Frauds & Scandals

SEC Awards Whistleblowers More Than $6 Million

July 15, 2022/US SEC The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced awards totaling more than $6 million to two whistleblowers who provided critical information and assistance in two separate covered actions. In the first order, the SEC issued an award of more than $3 million to a whistleblower who was […]

OPAN Calls For Immediate Release Of Journalist Ikenna Ellis Ezenekwe

July 13, 2022/OPAN The Online Publishers Association of Nigeria (OPAN), the flagship organization for digital news publishers demands the immediate release of the publisher of 247ureports.com, Mr Ikenna Ellis Ezenekwe who was picked up by the Nigerian police at the FCT-Abuja on the morning of July 5, 2021 over an […]

SEC Charges Washington, D.C. Investor with Insider Trading

July 7, 2022/US SEC The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged private investor George W. Haywood with insider trading in connection with his selling shares of Neurotrope, Inc. (NTRP) based on material, nonpublic information he received about NTRP’s impending registered direct offering of shares. The SEC’s complaint, filed in federal […]