Frauds & Scandals

SEC Charges Swedish National with Global Scheme Defrauding Retail Investors, Including Deaf Community Members

September 29, 2020/US SEC The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a Swedish national living in Thailand with conducting a multi-million dollar online offering fraud that victimized thousands of retail investors worldwide, including hundreds of investors from the Deaf, Hard of Hearing, and Hearing Loss communities. The SEC’s complaint alleges […]

J.P. Morgan Securities Admits to Manipulative Trading in U.S. Treasuries

September 29, 2020/US SEC The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced charges against J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, a broker-dealer subsidiary of JPMorgan Chase & Co., for fraudulently engaging in manipulative trading of U.S. Treasury securities. J.P. Morgan Securities admitted the findings in the SEC’s order, and agreed to pay disgorgement of […]

Legal Scandal in the Dem. Rep. of the Congo Surrounding Businessman-Politician Moïse Katumbi

Interventions by armed forces in the Katanga region on behalf of Moïse Katumbi constitute a threat to the rule of law in the country September 29, 2020/NB Mining Africa While several French court rulings have dismissed all of his claims, Moïse Katumbi persists in his attempts to seize assets that […]