AMF France v. Visiomed Group and others (false or misleading information, 2023)
Judgment entered
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In November 2023 the Commission des sanctions fined the listed health-products company Visiomed Group EUR 200,000 and two of its executives EUR 650,000 and EUR 350,000 for misleading press releases and reports between October 2017 and May 2019. It also fined a financing fund EUR 100,000 for failing to notify short-position threshold crossings.
The record
| Agency | AMF (France) |
|---|---|
| Release number | SAN-2023-16 |
| Date filed | 2023-11-27 |
| Date resolved | 2023-11-27 |
| Court | Commission des sanctions (AMF, France) |
| Status | judgment |
| Asset class | equities |
| Instruments | Visiomed Group shares |
| Venue | Euronext Growth |
| Criminal parallel | No |
| Defendants | Visiomed Group ; Éric Sebban ; Olivier Hua ; Negma |
| Techniques | Misleading issuer disclosure |
What was ordered
- Civil penalty
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- Disgorgement
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- Prejudgment interest
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- Total relief
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- Alleged gain
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- Penalty as published
- €1.3m
What is alleged to have happened
The Commission des sanctions of the AMF, second section, decided the matter on 27 November 2023. The respondents are Visiomed Group, listed on Euronext Growth, its former chief executive Éric Sebban, Olivier Hua, who succeeded him as chief executive in May 2018, and the fund Negma, which financed the company through share-linked bonds.
The notifications alleged that Visiomed gave false or misleading signals about the price of its shares through press releases, an annual report and other documents from 13 October 2017 to mid-2019. The documents covered its 2017 revenue target, the VisioCheck telemedicine station and several financing operations. They alleged the same against the two executives under article 12.4 of the Market Abuse Regulation, and charged Negma with failing to declare short positions.
The Commission upheld thirteen publications, among them the revenue target of 13 October 2017, the 2017 revenue and annual report and several fundraising releases. It held that the breaches were also the responsibility of Mr Hua for all of them and of Mr Sebban for all but two of the VisioCheck releases. It held that Negma had failed to notify and publish short-position crossings of 0.20 and 0.50 percent of Visiomed's capital in May to July 2019.
The Commission fined Visiomed EUR 200,000, Mr Sebban EUR 650,000, Mr Hua EUR 350,000 and Negma EUR 100,000, EUR 1,300,000 in total, and ordered publication without anonymisation.
The record does not show the price effect of each release, whether any respondent appealed, or any criminal case. Negma's breach concerns short-position disclosure rather than manipulation.
This library tags the matter as misleading issuer disclosure. The tagging is ours, not the regulator's.
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Timeline
- 2023-11-27 Commission des sanctions decision
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