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NOTES RECEIVABLE
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2013
Receivables [Abstract]  
Loans, Notes, Trade and Other Receivables Disclosure [Text Block]
NOTE 6. NOTES RECEIVABLE
 
As of December 31, 2013 and 2012 the Company had net notes receivable of $0 and $6,088,934, respectively, as follows:
 
 
 
December 31,
2013
 
December 31, 2012 (as
restated)
 
RM Invest
 
$
-
 
$
5,188,934
 
Note receivable from former general director
 
 
1,834,302
 
 
-
 
Infratont Equities, Inc.
 
 
-
 
 
1,791,475
 
Less: Allowance for uncollectible note receivable
 
 
(1,834,302)
 
 
(891,475)
 
Total note receivable, net
 
$
-
 
$
6,088,934
 
 
On July 12, 2012, the Company’s Russian subsidiary, TOT Money, entered into a loan agreement pursuant to which it agreed to loan RM Invest up to a maximum of  200 million Russian rubles (approximately $  7.0 million in U.S. dollars). The interest rate on the loan was  10 % from the date of advance to the date of scheduled repayment on October 31, 2012 . TOT Money would earn interest income on this loan at approximately a  40 % annual rate if the loan was repaid timely given interest earned was 10% of the outstanding balance with a term of approximately three months. On August 16, 2012, the loan was increased to  300 million Russian rubles (approximately $  9.8 million in U.S. dollars). The original stated maturity date of the loan was October 31, 2012 and on February 25, 2013 the Company renegotiated the loan with RM Invest and extended the maturity date until October 1, 2013 with no further interest to be charged. As of June 30, 2013, the loan was fully satisfied.
 
Infratont
 
On November 26, 2012, the Company entered into a loan agreement with Infratont Equities, Inc. (“Infratont”), pursuant to which the Company loaned $1,791,475 to Infratont for the purpose of providing the borrower with working capital and funding of business development in general. The loan had a stated maturity of November 15, 2013 and accrued interest at a rate of  1.75 % per month, payable quarterly commencing in March 2013. The effect of the loan was to defer a repayment obligation of Tcahai Hairullaevich Katcaev to Mr. Polyanovskiy pursuant to an unrelated loan not involving the Company. Mr. Katcaev is the former general director of the Company’s subsidiary, TOT Money, and he owns a  20 % interest in RM Invest, a payment processing business in Russia. During the year ended December 31, 2013, the Company determined the Infratont loan was uncollectible and wrote off the outstanding balance against the corresponding allowance.
 
Former General Director TOT Money
 
The Company commenced its carrier-integrated mobile payment payments solutions operations, through its subsidiary TOT Money, during the third quarter of 2012. These operations consist of TOT Money paying aggregators for content to be provided to mobile operators. Aggregators are businesses that contract for content from many content providers and provide processing volume to TOT Money.   During the fourth quarter of 2012 and the six months ended June 30, 2013, TOT Money’s former general director was providing advances to aggregators based on projected processing volumes. Although the Company has a history of transactions with most aggregators, we do not obtain financial statements or bank references to complete a full credit review of each aggregator. In addition, aggregator advances are unsecured. As of December 31, 2012, the Company established a  10 % reserve on these aggregator advances based on actual and estimated processing volumes subsequent to these dates, and concluded that the net aggregator advances were recoverable as of December 31, 2012.
 
During the second quarter of 2013, our new CEO and CEO’s appointed management of TOT Group Russia completed analyzing our aggregator and mobile operator relationship including having discussions with select aggregators. As part of this review, it was determined that the former general director of TOT Money provided advances to aggregators which exceeded the future processing volumes to be provided by these aggregators. As a result of this review, during the second quarter of 2013 it was concluded that a significant amount of these advances would not be recoverable in the form of future business from the aggregators. The former general director took responsibility for a certain amount of these advances and agreed to a settlement. The former general director was transferred to commercial director with responsibility to develop and promote new business until February 10, 2014 when he resigned.
 
As part of the settlement discussed above, the Company entered into a settlement agreement with the former general director of TOT Money pursuant to which TOT Money is to receive $3.8 million to repay certain agreed upon amounts. The term of repayment will be dictated by the volume of future TOT Money business developed as repayment and is based on profit distributions to the former general director, which will be withheld until the $3.8 million settlement is recovered.
 
Due to the past history of losses of the TOT Money operations, the Company fully reserved the discounted note receivable balance of $1.8 million. We do not expect to collect the outstanding balance from the former general director.