non so dove postarla... ma quante frodi ci sono, e tutte adesso le scoprono?!?
HOUSTON (Reuters) - U.S. authorities charged Texas billionaire Allen Stanford and three of his companies with "massive ongoing fraud" on Tuesday as federal agents swooped in on Stanford's U.S. headquarters.
In a complaint filed in a Dallas federal court, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission accused the cricket-loving Stanford and two other top executives at Stanford Financial Group of fraudulently selling $8 billion in high-yield certificates of deposit.
About 15 federal agents, some wearing jackets identifying them as U.S. marshals, entered the lobby of Stanford's office in the Houston Galleria area, a Reuters eyewitness said. U.S. media descended on the scene and television helicopters hovered overhead.
Stanford Financial said it remained open for business but was "under the management of a receiver," according to a sign taped to the door of the firm's Houston office.
According to the 25-page SEC complaint, filed in federal district court in Dallas, Stanford sold $8 billion in CDS "by promising high return rates that exceed those available through true certificates of deposits offered by traditional banks."
The SEC said it was seeking to freeze the assets of the company and appoint a receiver "to take possession and control of defendants' assets for the protection of defendants' victims."
The move comes as investors, politicians and regulators focus on the returns that investment firms promise and provide following an alleged $50 billion fraud by Wall Street financier
Bernard Madoff.
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN1737429520090217
- FT Alphaville has the Stanford scandal in pictures.
- "We are alleging a fraud of shocking magnitude that has spread its tentacles throughout the world," SEC says as it charges R. Allen Stanford and three of his companies for orchestrating a fraudulent, multi-billion dollar investment scheme centering on an $8B CD program.