London, May 13 (ANI): A woman survived a 12-feet horror fall when she landed on her lover””””s Aston Martin.
Jade Bates, 22, tumbled backwards from an open bedroom window but miraculously escaped only with a leg injury.
She landed on the bonnet of his new 140,000-pound DB9 sports car – which was left with a huge dent.
“There was a huge scream and Jasvir looked outside to see Jade lying on his car. He was frantic.
“If the Aston hadn””””t had such a long bonnet, she could have been paralysed or dead. The car saved her,” The Sun quoted Jade’s friend as saying.
Jasvir, 28, rang 999 and Jade was taken to hospital by ambulance.
She was recovering at home yesterday.
Jasvir is thought to be “distressed” at the fall, having upgraded the Audi R8 weeks earlier.
“They were celebrating a friend””””s birthday.
“The guys were in the kitchen and the girls were upstairs. It appears to have been just an accident.
“Jasvir just bought the car and there seemed to be problems with electrics. It””””ll cost a lot more to fix now,” the friend added. (ANI)
UK Madoff liquidators file U.S. bankruptcy petition
MIAMI (Reuters) – The British liquidators of convicted swindler Bernard Madoff’s London securities trading firm filed a petition in U.S. bankruptcy court on Tuesday and sued Madoff’s brother for the return of a rare Aston Martin car.
The liquidators, appointed by England’s High Court of Justice for Madoff Securities International Ltd (MSIL), filed the case in federal court in West Palm Beach, Florida, under Chapter 15 of U.S. bankruptcy laws, which deals with insolvency cases involving more than one country.
The petition will allow the liquidators, Stephen John Akers, Mark Richard Byers and Andrew Laurence Hosking, “to marshal assets that may have been fraudulently transferred from MSIL to individuals residing with the jurisdiction of the Court,” court documents said.
In a companion lawsuit, the liquidators sued to recover a 1964 Aston Martin bought through “the improper and unauthorized diversion of funds from MSIL’s accounts,” court papers said.
Madoff, the disgraced New York financier who once headed the NASDAQ stock market, pleaded guilty on March 12 to running the biggest investment fraud in Wall Street history, involving as much as $65 billion. He was immediately jailed and could be sent to prison for life when sentenced in June.
MSIL, his London company, employed 28 workers, including 14 traders, at its offices in London’s Mayfair District, the suit said.
The company traded for Madoff’s personal accounts and those of his relatives, and the accounts were used by Madoff to buy “valuable personal assets such as luxury yachts, automobiles and furnishings for himself and members of the Madoff family,” the petition said.
Two wire transfers, made from an MSIL account last year and totaling 135,000 pounds, were used to buy a 1964 Aston Martin delivered to Madoff’s brother Peter Madoff, a director and manager of MSIL, at his home in Palm Beach, Florida, the lawsuit said.
MSIL suffered losses in excess of $235,000 as a result. The petition seeks the return of the car and punitive damages.
The liquidators asked the U.S. federal bankruptcy court to recognize the British liquidation case and filed an ancillary case under Chapter 15, which helps resolve cases involving debtors, assets and claimants in multiple countries.
Neither Peter Madoff nor his lawyer were immediately available for comment.
(Reporting by Jim Loney; Editing by Pascal Fletcher; Editing by Andre Grenon)