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Prison sentence for finance fraudster

ASIC RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2010
... the 9 April 2010 to assess whether the offender is suitable to serve his sentence by home detention or periodic detention. ASIC alleged that Whet Investments, an unlisted public company, raised approximately $10.8 million through the issue of redeemable ...

ASIC cancels Hedge Securities licence

ASIC RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2010
No answers to phone calls, no longer in operation - ASIC has cancelled Hedge Securities and Investments's Australian financial services licence after finding the company had ceased to carry on a financial services business. ASIC found that Hedge Securities ...

ASIC blocks Tankstream

ASIC RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2010
ASIC has issued final stop orders on unsolicited offers made by Tankstream Funds Management to investors in 16 unlisted Centro MCS property syndicates. The orders follow Tankstream making a series of unsolicited offers for up to 50 per cent of the interests ...

Property developer gets jail sentence

ASIC RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2010
... was sentenced two years and three months imprisonment with a non-parole period of 12 months after pleading guilty to seven ASIC charges. Saunders of Orange, New South Wales, was sentenced on 5 February 2010 in the NSW District Court, Sydney. He pleaded ...

ASIC enforces AFSLs for margin lenders

ASIC RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2010
... Australian Financial Services license - or face closing shop. Existing margin lenders and advisers on margin loans must apply to ASIC for an AFSL authorisation between 1 February 2010 and 30 June if they intend to continue to provide a margin lending ...

LKM directors blocked from leaving Oz

ASIC RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2010
ASIC has successfully stopped Rolf Koops and Sandra Martin, directors of collapsed debenture scheme operator LKM Capital, which cost investors $63 million in losses, from leaving the country. The NSW Federal Court ordered that Koops and Martin be restrained ...

Citigroup Wealth Advisers broker banned

ASIC RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2010
ASIC has banned Melbourne broker Mark McKenzie, previously employed by Citigroup Wealth Advisers, from providing financial services for three years. ASIC found that between 26 July and 8 August 2006, he possessed inside information regarding a possible ...

ASIC bans planner pushing dodgy docos

ASIC RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2010
... adviser who gave his clients false disclosure documents was slapped with a five-year ban from providing financial services. ASIC has banned Joshua David Fuoco of Prahran, Victoria from providing financial services after the regulator's investigation ...

ASIC presses on with Westpoint compensation

ASIC RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2009
ASIC has reached an agreement to settle class actions against Bongiorno Financial Advisors, which has links to the failed Westpoint Group. An ASIC statement late last week noted that the watchdog had agreed to settle actions against Melbourne-based ...

Bans and charges for advisers: ASIC

ASIC RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2009
ASIC has embarked on a major crackdown on "advisers" who have broken the law - including those linked with Westpoint, and SMSF and agribusiness specialists. ASIC has banned Craig Gerard Dangar, of New South Wales, from providing financial services for ...