RADICAL INVESTMENTS LTD V. GOOD VIBRATIONS ENTERTAINMENT LLC (United States District Court Southern District of Florida West Palm Beach Division Case No.: 9:21cv81761: September 17, 2021)
Radical investments Ltd. a St. Lucia company based in Barbados has filed a law suit in the Florida, United States Courts against a company called Good Vibrations Entertainment LLC along with six other co-defendants. The 300, 000 citizens of Barbados are cited to be at the core of this case in the midst of the Corona Virus pandemic and efforts to secure vaccines.
INTERPOL has issued a global alert of organised groups attempting to defraud governments with fake offers to sell COVID-19 vaccines. The warning follows some 60 cases in 40 countries around the world where health ministries, governments, and hospitals have received offers for COVID-19 vaccines approved for distribution in their country.
The Plaintiff Radical Investments Ltd.’s Claim is that it was deceptively lured into an elaborate scam to advance the sum of 10.2 million U.S. dollars for one million non-existent doses of AstraZeneca vaccine.
The Claim alleges that on or around late March or early April, 2021, Mr. Mark Maloney, the principal of the Plaintiff, Radical Investments, was introduced by Cheryl Chamley, a Trinidadian national who resides in the United States and works in the PPE Sector to the principal of Good Vibes Mr. Alex Lee Moore.
Ms. Chamley and Mr. Maloney are said to be business associates in the Claim. It is also asserted it the Claim that Radical had been authorized by the Barbadian Government’s Ministry of Health and Wellness to procure vaccines on its behalf. The purchase price for the vaccines was to be USA $10.2 million.
As of the date of the filing of the Complaint, Radical Investments had been returned approximately $5.4 million of its initial deposit, leaving approximately $6.7 million in arrears. Radical Investment’s Claim is based on Civil Conspiracy, Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices and Fraud and Negligence. The Claim alleges that Good Vibrations at no time possessed the ability, or the intent to procure let alone deliver the vaccines to Radical.
Radical had entered into a valid and enforceable purchase and sale agreement on April 16, 2021, for the sourcing and delivery of 1 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccines by Defendants in exchange for money payments by the Plaintiff. The vaccines were never delivered. By virtue of this material breach of the agreement Radical alleges that it has suffered substantial economic damages. Radical is further claiming that it is entitled to an award of compensatory damages, including consequential damages, together with interest and costs, and an injunction prohibiting the Defendants from continuing to engage in the alleged tortious conduct.
First published September 21, 2021
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