According to FBI, Knox illegally sold stock through Silverton SA (later renamed to Wintercap SA) for a single control group using nominee shareholders (fake shareholders that held the stock in name only) for more than 100 different Issuers allowing that single control groups to suck over $164 million out of the market illegally since June 2015. For his services, Knox would receive a 6% commission based on the proceeds of the stock sales.
That 100 number is much higher than the estimated 50 Issuers the SEC mentioned in their Complaint
The FBI references 3 cooperating individuals that assisted in the investigation.
1) CW-1 is already in custody facing fraud charges. He is expected to plead guilty. In exchange for a possible lighter sentence he agreed to assist the FBI in the investigation. According to the FBI, CW-1 used Silverton SA's servicers to illegaly sell stock in EPTI and CURR. The FBI also adds the the CW-1 used other offshore brokers besides just Silverton SA as part of the scheme.
2) CW-2 is a lawyer in a Swiss law firm that helped CW-1 set up nominee entities to hold stock in EPTI and CURR. CW-2 worked directly with Knox to transfer shares from those nominee entities to Silverton SA to be sold into the market. CW-2 is already in custody facing fraud charges. He is expected to plead guilty. In exchange for his cooperation he is hoping to receive a lighter sentence.
3) CW-3 is a lawyer also working out of the same Swiss law firm as CW-2 that also testified that about Knox's involvement. CW-3 is already in custody facing fraud charges. He is expected to plead guilty. In exchange for his cooperation he is hoping to receive a lighter sentence.
And two Co-Conspirators who remain at large (assuming there is plans to Indict them as well)
1) CC-1 participated in setting up a nominee entity named Svarna Ltd using his girlfriend as the signatory. Svarna Ltd was listed as the paying party (a $1,000,000 budget) for the Profit Play Stocks hard mailer stock promotion and online newsletter used to manipulate the EPTI stock price in June 2017
CC-1's father was used as the beneficial owner of another offshore entity used in the EPTI scheme named Mithical Holdings Ltd which shared the same address in Switzerland as Widder Investments Inc which was signed for by CW-2. CC-1 was also involved in setting up two offshore entities used to sell stock in CURR. One named Ballis Holdings was in his name and another named Ophir Investments used his father's name as the signatory.
I'm pretty positive that CC-1 is Michael T Gastauer from the SEC Complaint since the SEC complaint describes Gastauer as Knox's partner at Silverton SA and lists two of his relatives, Raimund Gastauer and Simone Gastauer-Foehr, as relief defendants in that Civil case with one of them being used as the representative for Svarna LLC.
2) CC-2 is described as a business partner of Roger Knox that participated in the stock transfers for both EPTI and CURR. CC-2 was intimately involved in the whole share selling scheme.
The FBI goes into pretty good detail about the EPTI and CURR schemes describing the roles of CW-1, CW-2, CW-3, CC-1, and CC-2 in the schemes.
One common name in found in both Issuers was Michael Hlavsa who became the control person for CURR at the exact same time that the FBI says that CW-1 gained control of the Issuer. Hlavsa became the new CEO of EPTI a few months after the August 2013 change of control took place there.
Prior to his involvement in EPTI and CURR, Hlavsa was involved in the highly controversial GEROVA Financial Group Ltd (GVFG) which at one time traded on the NYSE. GEROVA Financial Group, Ltd saw its former president, Gary Hirst, convicted of Securities Fraud, was closely tied to the Westmoore Capital Ponzi Scheme, and hid from the public that banned securities violator, Jason Galanis, was a key insider among many other faults. Other public Issuers that employed Hlavsa included Cognitiv Inc (COGV), Fund.com Inc (FNDM), International Metals Streaming Corp (IMST), Rineon Group Inc (RIGI) and Universal Holdings Inc (UVHO) which became LLEX. Back in 2001, Hlavsa was the Chairman of a gambling cruise named SunCruz Casinos which hosted 3 of the terrorists in the 9/11 attacks days before the attackes took place.
With EPTI, the control shares were put in the name of an entity signed for by Daniel Lacher when the change of control occurred in August of 2013.
Daniel Lacher is a name I am familiar with because he has been participating in offshore money laudering share selling schemes for many years now and showed up in some of my old reseach from 2014 while inspecting the Belize money laundering groups links to paid promo tickers ASUV and GFOX. Lacher was a signatory for some offshore entities used to help illegaly sell stock in both ASUV and GFOX during their paid promos in 2012. According to my notes Lacher could be linked to financial instuties in Switzerland and several other paid promotion tickers during this time.
Daniel Lacher can be linked to several banks and financial institutes in Switzerland. Other tickers that included Daniel Lacher as a signatory for a foreign entity include: MXOM, GCHT, CRWG, SKYC while it was very scammy Yellow Cake Mining, CNOZ, PFGY, BWAV, WGBS, PKPL, PBTH, SKNNQ, EHTEQ, and KRBF.
More information can be found in a 2013 pre promo research report I did for GFOX which like ASUV had links to Switzerland and the UK. Both ASUV and GFOX probably tie into the whole Roger Knox scheme.
Another key person involved in moving stock into offshore entities to illegally be sold into the market for ASUV and GFOX was Rene Berlinger. Berlinger was involved in Knox linked UFMG (named in the SEC complaint) along with dozens of other paid promo tickers that involved illegal stock sales and offshore money laundering.
In 2015, Belinger was named in an SEC Complaint for assisting in an illegal share selling/offshore money laundering scheme for Jamin Java (JAMN).
Berlinger was not criminally charged though so he doesn't appear to be one of the CWs in this case.
The Knox Indictment also goes into great detail about the paid promotions used to assist in the illegal stock sales in both EPTI and CURR.
Besides the Profit Play Stocks stock promotion for EPTI, I know that Venture Capital News (an online newsletter/email spam promoter that may have been a spinoff of Billionaire Stocks) and Stock Callers (a boiler room type group that was formerly known as Trader's Choice) helped promoter a bunch of the stocks named in the SEC complaint.
Venture Capital helped promoted LOGG, SPWZ, FPVD, VOPA, ENVV, PSNP, and BEUT among others while Billionaire Stocks and its predecessors helped promote UOMO, BGBR, JAMN, TFER, NGRC, NHUR, SANB, WTER, ENIP, KRED, and CANA. Stock Callers/Trader's Choice helped promote MJMI, XLIT, NEXS, SPRN (formerly NHUR), CATQ, PSCR, GRMX (now EVBC), RETC, STVA, TTSI, OLMM, MTUU, and VCBD among others.
The Indictment names the following three brokers used by Silverton SA to help liquidate stock - Wedbush Securities in the United States, Tendall Capital Markets LTD which is located in Malta and is run by Jason Smart, and Interactive Brokers located in the UK.
The Indictment also mentions Beaufort Securities in the UK as being involved in selling some shares for a Belize broker that received some of the shares previously held by one of the entities signed for by CW-2 in EPTI.
I'm pretty sure Jason Smart of Tendall Capital is the same Jason Smart that used to be linked to Andrew Godfrey of the Belize money landering group going back to 2009 in the old paid promo ticker DIMI Telematics (DIMI) which now trades as Bespoke Extracts Inc (BSPK).
Anyways, just wanted to get the Indictment out there. This whole thing is a dot connectors dream and I just hope the FBI and the SEC decide to connect those dots and turn this into a big domino effect that includes a bunch of future litigation/Indictments against others involved in this massive offshore share selling/money launder scheme. This is their opportunity to take out some really big name individuals that have been sucking hundreds of millions of dollars out of the US penny stock market through stock manipulation/money laundering schemes involving hundreds of Issuers going back many years.
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