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Probe news hits stocks in Pacific Andes stable: MAS, CAD investigating an offence under Securities and Futures Act

Cai Haoxianghaoxiang@sph.com.sg@HaoxiangCaiBT

AUG 22, 20155:50 AM

SHARES in the Pacific Andes stable were sent reeling on Friday by news that the Monetary Authority of Singapore and the Republic’s white-collar crime investigation agency Commercial Affairs Department (CAD) are investigating an offence under the Securities and Futures Act (SFA). Continue reading →

Related: (1) Scouring accounting footnotes to prevent tunnelling; (2) Is Your Forward-Looking Statement Safe Harbor Safe? Federal Appeals Court Reverses Dismissal and Revives Securities Fraud Class Action; Harman International Industries knowingly and recklessly propped up the stock price by making materially false and misleading statements about the company’s financial condition. In April 2007, Harman announced its potential acquisition by a private equity firm. In September 2007, however, Harman announced that the acquisition plan had been abandoned. (3) The trouble with non-binding takeover offers that create a false and manipulated ceiling for the target company’s shares which could be pledged or faced margin calls; There are numerous examples of where such buyouts have ended in tatters and some investors getting burnt; (4) Jade’s ex-president jailed and fined over sham takeover bid to push up its share price; (5) China Cord Blood Corp (NYSE: CO) and Golden Meditech (801 HK): Accounting Facts and Footnotes; (6) Taiwan’s MOF asks banks for details of Chinese loans to two troubled Chinese companies – Frankfurt-listed Chinese shoe company Ultrasonic AG whose executives disappeared with the loan and Golden Meditech (801 HK); TSU raises question of insider trading in Golden Meditech TDRs; FSC boss quizzed on Lien’s Golden Meditech TDRs; (7) 脐带血功效被夸大 中源协和 (Zhongyuan Union Cell & Gene: 600645 CH) 核心业务受困; 胎盘脐带血自费存储乱象; 脐带血：是生命种子，还是炒作噱头？“变了味”的脐带血; 脐带血保存，一场骗局? 血疑——上海市脐血库事件调查; Inside the Private Umbilical Cord Blood Banking Business: Wall Street Journal Analysis Found Dirty Storage, Leaky Blood Samples and Firms Going Under

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CEFC: Discussions on JVs still ongoing

Cai Haoxiang

19 August 2015

Business Times Singapore

CEFC International, the fuel trader whose share price has shot up by more than ten-fold since mid-July, said in an update on Tuesday evening that discussions on its potential joint ventures are still ongoing.

“No definitive terms or formal legal documentation have been agreed, and no binding agreement in relation to the potential joint ventures has been entered into, at this stage,” said CEO and executive director Lu Da Chuan. “Shareholders and potential investors should exercise caution when trading in the shares of the company, as there is no certainty that the potential joint ventures will be agreed or that any similar transaction will materialise,” he said. Continue reading →

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Amtek unit bondholders look to move UK courts

Castex’s bondholders say firm’s stock price was pushed up to force a conversion of FCCBs into equity shares

Amtek’s problems are likely to affect several auto makers, including Maruti Suzuki and Tata Motors. Photo: Bloomberg

Mumbai: Troubles are building up at Amtek Auto Ltd, with bondholders of its subsidiary Castex Technologies Ltd looking to approach UK courts alleging manipulation of the company’s stock price. The bondholders say the stock price was pushed up to force a conversion of foreign currency convertible bonds (FCCBs) into equity shares.

Last week, shares of Amtek Auto fell 57% in response to the stand-off between the company and its bondholders and on fears of a liquidity crunch at the Delhi-based auto component firm. Continue reading →

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Updated : 2015-08-20 21:01

Retail investors to file lawsuit against DSME

By Kim Jae-won

Individual investors will file a compensation lawsuit against Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) and Deloitte Anjin next month for allegedly committing accounting fraud, a law firm said Thursday.  Continue reading →

TCM, a sick company with no revenues has shot up 291%

TCM was into production of chemicals used in industries. In 2004, it was declared sick and registered with the Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction (BIFR). All operations were closed as the net worth of TCM had been fully eroded. TCM has not reported any revenue from operations over the past 12 quarters. It reported an average net loss of about Rs30-Rs40 lakh in each quarter. Yet, over the past seven months, the stock has generated much trading interest. The stock price shot up 291%, to Rs82 on 10 August 2015, from Rs21 on 9 January 2015. Investment in TCM’s shares would have more than tripled in just seven months. On the BSE, trading turnover of the stock surged to Rs2 lakh per day in the first week of August 2015. On an average, the stock has reported a trading turnover of about Rs40,000 per day. Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) of India has a 23.7% stake in the company (currently worth Rs6.61 crore) while New India Insurance holds 1.46%. The insurance companies have remained invested in TCM for over a decade. TCM, with no revenues, has a current market-cap of around Rs28 crore. Will the regulator investigate the suspicious price movement and surge in trading volumes?