Dan Ryan was the CEO of ABVG (dealing in gold), and became involved with a man called Tony Papa and his wife (she is the sister of Moreno Gallo who is a crime organization member based in Montreal). Tony Papa and wife derived much of their income from loans and transactions of penny stocks. This involvement came through an association with a company called Finkelstein Capital thru Downshire Capital. ABVG supposedly held gold mines in Russia. The Krasnoyarsk krai territory, in central Siberia, is a gold mining region, and was the leading producer in Russia, through the Polyus-owned Olympiada mine. ABVG claimed to have acquired these mines in partnership with two Russian companies, Kamsas and DRSU. The claim of partnership or acquistion turned out not have taken place.
Downshire Capital is also a stock promoter company. Dan Ryan is supposedly involved with the MM PSC through a partnership with Downshire Capital and PSC.
ABVG later went south and changed its ticker and business to > PharmaCom BioVet Inc PHMB:OTC
Dan Ryan was not the owner of Downshire Capital, he was a "representative" for them, and Downshire Capital is owned by a lady named Carol McKeown in 2008 when all these troubles (above) took place for Dan Ryan.
The SEC and FBI have both investigated Ryan, there has never been any proven evidence of wrong doing on his part. The PR's from ABVG with his name on them were not released by him actually, they were produced by a man named Dale Baeten who was hired by ABVG for the purpose of handling "investor relations". Dale Baeten was later, very briefly, implicated as a low level contact of Moreno Gallo. Baeten at the time was a full-time teacher in Green Bay, Wisconsin, who dabbled in investor relations on the side and was hired by ABVG to do the PR's among other investor relations stuff. Baeten's association with ABVG is not the only connection he seemed to have with Ryan. In 2008 Downshire Capital (which called its self a private investment banking firm) employed Dale Baeten and his firm called Midwest Consulting Services to do research, and market a company called Bionic Products. Midwest Consulting Services was the firm secured by Ryan to verify the gold mine information and supply Ryan with information