Introduction
I intended to start today a two-part column on the recent disclosures on Hand-in-Hand Trust Corporation Inc. I wanted to evaluate the annual reports of the company and do an examination of the role played or not played by Mr Winston Brassington and his brother Jonathan Brassington in what the first Brassington described as “saving the company from going down the Clico road.” Ideally I would have preferred to consider the company’s financial position prior to its becoming another victim of Alan Stanford’s high profile Ponzi schemes, its performance since then and its current financial position, before addressing the role of the Brassingtons.
I am in possession of the company’s 2011 annual return, report and audited financial statements which I think raise some serious questions which in the interest of the public and more specifically of depositors of money in HIHT need to be answered. But aware that too many unanswered questions about a financial business can have serious consequences, including the loss of confidence in the institution, I will seek first some clarification