The lesson here is one for creditors: It is not particularly easy to bring a fraudulent transfer action, especially where foreign transactions and entities are involved such that proof of the fraudulent transfer may be difficult to obtain.
He declined to be more specific, but law-enforcement officials in several U.S. states have accused some debt buyers of submitting incomplete, sloppy and even fraudulent documents in courts as proof of what a borrower owes.
The BBC tracked down the original applications and found fraudulent details had been used as proof of address in Hong Kong and fake addresses scrawled on envelopes.