Ever since I started really digging deep and writing up articles exposing groups like Awesome Penny Stocks in 2011/2012 ;-) ... was that cause I was calling them a SCAM? :-D
I agree, though I'd add Babs to that list, and subtract Scott Gelbard. I don't think he was ever a really big player.
And add Babs. He came from behind--from nothing at all--top be one of the most successful of them. Where does Tony Papa fit in? And who's behind all of them, including Papa?
Persian background was thrown out. But nobody had a name for this guy.
Go back through your notes. There was a name. But we could never confirm it. What about the Panamanian company called Bahadur? Which was very close to the name of someone involved in all of this?
Iqbal Saran - is this our mysterious Iqbal S that the lillenny poster alleged is the true master mind and key individual behind dozens of pump&dumps that were run through stock promotion groups like Awesome Penny Stocks and Stock Tips back in March on the TLPY forum?
Digging around looking for anybody named Iqbal that I could link to people I know that had involvement in these paid promotions I found an individual named Iqbal Saran.
Some of the links:
1) Iqbal Saran has/had property in San Diego, La Jolla, and Vancouver. I was able to find addresses for him in all three locations including a $5 million beach front home in Ja Jolla at 5754 Dolphin Cove Place and a $900,000 condo in an upscale San Diego Apartment complex at 575 6th Ave, Suite 1905, San Diego through some old website domains that he registered at ballintots.com, ohbeam.com, and newmny.com
newmny.com Name Iqbal Saran (3) Org. - Email liquidmarket@hush.com (1) Street 1 5754 Dolphin Pl (2) Street 2 - City La Jolla (51,686) (+636) Region California (6,127,761) (+44,224) Zip / Post 92037 (42,577) (+776) Country UNITED STATES (79,871,757) (-156,582) Phone 7783896898 (3)
ohbeam.com Name Iqbal Saran (3) Org. - Email mnymker@shaw.ca (1) Street 1 5754 Dolphin Pl (2) Street 2 - City La Jolla (47,338) (-3,712) Region California (5,625,348) (-458,189) Zip / Post 92037 (39,403) (-2,398) Country UNITED STATES (75,382,122) (-4,646,217) Phone 7783896898 (3)
ballintots.com Name Iqbal Saran () Org. - Email liquidmaker@hush.com () Street 1 575 6th ave|Suite 1905 () Street 2 - City San Diego () Region California () Zip / Post 92101 () Country UNITED STATES () Phone 7783896898 ()
2) Iqbal Saran was once listed as an officer with Karim Rawji for Nevada business entity Empire Merchant Services Inc
The CEO planted in Salient Products Corp was Shehzad Peermahomed, another person I had in my early 2012 Awesome Penny Stock research as an APS insider.
Both Shehzad Peermahomed and Karim Sawji were from California with ties to San Diego.
Shehzad Peermahomed ran Prometheus Financial Group Inc from 2002 - 2008. Karim Rawji worked at Prometheus with Shehzas Peermahomed. In 2008 Peermahomed founded Mane Decessus Inc and hired Karim Rawji to work with him again.
3) Iqbal Saran incorporated two businesses in Wyoming in 2011 (B Investments LLC and B Management LLC)
Both B Investments LLC and B Management LLC used the address 3033 Fifth Ave Ste 400, San Diego.
Many of us recognize that address as the old address of Carrillo Huettel LLP. Wade Huettel and even more so Luis Carrillo were key insiders for many paid promotion tickers including many of the Awesome Penny Stock / Victory Mark paid promotions. Luis Carrillo continues to help organize/run pump&dumps out of Tijuana, Mexico.
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Iqbal Saran doesn't have much of a web presence so it is hard to imagine him as some huge big shot in the securities industry, but at the same time if he really was some huge big shot he would avoid having a web presence any way possible.
It looks like he is married to a Lisa Saran.
Through his old domains I was able to track down two twitter pages of interest:
It is interesting that the newmny twitter uses the same scarface display picture that a poster named golddiggers used when he was acting as an informant on the SAEI scam back in late 2010
I was also able to use the San Diego address to track down two more domains
COMMONAMBITION.COM Update Date: 2015-09-17T04:47:37Z Creation Date: 2011-09-14T01:17:50Z Registrant Name: Karina Bath Registrant Organization: Registrant Street: 575 6th Avenue Unit 1905 Registrant City: San Diego Registrant State/Province: California Registrant Postal Code: 92101 Registrant Country: United States Registrant Phone: (858) 736-5663 Registrant Phone Ext: Registrant Fax: Registrant Fax Ext: Registrant Email: commonambition@gmail.com
BRANDCAMAPP.COM Update Date: 2015-04-07T23:16:08Z Creation Date: 2014-06-01T01:36:54Z Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2016-06-01T01:36:54Z Registrant Name: Common Ambition Registrant Organization: Registrant Street: 575 6th Avenue Registrant City: San Diego Registrant State/Province: California Registrant Postal Code: 92101 Registrant Country: United States Registrant Phone: +1.8587365663 Registrant Phone Ext: Registrant Fax: Registrant Fax Ext: Registrant Email: Payments@CommonAmbition.com
Those domains belong to a Karina Bath and a Brandan Bath. Karina and Brandan definitely know Iqbal Saran (possibly relatives) since they are two of just a handful of followers that can be linked to our two Iqbal Saran twitter pages.
Judging by photos I found of them driving around in a Ferrari, a Porche, and other fancy luxury cars, and taking pictures with what looks to be a private jet they would be spoiled relatives at that.