The Court of Appeal has upheld a February 2014 High Court ruling in which the Financial Conduct Authority won their case against Capital Alternatives and other firms. The FCA accused the firms of “promoting and/or operating collective investment schemes (CISs) in the UK illegally and without our authorisation”.
Category: Australia
On cockroaches and Capital Alternatives
By Chris Lang “It was the generally accepted way for brokerage firms under regulatory heat to stay one step ahead — essentially, closing down and reopening under a different name, thereby starting the process of making money and fighting the regulators all over again. It was like stepping on a cockroach and squashing it, only…
Conservation Central Network, Sustainable AgroEnergy and a “thickening quagmire of dishonesty”
A mix of bribery, fraud, biofuels in Cambodia, an ex-Reuters employee, Lord Laird of Artigarvan, and lots of (non-existent) carbon credits.
“I think every member of CCN is a victim of the fraud”, says ex-member of Conservation Central Network
Investigative journalist Antonio Papaleo has produced a short film exposing Conservation Central Network’s “Social Network Marketing” scheme.
Response from Campbell Scott, Conservation Central Network: “This article has so many untruths, inaccuracies and malice”
Conservation Central Network: “This article has so many untruths, inaccuracies and malice i am at a loss how an article such as this could be published”