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Maurice Sjerps, accomplice of Patrick Visser in the Silva Tree/Sustainable Capital Group swindle, has been arrested in Costa Rica for yet another teak scam.
December 28, 2012 | https://www.bananamarepublic.com/2012/12/28/maurice-sjerps-of-silva-tree-fame-arrested-in-costa-rica/What's going on with Silva Tree, Sustainable Capital Group and Patrick Visser, Maurice Sjerps and Keren Visser-Katz? Your Bananama Republic decided to run a factsheet.
February 24, 2012 | https://www.bananamarepublic.com/2012/02/24/faq-silva-tree-sustainable-capital-group/Silva Tree's Patrick Visser has disappeared from the web, while a European report lists them as "land grabbing vultures" linked to boiler room schemes.
October 6, 2011 | https://www.bananamarepublic.com/2011/10/06/silva-tree-vultures/Legitimate companies are too busy running their businesses to waste time and assets on throwing money at lawyers to chase pesky journalists in Panamanian kangaroo criminal courts. But not Patrick Visser's Silva Tree, which has filed a criminal complaint against us and the Christian Science Monitor. UPDATE: Logging in Surinam, extortion.
February 4, 2011 | https://www.bananamarepublic.com/2011/02/04/silva-tree-starts-legal-assault-against-international-media/Patrick Visser of Silva Tree is the latest rogue to join Monte Friesner and Don Winner in their Panama jihad against journalism.
June 4, 2010 | https://www.bananamarepublic.com/2010/06/04/silva-trees-patrick-visser-and-kavelcompanys-dennis-bode-join-panama-jihad-on-journalism/Law firm wants to shut us down! But we believe the public doesn't need to be protected from Bananama Republic; it needs to be warned against hustlers like Patrick Visser and their rogue business schemes.
May 6, 2010 | https://www.bananamarepublic.com/2010/05/06/silva-trees-patrick-visser-sends-the-legal-bullies/Patrick Visser, the head of Silva Tree Panama, just wrote us an email announcing that his lawyers will start legal procedures to have what we wrote about him and his forestry outfit removed.
April 23, 2010 | https://www.bananamarepublic.com/2010/04/23/silva-trees-patrick-visser-joins-list-of-hustlers-trying-to-sue-us/And we have another great example of how just about any foreign swindler can set up shop in Panama: Silva Tree makes false claims and is led by a former real estate and timeshare con man.
April 20, 2010 | https://www.bananamarepublic.com/2010/04/20/panama-is-open-for-business-3-silva-tree-reforestation-scam/In the summer of 2016, we found out that our web host, 1984.is, had taken down the Bananama Republic blog.
February 16, 2017 | https://www.bananamarepublic.com/the-bananama-republic-is-under-legal-assault-by-patrick-visser-and-keren-visser-katz/In August of last year, we received an email from our web host, 1984.is, that they had closed down Bananama Republic.
January 6, 2017 | https://www.bananamarepublic.com/2017/01/06/so-what-the-hell-happened-with-bananama-republic/