Tweet New charges levied against Dhillon and against his lawyer Three times a charm or a curse? A Vancouver doctor who allegedly partnered with the now-infamous Vancouver lawyer Frederick Sharp in an international microcap alleged fraud scheme (summarized here) – Avtar Singh Dhillon – was charged criminally by the US Government, the FBI announced yesterday. […]
Tweet New SEC charges A Vancouver doctor who allegedly partnered with Vancouver lawyer Frederick Sharp in an International microcap fraud scheme (summarized here) – Avtar Singh Dhillon – was charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC“) again today. This time it involves a different public company and hits closer to home for Vancouver residents […]
Tweet Part 1 – Securities Fraud in Canada and l’affaire Uramin-Areva Voyager Digital “Asking Questions About Canadian Capital Markets” is a series of articles about the capital markets in which we explore some Canadian public companies and ask questions. These questions may shed light on the now-defunct Canadian digital currency exchange called Voyager Digital based […]
Tweet SEC files rare round-tripping enforcement action against Canadian issuer We tend to think of round-tripping as tax evasion round-tripping tied to FDI, where investments are routed through a no tax jurisdiction before being reimported into the economy of origin as FDI. Mauritius comes to mind, because billions of dollars are round-tripped there every year, […]
Tweet The Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC“) filed more cases in New York over Easter, targeting actors in the Canadian capital markets. The cases are for alleged pump and dump schemes. One of the two latest cases by the SEC charges Courtney Vasseur, a full-patch member of the Hells Angels in Vancouver, with securities fraud […]