Investment Scam

Partner of Milowe Brost in the multi-hundred-million-dollar international Ponzi scheme; sentenced to 12 years for fraud and theft over $5,000.

Toronto fund manager known as the 'Chinese Warren Buffett' / 'Chinese Madoff'; convicted of running a roughly CA$50 million Ponzi-style fund (Oversea Chinese Fund).

Convicted in connection with manipulating micro-cap stocks via offshore bank entities.

Saskatchewan investment adviser sentenced to seven years for orchestrating a CA$16.7 million Ponzi-style fraud (Maximum Financial).

Unregistered Montreal financial adviser who ran a Ponzi scheme for roughly two decades, defrauding around 150 victims of approximately CA$50 million; sentenced to 11 years.

Prominent Canadian mining figure convicted in the 1960s Windfall Oils and Mines wash-trading scandal on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

Operated fake 'high-yield investment programs' (HYIP) promoted via social media targeting retail investors.

Ontario man who orchestrated a long-running 'forex' Ponzi-style scheme that fleeced investors out of tens of millions of dollars.

Created deepfake-style marketing videos promoting fake trading applications.

Defrauded Banco Noroeste of Brazil out of approximately $242 million in one of the largest 419 advance-fee frauds on record.

Convicted for running high-yield-investment Ponzi schemes.

Former Vancouver stock promoter convicted of stock manipulation and securities fraud by Canadian and U.S. regulators.

Implicated in widespread penny-stock pump-and-dump operations targeting North American investors.

Co-orchestrated one of Canada's largest Ponzi schemes (Syndicated Gold Depository / Institute for Financial Learning), defrauding investors of more than US$100 million. Sentenced in Alberta to 12 years in prison.

Historical Canadian stock promoter convicted in connection with mining-exchange fraud schemes.

Convicted in Quebec for operating a boiler-room stock-manipulation scheme.

Operated fraudulent high-yield forex training seminars charging steep upfront fees for worthless 'systems'.

Daughter of Ronald Fast; convicted and ordered to pay roughly CA$1 million in restitution for her role in the Maximum Financial investment fraud.

Operated a phantom forex investment firm (Sabourin & Sun) that targeted retirees' savings; the Ontario Securities Commission obtained substantial sanctions.