Bell Potter - Pump n Dump?

Crikey! , Is this really how brokers roll? ......... Pump a share for a buy and then sell shares into the market!? Does crime really pay or isn't this type of thing illegal?

How do these people and brokers have licences, or even have a Job, is it some sort of pay to play system or what? I would love to see a RC type inquiry into our Brokers and staff in Australia, as if investing in the stockmarket isn't hard enough for the average person without this type of thing going on.

' At the open that day, an entity fully controlled by Gordon, the Double Bay-registered JSG Nominees Family A/C, owned 7,000 Corporate Travel shares worth $154,700, purchased in the 12 weeks since the company had experienced the precipitous board renewal Gordo had seemingly been oblivious to.Not content (ineptly) boosting a stock he owned without telling his clients he owned it, Gordo then dumped it, eight days later '

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