| To: benchpress550 who wrote (615) | 1/29/2002 8:08:49 PM | | From: Sir Auric Goldfinger | | | | I know that you like to keep up on your largest holding, so I thought I'd pass this on. You do own a 100 lot of AhRheemYaSoft doncha?!?:
"AremisSoft Fires Auditor PKF After Reports Disavowed (Update2)
2002-01-29 18:22 (New York)
AremisSoft Fires Auditor PKF After Reports Disavowed (Update2)
(Adds AremisSoft seeking new auditor in fifth paragraph.)
Washington, Jan. 29 (Bloomberg) -- AremisSoft Corp. fired its
outside auditor, PKF, a month after the firm disavowed its audit
reports on the business-management software maker's financial
statements because of accounting questions.
Minneapolis-based AremisSoft has said it expects to restate
past results because it can't confirm $90 million of revenue
reported last year by its Emerging Markets Group. PKF, formerly
known as Pannell Kerr Forster, said last month its reports
affirming AremisSoft's 1999 and 2000 financial statements
shouldn't be relied upon by investors.
The auditor's disavowal was one of a series of blows against
the company, beset by investor lawsuits and government
investigations. AremisSoft also announced 150 job cuts last month,
and its shares have fallen to 83 cents, down 3 cents today.
AremisSoft's board, on the recommendation of its audit
committee, ``determined to dismiss'' PKF Jan. 23, the company said
in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
No replacement was named in the filing. A spokeswoman said
the company is still conducting a search. She declined to comment
further about PKF's dismissal.
Aside from the disavowal, ``to the knowledge of current
management of AremisSoft, there were no disagreements'' with PKF
that would have resulted in an adverse audit report the past two
years, the filing said. The company is requesting PKF to furnish a
letter affirming that statement.
AremisSoft has dismissed PKF at least once before. While
preparing to go public, the company replaced the firm with Ernst &
Young in May 1998. Then AremisSoft hired back PKF in December the
same year, before completing its initial public offering in April
1999, according to SEC filings.
While AremisSoft didn't name a new auditor in today's filing,
the company hired Deloitte & Touche LLP forensic accountants to
assist in its internal investigation of the overseas operations
beginning last August, according to the filing.
The subjects of the probe include operations in Cyprus and a
contract with the Bulgarian national health system, for which PKF
was able to confirm only $1.7 million of $7.1 million in revenue
recognized by AremisSoft.
Officials at London-based PKF couldn't be reached for
comment.
--John Rega in Washington (202) 624-1907 or jrega@bloomberg.net
Editor: Arthur
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| To: benchpress550 who wrote (670) | 3/25/2002 8:25:36 PM | | From: Sir Auric Goldfinger | | | | AremisSoft Ex-Chairman Poyiadjis Indicted for Fraud. New York,
March 25 (Bloomberg) -- AremisSoft Corp.'s former
chairman and
co-chief executive, Roys Poyiadjis, has been indicted for fraud in a scheme
that cost investors at least $300 million,authorities said.
Federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment last month against
Poyiadjis, a British citizen now living in Cyprus, though they
didn't publicly announce it. The charge came to light in a case
filed Friday in which prosecutors say they are seeking to seize
$175 million in illicit profits diverted to two overseas banks by
Poyiadjis and co-CEO Lycourgos Kyprianou.
AremisSoft filed for bankruptcy on March 15. The maker of
business-management software has said it can't substantiate $90
million in revenue booked by its Emerging Markets Group. In
October, the Securities and Exchange Commission charged Poyiadjis
and Kyprianou with making more than $300 million in secret stock
sales while AremisSoft was reporting inflated revenue.
``While the public was being misled about the true nature of
AremisSoft and its revenues, Poyiadjis and Kyprianou capitalized
on that fraud by secretly selling millions of AremisSoft shares
through nominee corporations and offshore accounts,'' prosecutors
said in a civil forfeiture complaint.
U.S. prosecutors are seeking to seize funds held at Fleming
Bank and Standard Bank, both in the Isle of Man.
Inflated Revenue
A spokeswoman for Minneapolis-based AremisSoft didn't have an
immediate comment. Shares in the company, which in early 2001 was
worth more than $1 billion, rose one cent to 51 cents in afternoon
trading. The company's stock is now worth $20 million, though
under a proposed reorganization, all shares will be cancelled,
according to a filing with the SEC.
The SEC says Poyiadjis made about $175 million in illegal
profits from trading company stock in 2000, and Kyprianou made at
least $125 million. The two sold AremisSoft stock through offshore
entities after the company inflated its revenue, which drove up
the stock price, prosecutors said.
Prosecutors say AremisSoft inflated revenue by ``grossly''
overstating the value of its contracts, or even making them up,
and by exaggerating the size of several acquisitions.
In 1999, for instance, the company, then based in Westmont,
New Jersey, announced that it obtained a $37.5 million health
computer contract with the National Health Insurance Fund of
Bulgaria, authorities said. The Bulgarian government said last
year that the contract's value was actually $3.9 million.
Poyiadjis, who once lived in New York, hasn't responded to
the indictment, according to court records. There's no indication
in records that Kyprianou has been similarly charged. A spokesman
for U.S. Attorney James Comey didn't have an immediate comment.
In the forfeiture case, prosecutors say they've traced $175
million of the ``hundreds of millions'' that Poyiadjis and
Kyprianou ``stole'' to four accounts at the two banks. Prosecutors
want U.S. District Judge Thomas Griesa to authorize seizure of the
money.
--David Glovin in U.S. District Court in New York at (212) 732-
9245, or at dglovin@bloomberg.net, through the New York newsroom
(212) 893-3665. Editor: Pinsley
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| To: Arcane Lore who wrote (663) | 6/25/2002 10:48:07 AM | | From: Arcane Lore | | | | From today's online NY Times:
3 From Software Maker Are Indicted
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Three former executives with the software maker AremisSoft Corporation were charged yesterday with insider trading, money laundering and accounting fraud.
A securities fraud indictment filed in federal court in Manhattan accused the company's former co-chief executives, Lycourgos Kyprianou and Roys Poyiadjis, and its former president, M. C. Mathews, of conspiring to bilk shareholders out of hundreds of millions of dollars.
Mr. Kyprianou, 47, and Mr. Poyiadjis, 36, who would each face up to 20 years in prison if convicted, remain free in Cyprus, prosecutors said. Mr. Mathews, who would face up to 10 years, is free in India.
From 1999 through 2001, the three men reportedly inflated the company's stock by fabricating $90 million in fictitious earnings and announcing multimillion-dollar acquisitions of sham software companies. The plan resulted in $250 million in insider-trading profits, which were laundered through offshore bank accounts, court papers said.
Authorities said they had seized about $175 million of the illicit proceeds in bank accounts in the Isle of Man.
AremisSoft, a maker of software and Internet solutions for the manufacturing, hospitality, health care and construction industries, filed earlier this year for bankruptcy protection amid a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation and moved its headquarters from New Jersey to Minnesota.
Copyright 2002 The New York Times Company
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| To: benchpress550 who wrote (672) | 6/25/2002 1:26:50 PM | | From: mmmary | | | | "3 Face 20 Yrs. in Trading Scam
By HELEN PETERSON
Daily News Business Writerhree top executives of a bankrupt software company were charged with ripping off shareholders of hundreds of millions of dollars.AremisSoft's former chairmen, Lycourgos Kyprianou and Roys Poyiadjis, as well as a former president, M.C. Mathews, were indicted in Manhattan Federal Court on charges of securities fraud, accounting fraud, insider trading and money laundering.The trio is charged with announcing a series of purported multimillion dollar acquisitions of what were actually worthless shell companies and fabricating $90 million in bogus revenues from customers supposedly located in emerging markets.They are also charged with artificially inflating the company's stock, which rose from $5 to $50 a share — then dumping millions of shares and pocketing $250 million in illegal profits. Kyprianou and Poyiadjis also are accused of laundering their funds through off-shore accounts.The scheme to misrepresent AremisSoft's business and financial condition took place between 1999 and 2001, according to the indictment.Prosecutors said the company once traded on the Nasdaq and had a market capitalization of $1 billion. It is currently in bankruptcy.AremisSoft was a Delaware corporation with offices throughout the world, including Britain, India, Cyprus and New York.Manhattan U.S. Attorney James Comey said the feds located more than $175 million in proceeds in bank accounts in the Isle of Man and are seeking to have it forfeited.He said prosecutors are seeking extradition of Kyprianou, 47, and Poyiandjis, 36, from Cyprus, and of Mathews, 38, from India.They face more than 20 years in prison if convicted." |
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| From: StockDung | 4/15/2008 4:51:57 PM | | | | | | Securities and Exchange Commission v. Savvides & Partners/PKF Cyprus, et al., Civil Action No. 06 CV 2223 (S.D.N.Y.)
U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Litigation Release No. 20527 / April 15, 2008
Accounting and Auditing Enforcement Release No. 2810 / April 15, 2008
Securities and Exchange Commission v. Savvides & Partners/PKF Cyprus, et al., Civil Action No. 06 CV 2223 (S.D.N.Y.)
PKF Cyprus Agrees to Injunction in Fraud Settlement in Connection With Audits of AremisSoft; Agrees to Pay $261,565 in Civil Penalties, Disgorgement and Prejudgment Interest
Savvides & Partners/PKF Cyprus (PKF Cyprus), a Cyprus-based accounting firm, has consented to the entry of a final judgment in the Commission's case charging it engaged in fraud in connection with its 1999 and 2000 audits of AremisSoft Corporation. The firm agreed to settle without admitting or denying the allegations in the Commission's complaint. The settlement, which is subject to Court approval, would permanently enjoin PKF Cyprus from violating or aiding and abetting violations of the anti-fraud, reporting, books and records and internal controls provisions of the federal securities laws: Section 17(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, Sections 10(b), 13(a), 13(b)(2)(A) and 13(b)(2)(B) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (Exchange Act) and Exchange Act Rules 10b-5, 12b-20, 13a-1 and 13b2-1. As part of this settlement, and following the entry of the proposed final judgment against it, PKF Cyprus, without admitting or denying the Commission's findings, has consented to the issuance of an administrative order pursuant to Rule 102(e)(3) of the Commission's Rules of Practice, suspending it from appearing or practicing before the Commission as an accountant, with the right to apply for reinstatement after five years. PKF Cyprus will disgorge $106,513, which includes fees received as a result of its engagements to audit the financial statements of AremisSoft, with prejudgment interest of $48,539, and a $106,513 civil money penalty.
In its complaint filed March 21, 2006, the Commission alleged that PKF Cyprus issued audit reports for AremisSoft subsidiaries in 1999 and 2000 signed by former firm partner Pavlos Meletiou (also named as a defendant in the complaint) that falsely stated that its audits were conducted in accordance with U.S. Generally Accepted Auditing Standards (U.S. GAAS) and that the subsidiaries' financial statements were fairly presented in accordance with U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (U.S. GAAP). The false financial statements of these companies were included as part of AremisSoft's consolidated financial statements filed with AremisSoft's year 1999 and 2000 Forms 10-K filed with the Commission, and in AremisSoft registration statements. The complaint also alleges that the PKF Cyprus audit workpapers prepared by Meletiou during the 2000 audits of two AremisSoft subsidiaries, found in a trash heap outside AremisSoft's Indian offices, included phony customer and bank confirmations. The complaint further alleges that Meletiou attended meetings with senior AremisSoft executives in which the AremisSoft financial fraud was openly discussed.
For additional information, see Litigation Release No. 19622 / March 22, 2006.
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| From: anniebonny | 1/7/2009 8:01:51 PM | | | | | | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
BEFORE the
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 Release No. 59205 / January 6, 2009
ACCOUNTING AND AUDITING ENFORCEMENT Release No. 2915 / January 6, 2009
ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEEDING FILE NO. 3-13326
In the Matter of
PAVLOS MELETIOU, CERTIFIED ACCOUNTANT
Respondent.
ORDER INSTITUTING PUBLIC
ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEEDINGS
AND IMPOSING TEMPORARY
SUSPENSION PURSUANT TO RULE
102(e)(3) OF THE COMMISSION’S
RULES OF PRACTICE
I.
The Securities and Exchange Commission ( “Commission”) deems it appropriate and in the public interest that public administrative proceedings be, and hereby are, instituted pursuant to Rule 102(e)(3)1 of the Commission’s Rules of Practice against Pavlos Meletiou (“Respondent” or “Meletiou”).
II.
The Commission finds that:
A. RESPONDENT
1. Meletiou was a partner of the accounting firm PKF Cyprus while AremisSoft Corporation (“AremisSoft”) was a public company. He was responsible for the
Rule 102(e)(3)(i) provides, in relevant part, that: The Commission, with due regard to the public interest and without preliminary hearing, may, by order, … suspend from appearing or practicing before it any … accountant … who has been by name … permanently enjoined by any court of competent jurisdiction, by reason of his or her misconduct in an action brought by the Commission, from violating or aiding and abetting the violation of any provision of the Federal securities laws or of the rules and regulations thereunder.
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audits and reviews of AremisSoft subsidiaries that PKF Cyprus conducted. He was a certified accountant in Cyprus. He is a citizen of Cyprus, where he currently resides.
B. CIVIL INJUNCTION
2.
On September 23, 2008, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York entered a final default judgment against Meletiou, permanently enjoining him from future violations of Section 17(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (“Exchange Act”) and Exchange Act Rule 10b-5 and from aiding and abetting future violations of Sections 13(a), 13(b)(2)(A) and 13(b)(2)(B) of the Exchange Act, and Exchange Act Rules 12b-20, 13a-1 and 13b2-1. Securities and Exchange Commission v. Savvides & Partners/PKF Cyprus, Pavlos Meletiou, et. al., 06 CV 2223 (CSH) (S.D.N.Y.)
3.
The Commission’s complaint, filed March 21, 2006, alleged, among other things, that Meletiou signed unqualified audit reports on behalf of PKF Cyprus, a Cyprus-based accounting firm, for AremisSoft subsidiaries in 1999 and 2000 that falsely stated that the audits were conducted in accordance with U.S. Generally Accepted Auditing Standards (“GAAS”) and that the AremisSoft subsidiaries’ financial statements were fairly presented in conformity with
U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (“GAAP”). The complaint further alleged that Meletiou was responsible for the audits and reviews of the AremisSoft subsidiaries and that he attended meetings with senior AremisSoft executives in which the AremisSoft financial fraud was openly discussed.
III.
Based upon the foregoing, the Commission finds that a court of competent jurisdiction has permanently enjoined Meletiou from violating the Federal securities laws within the meaning of Rule 102(e)(3)(i)(A) of the Commission’s Rules of Practice. In view of these findings, the Commission deems it appropriate and in the public interest that Meletiou be temporarily suspended from appearing or practicing before the Commission as an accountant.
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that Meletiou be, and hereby is, temporarily suspended from appearing or practicing before the Commission as an accountant. This Order shall be effective upon service on the Respondent.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Meletiou may within thirty days after service of this Order file a petition with the Commission to lift the temporary suspension. If the Commission within thirty days after service of the Order receives no petition, the suspension shall become permanent pursuant to Rule 102(e)(3)(ii).
If a petition is received within thirty days after service of this Order, the Commission shall, within thirty days after the filing of the petition, either lift the temporary suspension, or set the matter down for hearing at a time and place to be designated by the Commission, or both. If a hearing is ordered, following the hearing, the Commission may lift the suspension, censure the
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petitioner, or disqualify the petitioner from appearing or practicing before the Commission for a period of time, or permanently, pursuant to Rule 102(e)(3)(iii). This Order shall be served upon Meletiou by registered mail at his last known address. By the Commission.
Elizabeth M. Murphy Secretary |
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