Arturs Atkis – AVUS Invest SIA Complaints & Reviews
Posted On: 08/09/2016
By: Financial Fraud Reporter
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 Invest 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.
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.
ALL THAT WE ASK IS THAT THIS GROUP OF THREE PARTIES, DOES THE RIGHT THING AND REFUNDS ALL MONEY SENT TO THEM SINCE DECEMBER 2015. THE FRAUD IS RAMPANT AND DISGUSTING, BUT THEY CAN STILL RETURN FUNDS THAT WERE STOLEN FROM US AND THIS TERRIBLE SITUATION CAN BE BROUGHT TO A POSITIVE CONCLUSION!
To be VERY clear regarding the FRAUD that took place by Arturs Akis, Miodrag Babic and Janis Petrovs we are willing to end our pursuit and mark as “RESOLVED” if they would kindly send all funds taken in since December 2015.
Let it also be very clear that Mr John Diak had NOTHING to do with the fraud by these individuals. He merely trusted that they were “good men” and sent me their banking coordinates at Nordea and Swedbank. He should have performed better due diligence on this group, but he was not at fault from a theft stand point.