Former CFO sentenced for market manipulation and fraud offences (ASIC, 2021)

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In May 2021 ASIC reported that former TTC chief financial officer Zhonghan (John) Wu was sentenced to one year and ten months imprisonment for market manipulation, with an intensive-correction assessment pending, and to a community corrections order of two years and six months for fraud, after pleading guilty. He traded TTC shares through four accounts in late 2015 to keep the price above the $0.50 IPO price.

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What was ordered

Civil penalty

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Disgorgement

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What is alleged to have happened

the Australian Securities and Investments Commission announced this matter on May 18, 2021 as release 21-103MR. The respondent named is Zhonghan Wu (1 individual, 0 entities).

The judge described a brazen campaign of price manipulation; an editor's note says the manipulation sentence became an intensive corrections order of 22 months with 200 hours of community service. This library tags the matter as price manipulation.

The release references a parallel criminal proceeding. Where a criminal case exists, the civil and criminal outcomes are recorded separately, because they resolve on different standards of proof.

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Timeline

1. 2021-05-18 ASIC media release

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