RE: StockAnalytical is impressive Halcrow I've found that the securities commissions don't seem to like insider trading cases, probably because they're extremely time consuming.
While it's fairly easy for a layman to match up sedi filings with on-line daily trade records, the commissions have to get copies of the trade tickets and broker notes to move their enforcement actions forward..
It's easier for the commissions to match up spurious filings to placements, conversions, etc. as the Sedar filings are already there, but only real idiots play those sort of games.
Using Brian McClay as a historic example, he was issued a cease trade order (Failure to File, Sec. 164) by the BCSC on 1999/01/05. This was revoked on 1999/03/30 because he filed the reports.
It took the BCSC until January 5, 1999, to cease trade Brian McClay for unreported trading which started in 1994.
The BCSC published the details of the Brian McClay settlement hearing on 2000/03/24 (a three-year director/officer prohibition). The details revealed that McClay, between January, 1994, and December,1998, "1.3.4 acquired or disposed of approximately 1,351,490 common shares through the facilities of the Vancouver Stock Exchange (collectively, the “Transactions”) and failed to file insider reports in respect of the Transactions as required under section 87 of the Act;
.4 the Transactions consisted of a total of 247 transactions during 44 months of the Material Period (the “44-Month Period”);
1.5 the Transactions represented approximately 7.65% of the trading on the VSE in shares of the Reporting Issuer in the 44-Month Period, and approximately $546,000 in value;
1.6 in each of 18 months during the 44-Month Period, the Transactions in the month represented 10% or more of the trading in shares in the Reporting Issuer on the VSE and in each of 11 months represented 15% to 28% of the trading;