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Weavering directors win appeal against $111M fine

Weavering directors win appeal against $111M fine

| 19/02/2015 | 0 Comments

(CNS Business): Three years after hearing the appeal, the Cayman Islands Court of Appeal delivered its much-anticipated ruling in the infamous Weavering case last week and threw out the record-breaking $111 million fine imposed by the trial judge. The appeal judges said that the behaviour of the directors, Stefan Peterson and Hans Ekstrom, in the […]

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Former Weavering boss gets 13 years jail time

Former Weavering boss gets 13 years jail time

| 29/01/2015 | 0 Comments

(CNS Business): The founder of Cayman Islands-based Weavering Macro Fund, the collapse of which cost investors $536 million, has been jailed for 13 years, one of the longest sentences for fraud ever handed down in the UK.  Magnus Peterson, 51, was found guilty on eight counts of fraud, forgery, false accounting and fraudulent trading after […]

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