Additionally, the defendants misappropriated substantial amounts of the remaining customer funds by sending it to accounts in Alexandre’s name. He used the money to pay other customers in a Ponzi-like scheme, and for his personal expenses. He used client money to make payments to BMW, Mercedes Benz, and Saks Fifth Avenue. He also paid with…
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The scheme According to the CFTC, Yang and her companies ran the trading scheme between April 2017 and March 2020. The defendants solicited investors and raised funds for the purported purpose of forex trading. The regulator alleges that the defendants made several false representations to the existing and potential pool participants of the scheme. They…
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Court added: ASIC’s case is not focused on Mr Hopkins’ conduct but rather on alleged multiple failures by Macquarie to take proper steps to monitor, detect and prevent unauthorised transactions’. According to the Australian watchdog, the transactions were conducted between May 20016 and January 2020. During this time, Macquarie failed to take measures to prevent…
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The regulator said: ASIC is satisfied that Mr Babbage lacks the honesty and integrity to participate in the financial services and credit industries. Babbage was an authorised representative of Wealthsure Pty Ltd from February 2013 to March 2014 and of Capstone Financial Planning Pty Ltd from March 2014 to 14 October 2021. He was also…
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According to the court files, Phelps and Castenir formed Maverick, which operated commodity trading pool. In 2013 the company solicited over $1.2 million in funds from investors. The defendants used false materials claiming that Phelps had an extensive history of investing successfully in commodity trading markets. The defendants also falsely assured investors that there would…
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Furthermore, the Commission alleged that defendants were paid $10 million for promoting thinly traded stocks, which they misled investors to believe had high prospects for success. Paul Levenson, Director of the SEC’s Boston Regional Office, said: These scam artists went to great lengths – using bogus companies, aliases, and spoofing their phone numbers – to…
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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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Eric I. Bustillo, Director of the SEC's Miami Regional Office, commented: As a financial advisor, Nino was entrusted with millions of dollars belonging to his client. As alleged in our complaint, Nino took advantage of that trust by abusing his access to his client’s accounts for personal gain. The financial markets regulator explained that Nino…
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Charges According to the financial markets watchdog, Bansal and Agarwal engaged in the fraudulent activities for accounts held by Aralia and Vintage. Around 14 April 2020, Bansal led Agarwal to enter orders for Vintage to sell 250 gold futures contracts traded on COMEX at a specific time. Agarwal entered those orders and Bansal entered off-setting…
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