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[janice shell]

Just saw that. And for once they named at least some of the issuers.

The Boston office again. I wonder if Cameron Flarherty helped out...

[Zorax]

I'd absolutely love to see promoters real names outed in that case an if they had a ihub connection as well.

[nodummy]

Roger Knox Criminal Indictment (Silverton SA)

The DOJ has the Criminal Case against Rogert Knox available on pacer now.

The FBI originally filed an Indictment against Knox on 9/17/18, but kept it sealed until Knox was arrested on 10/3/18.

https://www.scribd.com/document/390138343/Knox-Criminal-Complaint

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

https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2018/comp-pr2018-228.pdf


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

https://www.goodetrades.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/2017-6-15-EPTI-1.pdf

https://www.goodetrades.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/EPTI-2017-6-15.pdf

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.

http://www.casinowatch.org/terrorists/terrorists_at_casinos.html

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.

https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=106260770

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.

http://promotionstocksecrets.com/gray-fox-petroleum-corp-gfox-updated-research-report/

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).

https://www.sec.gov/news/pressrelease/2015-259.html

https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2015/comp2015-259.pdf

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.

[nodummy]

SEETHRUEQUITY / VBIO SEC Suspension:

VBIO got suspended this morning. It was a long running paid promotion ticker with offshore money laundering links going back several years.

https://www.sec.gov/litigation/suspensions/2018/34-84543.pdf

Order:

https://www.sec.gov/litigation/suspensions/2018/34-84543-o.pdf

VBIO was one of over 100 stocks that were used for offshore share selling/money laundering through entities set up by Roger Knox

https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=143975911

https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=144003571

I did some in depth research on VBIO a couple of years ago (September 23, 2016) because of the obvious money launder connections

http://promotionstocksecrets.com/vitality-biopharma-inc-vbio-super-well-connected-ticker-setting-new-paid-promotion/



Another interesting Note about the VBIO suspension is that SEETHRUEQUITY put out a press release for VBIO today

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/seethruequity-issues-vitality-biopharma-vbio-130000616.html

In the PR, SEETHRUEQUITY gave VBIO a bogus price target of $3.50/share

In that PR, SEETHRUEQUITY fails to disclose that they were paid to promote VBIO. SEETHRUEQUITY doesn't include a disclaimer in the PR and doesn't include a link to a disclosure page for readers to find out that SEETHRUEQUITY was paid.

The only place that SEETHRUEQUITY provides a disclaimer about VBIO is on their biased VBIO "research report".

http://www.seethruequity.com/vitality-biopharma-inc-vbio/

The only way to view the disclaimer on the bottom of the SEETHRUEQUITY VIBO report is to sign up on their website

http://www.seethruequity.com/vitality-biopharma-inc-vbio/

Not making full public disclosure that they were paid to promote VBIO is a misrepresentation to the public by SEETHRUEQUITY and blatant securities fraud.


What makes the timing of the VBIO suspension coinciding with the SEETHRUEQUITY promotion even more interesting is that SEETHRUEQUITY was referenced in SEC litigation recently for participating in the Nutra Pharma Corp (NPHC) scam:

https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2018/comp24295.pdf

The SEC specifically references SEETHRUEQUITY's bogus price target starting with paragraph 143






SEETHRUEQUITY has touted itself as an "independent" research firm for the past 7 years, but they are not independent at all. SEETHRUEQUITY is a paid promoter. Companies and company insiders pay SEETHRUEQUITY to put out "independent" research reports with bogus price targets as a way of manipulating the stock price while using the Issuer for pump & dump activity. SEETHRUEQUITY is not an independent researcher. Everything SEETHRUEQUITY publishes about public issuers is in fact a biased opinion because they are paid to promote the stock.

SEETHRUEQUITY LLC was created in 2011 as a Delaware Business Entity. It operates out of New York and it is run by two brothers - Ajay Tandon and Amit Tandon.

The Tandon Brothers also run Readaboo Inc which attempted to go public a few years ago

https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0001606736

Going back further, Ajay Tandon and Amit Tandon were executives for Cavalier Holdings

https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0001394489

And were large shareholders in Greenhouse Holdings Inc

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1444177/000114036110001770/form8-k.htm

Amit Tandon was a key insider during the New York Global Group stock scam

A month after Multimedia Platforms acquired Next Magazine research firm SeeThruEquity initiated coverage on the company with a price target on its stock of $3.19.

https://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/31/idUSnMKWgrLYBa+1ce+MKW20150731

Amit Tandon previously was CEO of New York Global Group which was involved with controversial reverse Chinese mergers, and NYGG's founder and president Benjamin Wey and his Geneva-based banker Seref Dogan Erbek were indicted by federal prosecutors for securities fraud according to a Justice Department press release.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/benjamin-wey-founder-and-president-new-york-global-group-arrested-and-charged-manhattan

FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge Diego Rodriguez said:

"The illegal manipulation of stock prices causes significant losses for innocent investors and creates sizeable profits for fraudsters. Wey and Erbek allegedly falsified the true sales volume, demand, and price of stocks in the over-the-counter marketplace through a series of reverse merger transactions involving shell companies. They are believed to have profited in the tens of millions, while victim shareholders were left holding the bill. The FBI and our partners will continue to investigate and prosecute those who cheat the system in this way."

Amit Tandon has not been accused of any wrongdoing. In 2006 Amit Tandon apparently was a one-time defender of NYGG against some critical stories, and reportedly said in a NYGG press release "we intend to avail ourselves of all available remedies to stem the damage caused by these irresponsible and demonstrably false reports."

https://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/06165521.htm

The $3.19 target predicted by SeeThruEquity for Multimedia shares seems absurd given that that there are nearly 50 million outstanding shares and barely 1,000 are traded over-the-counter each day which long has been characterized by many as an inefficient market. The Form 10-Q for Multimedia Platforms filed with the SEC for the quarter ended June 30, 2015 warns that the "ability of the Company to continue as a going concern is in doubt." Although SeeThruEquity cites with pie-in-the-sky enthusiasm that corporate advertisers spend $300 million in print media to target the $850 billion purchasing power of the LGBT market it's unclear how any of this meaningfully benefits Multimedia Platforms. Heck, a lottery ticket probably has a better chance of hitting the powerball numbers than Multimedia Platforms has of obtaining sufficient dollars from corporate advertisers in order to make it a profitable operation. For example, Multimedia Platform's Form 10-Q states that "during the six months ended June 30, 2015, the Company recognized net revenue of $422,526," and "incurred a net operating loss of $4,851,521." Moreover, it seems unlikely that growth through acquisitions from weak publications such as Next Magazine which has been around for two decades in New York -- one of the largest LGBT markets -- can save Multimedia Platforms. Next Magazine's former publisher RND Enterprises brought in only $800,000 in revenue, and suffered a $250,000 net loss according to its financial statement for the year ended December 31, 2014.

Since 2011, SEETHRUEQUITY has been manipulating penny stocks under the guise of independent research by putting out biased reports through SEETHRUEQUITY.com and biased press releases with bogus price targets for any penny stock willing to pay them for their stock promotion services.

[elkonig]

Its no wonder Fred Bauman has told the management of IGPK that he longer signs off on financial reports.
He was the sign off lawyer for UMFG which was one of those tickers listed by the SEC in the Roger Knox case.