Capital + Merchant guilty pleas
Former Capital + Merchant Finance directors Wayne Douglas and Neal Nicholls have today pleaded guilty to Securities Act charges laid by the Financial Markets Authority.
Friday, February 15th 2013, 12:14PM
Douglas pleaded guilty to one charge of making an untrue statement in a registered prospectus and one charge of distributing an advertisement which included an untrue statement.
Nicholls pleaded guilty to two charges of making an untrue statement in a registered prospectus and one charge of distributing advertisements which included an untrue statement.
A sentencing date has not yet been set. Both men are currently serving a sentence of seven and a half years’ imprisonment after they were found guilty of fraud charges in a prosecution taken by the SFO.
Capital + Merchant Finance (in receivership and liquidation) owed $167.1 million to about 7500 investors when it was placed in receivership in November 2007.
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