaining his own distance from it) by stating it should be dealt with “In the Administration”,i.e. by Alan Bloom & his Co-Administrators & fellow E&Y staff (i.e. Fraser Greenshields, Fergal O’Reilly, Christian Judd & Richard Barker).
70.Specifically, Justice Lewison:
a.Dismissed 74 of the 75 Claims made against the Administrators, the Receivers & Estate Agents, and stated that the only remaining “triable issue”, i.e. Breach of Contract, should be dealt with “In the Administration”, i.e. within the control of Alan Bloom & Thomas Burton etc.
b.Excluded Greystone Houses from his January ’10 Judgment in order to personally avoid having to rule on the issue of Breach of Contract and therefore assess damages, i.e. leaving the “dirty work” to the Administrators, who in turn delegated this “dirty work”to junior & new E&Y staff.
71.It is even clearer why the High Court, in related Proceedings, is now going to extreme lengths to avoid ruling upon the Claims relating to Breach of Contract (i.e. because such a ruling would add credence to the allegations against Justice Lewison & other Judicial Office Holders), let alone the Claims relating to Civil Fraud.
72.It is also clear why Alan Bloom, Thomas Burton, their Legal Representatives AND the High Court were so determined to drive through the recent Personal Bankruptcies of Chris Coomber & Dawn Burrus, despite them unable to attend, i.e. to defend themselves, because of health reasons.
73.Specifically, with their Defences against Personal Bankruptcy including the existence of a“Claim in the Administration”, which in turn included a linked “Claim in Statute”, and with both of those Claims being exceptionally well-evidenced, the Court (with their reputation at serious risk…Judicial Fraud has rarely been proved in the UK) opportunistically took advantage of Chris Coomber’s & Dawn Burrus’ serious health issues to drive through a Judgment against them, at the same time as:
a.Specifically stating, despite the veritable mountain of evidence before it, that there exists no evidence of Fraud & Cover-Up.
b.Imputing, in the publically available Judgment, that Chris Coomber & Dawn Burrus are Conspiracy Theorists, with all the negative associations such an inference conveys.
c.Further imputing that Chris Coomber & Dawn Burrus are Anti-Semitic, for which there is no evidence whatsoever; in comparison with the mountain of evidence which is available which demonstrates that the Accused, many of who are Jewish, have conspired together to financially benefit from the collapse of KSF.
74.Whilst these latter subsidiary Fraud Schemes have (at least so far) been thwarted upon the exposure of the evidence above, and the Greystone Fraud Scheme is known, again having been exposed before full completion, to not have yielded all of the anticipated financial gains, the target “take” from these linked Fraud Schemes is calculated as being in excess of £5.0mn, and the attempts and partial executions have directly caused massive damage to Chris Coomber & Dawn Burrus, their family, and their business interests.
75.Clearly the above facts bear little relation to the version of events described in the limited evidence submitted to the Court in defence of these allegations to date, i.e.:
a.The Chronology - issued jointly between the Administrators and the Receivers on the 17th September ’09…i.e.:
i.72 hours after Chris Coomber provided the evidence to Jonathan Crystal.
ii.48 hours after Bernard & Andrew Samuels were appointed as Director of “Bestdirect Ltd”.
iii.24 hours after Bernard & Andrew Samuels signed the Charge Documentation for the company“Everychance Ltd”.
iv.24 hours after Barry McGrath & John Tansley were appointed as Directors of “Vision Contemporary Homes Ltd”
v.24 hours after the Coomber / Burrus family were the target of intimidation which forced them into hiding.
b.The Witness Statements- provided by Fraser Greenshields, Richard Haines, Barry Allsuch & Paul Bloom.
76.Finally, with their ruination complete and their health & reputations left in tatters, and with the institutions who are supposed to afford victims protection and redress against such Fraud Schemes found to be hopelessly conflicted, Chris Coomber& Dawn Burrus are now forced to bring a Private Criminal Prosecution for Justice to be done, and seen to be done.
In final summary, evidence proves that Alan Bloom, his fellow Administrators & other E&Y staff members, with the dishonest assistance of at least 2 KSF staff members, have abused their powers & duties (many times at each & every stage of the process) in order to execute a Fraudulent Transaction intended to create financial & other benefits for Alan Bloom & his family, and their associates, at the expense of the ruination of Chris Coomber, Dawn Burrus, their businesses, their family and their investors / friends. This Fraud Scheme allowed other linked Fraud Schemes to be triggered, schemes which were furthered through the acts of Alan Bloom’s Business Partner, and a number of their respective / joint associates, including Richard Sacker and Graham Goodkind.