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SPG and SPGI director pleads guilty to FMA charges
Media release
MR No. 2015 –
46
30 September 2015
SPG and SPGI director pleads guilty to FMA charges
Former company director and financial adviser, Andrew Hrothgar Robinson, has today pleaded guilty to charges brought by the Financial Markets Authority (FMA), relating to his involvement as director ofStrategic Planning Group Limited (SPG) and SPG Investment Company No.1 Limited (SPGI).
Mr Robinson appeared in the Auckland High Court today and pleaded guilty to charges laid under the Financial Reporting Act, the Financial Advisers Act and the Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act.
The charges relate to Mr Robinson providing a broking service without being registered, and knowingly making a false statement in his application to become an Authorised Financial Adviser (AFA) under the Financial Advisers Act.
He also pleaded guilty to two charges under the Financial Reporting Act of making false statements in the SPGI financial statements.
The charges follow investigations by the FMA and the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) into the activities of SPG and SPGI, which began in 2012.
Mr Robinson will be sentenced on 27 October 2015.
In July this year Mr Robinson was sentenced to six
years’ imprisonment for fraud charges taken by the
SFO.
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