SEC moves to serve Craig Grant via email/publication
The SEC has been unable to locate Craig Grant for service in Jamaica.
As an alternative, the regulator now seeks permission to effect service via email and publication.
The SEC sued Grant in May 2021. The regulator seeks to recover over $1.3 million, which Grant acquired as one of BitConnect’s top promoters.
Upon learning of the SEC’s lawsuit against him, Craig Grant fled the US for Jamaica.
There the SEC has been unable to enlist the assistance of Jamaican authorities, as Jamaica is not a signatory to the Hague Convention.
Independent attempts to locate Grant initially led to a residence in Spanish Town.
Despite the individual served being of roughly the same age as Grant and having the same three initials, that turned out to be a dead-end.
Renewed efforts to locate Grant saw the SEC narrow his location down to Rock Spring, Trelawny Parish.
As explained by the SEC;
Rock Spring, Trelawny, with largely unpaved roads and with residences lacking specific street and house addresses.
Despite a process servers best efforts to canvas Rock Spring, Grant continues to evade the SEC.
On February 22nd the SEC requested permission to serve Grant via email and publication.
Service on Grant by email comports with constitutional notions of due process while promoting the speedy administration of justice.
The SEC argues service by publication is appropriate in this case, as it’s unlikely Grant is unaware of the SEC’s lawsuit.
there is at least a high likelihood that Grant has knowledge of this lawsuit because the Commission emailed him a courtesy copy of the Complaint upon filing it and Grant appears to have left the United States for Jamaica shortly thereafter.
In addition, the filing of this case was widely reported.
In addition to that, I can confirm Grant is an avid reader of BehindMLM.
Grant has been quick to delete YouTube videos referenced on BehindMLM in the past. Just recently we noted Grant going by “Dulse Poger” on Twitter.
Within ~24 hrs of that article going live, Grant changed his Twitter handle to “Nibiru”:
One interesting claim made by the SEC’s Jamaican process server is that Grant is living with his spouse in Jamaica.
Sometime between January 14 and 21, 2022, agent discovered that Craig Anthony Grant is married.
The agent informed me that Craig Anthony Grant resided with his spouse in Rock Spring.
I’m not sure how reliable this information is.
I’m aware Grant married Victoria Misacova in the 2000s.
Vicky, as she was known, met Grant through an online dating service.
As recounted by Grant;
I was deeply in love with the intentions to marry Vicky, this was the easiest if not only way Vicky could get a visa to live in Miami with me.
In the months prior I had many conversations with Vicky about who I am, and she knew I did not believe in marriage. I explained to her that I just started making all this money and I plan to do allot [sic] of traveling and partying, and that she would not be the only woman in my life.
Grant and Misacova married in July 2000. What followed was a complicated relationship between Grant, Vicky, escorts and other girlfriends.
One of those girlfriends was Yuliana Avalos, aka Julie, whom Grant first met several years prior.
Over 2002 and 2003 Grant would father his second and third children; two sons, one from Vicky and one from Julie.
Vicky and Grant split in 2004. I’m unclear on whether they ever got divorced.
Grant and Julie continued on and remain together. They never married.
As the SEC found out when they attempted service, Grant abandoned Julie and his son in Florida when he fled for Jamaica.
The Commission first attempted service on Grant at his address in Kissimmee, Florida in early June 2021, but was advised by his former girlfriend at that address that he had relocated to Jamaica (at an unknown address).
Julie is not only still with Grant, she’d travelled with Grant to his grandmother’s property more than enough times to know where it is.
We know Grant and Julie are still together, as after he fled, Grant would regularly upload voice calls to Julie and post them to one of his YouTube channels.
Grant deleted those videos in late 2021, shortly after BehindMLM reported Grant was likely facing indictment in the US.
In any event unless Julie has left the US sometime between December 2021 and now, Grant is living by himself.
The property adjacent to where he’s staying belongs to his grandmother. Whether she’s still alive is unclear.
Possible scenarios that come to mind are
- Grant has married Julie and she’s moved to Jamaica; or
- There’s some shenanigans going on with government records, making it look like Grant is living with a spouse when he isn’t.
In any event the SEC have requested permission to effect service through three newspapers available in Jamaica.
If approved, the SEC will publish a notice directed at Grant
once weekly for four consecutive weeks, in the Jamaica publications Jamaica Observer and The Gleaner, and in the International New York Times.
The Commission understands that each of these publications is widely circulated in Jamaica.
A decision on the SEC’s motion remains pending at time of publication.
Update 17th March 2022 – The SEC was given permission to serve Grant via publication on March 1st.
Update 20th June 2022 – On June 17th the SEC filed a motion informing the court that service by publication on Grant is complete.
The court has scheduled a Status Conference for June 30th.
Update 2nd July 2022 – On June 23rd the court canceled the scheduled June 30th Status Conference:
The conference scheduled for June 30, 2022, is canceled.
As above, no explanation for the cancellation was given.
I’m aware of what Grant’s property looks like in Jamaica. Couldn’t help myself and scoured satellite maps looking for a match.
Rock Springs isn’t that large. One would think finding a shack on one side of the road, a red roofed house on the other, attached to a larger multi-story with a cleared field out back wouldn’t be too hard… but uh yeah. Lost a few hours to that today.
Bing was best for clarity bang for buck clarity wise. Yandex is OK but hard to tell where you are.
What happened here? All the docket entries are gone?
pacermonitor.com/public/case/40433686/Securities_and_Exchange_Commission_v_Brown_et_al
Looks like a technical error. I just checked Pacer and the filing numbers are missing.
Well on the bright side it does give the number to dial in and listen on their stuff i guess?
Article updated with SEC confirmation of service on Grant and June 30th Status Conference.
Article updated noting cancellation of June 30th Status Conference.
Hey Oz, SEC case had an update where there was a stay of motion document including Michael Noble. Any chance you can make a post about that document and what it means?
It seems the DOJ is still going after people even though they for some reason haven’t indicted them yet?
Next scheduled check was Nov 15th.
Had a look and its just an order adding Noble to the SEC promoter case stay.
The order corrects the error above. Brown, Grant and/or Noble still appear to be the subject of an ongoing criminal investigation.
How long that’s going to drag on for is unclear but seeing as Grant is hiding out in Trelawny Parish, Jamaica (if I know exactly where he is then the DOJ knows exactly where he is), I’m assuming the delay is related to Khumbhani’s whereabouts.
Brown and Noble are in the US.
It could be issues with Jamaican authorities as Grant’s arrest shouldn’t be contingent on Khumbhani’s capture.
On the other hand, Grant thinks he’s gotten away with it and isn’t going anywhere so there’s no hurry I guess.
I believe Satish got re-arrested in India over the last couple months. I saw a few articles where someone else from india sued or pressed charges against him and he was picked up but I could be wrong.
Is there a docket besides Arcaros for the US vs Grant / brown / Noble?
Haven’t seen anything on Satish. He’s been arrested in India a few times.
Idiots keep letting him go and he dicks off to Dubai each time.
Seeing as there’s no official case against Grant, Brown and Noble there’s no case no. that I’m aware of. We won’t get one till they pull the trigger.
I don’t know if it means anything but Craig Grant deleted his active Twitter account sometime over the past month.
edit: It’s back as of ~April 23rd.
edit: And it’s gone again (April 30th).
edit: And it’s back. From what I can gather this is related to Grant’s mistress.
Perhaps having a scorned long-term partner is too much of a liability. So mistress gone.