'TVI Express' hides an international criminal racket, so why are only national, civil trade regulators investigating ?

Shyam 

Your free-thinking readers will recall that, earlier this year, Mr. Kasey Chang was banned from posting his generally obstructive, inaccurate and misleading comments on Corporate Frauds Watch, after he posted (on one of his own Blogs) a stream of false and defamatory statements about me. Ignoring your clear decision, Mr. Chang has now contacted CFW again, this time to inform us that 'South Africa' (presumeably, he means a South African Journalist, Bongani Mthethwa, working for the 'SA Sunday Times' ) 'named Tarun Trikha as the head of the TVI Express Scam.' 

For Mr. Chang's information, Corporate Frauds Watch has been closely-monitoring what was originally reported in the mainstream South African media many months ago, concerning 'TVI Express'.  http://www.timeslive.co.za/world/2011/08/07/worldwide-probe-into-r1bn-scheme

Your free-thinking readers will observe that the Journalist who offered this definitive opinion of Tarun Trikha, only interviewed persons in South Africa who were described as 'State-appointed forensic auditors' and 'attorneys and forensic investigators working for the Reserve Bank of South Africa.' It was also reported that investigators had been consulted internationally, as well as persons described as 'former representatives of TVI Express' (whoever they might be). Based on these interviews, it was reported that it has been established in S. Africa that:TVI Express had more than 50,000 members in S. Africa (in August 2011)

Twenty-three different South African bank accounts, associated or linked to TVI Express, had been uncovered by investigators;

More than Rand 144-million worth of cash transactions and investments had been identified through the bank accounts and paper work. The investigators said they expected the figure to increase quite significantly in the course of the investigation;

On average, investors had paid between Rand 2,700 and Rand 21,600 into the scheme;

Some early investors had been paid out, receiving as much as Rand 108000;

An estimated 70,000 people were visiting the company's website daily;

TVI Express was under investigation for violating consumer protection laws in Britain, China and other parts of Asia; and The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), the country's consumer protection watchdog, had banned all TVI Express operations.

In reality, what has been established by this less-than intellectually-rigorous S. African journalist, Bongani Mthethwa, is that a bunch of diverse, civil trade regulators in various countries (who are apparently neither expert in organized crime nor pernicious cultism) have followed their noses and independently discovered that Tarun Trikha is officially-listed as the owner of the demonstrably-counterfeit corporate structure known as 'TVI Express'.  Personally, I find it very difficult to believe that a 27 year old Indian is the sole and unique person reponsible for organizing this unoriginal, multi-billion dollar, global racket. Thus, I stand by my recent analysis - almost anyone could now be lurking behind 'TVI Express,' or any other 'MLM income opportunity' racket, including a terrorist group or a non-democratic regime. Probably, the last people who should be tasked with investigating isolated examples of this criminogenic phenomenon, are mainstream journalists and civil trade regulators, because (to date) they have usually been a significant part of the problem, and not the solution to it.

David Brear (copyright 2011)