OT: look up Neil Rutt (aka pitts77h on iHub) on Google - scumbag & criminal
FEDERAL sheriffs have been given the go-ahead to start seizing the luxury home and cars owned by Estonian consul Neil (Stewart) Ruut and his wife Cindy (Michelle Ruut,) who continue to defy court orders to pay back tens of thousands of dollars they ripped off workers.
In another major development, the Estonian Foreign Affairs Ministry has told the Mercury it will revoke Mr Ruut's honorary consul licence following a string of media articles about the breach.
The resolution, made on February 16 but issued earlier this month, has removed his consul title, with all Estonian citizens in Tasmania now encouraged to take any inquiry to the Estonian Consulate in Sydney.
In one of Australia's largest individual penalties for workplace breaches, last year Mr and Mrs Ruut were found to have underpaid 47 employees $176,000 when they owned Security Protection Services Pty Ltd.
The rip-off was uncovered during a national security industry "sting" by the Fair Work Ombudsman in 2008 and early 2009.
In June last year, they still had more than $134,000 owing to the workers and were given 60 days to pay up. Yesterday it was confirmed a warrant of seizure and sale had officially been forwarded to federal marshal David Watson in Canberra.
Last month, federal magistrate Frank Turner ordered all of the relevant documents relating to assets owned by the Ruuts, and total amounts outstanding, to be sent to the court.
Although Mr Watson was unable to discuss specific matters relating to any case, he told the Mercury about the steps he would now take to obtain money owed following a court decision.
Mr Watson, who has jurisdiction across the nation, will contact local police, sheriffs or bailiffs and issue them with the warrant.
He said the local authorities would then attempt to make contact with the debtor but if contact failed property such as houses or cars could be advertised and sold without the owner's involvement.
In other cases where the money owing is a smaller amount, assets are taken from the home until the amount of debt has been wiped.
That includes cars, boats and other assets.
"Sometimes we don't need to even be on the property, we can just advertise a house for example and sell it," Mr Watson said. The owner had no option but to comply.
In sentencing the couple last year, Mr Turner labelled them "serial offenders" who had on several occasions started companies and underpaid workers before going into insolvency to avoid paying their fines.
Mr Turner said different security companies operated by the Ruuts during the past 15 years had landed them in the Tasmanian Industrial Commission four times. Each case had resulted in the commission ordering underpaid workers be paid thousands of dollars.
Soon after the Ruuts were advised by the Fair Work Ombudsman that they were being investigated for more than 140 breaches, they leased two luxury vehicles to drain the company of funds.
source:
http://investorshangout.com/post/view?id=2146456
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Paul Batista Calls for Criminal investigation of Drunken Sailor, aka Adrian Smith and Neil Ruut
Paul Batista
To
Me
Today at 5:02 PM
Because of my television appearances over the last twenty years, the several books I have written and many of the genuinely high profile cases I've been involved in, there are at least 500 entries describing me and my activities on Google and the other search engines. 99.95 percent of them are favorable.
Yet this lunatic, Drunken Sailor and his various aliases and allies, continues to post malicious lies about me. Why? For the simple reason that I have represented Empire Energy Corporation, a wholly legitimate oil and gas drilling company based in Tasmania, and its Chief Executive, Malcolm Bendall, for four years in a straightforward civil case in New York. Ironically, it is an ongoing case in which I have been so far successful every step of the way.
I have no idea who is paying Drunken Sailor and the other aliases or allies he uses to mount this malicious and sustained assault on my clients' integrity and the integrity of anyone and everyone associated with Empire Energy and Malcolm Bendall. And, of course, my integrity, simply because I have mounted a thus far successful defense against the claims of two Chinese conglomerates operating behind the veil of a non-functioning entity named Smart Win, which is nothing more than a name on the door of an office in Hong Kong.
As I understand it, Drunken Sailor, who claims to be one Adrian Smith but who is likely to be a fugitive from Australian justice officials named Neil Ruut, apparently lives in England. In the past, I've ignored his absurd negative commentary about me because he is so obviously a deranged crank whose attacks on me are self evidently absurd. For me to address him or respond to him would be like a lion bothering with a gnat.
But now that he is resorting to outright lies -- including the blatantly false claim that I no longer have a license to practice law -- I would do everything in my power to bring him to justice in the United States, including a request for criminal prosecution, if he were here.
But we are dealing with a coward who projects many false identities to malign me and other completely honorable men who have any connection at all to Empire Energy or Mr. Bendall. If there are any steps that can be taken in England to track down the malignant coward, punish him and have the slate wiped clean, it would be a public service.
source:
http://investorshangout.com/post/view?id=2146456
FEDERAL sheriffs have been given the go-ahead to start seizing the luxury home and cars owned by Estonian consul Neil (Stewart) Ruut and his wife Cindy (Michelle Ruut,) who continue to defy court orders to pay back tens of thousands of dollars they ripped off workers.
In another major development, the Estonian Foreign Affairs Ministry has told the Mercury it will revoke Mr Ruut's honorary consul licence following a string of media articles about the breach.
The resolution, made on February 16 but issued earlier this month, has removed his consul title, with all Estonian citizens in Tasmania now encouraged to take any inquiry to the Estonian Consulate in Sydney.
In one of Australia's largest individual penalties for workplace breaches, last year Mr and Mrs Ruut were found to have underpaid 47 employees $176,000 when they owned Security Protection Services Pty Ltd.
The rip-off was uncovered during a national security industry "sting" by the Fair Work Ombudsman in 2008 and early 2009.
In June last year, they still had more than $134,000 owing to the workers and were given 60 days to pay up. Yesterday it was confirmed a warrant of seizure and sale had officially been forwarded to federal marshal David Watson in Canberra.
Last month, federal magistrate Frank Turner ordered all of the relevant documents relating to assets owned by the Ruuts, and total amounts outstanding, to be sent to the court.
Although Mr Watson was unable to discuss specific matters relating to any case, he told the Mercury about the steps he would now take to obtain money owed following a court decision.
Mr Watson, who has jurisdiction across the nation, will contact local police, sheriffs or bailiffs and issue them with the warrant.
He said the local authorities would then attempt to make contact with the debtor but if contact failed property such as houses or cars could be advertised and sold without the owner's involvement.
In other cases where the money owing is a smaller amount, assets are taken from the home until the amount of debt has been wiped.
That includes cars, boats and other assets.
"Sometimes we don't need to even be on the property, we can just advertise a house for example and sell it," Mr Watson said. The owner had no option but to comply.
In sentencing the couple last year, Mr Turner labelled them "serial offenders" who had on several occasions started companies and underpaid workers before going into insolvency to avoid paying their fines.
Mr Turner said different security companies operated by the Ruuts during the past 15 years had landed them in the Tasmanian Industrial Commission four times. Each case had resulted in the commission ordering underpaid workers be paid thousands of dollars.
Soon after the Ruuts were advised by the Fair Work Ombudsman that they were being investigated for more than 140 breaches, they leased two luxury vehicles to drain the company of funds.
source:
http://investorshangout.com/post/view?id=2146456
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Paul Batista Calls for Criminal investigation of Drunken Sailor, aka Adrian Smith and Neil Ruut
Paul Batista
To
Me
Today at 5:02 PM
Because of my television appearances over the last twenty years, the several books I have written and many of the genuinely high profile cases I've been involved in, there are at least 500 entries describing me and my activities on Google and the other search engines. 99.95 percent of them are favorable.
Yet this lunatic, Drunken Sailor and his various aliases and allies, continues to post malicious lies about me. Why? For the simple reason that I have represented Empire Energy Corporation, a wholly legitimate oil and gas drilling company based in Tasmania, and its Chief Executive, Malcolm Bendall, for four years in a straightforward civil case in New York. Ironically, it is an ongoing case in which I have been so far successful every step of the way.
I have no idea who is paying Drunken Sailor and the other aliases or allies he uses to mount this malicious and sustained assault on my clients' integrity and the integrity of anyone and everyone associated with Empire Energy and Malcolm Bendall. And, of course, my integrity, simply because I have mounted a thus far successful defense against the claims of two Chinese conglomerates operating behind the veil of a non-functioning entity named Smart Win, which is nothing more than a name on the door of an office in Hong Kong.
As I understand it, Drunken Sailor, who claims to be one Adrian Smith but who is likely to be a fugitive from Australian justice officials named Neil Ruut, apparently lives in England. In the past, I've ignored his absurd negative commentary about me because he is so obviously a deranged crank whose attacks on me are self evidently absurd. For me to address him or respond to him would be like a lion bothering with a gnat.
But now that he is resorting to outright lies -- including the blatantly false claim that I no longer have a license to practice law -- I would do everything in my power to bring him to justice in the United States, including a request for criminal prosecution, if he were here.
But we are dealing with a coward who projects many false identities to malign me and other completely honorable men who have any connection at all to Empire Energy or Mr. Bendall. If there are any steps that can be taken in England to track down the malignant coward, punish him and have the slate wiped clean, it would be a public service.
source:
http://investorshangout.com/post/view?id=2146456
