 met a right fool.”
Mr O’Halloran said in an affidavit that the allegations against him by Mr Ames and Ms Young were “unsubstantiated, untrue and highly prejudicial”.
He also claimed that the emails allegedly sent by him were either forgeries or had been tampered with.
Padraig O’Halloran (42) was looking at a range of jets and had made payments towards a $1.5m (€1.1m) Falcon jet in the Caribbean, as well as attempting to buy a racetrack in St Lucia, the court was told.
Mr Justice Brian McGovern was told that in one payment out of $200,000 (€147,000), a reference was made to an allocation of $50,000 for a Halloween party.
But come on it was only a teeny weeny percentage 😉 That makes it all ok??
I got my money back screw you lot Broughton
The ‘percentage’, is that the best you can come up with Paddy?
How much were your assets that Ames sold worth? What percentage?
3 years and 6 months ago ICE Group were removed from the Buccament Bay project. In documents filed in the courts Ames was able to obtain freezing orders against ICE. It was subsequently discovered that these documents were forged.
Ames made many allegations in the Irish court. He went as far as to suggest that RLB were complicit in the fraud yet to date has refused to state whether he intends to pursue them for professional negligence.
Ames is a prolific liar, hence one of the reasons for the appeal in Ireland. The SFO and Essex police are still pursuing the Ames family and others associated with Harlequin.
Whilst Ames attempts to divert attention away from his own CRIMINAL actions, today’s postings in the main being a graphic illustration of this.
But aside from all that. In the three and a half years after ICE Group were removed from Buccament Bay Mr. Ames continued selling properties. Continued taking in multiples of millions in deposits, continued taking huge dividends, continued being wholly uncooperative with his new accountants BDO and with Shipleys and indeed the authorities.
Continued to use the threat of legal action against anyone who would dare speak out against Harlequin and the Ames family.
Purchased the village inn in St. Lucia with purchasers money to add to his personal property portfolio in Dubai and elsewhere. Is now having a large 1,000 sq mt built for him in Bequia, this villa being built despite owing investors millions. Owing local staff millions and owing Caribbean creditors millions.
Ames claims the village inn is making a profit, if so where is this profit going.
Someone has rattled the little Basildon’s thief’s cage. His loyal bunch of moronic thieves again jump to his defence.
What childish comments from Harlequin. If Ames sold all the assets owned by O Halloran and the ICE group surely this mitigated the losses claimed by Ames to a very large degree. I am not the Irish builder but I handed alleged due diligence documents over to the SFO and Essex Police. See these documents were false.
Some were even forged and included false accounting records.
Am I wrong to have done this. Will this have an impact on Mr. Ames’s ability to continue in business.
I passed a video on to the authorities post 2010 where Katherine Woller at a sales meeting in Wales stated that investors money was held in escrow. That the value of Harlequin’s assets in the Caribbean was in excess of 1 billion. That the guaranteed mortgages were in place.
This video was on U tube. It was then highlighted on Harlecon and within a week was removed from public viewing.
Ames is a thief. A liar. And a bully. Now he needs a trust not to help investors but to help keep him and his cohorts out of prison.
This Christmas lets not forget the 1000’s of investors / victims. Those who through the slick marketing of Ames and Harlequin were lead to believe that all they had to do was pay £1000 with nothing else to pay until completion.
Let us remind ourselves how Ames, Dalligan, Woller, Stenning our good friend Ryan and others convinced purchasers to lie on their mortgage applications, helped along by Ames’s good friends in the now defunct Progress Mortgages in Essex.
Let us remind ourselves how Ames got purchasers in their hundreds to commit mortgage fraud.
Let us remind ourselves how thousands of purchasers handed over cash to Ames with 50% of it given out in commissions.
And let us not forget that this Christmas thanks alone to the Ames family and much of the Harlequin staff, that 1000’s of purchasers, suppliers and Caribbean will not have the Peaceful Christmas the would have hoped for. And facing into a New Year not knowing how bills will be paid or if their pensions are lost.
Facing certain financial insecurity, whilst Ames and Co. carry on ducking and diving and blaming everyone and anyone but themselves for this mess.
Ames is a thief. A liar. And a bully. Now he needs a trust not to help investors but to help keep him and his cohorts out of prison.
I agree with this, but so it the Irish builder.
3 years and 6 months ago ICE Group were removed from the Buccament Bay project. In documents filed in the courts Ames was able to obtain freezing orders against ICE. It was subsequently discovered that these documents were forged.
Proof Proof!!
TS the police have the proof. The SFO have the proof. And Harlequin have the proof. They forged court documents, due dill documents, created false accounts over the years and continue to cooperate with various accountants, state agencies etc.
Anon
December 22, 2013 at 6:06 pm
Hello Erica, still crazy? Looks like it.
Correction continue NOT TO COOPERATE……
Now TS this forum will not put the Ames family and those others within Harlequin behind bars.
That will be up to a jury. But this WILL happen.
Medication time!
TS Will Harlequin reinstate the mortgage payments on behalf of purchasers in 2014 and back date the missed payments?
Will Harlequin refund all purchasers who want a refund in 2014?
Will Harlequin provide the promised and guaranteed mortgages to purchasers?
Will Harlequin make public all their audited accounts in 2014 as required by law?
Will Harlequin pay all monies owed to Third Part suppliers in 2014?
Will Harlequin produce independently verified and audited occupancy figures for both Buccament Bay and for the Hotel Blu in St. Lucia?
Will the SFO and Essex police prosecute Mr. Ames and others?
An answer to any of the above would of course be most welcome.
Ouch it sure does appear like Ames has been well and truly rattled again.
There have been some very good comments on this forum and as usual Harlequin once again have demonstrated their inability to engage.
Proof you ask. Proof? Listen TS and Co. It is time you guys PROVED to investors that they will not loose their investments.
That’s all the proof investors are looking for. Proof that Harlequin will full fill their contractual obligations.
Harlequin is insolvent. 200 million + paid in commissions. So prove to the investors that they will loose nothing.
Proof Proof Proof.
I’m still interested in the Katherine Wooller – now Manderfield comments. So there’s proof she said clients money was held in escrow? Does anyone know what her relationship with Kathryn Taylor of Guardian was? They have connections via LinkedIn. Wooller / Manderfield claims to have pioneered SIPPS as a vehicle for investors. What arrangement if any was there between Taylor of Guardian (who has threatened me with personal legal action for asking questions and brought up the subject of personal gain from “these people”) an Wooller / Manderfield of Harlequin?
Anonymous
December 22, 2013 at 7:06 pm
Answer to all NO
What more proof do you need its over. Just waiting for the fat lady to sing…..
TS you answered all the questions correctly with the exception of the last one. The SFO / Essex Police will come knocking in 2014.
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Again Harlequin have attacked Mrs. Broughton.
Who is Mrs. Broughton?
A woman who’s husband invested his pension in Harlequin and as a result of Harlequin’s inability to do as they were contracted to do a woman who asked for her husbands money to be refunded.
Harlequin refused to refund her husbands money so she went very public. At times demonstrating her absolute anger.
All Mrs. Broughton and her husband have done was to invest in Harlequin for their future. A future which now remains unsure.
Mr. Broughton had no access to the money in his pension but Mr. Ames was able to convert Mr. Broughton’s pension into cash. Pay his company a 50% commission and use the balance not to build the Broughton’s investment property but to build something else.
That is the crux of the argument. Yet Ames and his supporters continue to attack Mrs. Broughton and portray her as some sort of deluded pariah figure who’s sole purpose is to destroy Ames and Harlequin.
Lets not forget it is Ames who took her husbands money under false pretences. In essence he has stolen their money and they are not happy.