2013 penny stock crash

SINGAPORE (Feb 12): The long-awaited trial for the penny stock crash saga could finally start in October this year, according to lawyers in court today at a criminal motion hearing for alleged mastermind John Soh Chee Wen.

SINGAPORE (Jan 26): Chen Tong, executive chairman of ISR Capital, has bought shares of the company from the market for the first time on Jan 25.

(Jan 18): Singapore says it’s getting more serious about tackling white-collar crime. The police force’s financial crime-fighting unit -- the Commercial Affairs Department -- has declared a goal to target ill-gotten gains “more proactively,” espec

SINGAPORE (Dec 8): The legal team from WongPartnership, led by deputy chairman Tan Chee Meng, has discharged itself from representing alleged penny stock saga mastermind John Soh Chee Wen.

SINGAPORE (Nov 21): ISR Capital’s former executive director of David Rigoll has ceased to be a substantial shareholder in the company, reducing his direct interest to 3.24% from 16.85% in two transactions.

SINGAPORE (Nov 16): ISR Capital is pushing ahead with its planned acquisition of a stake in a Madagascar tantalum concession, even though it is now tacked with a vastly lowered valuation of just US$48 million ($65.1 million) from more than US$1 billion es

SINGAPORE (Oct 31): IPCO’s board of directors have received a written requisition on Monday from James Moffatt Blythman.

SINGAPORE (Oct 17): James Moffatt Blythman, who became a substantial shareholder of IPCO International just a fortnight ago, now wants to oust the company’s leadership via an EGM.

SINGAPORE (Aug 31): IPCO International says its auditors had been unable to obtain sufficient appropriate evidence regarding "the nature and veracity" of a transaction related to Xiaogan He Shun Investment Management Centre.

SINGAPORE (Aug 24): An entity called Ultimate Horizon has made a 0.0182 cent per share offer to take over Blumont Group.