Developers penalized after losing $3.6 million in illegally raised securities
Posted February 25, 2015 12:52 pm.
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VANCOUVER – The B.C. Securities Commission has fined and issued bans for two real estate developers for illegally distributing securities.
A panel found that between 2006 and 2010, Michael Knight and Jeffrey Wiegel raised $3.6 million selling securities without a prospectus and without being registered.
That money is gone — the commission says many individual investors lost $50,000 to $100,000 each.
Knight has been ordered to pay a $300,000 penalty and is permanently banned from trading in securities, being a corporate officer, working in investor relations or acting in any capacity in the securities market.
Wiegel faces a $100,000 fine and a 10-year ban on being a corporate officer or doing anything in connection with the securities market.
Both have been ordered to pay back the millions they raised and lost.
