Bogus Nevis Stock Manipulator Arrested In Mexico

Tax-News.com, New York

25 July 2001

Offshore Alert at http://offshorebusiness.com/offshore_alert.asp reports that Joseph Andy Mann, who is a client of Nevis-based offshore provider Robin Cotterell, has been arrested in Mexico, where he lives.

In arresting 63-year-old Mann, the Mexican authorities were executing an arrest warrant issued in New York in June, 2000. In the United States, Mann has been accused of participating in a racketeering enterprise with members and associates of five mafia organizations, including the Bonnano and Colombo crime families.

Offshore Alert specialises in detecting and reporting on offshore scams and has often reported previously on Mann, particularly in connection with on an apparently bogus stock exchange that he set up in the Caribbean island of Nevis called GTrade, which operates from www.gtrade.com.

GTrade and several other associated legal entities were set up for Mann by Robin Cotterell's Nevis-based Hanver Trust Company, with Cotterell listed as GTrade's chairman in one press release.

From its web-site, GTrade distributes bogus press releases and makes a number of misrepresentations, fitting in with Mann's specialty, which appears to be stock fraud.

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