http://www.brecorder.com/market-data/stocks-a-bonds/0/1183854/

Equity investors pay heavily for Byco’s ‘maths error’

ismail dilawar

7 May 2015

Business Recorder

In a manner typical of sentiments-driven stock markets, Monday saw the profit-conscious equity investors at Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) incurring huge losses due to, what they claim, a “misleading” earning announcement made by Byco Petroleum Pakistan Limited (BPPL).

The petroleum company, though conceding to have made a “maths error”, denies its correlation with the already declining price of the stock. Having ended 16-paisa down at Rs 11.63 Tuesday, BPPL rallied up Wednesday to Rs 12.42, its upper circuit. The front regulators at KSE have taken notice of Monday’s irregularity and might penalise the listed firm if found guilty of alleged manipulation of its share prices. Continue reading →

http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1781169/lew-mon-hung-just-helping-out-us225m-share-sale-court-hears

Lew Mon-hung ‘just helping’ out in US$225m share sale, court hears in fraud trial

Julie Chu julie.chu@scmp.com

30 April 2015

scmp.com

Businessman Lew Mon-hung said he was merely acting as a “white knight” to help a troubled listed company raise funds to buy a US oil field when he joined the firm and promoted the sale of its new shares, totalling US$225 million, a court heard yesterday.

Lew, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, allegedly deceived the stock exchange and potential investors of Pearl Oriental Innovation. Continue reading →

Earlier Post: Rolta India: Glaucus Research – “Rolta has fabricated its reported capital expenditures in order to mask that it has materially overstated its EBITDA”; Rolta India: Glaucus Research Rebuttal to Rolta Response

Glaucus Research issues a Second Rebuttal to Rolta – Reiterates Strong Sell rating on Delaware-Issued 2018 and 2019 Corporate Bonds

On April 16, 2015, we published a detailed investment opinion (the “Report”) on the 2018 and 2019 US$ bonds (the “Junk Bonds”) issued by the Delaware subsidiary of Rolta India Limited (“Rolta” or the “Company”). In our Report, we presented extensive analysis and evidence, which in our opinion, indicate that Rolta has fabricated its reported capital expenditures in order to mask that it has materially overstated its EBITDA. On April 20, 2015, Rolta issued a response (the “First Response”) which not only materially contradicted previous statements by the Company (including statements in its 2013 and 2014 bond prospectuses), but was also muddled, riddled with factual errors and deliberately evasive. Continue reading →

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Related post: (1) China Environment: Auditor Emphasis of Matter raises more questions on potential accounting tunneling risk, (2) China Environment FY2014: Significant Deterioration in Receivables Collectability And No Provision for Impairment, (3) Open Letter to SGX/MAS: Reply to CFO of SGX-Listed China Environment (CENV SP) on report “Potential Accounting Tunneling Fraud at China Environment?” – Address the accounting and governance concerns in an SGX/MAS announcement, (4) Does Auditor Explanatory Language in Unqualified Audit Reports Indicate Increased Financial Misstatement Risk? “Emphasis of matter” language predicts restatements

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/may/05/hewlett-packard-unveils-details-of-5bn-autonomy-case

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financial-crime/11583498/HP-claims-Mike-Lynch-sacked-Autonomy-finance-boss-to-silence-concern-over-sales.html

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/35db8c1e-ef2d-11e4-87dc-00144feab7de.html#axzz3ZKz9hlwC

HP’s lawyers have outlined five main sources of allegedly wrongly claimed income:

• $194m of supposedly hidden hardware sales. HP said it found Autonomy resold hardware such as servers made by other companies, often at a loss, and claims its directors allowed investors to believe this was software revenue.
• $196m in apparently wrongly reported sales of Autonomy’s core software product, IDOL, to other software companies.
• $205m in supposedly questionable transactions with software resellers.
• $80m of claimed incorrectly reported hosting deals, in which Autonomy renegotiated contracts to host other companies’ data on its own servers
• $33m in other alleged improper transactions.

Hewlett-Packard unveils details of $5bn Autonomy fraud case

US firm claims Mike Lynch inflated revenues by $700m, but Autonomy founder says HP has failed to produce ‘smoking gun’

Of particular interest to Hewlett-Packard are 37 deals with small IT contractors that bought Autonomy’s software. Photograph: Jim Young/Reuters

Juliette Garside

Tuesday 5 May 2015 19.54 BSTLast modified on Wednesday 6 May 201500.10 BST

Hewlett-Packard has unveiled full details of its $5bn (£3.3bn) fraud case against the founder of the UK software company Autonomy, claiming that Mike Lynch inflated the revenues of his business by about $700m over a two-and-a-half-year period.

HP, which bought Autonomy in 2011 for $11bn, has filed a claim against Lynch and his finance director, Sushovan Hussain, in the high court in London, alleging they engaged in improper transactions with software resellers and in questionable accounting practices. Continue reading →

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The strange case of Ashazi: Wirecard in Bahrain, via Singapore

Dan McCrum

| May 05 10:10 | 2 comments | Share

Ashazi Services, a Bahrain-based electronic payments company, moved from place to place in the Gulf Kingdom. For a time it was based in managed office space in one of the gleaming towers of Manama’s prestigious diplomatic area, but also small apartments far from the centre.

In early 2011, however, Ashazi’s address was the office of its lawyer, Kumail Al Alawi, found above a side alley tucked between an outpost of Kentucky Fried Chicken and a car rental office.

So what sort of company was it? The question matters because in 2011 the Bahrain start-up was responsible for €4m per year of licence fee revenues reported by Wirecard, the German listed payments company. Ashazi Services Co WLL is one of the dormant companies leading back to E-Credit Plus Singapore, the first business purchased in Wirecard’s long Asian acquisition spree. Continue reading →

http://www.thestar.com.my/Business/Business-News/2015/05/06/IreTex-auditors-give-qualified-opinion/?style=biz

Ire-Tex auditors give qualified opinion

Wednesday, 6 May 2015

By: WONG WEI-SHEN

UPETALING JAYA: The external auditors of Ire-Tex Corp Bhd have expressed a qualified opinion on the company’s financial statements for the year ended Dec 31, 2014. The light-emitting diode (LED) manufacturer’s auditors UHY said the basis for its qualified opinion was due to trade receivables from sales, which were subsequently impaired as of Ire-Tex’s financial year end.

During the year, UHY noted that Ire-Tex’s unit Zoomic Automation (M) Sdn Bhd sold goods to two related parties amounting to RM5mil. The trade receivables amounting to RM5mil and advances of RM800,000 were subsequently impaired by the management as of financial year end.

“Due to insufficient appropriate audit evidence, we are unable to satisfy ourselves as to the validity and existence of these sales and whether there were other consequential adjustments to be made to the accompanying financial statements including cost of sales and gross profit,” said UHY in a statement. Continue reading →