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Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Daimanta
Waar vind je dat er meer dan 50.000.000.000 aan activa in de zaak zitten?
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Dat bedrag beweerde ie zelf onder beheer te hebben.
In werkelijkheid zou het om 12,5B gaan.
Is vandaag in staat van beschuldiging gesteld.
Alle activa werden bevroren.
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Cricket billionaire Stanford charged over $12.5bn fraud
Wednesday February 18, 2009, 7:17 am
American cricket promoter and financier Sir Allen Stanford has been charged over a $12.5 billion investment fraud.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission accuses Stanford of orchestrating a fraud involving the use of high-yielding certificates of deposit.
A US judge has frozen the Texan billionaire's assets, as well as those of three of his investment companies (...)
Zie: http://au.biz.yahoo.com/090217/31/24oa9.html
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The SEC Moves Against Stanford
The firm claims to have 30,000 customers, all of them wealthy, in 130 countries, with most investors in the U.S. and Latin America.
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Regulatory filings show that Stanford's brokerage arm managed about $4 billion in client money. Even adding in the $8.5 billion managed by its offshore bank, that's far less than the $50 billion that Allen Stanford claims his firm manages and advises. It appears, if the regulators are to believed, there was a lot of smoke and mirrors at Stanford Financial.
Zie: http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/...temp_top+story
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