A raid on an alleged boiler room in Vancouver is further evidence that the Bank of Bermuda may have been conned out of $14.3 million when it invested in First Ecom.com Inc.
Canadian securities regulators and armed police have raided a Vancouver boiler room operation closely linked with Brek Energy, whose offshore investors, including the Bank of Bermuda and clients of Lines Overseas Management, have lost tens of millions of dollars in
Canadian national Gregory Pek has retired as President and CEO of loss making Brek Energy, formerly First Ecom.com, and been replaced by 57 year old Richard Jeffs.Pek stepped down only a few months after overseeing Brek's purchase for $770,000 of
The farce that is Brek Energy continued in August with the reporting of yet another quarterly loss and a restatement of previous earnings because the firm had classified some expense as revenue.Brek, into which the Bank of Bermuda and clients of Bermuda-based Lines Overseas Management invested in excess of $28 million, reported a net loss of $3.4 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2002.
OffshoreAlert has uncovered further information casting doubt on the legitimacy of Nasdaq-listed Brek Energy, whose dismal operating results caused the Bank of Bermuda to write off its entire $14.3 million investment.We have obtained details of allegations of impropriety against the firm's Chief Financial Officer in 1995 relating to a former employer.
Stock manipulation or a happy coincidence? That is the unanswered question surrounding the recent share activity of perennial loss-maker Brek Energy, formerly First Ecom.com.For more than ten months, the firm's shares had closed at below $1 on the Nasdaq National Market System in breach of the Exchange's $1 minimum bid requirement for continued listing.