WANTED: ANTHONY GATEHOUSE

Great news! This is what a lot of people have been waiting a very long time to hear. It should be made clear that this action is regarding clients' money and not the recovery of lost commissions or unpaid wages and redundancies.

I'll get a picture up of Tony Gatehouse on the Victims of Medsea Facebook page.

Spain, England, Ireland or the Dominican Republic, we WILL track him down. This is the time for clients to be going to the police as they will be more willing to act once it has reached this stage. Well done 'Client' and Senor Perez!

I have been in talks with the Scottish Crime and Drugs Enforcement Agency (SCDEA) which communicates with partners in the UK and overseas. They have recently been successful in securing millions in laundered money from criminal businessmen. I would advise anyone to go to the police if you have lost money to assist in a much wider investigation. You will probably be told it's a civil matter, but don't be put off as it is now in the interests of cash-strapped European governments to be more vigilant in such matters. It is a complex web that has to be unravelled. AIM PLC, which Medsea PLC became after directors Gatehouse and Martinez failed to pay their staff redundancies, yet creamed off money for themselves before jumping ship, now appears to have been suspended by the Stock Exchange under Article 15. As someone who bought shares when it was Medsea told me: "This means even more money down the black hole as they deprove people of their shares!" As an interesting aside, clicking on AIM's corporate website goes to Medsea's pages. This same agency director told me: "I remember Tony Gatehouse putting his arm round my shoulder telling me my money would be well invested."

To help our ongoing investigation, were you ever told, as an agency, to accept cash payments paid in €500 notes? Can you corroborate evidence against Gatehouse and Martinez that they stashed money behind the polystyrene tiles of the accountants' office ceiling? Make contact with Victims of Medsea on Facebook.

This message was last edited by FairTradeSpain on 09/06/2010.

I have today had communication with the Companies Investigation Branch (CIB) on my 5-page submission to them. I am prepared to fully co-operate with them in an investgation and am hopeful that they will be turning their attention to Gatehouse and the dealings of Medsea PLC (now AIM PLC). I'm also hopeful that the CIB will notify the Spanish and Italian police when they begin their investigation so that Medsea Group of companies in Spain and Bella Calabria SRL and Giambrone & Law are also investigated. (I understand lawyer David Perez is about to launch criminal action on behalf of some clients in Spain.) 

Companies Investigations Branch, 21 Bloomsbury Street, London WC1B 3SS enquiry@cib.gsi.gov.uk

It is within our contract - as it is with other agencies with contracts with Medsea - for Medsea to administer any completion. We don't get involved with completions as this has to be administered by Medsea's after sales. (Or lack of, as we now know). We sent letters to our clients informing them of problems with Medsea. Even today we have not been given any formal notification of Medsea's status. We know the company has not gone into liquidation although the office is closed. I don't usually visit this site and wasn't notified of your posting, but if you want to call me I will do what I can to help you.

Medsea have succeeded in preventing Karen Mulcahy and William Andrews, (former Medsea commercial managers), from claiming thousands in unpaid wages from the PLC. The two-day tribunal hearing in Bristol, Mulcahy & Andrews v Medsea PLC/SL ended on the first day, 26 October 2009. However, the pair have won their case against Medsea SL, the Spanish company group.