It’s the end of the legal line in Canada for the West Vancouver man found liable for a $1 billion stock fraud scheme American authorities alleged he “masterminded” from 2011 to 2019.
On June 25 the Supreme Court of Canada declined to hear the appeal of Fred Sharp, 74, a former lawyer turned offshore shell facilitator with Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca.
Sharp had contested a June 14, 2024 B.C. Supreme Court judgment that recognized a 2022 default judgment against him in a U.S. federal court, which came after Sharp failed to respond to civil charges from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
The B.C. judge did not
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