Man gets 4 months' jail for manipulating Wilton Resources share price
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Singapore
THE Singapore State Courts have sentenced Mok Piak Liang to four months' jail for artificially pushing up the share price of Catalist-listed gold miner Wilton Resources Corp in 2014.
Mok pleaded guilty to four of 13 market misconduct charges under Section 197 of the Securities and Futures Act. He agreed to have the remaining nine charges taken into account for sentencing.
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