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Atlanta a georgia man has been sentenced to five years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for running a ponzi scheme that ensnared more than 100 victims.
Artis proficio capital. This matter involves an ongoing ponzi scheme and offering fraud by syed arham arbab arbab a former student at the university of georgia uga and two entities under his operation and control defendants artis proficio capital investments llc apci and artis proficio capital management llc apcm. According to the sec allegations. Up to 15000 of her money would be guaranteed and she could pull out at any time with. Learn more contact us.
Apci had its principal place of business at 558 w. May recover investor losses. Arbab pleaded guilty in october 2019 to one count of securities fraud. The secs complaint filed friday in federal district court in athens georgia charges arbab artis proficio capital investments llc and artis proficio capital management llc with violating section 17 a of the securities act of 1933 as well as section 10 b of the securities exchange act of 1934 and rule 10b 5 thereunder and sections 206 1 2 and 4 of the investment advisers act of 1940 and rule 206 4 8 thereunder.
As part of his guilty plea arbab admitted that from may 2018 through may 2019 while enrolled at the university of georgia campus in athens georgia he solicited investors many of whom were his fellow students to invest in his entities artis proficio capital management and artis proficio capital investments collectively apc which he told investors were hedge funds. Proficio capital partners a sophisticated institutional framework to the family office in which proficio partners invest alongside our family investors 100 of the time with the same terms. Artis proficio capital investments llc is a georgia limited liability company organized by arbab in october 2018 and subsequently dissolved by the state of georgia in april 2019. From may 2018 to may 2019 arbab sought investors for artis proficio capital management and artis proficio capital.
He solicited around 117 investors to invest in his fake hedge funds artis proficio capital management and artis proficio capital investments the release said. Artis proficio capital targeted young people and college kids he wrote and offered lower than average fees.