ASIC pursues Melbourne derivatives dealer

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15 December 2010
| By Ashleigh McIntyre |

A Melbourne-based derivatives dealer is being prosecuted by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) following an investigation into suspected misleading and deceptive conduct.

In the civil proceedings to be heard in the Federal Court, ASIC is seeking declarations that Camelot Derivatives and its sole director, Neil Walter King, failed to ensure that the financial services provided under the company’s Australian Financial Services Licence (AFSL) were honest and fair.

ASIC is also seeking declarations that neither Camelot nor King complied with the conditions of the AFSL, or failing that, that King was an accessory to Camelot’s contraventions.

ASIC is also seeking orders to restrain the alleged misleading and deceptive conduct, which includes representing that Camelot’s clients have generated significant returns in an options trading market, or enticing any person to invest in an options trading market on the advice of Camelot or King.

Interim and final restraints on Camelot’s claims to have experience in implementing a successful strategy to generate significant returns in an options trading market are also being sought.

The proceedings will be heard in the Federal Court on 4 February, 2011.

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