By Chelsea Mes
April 03, 2009 02:04pm
THE corporate watchdog has launched proceedings against Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest, formerly Australia's richest man, and his mining company Fortescue alleging "he seriously misled" the market.
In a statement released today, ASIC said the case centred on a series of announcements made by Fortescue Metals Group (FMG) to the market in late 2004 regarding agreements with three state-owned Chinese companies.
ASIC alleges FMG and Mr Forrest "overstated the substance and effect" of the agreements.
"Mr Forrest was well aware there was a significant and growing 'gap' between what the market had been told and what actually appeared in the agreements, but did nothing to correct the position and instead perpetuated the misleading statements," ASIC claims.
The true content of the agreements was revealed by the media in March 2005, sending Fortescue's share price down 25 per cent in one day.
ASIC is seeking more than $10 million in penalties as well as asking the Federal Court to consider disqualifying Mr Forrest as a director.
The court proceedings will begin in Perth on Monday.
More to come
Well, this announcement out of left field might set some cats among the clay (or should I say) iron ore pidgeons...
Courtesy of the Herald Sun
More to come indeed....
SP heading down (-5%) as I type
Well, this announcement out of left field might set some cats among the clay (or should I say) iron ore pidgeons...
Courtesy of the Herald Sun
Well, we knew at this forum for a long long time that this guy twwigy was talking the company up all the way all the way.
Good to see the gov doing something about it. I hope this prevent those cowboys riding the poor Dads and Mums money.
WBII
I'm curious now, what sort of events out of this fraud case could cause the stock price to head upward? The obvious one is Forrest avoids the rap entirely, at least IMO.
What do other ASF'rs think?
Well, we knew at this forum for a long long time that this guy twwigy was talking the company up all the way all the way.
Good to see the gov doing something about it. I hope this prevent those cowboys riding the poor Dads and Mums money.
WBII
Hi M34N,
Does the comment "we could see new 52-week lows." means:
1) those are my 2 cents
2) or a new 52-week lows of 2 cents ? I predicted 20c but 2 cents, that is low
Expecting a fury of FMG twwigies saying that the company should be trading @ 20 dollars.
WBII
Hi All,
This is my first post and I found this of interest...
You may also.
http://www.financial24.org/commodities/china-iron-ore-import-surge-caused-by-fake-demand/
I'd be interested on some opinion of FMG's current chart formation. Are we going to find resistance at $3?
On the other hand, he's been following the court case and he reckons twiggy is in trouble, which is surely to send the share price tumbling
If we knew the answer to questions like that there would be a lot of millionaires around mate, pretty silly question.
hahaaha, that is just funny.
So what you are saying is that the court case was brought just as an exercise and that cowbiy twiggy does not have to worry about anything. That is just pure stupidity, if they call the case is because there is enough information to do it so, they are not there just to waste their time as you do mate.
Go and get inform!!!
WBII
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