Hong Kong Court Takes Strong Action against Suspected Boiler Rooms - Freezing $4.3 Million

by Avi Mizrahi
  • The court's interim orders will remain in force until the hearing of the SFC’s application for final orders against all of the parties, the date of which has yet to be fixed. The Hong Kong watchdog's investigation is continuing.
Hong Kong Court Takes Strong Action against Suspected Boiler Rooms - Freezing $4.3 Million
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The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has just announced today that it has obtained orders from the Court of First Instance to restrain a number of entities from carrying on unlicensed activities and is also suspending their websites.

It is very common recently to see regulators around the world issue warnings about scams related to Online Trading . The most common ones are “boiler rooms” where salespeople cold call targeted clients, and "clone websites" based on copying the brand or Regulation of another firm. However, unlike American authorities who relentlessly hound fraudsters, most regulators never follow up with anything more than a warning.

The entities sanctioned by the Hong Kong watchdog in this case are: Broadspan Securities (www.broadspansecurities.com), Shepherds Hill Partners Hong Kong (www.shepherdshillhk.com) and Rich Futures HK Limited (www.richfutureshk.com). As of the time of this writing, Shepherds Hill's website is already down, Broadspan Securities' website is still up and the Rich Futures domain redirects to an unrelated winery website for some reason.

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The SFC alleged before the court that these entities engaged in fraudulent boiler room activities and received money from investors. On December 19th, the watchdog obtained interim injunctions in the Court of First Instance to freeze approximately $4.3 million in bank accounts held by six entities. The SFC says it suspects that these bank accounts were used by Broadspan, Shepherds Hill and Rich Futures for receiving money from investors.

These entities were: Timeprime Ltd., Lynwin Ltd., Resmart Ltd., Fieldmark Corporation Ltd., DH Corporation Ltd. and SMD Partnership Ltd.

The court's interim orders will remain in force until the hearing of the SFC’s application for final orders against the parties, the date of which has yet to be fixed. The Hong Kong watchdog's investigation is continuing.

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The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has just announced today that it has obtained orders from the Court of First Instance to restrain a number of entities from carrying on unlicensed activities and is also suspending their websites.

It is very common recently to see regulators around the world issue warnings about scams related to Online Trading . The most common ones are “boiler rooms” where salespeople cold call targeted clients, and "clone websites" based on copying the brand or Regulation of another firm. However, unlike American authorities who relentlessly hound fraudsters, most regulators never follow up with anything more than a warning.

The entities sanctioned by the Hong Kong watchdog in this case are: Broadspan Securities (www.broadspansecurities.com), Shepherds Hill Partners Hong Kong (www.shepherdshillhk.com) and Rich Futures HK Limited (www.richfutureshk.com). As of the time of this writing, Shepherds Hill's website is already down, Broadspan Securities' website is still up and the Rich Futures domain redirects to an unrelated winery website for some reason.

Compliance 2

The SFC alleged before the court that these entities engaged in fraudulent boiler room activities and received money from investors. On December 19th, the watchdog obtained interim injunctions in the Court of First Instance to freeze approximately $4.3 million in bank accounts held by six entities. The SFC says it suspects that these bank accounts were used by Broadspan, Shepherds Hill and Rich Futures for receiving money from investors.

These entities were: Timeprime Ltd., Lynwin Ltd., Resmart Ltd., Fieldmark Corporation Ltd., DH Corporation Ltd. and SMD Partnership Ltd.

The court's interim orders will remain in force until the hearing of the SFC’s application for final orders against the parties, the date of which has yet to be fixed. The Hong Kong watchdog's investigation is continuing.

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