SEC pointed out that Collins approved of AVG employees using the “industry standard ‘2 and 20’” language. He personally used the same language with fund investors. SEC also found that AVG made inter-fund loans and cash transfers between funds and made loans to certain funds which is in violation of the funds’ respective operating agreements.…
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This customer had started placing suitcases full of cash in a safe deposit box at Credit Suisse. He was later shot dead in 2005. The prosecutors believe that Banev and his associates used a practice called smurfing. This entails breaking down a large sum of money into smaller amounts, which are below the AML alert…
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Details of the fraudulent scheme The CFTC alleges that W Trade Group and Ramos have misappropriated over $19 million from 220 customers. To maintain the scheme, W Trade Group and Ramos sent customers false account statements showing them purported profits and trading activity, when in fact there was none. The other defendant, Carvajales, conjunction with…
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Details of the fraud The US regulator alleges that defendants misappropriated funds from the pool participants and used them to pay personal expenses and to trade commodity futures and options in personal trading accounts. The trading was unprofitable and resulted the pool participants ended up losing money. However, the defendants falsely informed them their investments…
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According to the CFTC, since September 2020, the defendants solicited through different channels, including Kikit’s website, over $3.9 million from 61 clients. The clients gave their money to the defendants to manage them in customized client portfolios for forex and crypto trading. The regulator stated that the defendants did not trade with their clients funds…
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Alongside Arthur Hayes, charges were also made against co-founders Ben Delo, Samuel Reed and Greg Dwyer. Each of them was accused of violating the Bank Secrecy Act, as well as the conspiracy to violate the act as a group. Each of these offences will carry a maximum sentence of five years of prison time. Founders…
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced yesterday that it has charged six individuals and their companies with participating in international microcap fraud schemes. The above-mentioned schemes generated more than $35 million of illegal sales of stock in at least 45 microcap companies. According to the regulator, Steve M. Bajic and Rajesh Taneja helped shareholders…
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Australian regulator ASIC informed earlier today that following an investigation, the Former director of Hudson Resources Limited and Raffles Capital Limited, Benjamin Amzalak, has pleaded guilty to an offence of market manipulation. Amzalak, of Bondi, NSW, has been sentenced to 2 years of imprisonment. He took part in transactions that had the effect of creating…
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Australian regulator ASIC announced earlier today that it has cancelled the Australian financial services (AFS) licence of the company Platinum Perpetual Global Private Wealth Pty Ltd, based in Perth (AFSL 508415). The AFS licence was cancelled at the request of the company, following a separate action brought by Western Australian Police Force (WAPF), which has…
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has yesterday charged an analyst at an international investment bank with insider trading. According to the SEC, Bill Tsai, a junior investment broker, had a confidential information about Siris Capital Group's plans to acquire Electronics for Imaging, Inc. (EFII). Tsai was working from the bank's New York office. Knowing…
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