BCSC says some Web sites are ripe for investment fraud
Dorchester Investment agrees to pay $40,000 fine
Alexander breached 1999 order by acting as a director and officer of four private companies
Thow handed lifetime ban from B.C. capital markets
Savage Tele.com committed fraud, says BCSC panel
Regulator alleges Badshah committed fraud
The B.C. Securities Commission reports that various amendments to the province’s Securities Act have received Royal Assent.The amendments are designed to: harmonize with other provinces; strengthen compliance and enforcement powers; and improve investor protection, by giving secondary market investors a new right to sue public companies for damages caused by misleading disclosure. Some of the […]
The BCSC is inviting comments on the proposed rules until the end of the year
Expert panel to debate how to improve Canadian securities enforcement
A British Columbia Securities Commission panel has found that Ian Gregory Thow, a former mutual fund salesperson with Berkshire Investment Group Inc., perpetrated a multi-million dollar fraud between January 2003 and May 2005 when he took money his clients gave him to invest and instead spent it on himself.The commission panel found that Thow perpetrated […]