CIS SECURITIES ASSET MANAGEMENT LIMITED 順安證券資產管理有限公司

The convictions are quashed.

The borrower is the co-chairman and ED of an unnamed GEM-listed company. We'll tell you it's P.B. Group (8331). Mr Chan and his co-chairman Pui Wai Lun each own 50% of P.B. Asia Holdings Ltd, which is currently underwriting a HK$27.8m rights issue by PBG. The placing agent for any unsubscribed rights is CIS Securities Asset Management Ltd (CISSAM). Mark Mak Kwong Yiu, ex-Chairman & CEO of Lerado and ex-CEO of Convoy Global Holdings Ltd, has or had an indirect stake in CISSAM. He was jailed a week ago for conspiracy to defraud CGH in its bond placements which benefited CISSAM.

Mark Mak Kwong Yiu (7 months) and Christie Chan Lai Yee (5 months, suspended for 18 months) thereby enter the Webb-site Hall of Shame. They and their 2 co-defendants are the first persons connected to the "Enigma Network" exposed by Webb-site in 2017 to be sentenced. Comment: the sentences seem remarkably light by comparison with recent sentences for peaceful but unauthorised assemblies.

At last, some convictions in the "Enigma Network" that we exposed in 2017. It's a start.

Allegedly, over a 3.5 year period, Convoy Investment Services (CIS), in which Mark Mak Kwong Yiu and 2 other EDs of Convoy held substantial shareholdings, acted as a hidden connected placing agent for bond issues, using Gransing Securities as a front. We note that in 2015, CIS applied for a listing on GEM which lapsed. It was then a partial subsidiary of a BVI company which was 35.06% owned by Quincy Wong Lee Man, 29.62% by Mr Mak and 20.71% by Shin Kin Man, Wong and Shin, both EDs of Convoy, are not charged today.

How much damage can a HK main board company do to its share price within the first year of listing? Try 79.6%, with two full-sized placings under the generous general mandate, one of them at a discount to net cash per share, neither of which was necessary. For Time2U (1327) one year was time enough.

Pour yourself a coffee and digest this long article as we investigate several ongoing abusive "open offers" and placings as well as show you who's been making out in multi-billion-dollar bubbles. We call on regulators and rule-makers to take action.