WHAT A SAD CORNER OF THE EARTH, SO FULL OF THIEVES AND CHARLATANS

 

 

 

I KNOW SUZ’S PROBLEM’S BACK TO FRONT, LIKE I KNOW SANDRA’S AND SO MANY OTHER VICTIMS! INCLUDING SADLY MY OWN!

 

THIS GROUP OF VICTIMS HAVE STOOD OUTSIDE THE TRNC OFFICES IN LONDON IN THE FREEZING COLD IN FEBRUARY, AND STOOD OUTSIDE THE TRNC OFFICE AND TURKISH EMBASSY IN LONDON IN THE HEAT IN JUNE! WE HAVE SPENT MONEY ON ACCOMODATION, ALL GONE OUT TO EAT TOGETHER, GIVEN OUT LEAFLETS TOGETHER, TRIED TO MAKE OTHER VICTIMS UNDERSTAND WHY WE WANTED TO PUT UP A UNITED FRONT! WE HAVE BEEN LIED TO AND TREATED LIKE DIRT!

 

WE HAVE TALKED TO SO CALLED POLITITIANS, SECRETARY’S, UNDER SECRETARY’S,NO BODY’S, WE HAVE BEEN RIDICULED, TOLD THE ONLY WAY FORWARD WAS TO COW TOW TO THE TRNC GOVERNMENT, TOLD THAT GARY ROBB WAS THE SAVIOUR, TOLD TO PISS OFF AND NOT  ROCK THE BOAT, DONE WHAT THE HBPG SAID WE HAVE TO DO, TO SEND ALL DETAILS TO THE GOVERNMENT AND THE PSO, WE HAVE ORGANIZED PETITIONS, BEGGED, PLEADED AND IN SOME CASES BORROWED MONEY TO PAY LAWYERS! WHO HAVE DONE NOTHING! WE HAVE TRIED TO HELP OTHER VICTIMS ON OTHER SITES (NOT JUST AGA)! WE HAVE LOST LOVED ONES, WE HAVE BEEN IN COURTROOMS, WE HAVE TRIED TO SUPPORT EACH OTHER!

 

AND STILL WE HAVE NOTHING!

 

WE WILL STILL CONTINUE TELLING OTHER FUTURE VICTIMS NOT TO TOUCH THE TRNC WITH A BARGEPOLE, STAY AWAY FROM THIS GOD FORSAKEN COUNTRY, DO NOT GIVE THEM ONE PENNY OF YOUR LIFE SAVINGS, STAY SANE! LET THE RUSSIANS, AND ISRAILIES, LOSE THEIR LIFE SAVINGS, BECAUSE IT WILL BE NO DIFFERENT FOR THEM! THIS CORNER OF CYPRUS KNOWN AS THE TRNC WILL DROOL AT THE MOUTH, WHEN THEY SEE THEIR £££$$$$ TAKE THEIR MONEY, AND DISAPPEAR!! WHAT A SAD CORNER OF THE EARTH, SO FULL OF THIEVES AND CHARLATANS, WITH A GOVERNMENT THAT LOVES SMOKE AND MIRRORS, CLOSED DOORS, AND DISHONESTY, AND WORRIES MORE THAT JO-LO WILL NOT APPEAR AT THE OPENING OF A NEW LUXURY HOTEL, THAN ABOUT ALL THE TRNC VICTIMS THEY HAVE AMASSED OVER THE LAST 7 YEARS.

 

PAT

 

 

North Cyprus – The Amaranta – Gary Robb – Unwin – Gurkan Story

 

 

We first visited Northern Cyprus in April 2004 to enjoy a holiday. We returned next month in May 2004 with the intention of purchasing a villa

 

After visiting a number of different Estate Agents we attended Unwins Estate Agents in Alcancak.  (hereinafter known as ‘Unwins’. Initially a Sales person called Daniel Bond of Unwins showed my husband and me a ‘demonstration property’ on a development called HzOmer in Catalkoy which had been built by AGA development (hereafter referred to as ‘AGA ‘). The properties were very much to our taste but we were informed that all HzOmer properties had already been sold. Daniel advised of an alternative AGA Construction site on which was development was due to start. The site, situated in Arapkoy was named’ Amaranta Valley’ and we decided to proceed with the purchase of an ‘off plan’ villa through Unwins with one donum (approximately one third of an acre) of additional land at an extra cost.

 

we returned to the Unwins office in order to select the plot on which our property would be constructed. It was at the Unwins office where we were informed that the AGA was owned by a Turkish Cypriot of very high standing and a British counterpart but Daniel could not remember the British man’s mane. we were told to return to Unwins at 6pm later that evening where our contract would be drafted ready for signing. Upon our return, Unwins advised us to instruct Mr Talat Kursat to act as our solicitor for this transaction and that his services would cost £1,000.00.

 

A copy of the contract dated 8th June 2004 is attached. At the point my we first saw the contract, it had already been signed ‘for and on behalf of the Vendors’, AGA Developments, this signature having been witnessed beforehand by Mark Unwin. I now know the signature which appears on the contact to be that of Mr Gary John Robb and I believe this information had been deliberately withheld from us at this time.

 

we now hold the belief that those involved knew that if we were told of Mr Robb’s involvement and made even a cursory check up, publicly available information would reveal details of his absconding from criminal charges in the 1990’s and thus may not have entered into contract.

 

On 21st June 2004, the sum of £21,812.00 (Sterling) was transferred from our Abbey National account into Unwins Midland Bank (Now part of HSBC)  Limasol Co-operative Bank account in Turkey. Sort code – 40-05-15, account number – 00167367. Copies of the payment request, Sterling transfer form and statement of account showing the funds leaving our account can be found attached The £21,812.00 payment was comprised of £20,790.00 (first stage payment), £1,000.00 (legal fees) and £22.00 (bank transfer fee).

 

On the 3rd September 2004, as per our contractual agreement we proceeded to transfer the second stage payment. The sum of £10,420.00 was transferred from our Abbey National account into the UK bank account of Mr Talat Kursat. Account statement showing the funds leaving my account. 

 

In April 2005, AGA Development proposed a deal to AGA buyers which offered a substantial discount if customers settle all remaining stage payments ahead of schedule. The offer was a discount of 10% of the total amount left to pay if payment in full was made immediately. we decided not to pursue any new arrangement and instead continue the settling of stages payments as originally intended.

 

In May 2005, we returned to Northern Cyprus and visited AGA’s new offices in Catalkoy and later the construction site. Although it was obvious that the foundations of the property had been laid, they had not been positioned as agreed and it was clear that additional properties had been crowded onto the site. Upon returning to the AGA office once more, my husband and I were met by Sertac Yazgan, the site architect who informed us that there would no longer be sufficient land for our property to be surrounded by one donum of land as per the contract. Just outside of the AGA offices, Mr Yazgan discreetly informed us that there were considerable problems with AGA and that payment of any further funds would be a gamble. The options being that we either withhold payment, and in breach of our contract or pay our next stage payment, in the hope that the company found a suitable solution. In the fullness of time it appears that whatever decision we might have made, we were bound to become losers.

 

In order to account for the smaller plot size, our contract was amended and the overall price reduced by £15,000.00. At the point the revised contract was signed in Mr Talat Kursat’s office, we discovered that Mr Kursat was not only our Solicitor but that of AGA

Development. we identified this as a conflict of interest on his part and duly instructed another lawyer, Mr Akan Gurkan as recommended by a friend.

 

We first met Akan Gurkan of Gurkan & Gurkan in May 2005 after we had been led to believe by Unwins Estate Agents in June 04 when we first signed our contract that Talat Kursat was our lawyer. However after realising that Talat Kursat was also the lawyer for Aga Development/Gary Robb we changed lawyers and were recommended to go to Akan Gurkan.

 

During our first appointment it became apparent that he had been our lawyer all along, how did we know that ? well he said he had been waiting to see us as he had a file on us, but he was going to tell us that he wasn’t taking on any more AGA clients, but as we had been recommended he would make an exception.  He went through our contact with us, explained everything and how it would all proceed

 

On our return to England and after conducting some internet searches, we discovered that Mr Robb was wanted by Police in the UK for drugs offences.

 

we visited Northern Cyprus again in July 2005 where we observed that  building on the site was in progress. On 23rd August 2005, my husband and I received an email requesting we pay the next stage payment of £17,040.00, as per our contractual agreement we transferred this sum to our lawyer, Mr Gurkan and he forwarded the payment to AGA Developments Ltd accordingly. A copy cheque to pay AGA Development Ltd and from Gurkan and Gurkan Solicitors for the amount of £17,025.00 is attached. This payment brought the total monies paid up to the amount of £49,323.00.

 

we received email communication from Deborah Jones of AGA Developments Ltd in October 2005 describing that work on the Amaranta site had stopped because of Ramadan, a religious festival we were told that prohibited work from continuing

during a certain period. We understand that Mr Robb at that time was no longer in Northern Cyprus and that Gary Robb has disappeared to Thailand allegedly with a great deal of money belonging to AGA Development customers. We visited North Cyprus and Akan Gurkan during the last week of October 2005. He advised us to immediately take out an injunction on our plot to prevent any sale or gifting of it. We paid £500 for this to happen. He then assured us that we could commence court action immediately, this would enable us to be at the front of the queue when AGA Development was liquidated and it was an insurance that we would get all our monies returned. He told us there is nothing more to pay so we duly paid the £500 and left.

 

We returned in May 06 and had a meeting with Gurkan. We were handed an ‘AGA PACK’. This was a private and confidential pack for AGA victims. It advised not to pass the information to a third party as it could prejudice the case.  It advised that there was a Police investigation underway regarding AGA Developments and also advised the client to commence with injunctions and litigation.

 

 

 

We decided to undertake litigation as soon as possible. Gurkan told us that the courts closed later that week for its summer recess, but he would issue proceedings on our behalf in September 06 when the courts re-opened. He assured us that we would have a judgement signed and stamped by January 07 latest, thus leaving us at the front of the creditors queue

 

As many of you may remember in March 2007 Aga Buyers Action Group  were formed at the “request” of Cafer Gurcafer (then Head Of The TRNC Constructors Assoc), and it was his suggestion that we form a committee in order to petition Mr Ferdi Sabat Soyer into “assisting” the AGA victims

 

On March 21st 2007, 17 days after we all met at Excel a member of ABAG received a telephoned death threat from a male with the words    “If you do not stop messing with AGA you are a dead woman”   This obviously instilled fear into us all (we were very green at that time) and we felt that we could not at that time use our own names in order to protect not only us but our families, therefore we had to hide behind a different name.

This time was very stressful for us all, as everyone, but the three of us had dropped out from the committee suggested by Cafer Gurcafer, we think because they may have realised that things ran deeper than they seemed, but we decided to carry on regardless.

 

We were, in the week following the Excel exhibition and meeting each contacted by Larry Smith, one of the managers from the private TRNC.AGA.BUYERS Bulletin Board, a man of so many alias’ on that and other boards we wonder if he actually knows who he is at any one given time and he invited each of us to join a secret Bulletin Board; this was called ANTI-GREED-ASSOCIATION.

 

We did all join this new MSN Message Board (which was a short lived affair), but we did not reveal anything on this secret board as we needed to be sure which route to take with the information that we had been given. Which route would best benefit every AGA victim, not just a privileged few

 

THE INVITATION TO THE SECRET BB EMAIL

 

From: Larry Smith
Sent: 06 March 2007 17:25
To: ABAG
Subject: Complicated discussions

 

Ladies and Gents

We are entering a very complex area, we do not know the legal position of Gary regarding the land, and whether the Government will be prepared to remove it from him. Or what discussions are being held in the TRNC.

Serap Destegul is rightly cautious about what she says and the existence of the ubiquitous disc may end up being a double edged sword,  ( I would love a copy).

We can not claim to represent all buyers as things stand at the moment, and have to consider how this is widened ( we cannot just say we want Gary out unless we are sure that IS going to happen), we need to keep all doors open

I feel this might be better discussed on a select little board, which coincidentally I set up a few weeks ago for eventualities like this. Apply at

http://groups.msn.com/AntiGreedAssociation

It was at this meeting at Excel that the infamous secretly recorded CD was handed to us, as we have said before in earlier blog postings we were told to keep the CD secret and as minutes from the meeting had to be a true account of the meeting we could not post the minutes onto the private TRNC.AGA.BUYERS Bulletin Board as Gary Robb has access to this board. Otherwise he would then know about the existence of the CD that allegedly features him and others discussing their past and future business plans. 

 

It has since come to light that this CD of Gary Robb and “Friends” was allegedly handed to others by Cafer Gurcafer much earlier in the year (cusp 2006/07) when they were visiting the TRNC. The story goes that these people along with another AGA victim were handed this CD and told that it should be kept quiet and away from all AGA Victims. Perhaps Cafer Gurcafer did not really want the CD hidden and kept quiet after all and that’s why numerous copies (over a dozen) were handed out at Excel in March 2007

 

After the exhibition  as we said earlier we did not immediately post too much information on the private TRNC.AGA.BUYERS Bulletin Board as we did not quite know what to do with the sensitive information that we had been given.  One of the members of the ABAG committee from the Excel (one of those who soon disappeared) suggested that we sent out the minutes to each individual AGA victims (anyhow the addresses of those that w had) and they went on to draw up a list of those who they felt (with their connections) should not receive the minutes of the Excel meeting.  The person concerned with drawing up this infamous list deemed the list that they had compiled contained the names of people with an alleged dubious involvement with Gary Robb and AGA Development, again we were so green at the time, we should have seen right through this – we didn’t and followed this person’s advice – which looking back – hands up we were wrong

 

In February 2007 we heard that Mr Avci the TRNC Deputy Prime Minister was visiting the TRNC We decided to make an impromptu visit to  London to try to see him. We set up a protest outside the RNC London Office and were invited inside. We were promised by Mr Avci that he would make it a priority to be looked into and promised to come back to us with an answer – we heard nothing further despite handing over to him an email that we had been mistakenly copied into which proved government corruption.

I sent him numerous emails and attempted to make contact by phone but we heard nothing from him until I visited him with Mrs S Kocinski in August 2007. He began with telling me that Mr Mark Unwin,  who was also a client of his,  wished to issue proceedings against me for a website that I had built referring to warning people against a property purchase in the TRNC.  He went on to tell me that he had declined the request from Mr Unwin as I was also a client of his……………Sandra and I both told Gurkan that the website was here to stay until the Estate Agents, Lawyers and Developers cleaned up their act !!!!!! And Mr Unwin could do what he liked as there were only truths on the website and all provable.

 

A Long conversation ensued concluding that Gurkan hoped to take our case to court in Sept 07 (funny thought we were going in Sept 06) and we would have a judgement by Jan 08 latest, but everything was safe as we had an injunction on our property (where had we heard that one before). So I asked to see a copy of our injunction. Gurkan pointed out that his secretary was at lunch and he would email me a copy.  I asked him whether Sandra & I were safe whilst we were in North Cyprus  – his reply was     “Suzan as long as I am safe, then both of you will be “ ! 

 

During the autumn of 07 I had some phone conversations with Gurkan, in which he told me that Gary Robb had held a gun to him unless he accepted £30,000 from Gary, and various other stories which did sound rather fabricated – perhaps he was trying to impress us…..!!!!!!  I informed Gurkan that I was deliberating as to whether to ask Hasan Sunger to be my POA – Gurkan went ballistic………at this idea.

 

I then heard nothing further from Gurkan despite many phone calls and emails to him

 

On 15 October 2007, the TRNC Government representative, Serap Destegul made contact, she asked how much we would accept to ‘go away’. We explained that we all only wanted what we had put in to North Cyprus – we heard no more.

 

In December 2007 Gary Robb put together a protocol for all AGA Victims. There were 2 choices. Either you signed away your rights in favour of a refund bond. This would be paid when your property was built and sold to a 3rd party. The refund  would then be paid over 12 months. The other option was that you signed a protocol to promise to pay what was outstanding on your property over 12 months. This would then pay for the valley to be finished. There was a bank account set up to filter this money from the UK to an ex-pat buyers committee. The banks involved were HSBC and the Turkish Kibris KOOP bank (a bank within the HSBC in the TRNC) and this was in effect a government bank account. This bank account was set up in the UK by Serap Destegul the III secretary to the TRNC Offices (who used to work for Talat Kursat, Gary Robb’s original lawyer and whose son AKAN is an AGA Shareholder). £1.3 million passed through this account into the TRNC – but no work commenced, Another scam !!!!!!!!!!! 

 

On 2 February 2008 we heard that Mr Uzan the TRNC Finance Minster was visiting the TRNC We decided to make an appointment  to see him  London to try to see him. As with Mr Avci the previous year we were promised by Mr Uzan that he also would make it a priority to be looked into and promised to come back to us with an answer – we heard nothing further from him either.

 

Whilst we were there I asked Serap Destegul to contact Gurkan as after numerous times of requesting it I still hadn’t seen a copy of our injunction, which was paid for and taken out in Oct 2005 and to be perfectly honest I was starting to question Mr Gurkan’s integrity after all he had been very much unable to be contacted.  Within 24 hours I had contact from Gurkan informing me that there had been a mistake with the original October 2005 injunction and it had never been lodged, He went to court on 11 Feb 09 and had another injunction issued. I was sent a copy.  I forwarded this copy to a Turkish Friend for translation. He told me that the injunction was valid for a short time. I questioned this with Gurkan

 

On Feb 11 I decided to find where the £1000 went that was paid to Unwin in June 04 for our lawyer fee. Did it go to Talat Kursat or Gurkan ???????  After many emails between myself and Kursat it was found that Gurkan was indeed the original lawyer.  Gurkan denied all knowledge of ever receiving the £1000 from Unwins. At this point  I made contact with Hayran Unwin who looked back through Unwin’s records and found that £1000 had indeed been paid to Gurkan. On forwarding the mail from Unwins to Gurkan, he looked back into the archives and confirmed that he had received £1000 in June 2004 on our behalf from Unwins Estate Agents and said that it must have gone missing.

 

…..cont…..

https://agabuyersactiongroup.wordpress.com/2010/07/13/north-cyprus-the-amaranta-gary-robb-unwin-gurkan-story-2/

 

North Cyprus – The Amaranta – Gary Robb – Unwin – Gurkan Story

 

…cont…

 

On or around March 24 08 the courts made the injunction previously issued ‘absolute’.  This meant that the injunction is going to stay until the end of the case and does not need to be renewed.  The Judge ordered that injunction costs are paid by the defendants (gets calculated at the end of the case). I was also informed that on our second application which was filed in January (didn’t know that one !), there is a default of pleadings application  and since they had not filed a defence within legal time limits, the court ordered that they should do so on the 4th of April 08.  

 

On 11 April 08 I received a copy of the Injunction absolute and an email informing me that finally they had extracted a defence from the opposite party on the last court date with the pressure from the court under our default of pleadings application. I was given a copy of the defence from Gary Robb/AGA Development’s lawyer, but it was in Turkish. Apparently it was very similar to the ones Gurkan had received before. Basically it was blaming everyone else and refuting every submission they had made. I didn’t get a copy of the defence till 5^th May 08.

 

On July 4 I asked Gurkan for an update, I received an email me asking me whether I wanted him to approach AGA Development based on a settlement whereas they pay the money paid with 3% interest and get 12 months stay and 12 equal instalments thereafter. We declined this as we had got knowledge that they would not adhere to such a request. I also asked about the enforcement of judgements as Sandra had got a judgement but couldn’t find a lawyer to enforce it. The reply I received was that Gurkan will talk to Zeki Gunduz, Robb’s lawyer and see what he says. Gurkan also said that he could enforce a judgment given time. 

 

In the early house of 29 January 2009 I had a phone call from the TRNC Government representative informing me that Gary Robb (AGA) and his mother were on a plane bound for the UK. The government had by now had enough of his promises to finish Amaranta and had asked him to leave the TRNC. He was met at Stansted by Cleveland Police (airside) and taken into custody – where he remains on remand. We hoped that this may spur the government into action – but no, to date they still have done nothing.

 

After many emails asking about our judgement and when it would be enforced  I heard nothing further from Gurkan until May 09 after  as said earlier sending him many many emails over the year. Then I finally got a reply. The email informed us that there was news on our case. Apparently the defendants AND their lawyers have failed to attend to court. (What they left it a year before doing anything ???) The judge asked Gurkan to proceed and produce all the exhibits to the court and prove our case on the 20th May which is what he intended to do. We were told that we had to pay some contract Tax – This was the fist we had ever heard of such a Tax and after the financial disaster of this saga that has befallen us and the very fact we had been paying out for the past 4 years on a mortgage for something we didn’t have,  the fact that my husband had since become a victim of Parkinson’s Disease (due to the stress of what he had been subjected to with this mess) we just didn’t have the finances to pay this £1500 that had appeared from nowhere (Gurkan had NEVER EVER mentioned this and we would swear on everything we own to this fact) and our contract had already been broken by the vendor in July 05.. We decided to get a UK Barrister to formulate a letter  from us offering to pay any outstanding taxes with interest when our judgement had been enforced and fully satisfied.  This letter was sent to Gurkan for use in court and copies were sent to the FCO and our MP

 

Once again the lines of communication went dead – there was no explanation as to what had happened on May 20 even if it ever went to court as by now I felt that Gurkan was not the man he pretended to be and sheer desperation led me to once again send the same email over and over again, only this time I copied in the UK authorities. This action resulted in a phone call from Serap Destegul at the TRNC London Office on 1 October informing me that Gurkan was very upset I was copying others that were in authority  into his emails. She suggested I send him a nice letter requesting information (Pass the sick bucket !)  Which I duly did and sent on October 3 09.

 

Wow I was then informed that on 6 October (3 days after my nice request) Gurkan appeared to court on our behalf. The judge adjourned the case to 23 October 09 to enable Gary Robb’s lawyers to circulate a notice in a UK newspaper that they are withdrawing from his representation. The court would then ask Gurkan to prove the case afterwards and obtain a judgment. – Surely this was what had happened in September 06 …….and all the other times Gurkan went to court  ! Then we were informed that after 5 long years that Gurkan may have the following problems

1.       The court may not accept the testimony from our POA only as good proof and may dismiss the case.

2.       The contract may (highly likely that it will not) not be admitted as evidence and again the court may dismiss the case as lacking enough evidence.

 

This case not been in and out of court since October 2005 !!!!! And it’s only now that they may not accept any proof via the contract – what cr*p apparently the judge needs to be satisfied this is a genuine case.

 

To date Gurkan had appeared only as our lawyers. If we couldn’t come on the proof day (23^rd October)  Gurkan needed his secretary (appointed as our POA) to testify on our behalf.  Apparently many things she would testify would be hearsay and if  she was asked about any detail of events, naturally, she would not be able to give any detail. Generally representative testimony is Ok. However, considering that the court would be hearing this in Gary Robb’s absence it was probable that they would increase the standard to be a satisfied that this was not a bogus claim and is genuine.  We also were informed that the letter we had submitted to the courts regarding our intention to pay the contract tax with interest after our judgement had been enforced  wouldn’t be accepted unless we had it witnessed and stamped by the TRNC authorities. We made a special trip to the TRNC London office with our letter and passports, we paid £42 to have the plea letter stamped and witnessed by Serap Destegul. We then had this letter hand delivered to Gurkan on 21 October 09 – to be presented at court. Now they were in possession of a North Cyprus officially stamped letter of our intention to pay any outstanding Taxes, even though we knew nothing about this tax until the May 09.

 

At this point we decided to appoint a British POA who knew us and the case inside out. The guy we chose lived in Girne and had done for many years,  I emailed Gurkan no less than 10 times the details of our new POA. He didn’t make contact with the POA or us once, instead after sending him am email on the day of the court hearing he replied….that the court had adjourned all cases for proof till 4th December. It also came to our attention that Gurkan had an immense dislike of the chap we chose to be our POA. The adjournment was to enable Gary Robb’s lawyers to inform him properly about their withdrawal. After this was done the court was going to order refunds + interest in all/many cases and charge the properties simultaneously with these orders.  Good job we didn’t make a special trip to give our own evidence !!!!  No news or communication until 4pm Friday December 18 09, we were told that our case would be in court on Monday 21…..so what about our POA……. Nice – All cases to be heard the most important week in the Christian calendar and 5 years since we first took the legal route as advised by the British High Commission and the FCO !!!

 

Once again the lines of communication went silent until we received this…..

 

This is an update on the case against AGA Development Ltd. and Gary John Robb. We are please to advise you that we have appeared before the court on the 12th of January 2010 to prove your case.  We have produced all the documents and receipts and the letters to the judge and after arguing your case, the court has ordered the refund of £49,232.00 plus interest to you however the judge has directed the court registry that unless the stamp duty on the contract of sale is paid and provided to the registry, the judgment is not to be released.   Therefore unless the stamp duty is paid, we will not be able to obtain the judgment. The stamp duty is 1.5% of the contract value, as previously communicated.  We need the judgment to register it on the properties

 

We asked the following of Gurkan, I have added their answers in red

 

1.  How long would it take to enforce a judgement

A. Enforcement of a judgement is normally against the moveable and immovable assests of the defendant.

2.  How long would it take for the judgement to be satisfied after its enforcement

A. We do not know of any moveable assets so we will proceed to execute it against the immovables through the L.R.O., . To take a list of how many memorandums are registered on a plot of building, we will need to conduct an official L.R. search

3. We are led to believe that there are now a great many memorandums and judgements issued against AGA development now, apparently including a total of £4 million lodged by former partners and associates of Mr Robb, how can we be sure that there would be sufficient assets to go round ?

A. We do not know of any 4 million pounds judgement.

4. Can you guarantee that we would have our judgement fully satisfied to its entirety and if not what would happen then ?

A. We cannot gaurantee execution in full.   In executing writs against immovable properties registered in the name of a private person, ranking is based on the date of the registration of judgment.   In companies, liquidation is conducted and all creditors are paid on pro-rata bases

5. Was the legal letter witnessed stamped by the TRNC London Office handed to the courts as our full intention to pay all taxes with interest due upon the satisfying of the judgement

A. We wanted to hand the letter in, however the judge did not allow it, nevertheless we did proceed to advise the court the contents of your letter

 

I had a feeling that the letter was never presented, because no civilised court in the world would not allow such an honest request especially after what the AGA victims had been subjected to.  Also there is another victim who has a different lawyer who has been told that he did not have to pay contract tax as the contract had been broken in the first place by Robb & AGA, so why one rule for one and a different for others with lawyers outside Girne ????? I have copies of  threatening emails that have been sent to other AGA victims (vulnerable OAP’s) from Girne based lawyers telling them to pay money or loose everything,  there are hardly any AGA victims that were made aware of this Tax – and like us were completely in the dark until it came to court. So why did Gurkan not tell us in Jan 06 when we first went to court !!!!  Or did it go to court. In our opinion, Lies, Lies and More lies…….Some even met with the Head of the BAR Assoc.,  (Mr Inan) at his house here in  London in 2008 but the problem was ignored as usual.

 

We went to Gary Robb’s sentencing on July 8 2010 in Middleborough, he got 5 years for the drug offences, although he will only serve another 1 years or so at least the authorities have time to build up anymore cases they may have waiting in the wings.

 

It is now July 13 10 and we haven’t heard a word from our lawyer since March 4^th 2010, even though the latest paper reports are that Amaranta Valley is to be auctioned. But then we are not surprised. 

 

We have now joined a group action of a lawsuit against HSBC and the TRNC which will be filed in the USA, the draft of the lawsuit is now ready and we are hopeful that it will be filed soon. Anyone wishing to join the lawsuit just sent an email to

 

agabuyersactiongroup@yahoo.co.uk

 

The only initial outlay is $300  (£180) an a percentage of any award that you may receive, rather like a no win – no fee basis.

 

This is where we are at the moment. This is only a brief resume of what has happened. I have left out some of the gossip that Gurkan has told us over the years also. I have also omitted stories/evidence we hold of the double selling that were initiated by at least one well know Girne lawyer on more than one occasion.

 

We as ABAG hold many details of various bank accounts held by those involved in this alleged property fraud. The one thing all these banks have in common is that they are either HSBC, Midland Bank (HSBC), Lloyds or the accounts are a subsidiary within these international banks

 

More to follow……..

 

 

 

NORTH CYPRUS – AMARANTA UP FOR AUCTION

North Cyprus – Gary Robb has received a custodial sentence.

Yum…… McDonald’s breakfast as ABAG on Tour all met at the McDonalds near to the courts. There were 12 of us in all to see Gary Robb and stare at the  (blue) monkey in the cage/dock

 

We all trooped into the court building and gathered around court number 8. 10.30 was the allotted time and we had amassed at 9.45 just to ensure that we got the seats, after all after 5 years of cr*p from this man and his associates good seats would be something that we were entitled to.

 

A while later a short bald chap wearing a cromby (big winter coat for all those who don’t know what a cromby is). Outside it was 75 degrees and inside not much cooler, but this chap must have been cold stood standing in a damn great coat with hands firmly entrenched in pockets (perhaps he could not afford gloves), we think he was trying to look menacing – more like Dennis the Mennis  !. This was Gary Robb’s brother James Robb ! Only took his hands out of his pocket to take a drink from a bottle of water.  Gary’s older son from a previous marriage also attended, along with some of Gary’s acquaintances.  Much merriment ensued as the case was delayed and we all had to hang around for 2 hours.

 

We were informed that there were only 16 seats available in the court and that we could have 8 from each side. – Bride & Groom sprung to mind. We picked our allotted 8 and the opposition could only rustle up 7. We were in 1^st – yep we had precedent over family and the Gary Gang were resigned to sitting at the rear of us – his victims. The court case began with a lengthy resume of what had occurred:-

 

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/crime/8263232.Fugitive_businessman_jailed_for_drug_offences/

 

A FUGITIVE businessman wanted on drugs charges who escaped justice for 12 years after he fled abroad was last night beginning a jail sentence for his crimes.

 

Former nightclub boss Gary Robb was jailed for five years at Teesside Crown Court after previously admitting two charges of permitting premises to be used for the supply of controlled drugs, namely ecstasy, amphetamine and cannabis, between May 1994 and February 1996.

 

Cleveland Police said Robb’s jailing had “closed the chapter” on a long-running investigation which began in the mid-Nineties with a series of undercover operations at the former Colosseum nightclub, in Norton Road, Stockton.

 

However Robb, who grinned as he was jailed by Judge George Moorhouse, will only serve half of his sentence before being freed, while 525 days he had already spent in custody will be deducted, meaning he could leave prison in about a year’s time.

 

The 47-year-old property developer went on trial at Teesside Crown Court in September 1997, but skipped bail and fled to the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, where he remained until January last year.

 

Ben Nolan, prosecuting, said that Robb was only returned when the authorities in Cyprus – with whom the UK has no formal extradition treaty – deemed him “persona non grata” and he was arrested by police on arrival at Stansted Airport.

 

Robb bought the nightclub premises after a previous club in Sunderland was destroyed by an arson attack. The Colosseum, which attracted up to 1,000 people a night on Friday and Saturdays, became a mecca for “ravers” paying between £10 and £20 each for admission.

 

Mr Nolan described how Robb used a network of companies to hide the fact that he owned the club and employed a manager, friend and confidant Trevor Ward – who later turned prosecution witness – even though he controlled all the transactions.

 

He said Robb’s brother Jimmy – who was later jailed for 12 years and was in the public gallery yesterday – was responsible for employing a “syndicate” of drug dealers at the venue who sold ecstasy tablets for £13 each to clubbers along with £5 amphetamine wraps.

 

Mr Nolan said police purporting to be customers infiltrated the club, adding: “They quickly established that the club was being used as a cover for drug dealing.”

 

However, the Robb brothers were only arrested following a police raid on February 3, 1996 in which ecstasy, amphetamine and cannabis with a total street value of £15,000 was seized.

 

Prior to that, a young woman had collapsed and was taken to hospital after taking an ecstasy tablet at the venue, although she survived.

 

Mr Nolan said that Mr Ward told the police that 80 per cent of the Colosseum’s customers were routinely buying drugs along with water and soft drinks which only added to its profitability.

 

Water taps were turned off at the club, while security staff had strict instructions to seize any drugs being taken into the club so customers would not buy their own.

 

Charles Bott, for Robb, whose last UK address was West Road, Denton Burn, Newcastle, said there was no evidence that he received a proportion of the drug dealing proceeds, which were collected by Jimmy Robb.

 

Both the prosecution and Judge Moorhouse accepted that Robb had only benefited from the admission proceeds that were taken on the door.

 

After the hearing, Detective Chief Superintendent Stuart Swinson, of Cleveland Police, said: “I am pleased that justice has been served and Gary Robb has received a custodial sentence.

 

“This has closed the chapter on this investigation which has been such a complex and protracted inquiry.”

 

 

 

We all trooped out of the court smiling into thew waiting arms of reporters, it may not have been a long sentence but now the Drugs case has been concluded, we wonder what else the authorities have up their

sleeves for Mr Gary Robb to answer to !!!!!

 

ABAG