This UK owned German company lost its German licence and reopened as FSW Securities, trading through FSW Europe at the same address, lost it licence again and reopened as Creston Financial Group and then declared insolvency but a company with the same name opened in Hong Kong. The company protested that it was not a boiler room but the many victims know that it practised boiler room pressure tactics. During Dec 2002-March 2005 the company sold only dodgy US Regulation S shares. These shares may not be legally sold to US persons and sales or buyers do not have to be reported to the Securities and Exchange Commission. All is secret, so improper block purchases followed by inflated price resales to European investors cannot be traced, even if the intermediary is a convicted fraudster. In the present case the 'nominee' holder of the shares appears to have disappeared with the shares, which incidentally have very little value left. We have traced a number of 'block purchases' and hope to get some redress. We appeal to anyone who purchased shares from the company during 2002-2007 to let us have the details. We have a draft prepared of the earlier 'trades' and need more information to pursue a case.
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