SEC target Boock responds to hijacking case
2010-11-09 14:04 ET - Street Wire
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by Mike Caswell
Irwin Boock, the Ontario man who failed to answer civil fraud charges from the United States Securities and Exchange Commission for hijacking the identities of 43 public companies, has finally responded to the case. In an affirmation filed on Nov. 8, 2010, he has asked that the judge overturn a default judgment the SEC won on March 26, 2010. He says that he will defend the charges on his own, without the help of a lawyer.
The filing is the first indication that Mr. Boock, 55, intends to fight the 13-month-old case. The SEC claims that he and others hijacked inactive public companies and sold them as shells. The companies produced from the scheme included a shell that went on to become Paramount Gold and Silver Corp., a Toronto Stock Exchange listing.
In his affirmation, Mr. Boock says that he did not intentionally ignore the charges. He claims that he told the SEC one year ago that he denied any wrongdoing, but could not afford to defend himself as he was already fighting a parallel administrative proceeding launched by the Ontario Securities Commission. (The OSC matter has not yet concluded.) He did not realize at the time that he could represent himself in the SEC's case, without hiring a lawyer.
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Most of these hijacked scam companies were taken over by Jean-Francois Amyot (Hilbory Advisory Inc.) who used John Briner to write bogus opinion letters for billions of counterfeit shares cleared through illegally run Select American Transfer Co.
Here is one example:
LCOL.PK Hijack Time Line, formerly Ensec International Inc.
LOTTA COAL, INC (LCOL.PK)
PRINCIPAL ADDRESS
10151 UNIVERSITY BLVD., STE. 120
ORLANDO FL 32817
OLD NAME WAS : ENSEC INTERNATIONAL, Inc
The Ensec to Lotta Coal (LCOL) story:
Ensec International Inc, was a Florida corporation formed in April 1996 as a holding company for Ensec Inc., a Florida corporation (1991) and Ensec Engenharia e Sistemas de Seguranca, SA., a Brazilian corporation, Ensec, S.A. (1983). They designed, sold, installed and serviced security systems for large commercial or governmental facilities, ranging from single function installations to high-end integrated security systems. Bulk of the operations were in Brazil, however, company's principal executive offices were located at Boca Raton, Florida, and its sales office was located at One World Trade Center, Suite 3357, New York.
Amid financial/patent difficulties here’s a timeline of significant events:
2/28/1998 Ensec International closed offices in Boca Raton
10/23/1998 Ensec Inc files last annual report with Florida SoS
10/28/1998 Ensec International attempts to merge with Sentech International
2/27/1999 Ensec International files last annual report with Florida SoS
Sometime between 6/30/99 and 12/31/99 Sentech terminates merger with Ensec
9/9/1999 Finkel resigns as CEO and proxies his votes to Rosa, Rosa becomes CEO
9/9/1999 A letter of intent to sell Ensec assets to American Computer Machines is reported
9/24/99 Ensec Inc is administratively dissolved by Florida SoS for annual report
11/10/1999 Ensec International files 15-12g
Circa 2/2000 Ensec International Inc is administratively dissolved by Florida SoS for annual report
Bogus mirror Ensec International corporation created (P06000032239):
3/3/2006 Jason Wong files paperwork with Florida SoS that requests the name Ensec International. It is given to Wong as the legit Ensec International was admin dissolved over 5 years earlier. David Duncan is named Director and the address for the bogus Ensec International is the infamous University Blvd, Orlando location.
6/1/2006 A press release is issued: “TORONTO, Jun 1, 2006 (Market Wire delivered by Newstex) -- Ensec International Inc. (PINKSHEETS: ENSC) announced today that it has signed a letter of intent to acquire 100% of the outstanding shares of Lotta Coal Inc. as well as provided details to the special shareholders meeting held in Toronto on May 30, 2006.”
6/14/2006 Jason Wong files the amendment, 1/1000 r/s and name change to Lotta Coal. Document is signed 6/8/2006 and annotated that it was by shareholder vote.
7/06/2006 R/M completed.
3/26/2007 Jason Wong resigns as registered agent.
Returns to legit Ensec International corporation (P96000028650)
5/1/2007 Elizabeth Konieczny signs a reinstatement request as registered agent. Included are 3 years back annual reports.
New Company Officers
Nicolas Matossian, Chairman, Interim CEO, Acting President
Allen Soltis, COO, Dir.
Ron Evans, CFO, Dir.
Jean-Francois Amyot, VP, Bus. Affairs
David Glassman, VP, Investor Rel.
Marc Gagnon, Other
Later Jean-Francois Amyot becomes President
The SEC eventually caught up with these criminals in October, 2009 and suspended LCOL.PK
Here are some other Jean-Francois Amyot related scams:
SOCI.PK (SUSPENDED), PGYC.PK (SUSPENDED), LVLV.PK (SUSPENDED), WHKA.PK (SUSPENDED), KNDR.PK, MGLC.PK, BIEL.PK, EGOC.PK
Posted by The Head at 2010-11-09 14:40
You forgot to add "DYFR" Dairy Fresh Farms Inc., Snowy Owl Energy, "AURC" Aurus Corp and "NWOL" North West Oil Group to the list of hijacked Amyot scams. These fraudsters always issue fake PR's about stock dividends and buyout offers which never come true. I can't believe some naive investors are stupid enough to believe their blatant BS.
Things in common: bank royal bank of canada 1 place ville marie - mez 1 montreal, quebec, h3c 3b5 advisor hilbroy securities corp. 95 wilton road, suite 3, london, sw1v 1bz uk, midland baring/hilbroy advisors/jean-francois amyot
Posted by Norm Knew Some at 2010-11-09 16:27
How do we find out what happened to mglg?
Posted by jason at 2010-11-16 21:28
Jean-Francois Amyot controlled all of the paper, why shoot the messenger?
Posted by Dan Ryan at 2010-11-17 13:51
It was fun while it lasted, nothing compares to spending free money!
Posted by Jason Wong at 2010-11-18 13:50
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