Dr. Peter Robinson - Mr. Dion Walker Investment Fraud!!! Investor claims to be a cash investor out of the UK. Theft, Misrepresentation, Securities Fraud, Banking Fraud. Internet

We are a US Developer and found what seemed to be a viable investor for some local projects that we are looking to raise fund to develop.  The investor named himself Dr. Peter Robinson and claims to be operating out of London, UK.  He is represented by a Mr. Dion Walker and a Mr. Bernard Hawkins, who both reside in London as well.

Heres how it went down.  We located an investor on a usually secure investor website, www.gobignetwork.com. We had communications with the investor for weeks.  We conducted much due diligence and even received a proof of funds from Mr. Walker and Dr. Robinson that we requested.  Dr. Robinson offered us a loan agreement for $6,000,000.00 US on a 5 year term at 7% interest.  Mr. Walker and Dr. Robinson requested that we come to London to finalize the transaction.  They stated that we had to be there to notarize the documents in a court of law and then obtain the release of the funds for deposit in Citigroup PLC, Canada Square at Canary Wharf in the Financial District of London.  In order to obtain safe and secure delivery of the funds to the bank, they requested a payment of 5,200 Pounds which is about 9,000 US.  At this time we booked our trip and went to London to finalize the business transaction. 

Once we arrived in London they had a driver pick us up and take us to what we were told was going to be Mr. Walker office.  Dion Walker allegedly represents a company called Maxi Microsoft Securities LTD.  Once the car picked us up they did not take us to the office that we were supposed to go.  Instead they took us to an apartment named Europa House at 79A Randolph Avenue in the North side of London, Westminster to be exact.  We were at this point not comfortable with the transaction and were hesitant to go in.  They walked us to a room on the second floor, apartment 6.  The area was in a nicer high-end part of town and the building seemed to be secure.  They stated to get us in the room that they had to take extra security precautions due to the sensitivity of the cash transaction.  We sit down in the room.  Mr. Walker and Mr. Hawkins are present.  They reported that Dr. Robinson, who was supposed to be there with us for the transaction, had some medical issues to handle with his wife.  At this time they demanded the 5,200 pounds to pay the company to safely deliver the funds to the location for us to count and then deposit in the bank to wire to our designated account.  We became very fearful in that Mr. Hawkins and Mr. Walker became very demanding and we were afraid that if we did not turn over the funds, something might happen to us.  Mr. Hawkins was acting as a representative of a company named ADP Organization.  He issued a receipt to us for the funds and left for about 15 minutes.  Upon his return, he brought in a trunk that from what they said was one of two trunks of cash, each containing $3,000,000.00 US.  Mr. Hawkins opened the trunk and started pulling out large sums of packed cash.  While Mr. Hawkins was gone, Mr. Walker was going through the loan agreements, supporting documents, our wire information, and other details related to the funding of our transaction. 

Once the trunk was open, to what seemed to be to their surprise the cash was so called security-coded.  It was covered with what appeared to be a white powdery substance and had a number stamped on each side of the front of a $100 bill.  They called Dr. Robinson and he said that he did have the funds security-coded for his protection.  The bills were $100.00 US and had a numbered coding system on them.  The trunk contained typewritten instructions for removing the security coding.  To do so, the box contained what they said was just enough chemical to de-code or wash 2 of the bills.  Mr. Hawkins then went through the process of de-coding the funds.  From here they told us that we could not go to the bank with the armored cars and make the deposit.  They said that they would need two hours the next morning to de-code the remainder of the $6,000,000.00.  We were told that once they finished with the solvent in removing the security coating, we would meet at Citibank the next morning at 10:00 a.m. to finalized the transaction.  Once we saw the funds, and that they were sequentially numbered, we knew at that point that they must have come from an origin that was most likely illegal.  We then asked to see the other trunk to verify that the entire $6,000,000 was there.  Mr. Hawkins informed us that the other trunk was in the vault until they went to the bank the next morning. 

At this time we posed some questions before they hurried us out and returned us to our hotel.  One question was how they were going to deposit the funds and provide source of origin on the funds to our bank and the U.S. government.  Mr. Walker answered and stated that Mr. Hawkins is a diplomat from Haiti, and that under his diplomatic immunity he could deposit and wire the funds from the UK to the US.  Mr. Walker further stated that the funds would be deposited into what he called a transit account and would move through diplomatic channels.  When asked who the banker was at Citigroup PLC, Mr. Walker merely responded that he had a contact there that could facilitate the transaction.  We asked him for the number of the banker so that we could follow up and verify.  Mr. Walker stated that due to the sensitivity of the transaction, he could not give out the information.  At this time, we became even more fearful that we would not be able to get out of there if we continued to ask questions, so we allowed the car to take us back to our hotel. 

We left and went to our hotel.  We were very skeptical of this transaction at this point and awaited the call in the morning.  The next morning, we received a call from Mr. Hawkins stating that to get enough of the chemical Methylene 232  to wash the funds that they would need 54,500 pounds to do so, which is almost S100,000 US.  We stated that this new turn of events in the transaction were unacceptable and that we were cancelling the transaction.  We also demanded the return of the 5,200 pounds that we paid for delivery of the funds since the funds were never delivered.  We stated that Dr. Robinson should pay for the solution to clean the funds since he put the security coating on the bills.  This person, conducting a $6 million loan transaction told us that he did not have access to that amount in liquid assets, which was very incredulous.  Dr. Robinson and Mr. Walker contacted us numerous times and stated that they were willing to take the funds off of our loan amount and lower our interest rate if we would wire over the new demand amount.  They were offering anything to get us to pay the money.  Mr. Hawkins even stated that he would reduce the initial cost of the chemical solution in half if we would just pay him the money upfront.  We simply refused and demanded the refund for the delivery of funds, which were for services that were never provided.  We did not receive our refund and preceded to file a report with the local legal authorities concerning the fraud and theft.