Open Letter Regarding Suspended Payments

To: Let’s Adopt! Global Spanish vendors

1. Notice of Suspended Payments

Please be informed that Let’s Adopt! Global has suspended payments to Spanish boarding and veterinary vendors. All animals under those vendors’ care are to be legally transferred to Let’s Adopt! Global by the end of August 2015. Payments will resume upon completion of the legal transfer.

In order to be sustainable, business relationships must be founded on trust and respect. Let’s Adopt! Global’s relationship with its Spanish vendors has been tainted and eroded since the beginning by the actions of Ivan Jimenez (aka Viktor Larkhill).

Ivan Jimenez (aka Viktor Larkhill) has proven that he has no intention of cooperating with Let’s Adopt! Global  in rehoming the animals currently in Spain, and has been actively interfering with our efforts, with the Spanish vendors’ assistance.

2. Rescue Model ‘Hoarding’

Ivan Jimenez’ “rescue model” is nothing short of hoarding. Board members have long been urging Ivan to slow down the rate of taking on new cases, and place more focus on rehoming the animals already rescued. We were continually met with resistance on his part. As a direct result his vendors have and continue to suffer shortfalls in payment, while the number of unadopted animals continued to rise. We acknowledged this problem from the outset and made significant changes to address it. We fully expected Ivan Jimenez to do the right thing for the animals and support us in trying to rectify it. We could clearly see the organization was heading for bankruptcy since 2012 when Ivan moved back to Spain from Turkey, and started stockpiling animals there.

The first animal stuck in boarding was Champion.
Champion is still in boarding at this moment.

Instead of cooperating and addressing this and other issues discussed, Ivan chose to resign.

3. Constructive actions undertaken by Let’s Adopt! Global Board of Directors

Upon Ivan’s resignation Let’s Adopt! Global Board of Directors assumed the responsibility of paying boarding bills and finding homes for over 40 animals stockpiled in Spain.  A number, never disclosed by Ivan to the board, even when directly asked. Below are some of the actions the Board has undertaken since.

3.1  An emergency solution was sought to ensure payment for boarding continues.

• All funds raised for each and every one of those stranded animals had been spent months, in some cases years, before Ivan walking out, leaving behind his failed strategy. He fundraised for treatment, and then if the animal was not adopted easily, it was placed in boarding and sank into oblivion, never to be mentioned again.
• Let’s Adopt! Global has never raised funds for boarding for any animal in boarding in Spain, and as mentioned any funds raised initially have long been spent due to Ivan’s broken rescue model – relying on new rescues to provide the funds to cover old bills.

3.2  A photographer was hired to take current photos of all animals.

3.3  Updated stories for each animal are being written; already published adoption pleas are those of D’Artañan, Bruce, Axel, Sweetie, Mika, Champion, Brandon, Amor, Ajoo, and others.

3.4  Work commenced on a dedicated section in our website, aimed at extending the adoption reach beyond Facebook, and extending the adoption promotion cycle.

4. Destructive actions undertaken by Ivan Jimenez

Ivan Jimenez (aka Viktor Larkhill) has seized control of the Let’s Adopt! Spain and Let’s Adopt! Deutschland Facebook pages (both legal assets of Let’s Adopt! Global) with no regard to the fact that they are critical to alleviating the crisis in Spain. The German Let’s Adopt Facebook page was the most successful adopting network of the organization, while the Spanish Let’s Adopt page could provide much needed local fosters. Ivan has made the pages invisible to most major countries so they serve only his benefit. Both pages are currently being used only to promote and raise funds for Ivan’s new rescue, while effectively blocking access for the rest of the animals he claims to care about.

Since his departure Ivan Jimenez is withholding invoices and receipts for the year of 2014 required for Let’s Adopt! Global to file auditable financial records. If they are not produced Let’s Adopt! Global cannot file annual reports and its legal status can be jeopardized.

Ivan Jimenez and his “advisory committee” are methodically and relentlessly contacting people who comment on Let’s Adopt! Global’s Facebook page and manipulating their opinion with the aim to damage our reputation. Some of those contacted supporters have come to us and provided full evidence of this, so we are familiar with every detail of the manipulations.

These are only a few examples of the damage Viktor Larkhill is doing while placing the animals in Let’s Adopt! Global’s care under additional risk.

5. Evidence of Ivan Jimenez Interfering

To illustrate the situation further we are providing evidence on a single, timely instance of Ivan Jimenez’ (aka Viktor Larkhill) destructive activities.

Soon after his resignation we contacted Ivan with a request to put us in touch with the new families of some animals, which had been recently adopted. Ivan refused to provide those contact details and suggested he take the animals himself. In the interest of the animals Let’s Adopt! Global team insisted on personal contact with those families and full control over transport.

Entrusting the process to a resigned and disgruntled Ivan Jimenez would not have been good rescue practices.

Ivan’s further obstructive actions within his secret “advisory committee” group, outlined below, resulted in the animals remaining in boarding for many more months.

5. 1
Ivan giving instructions to his team to tell
the adopting families not to respond to us
(we had been given their Facebook profiles).

The animals were to wait until his new rescue
was registered, so he could transport them himself.

 

5.2
Ivan Jimenez stating that Let’s Adopt
cannot move animals out of boarding.

He is also explaining that his priority is not
to transport these animals to their new homes,
but instead to rebuild his rescue and grow his donations.

 

5.3
Linda Edwards, a key person in Ivan’s network, confirming that the animals in Spain cannot be moved by Let’s Adopt
because they are microchipped in Ivan’s name.

Ivan explaining that [the animals will have to wait because] registering his new rescue will take time.

6. Manipulation and lies by Ivan Jimenez

Months after blocking Let’s Adopt! Global’s contact with the animals’ adopters Ivan Jimenez (aka Viktor Larkhill) went public in August 2015, and lied about the entire episode. His new rescue was registered and he was now able to transport those animals. Which he did, taking the credit while slandering Let’s Adopt! Global.

6.1
Viktor lies that Let’s Adopt cut the communication with the adopters when in fact he prevented it from ever happening.

Viktor lies about the animals remaining in boarding
due to Let’s Adopt’s actions.

Viktor contradicts himself stating he is helping Let’s Adopt and the animals, when in his private conversations months earlier he claims they are not his priority and that
he will do what benefits his new rescue instead.

 

7. Has Let’s Adopt! Global Been Paying its Bills? Yes.

Ivan Jimenez (aka Viktor Larkhill) is also spreading lies that we have not been paying bills in Spain and implying misappropriation of funds. Please find evidence of payments to Spanish vendors below.

We have been paying HIS bills indeed.

As best we can, under the circumstances, while not fundraising for that particular purpose. We have been discussing asking the Let’s Adopt community for support since the task is gargantuan.

 

 

 

7. Conclusion

We have concluded that Ivan Jimenez is using Let’s Adopt! Global’s animals in Spain to promote his new venture, with the cooperation of boarding and veterinary vendors in Spain, while leaving Let’s Adopt! Global to pay their bills. The animals are microchipped to Ivan’s name, they belong to him in a legal sense, and he has repeatedly referred to them as being ‘his’. In addition, it has become obvious that all vendors in Spain recognize him as the owner and Let’s Adopt! Global solely as the financially responsible party.

In order for Let’s Adopt! Global to be successful in rehoming these animals we must have full control. We cannot afford to invest time searching for and evaluating adopters, organizing and paying for transport, only to run into a stone wall at the end of the process, because Ivan Jimenez has other plans.

Therefore, payments to Spanish vendors have been suspended until ownership of all animals in Spain is legally transferred to Let’s Adopt! Global. If the transfer is not effected by the end of August 2015, we will terminate our relationship with those vendors and Ivan Jimenez will assume sole financial responsibility, to include all current and future boarding and veterinary costs, and outstanding payments.

Further substantiating evidence can be produced on request.

Sincerely,
The Let’s Adopt! Global Board of Directors

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For a detailed breakdown and more evidence how Viktor Larkhill intentionally left adopted animals in boarding for months, please follow this link: How Viktor Larkhill Kept Animals Stranded for Months

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Please follow these links for more information

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Ivan Jimenez, aka Viktor Larkhill – Q&A (running updates)

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Ivan Jimenez, aka Viktor Larkhill – Resignation announcement (diplomatic)

Ivan Jimenez, aka Viktor Larkhill – Resignation  (non-diplomatic, pending)

Ivan Jimenez, aka Viktor Larkhill – Unethical fundraising 

Ivan Jimenez, aka Viktor Larkhill – Lying and manipulating

Ivan Jimenez, aka Viktor Larkhill – Misappropriating donor funds (pending)

Ivan Jimenez, aka Viktor Larkhill – Hoarding in Spain (pending)

Ivan Jimenez, aka Viktor Larkhill – Harassment (pending)