Re: QUE BONITO. ENLACE FINANCIAL ARREST sobre GREG MANNING
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SPANISH PROSECUTORS HAVE ASKED THE U.S. to indict stamp expert Greg Manning for fraud. Manning, the founder of a New Jersey-based collectibles firm, has been implicated in an alleged stamp-investment fraud that rocked Spain two years ago and has been the subject of numerous stories in Barron's.Indictments continue to flow from a stamp scandal that rocked Spain in '06. In May 2006 Spanish police raided and closed the headquarters of Afinsa Bienes Tangibles, then the world's third-largest collectibles company after Sotheby's and Christie's. Top executives of Afinsa were arrested and are now on trial for running a "no-loss" stamp-investment program that ultimately produced catastrophic losses for Spanish pensioners and others who had been persuaded to invest retirement funds in what prosecutors alleged to be a Ponzi scheme.Although most of the executives and managers involved in the program were Spanish, Manning played a pivotal role in supplying the stamps, prosecutors said. His Nasdaq-listed Greg Manning Auctions International, or GMAI, was taken over by Afinsa in 2003 and subsequently renamed Escala. Prosecutors claim it was the main conduit through which stamps of relatively low quality, including some that were worthless, were channeled to Afinsa for resale at inflated values.
Barron's first raised questions about the nature of the relationship between GMAI and Afinsa in 2004 (see "Return to Sender," Sept. 27, 2004), and took a skeptical look the next year at Afinsa's stamp-investment program ("Sticky Situation," May 23, 2005), which not only promised investors returns of 6% to 12%, but guaranteed repayment of initial investment capital. As Barron's reported, returns were paid by new money coming into the investment program. In September of 2005, Spain began its investigation of Afinsa and Escala, which led to the May 2006 arrests.