March 02, 2018
A London brokerage shuttered early Friday by the U.K.'s financial authority was hit later the same day with the one-two punch of a U.S. Department of Justice criminal indictment and a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission suit in New York alleging the firm and its investment managers orchestrated a $50 million securities fraud and money laundering scheme.
The U.S. Department of Justice has charged Beaufort Securities Ltd. and several of its executives with money laundering and securities fraud, and the FCA has shut down the London brokerage. (AP)