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.
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.