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Portus Alternative Asset Management Inc. · Hedge fund and structured product distributor
The case in brief
Visible before detection
Checks that could have surfaced it, on hindsight
End-use tracing of funds
Would have followed investor money to the funds and trades it was represented to buy.
Can mislead when: Kubr sees only the company's own accounts. Once money reaches a third party's bank, Kubr can flag the payee but cannot see the next hop without that party's consent.
Third-party confirmation
Would have obtained custodian confirmations of assets.
Can mislead when: Counterparties can collude or ignore requests. A non-response is logged as a gap, never as a pass.
Regulatory & litigation records
Would have surfaced regulator concerns and the founders' history.
Can mislead when: Court records lag and name spellings vary. A clean record can mean the problem has not reached court yet.
Ownership / related-party links
Would have mapped entities receiving investor funds.
Can mislead when: Nominee directors and offshore layers hide links. Name matching throws up false positives, so every flag shows its evidence path.
Where Kubr services would have helped
Borrower monitor
Offered in India- C3 Would have mapped entities receiving investor funds.
- C6 Would have followed investor money to the funds and trades it was represented to buy.
- C8 Would have surfaced regulator concerns and the founders' history.
Verified Snapshot
Offered in India- C3 Would have mapped entities receiving investor funds.
- C8 Would have surfaced regulator concerns and the founders' history.
Legal diligence support
Offered in India- C3 Would have mapped entities receiving investor funds.
- C8 Would have surfaced regulator concerns and the founders' history.
Promoter profiles
Offered in India- C3 Would have mapped entities receiving investor funds.
- C8 Would have surfaced regulator concerns and the founders' history.
Mapped from the checks each service runs. A hindsight reading of public records, not a promise that the failure would have been found.
Same pattern
A summary of public documents. It reports what the sources say. It is not Kubr's finding and not a statement of guilt.