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Windsor lawyer Dan Scott, who represents three of the defendants, including Petar Vucicevich of Colchester, said Thursday he's expecting a trial to start soon.
"Petar is very anxious to start dealing with this," Scott said.
Scott said the RCMP has been in touch with him, but he doesn't know where that investigation is heading.
RCMP Sgt. Marc LaPorte of Toronto said the force doesn't comment on investigations.
An OSC hearing is scheduled for Monday in Toronto, but Scott expects it to be adjourned.
The OSC allegations name Sulja Bros., Vucicevich, who was a former CEO of the company, and a Windsor-based company called Kore International Management Inc., which was run by Vucicevich.
The OSC also alleges a U.S.-based Kore company with ties to Texas resident Andrew DeVries had a role in what it described as a "pump and dump scheme."
Throughout 2006, the OSC alleges numerous false news releases touting deals worth hundreds of millions of dollars were issued on behalf of Sulja Bros., which trades in electronic penny stock markets as SLJB.
At the same time, the OSC says the stock was being sold to investors around the world using brokerage accounts in the names of Kore employees.
The OSC says Vucicevich's Kore company got $3 million from stock sales in 2006, plus an additional US$2.7 million and then $4.7 million from the U.S. Kore company during the end of 2006 and early 2007.
Thursday's allegations add as defendants Steve Sulja, his brother Sam and Kore employees Tracey Banumas of Harrow and Pranab Shah of Windsor.
In an interview last September, Steve Sulja said his family's Harrow lumberyard sold its accounts receivable and payable, but not land or buildings, to Vucicevich in what he called a "handshake deal."
He said family members only got a fraction of what they were promised by Vucicevich.
Sulja, who also became CEO of the Nevada-incorporated Sulja company, said he was duped into believing big overseas deals were being pulled off by Vucicevich.
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