Masterminds of Singapore's largest share manipulation jailed 36 and 20 years

Blumont Group Ltd, Asiasons Capital Ltd and LionGold Corp Ltd · Mainboard-listed shares manipulated (Oct 2013 crash)

Funding shockForged documentsGovernance failure

The case in brief

Visible before detection

Checks that could have surfaced it, on hindsight

Beneficial ownership of the trading accounts would link them to one controlling group.

Can mislead when: Nominee directors and offshore layers hide links. Name matching throws up false positives, so every flag shows its evidence path.

Trading volumes would not match underlying business activity.

Can mislead when: Contract staff do not appear in EPFO. Vahan access needs licensed APIs. Some businesses have no physical trace.

The share collateral pledged to brokers would be valued at manipulated prices.

Can mislead when: Pledges made off the registries stay invisible, and vague invoice descriptions are hard to match.

Where Kubr services would have helped

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C3 Beneficial ownership of the trading accounts would link them to one controlling group.
C10 Trading volumes would not match underlying business activity.
C13 The share collateral pledged to brokers would be valued at manipulated prices.

Offered in India

C3 Beneficial ownership of the trading accounts would link them to one controlling group.
C13 The share collateral pledged to brokers would be valued at manipulated prices.

Offered in India

C3 Beneficial ownership of the trading accounts would link them to one controlling group.
C10 Trading volumes would not match underlying business activity.

Offered in India

C3 Beneficial ownership of the trading accounts would link them to one controlling group.
C13 The share collateral pledged to brokers would be valued at manipulated prices.

Mapped from the checks each service runs. A hindsight reading of public records, not a promise that the failure would have been found.

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