Friday 13 June 2003

A Day Luis Enrique Villalobos Camacho Will Remember

Jim Peck, a private investigator from Arizona is offering his services to Villalobos investors through his newly formed “operation recovery”. His concept it to locate Enrique Villalobos and negotiate a return moneys ‘loaned’ or ‘invested’ with Enrique, by his sponsors.

According to his website, www.operation-recovery.net, Peck has 30 years experience in investigations and fraud, organized crime, skip tracing and locating witnesses, even witnesses in the U.S. Federal Witness Protection Program.

Operation Recovery is limited to recovering only $25.000.000 Dollars in outstanding loans and will concentrate in recovering only for those persons who are sponsors of his operation.

Mr. Peck is assembling a task force of experienced professionals to help him in search for Villalobos. This action appears to be separate from the other groups who have hired lawyers and other experts to put pressure on the Costa Rican government and judicial system.

Operation Recovery is offering rewards of $5.000 to $50.000 for information of the current whereabouts of Villalobos. All information offered to Operation Recovery is to be kept confidential and anonymity is assured. It is hoped that investors or “friends’ of Enrique will provide valuable information to help in the search.

Mr. Peck is of the firm belief that Villalobos is in possession or has access to a substantial amount of the investors money, monies that he accepted as loan and paid out as regular monthly interest until last fall.

According to information posted on his website, Mr. Peck has no intention to harm Villalobos’ business or personal reputation or to physically or mentally harm him. He just wants to locate him and negotiate a settlement for his sponsors.

To participate as a sponsor of Operation Recovery, one needs to provide a notarize copy of both sides of the check(s) issued by Villalobos, representing the total amount due to the sponsor; a notarized copy of the sponsor’s passport; and a notarized agreement authorizing Operation Recovery to represent the sponsor.

Operation Recovery will retain 15% of all funds recovered. Sponsors are asked to pay a fee equal to 5% of the debt owed to them and is returned upon recovery of funds.

Funds recovered by Operation Recovery will be deposited to one of several US$ accounts held by the corporation. Sponsors will immediately be notified that the recovery process has been completed and will be given the option of receiving funds in-person, or via wire transfer.

Editor’s note: At press time we were not able to contact Mr. Peck personally. A follow up story will be published as soon as we are able to meet with Mr. Peck.

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