The Bastille-Affair
Check back regularly for exclusive breaking news stories on this hair-raising legal battle! Lady Monika Bacardi and her daughter Maria Luisa Bacardi are fighting against Liechtenstein professional trustees and their opqaque trust structures. The outcome of the legal proceedings will affect trust & wealth legislation in Central Europe for the next decade.
News on the CaseThe Liechtenstein daily Vaterland reports that a former trustee has debts of 125,000 francs to his former company. He had to stand trial. He was accused of having siphoned off money as an employee of the company and of having embezzled client funds. In addition, he violated the narcotics law due to his cocaine consumption. […]
In the wake of the Zagorec Hypo criminal proceedings of 2017, the FMA revokes the trustee licence of a lawyer with an office in Vaduz, the Liechtenstein daily Vaterland announces. Read the full article here
The supreme court of Bahamas has confirmed that the late Lord Luis Bacardi’s Baron’s Court Holdings Ltdhas been wrongfully dissolved and deleted. This has to be considered a major twist in this complex legal proceeding as this vehicle played a crucial role in the inheritance procedures as majority of Lord Luis Bacardi’s wealth should be […]
In the wake of the Bacardi LTD AGM, Maria Luisa and Lady Monika Bacardi have released a statement regarding Bacardi LTD’s invitations to the subsidiaries of the BASTILLE TRUST, as they are simply ignoring the Monegasque court proceedings. This fact still seems inexplicable as Bacardi LTD has to appear in court itself in Monaco on […]
In January 2022, the German radio station WDR published an extensive documentary on the conditions of the Liechtenstein fiduciary system (KLICK HERE FOR FULL REPORT): “After strong international pressure, the Principality declared in 2009 that it no longer wanted to serve as a refuge for black money. Nevertheless, good money continues to be earned: from […]
A Gamechanging event might have taken place recently. We have obtained information that one of the founders of Bastille Trust, after having a deep look inside their archives and reviewing newly surfaced material, has declared that the establishment of the trust should never have happened. The founding party declared that neither paperwork nor other valid […]
The enclosed visualization reveals constant abuse of power of attorney that happened over decades and in multiple shades, fraudulent legal proceedings and regulation infringements that led to the Bacardi Ltd. Shares, that were part of Lord Luis’ inheritance from his bother being locked up in a null and void vehicle, named the Bastille Trust. Lord […]
Now the Court of Appeal lifted the injunction and remanded the case to the court of first instance as Lady Monika and Maria Luisa Bacardi’s rights were injured as they were not allowed to answer in court to the wrongful accusations of the Trustees.
The Erich von Hoffen case is only too good evidence of a long tradition of delinquent trustees in Liechtenstein. Involvement of the highest circles, money laundering and widely ramified, interwoven structures, a pattern that almost all criminal proceedings, in which Liechtenstein trustees play a central role, have in common. Eugen von Hoffen is a dazzling […]
owever, one sender is peculiar, interesting as a quick google search shows that the used name belongs to a deceased person. Furthermore, the message was sent to a quite private email-address belonging to Lady Monika Bacardi, which was not known to a wider group of individuals. The phrasing “business colleagues from Cuba” brings to mind […]