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Jim Bishop

09/19/06 10:17 PM

#83621 RE: rrufff #83581

I'll change my tune, despite Enron etc, IF, those audited financials are SOX compliant and filed via Form 10 or any other form at Edgar.

Up on their own web site...nah, won't cut it for me.

I'm never sure just who the "bashers" are that you refer to that say "all microcaps are scams".

It's certainly not me, Janice, Matrix, whatsthatspell/SEC10 LOL or whatever his next alias will be here...or anyone else I know.

Sure, the vast majority are of them are questionable and many are obvious scams, but no one I know would make a blanket statement like that. We also, always say, scam or not, that has nothing to do with a stock being a good trading vehicle.

LOL of those "bashers" I mentioned above, I believe I'm the only one with morals low enough to actually play and profit from the crud.

Not sure if I've ever told you before, I've also talked to, and met in person many OTC and Pink CEO's...most were clueless as far as rules and regs...only ones I trusted were those that didn't know exactly where their stock was trading, the volume that day etc....one guy, Sak Narwal actually had RB up on the computer in his office, I saw his monitor when in his office at an open house. LOL even met a retired US Senator that was helping to pump Sak's crud. OGPS was the symbol at the time.

Following, for anyone still reading, mentions Sak along with Sandy Winick's (of BKMP fame now) brother Marvin.
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SEC fines Narwal-linked accountant Winick for forgery

2006-07-04 20:55 ET - Street Wire

by Mike Caswell


The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has fined Marvin Winick, a banned Ontario accountant linked to Silver Star Energy Inc. shareholder Sak Narwal, for forgery. The SEC says Mr. Winick issued bogus audit opinions for three public companies, Tekron Inc., Greentech USA Inc. and Information Architects Corp., by forging the signatures of accounting firms in Colorado and Oklahoma.

Mr. Winick, without admitting any wrongdoing, has agreed to $135,062 in civil penalties to settle the allegations. (All figures are in U.S. dollars.)

As reported by The Vancouver Sun in March, Mr. Winick set up three shell companies, which are unrelated to the current SEC case, for Sak Narwal, the largest shareholder in Silver Star Energy. The RCMP raided Silver Star in 2004, suspecting a pump-and-dump, but no charges have been laid.

The SEC's complaint

In a settled civil complaint filed Friday, the SEC says Mr. Winick fraudulently issued audit opinions for Tekron, Greentech and Information Architects, all reporting issuers at the time. Mr. Winick, who was banned in 1992 by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario for professional misconduct, was to prepare the companies' financial results and send them to an outside auditor.

Instead of hiring an independent auditor to overlook his work, the SEC says Mr. Winick forged the signature of an Oklahoma City auditing firm. He apparently presented the financial results as being in perfect order, and filed them with the SEC.

It seems the problem came to light when the Oklahoma firm found its name on filings it did not audit. The firm confronted Mr. Winick, who promised to remove the filings and apparently did. The SEC says he replaced them using more forged audits, this time bearing the name of a Colorado firm.

Like the Oklahoma auditor, the SEC says the Colorado auditor eventually discovered the forged opinions, and wrote a letter demanding its name come off the filings. Mr. Winick's employers, which knew about the Oklahoma problem by this time, fired Mr. Winick.

Along with the fine, Mr. Winick has agreed to a permanent director and officer ban.

The SEC has also filed suit against Luigi Brun, the chief executive officer of Tekron Inc., one of the companies for which Mr. Winick worked. The SEC says Mr. Brun knew about the forged audits.

In a separate administrative proceeding, the SEC has revoked the registration of three private Nevada companies that list Mr. Winick as president.

The Silver Star connection

With the director ban, Mr. Winick will have to resign from at least 13 public companies of which he is listed as a director or officer. Likely included in his resignations will be Easy Com Inc. and Multimod Investments Ltd., which Mr. Winick set up for Sak Narwal, the largest shareholder in RCMP target Silver Star Energy, according to The Sun's March 27 story.

The RCMP's Integrated Market Enforcement Team raided Silver Star's office in 2004. Search warrant documents alleged a pump-and-dump at the Vancouver company. No charges have been laid in that case.

A jailed relative of Sak Narwal, Roman Narwal, was also listed as a shareholder in Easy Com and Multimod in public filings. Roman Narwal is serving a 15-year sentence for drug-related extortion and kidnapping.

Although Mr. Winick did not return calls for an interview Tuesday, he told The Sun in March he did not know who Roman Narwal was and said Sak Narwal had resigned from the companies.

Mr. Winick is the target of a website calling itself Winick Watch. The site lauds itself as "dedicated to protecting the public from the possible financial risks of engaging in business relationships with Marvin Winick." In a cult-like manner, the site lists any news stories, SEC documents and lawsuits that include Mr. Winick.

Mr. Winick sued the website for slander in 2004, but Winick Watch claimed its information was factual and mostly came from public sources. Mr. Winick dropped the suit last February.