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Trio millions found, says planners' group

Date January 29, 2010 Colin Kruger

A NEW party has joined the hunt for Trio Capital's missing millions.

The Association of Independently Owned Financial Planners came out this week and not only claimed to have hired a Hong Kong-based private investigator to track down the missing funds, but said it had largely succeeded in finding them.

The $118 million invested via the Astarra Strategic Fund, and then through the British Virgin Islands-based EMA International, ended up with five hedge funds out of Hong Kong, according to the AIOFP's chief executive, Peter Johnson. Three of these funds were tracked down by the group's investigator via their Hong Kong-based custodian, Global Consultants and Services Limited.

''The bottom line is, in due course, it will all be accounted for,'' said Mr Johnson, who labelled the treatment of Trio/Astarra principal Shawn Richard as ''disgusting''.

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