Search Results for: securities fraud
SEC USA released a Public Statement by Chairman Jay Clayton on fraudulent Crypto ICOs
May 23rd, 2018
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has released a Public Statement by Chairman Jay Clayton in relation to the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) announcement of enforcement sweep targeting fraudulent ICOs and Crypto-asset investment products. According the Public ...
‘HoweyCoin’: SEC trolls Crypto fraudsters with fake ICO campaign
May 17th, 2018
‘In a landmark embrace of technological innovation, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced that it will issue its own cryptocurrency – HoweyCoin – through an initial coin offering (ICO). Okay, that’s not actually true, but the ...
Former CEO of Israeli binary options company charged with defrauding investors all over the world
March 26th, 2018
Lee Elbaz, the former CEO of Israeli binary options company Yukom Communications, was indicted by a US federal grand jury on March 22 for allegedly participating in a scheme to “defraud investors in the United States and across the ...
Seniors are at a higher risk than other investors of losing money to fraud
March 16th, 2018
The Board of the International Organization of Securities Commissions has published a report that examines the growing vulnerability of ageing investors to financial fraud and other risks and identifies sound practices for enhancing their protection. The report Senior Investor ...
Supervisory Authority Halts A Fast-Moving Initial Coin Offering Fraud That Raised Up To $15 million
December 5th, 2017
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced it obtained an emergency asset freeze to halt a fast-moving Initial Coin Offering (ICO) fraud that raised up to $15 million from thousands of investors since August by falsely promising a 13-fold ...
Long Island Town and Former Top Official Charged With Defrauding Municipal Investors
November 23rd, 2017
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged Oyster Bay, New York, and its former top elected official with defrauding investors in the town’s municipal securities offerings by hiding the existence and potential financial impact of side deals with a ...
Financial planner sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for fraud
November 14th, 2017
The former Principal of Sherwin Financial Planners Pty Ltd and Chairman of Wickham Securities Ltd, Bradley Thomas Sherwin, was sentenced in the Brisbane District Court to a total of 10 years imprisonment on 25 charges, brought by the Commonwealth ...
Former top Executives of one of the world’s largest metals and mining corporations charged with fraud
October 18th, 2017
The Securities and Exchange Commission charged mining company Rio Tinto and two former top executives with fraud for inflating the value of coal assets acquired for $3.7 billion and sold a few years later for $50 million. The SEC’s ...
Lawyers Charged With Assisting a Microcap Fraud Scheme
October 12th, 2017
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged two lawyers it alleges helped facilitate a microcap fraud scheme involving undisclosed “blank check” companies secretly bound for reverse mergers. In complaints filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District ...
Alleged Commodity Pool Fraud Took in More than $3.1 Million from at Least 72 Pool Participants
October 12th, 2017
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced the filing of a Complaint on October 2, 2017, in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The CFTC Complaint, filed under seal, charges Defendants Scott Allensworth (d/b/a Capital ...
