More’s house in shooting Stock promoter’s residence receives gunfire
Aldrin president More’s house in shooting
THE HOUSE of Aldrin Resource Corp.’s president, Johnathan More, received several gun shots very early Friday morning. RCMP attended the residence, on Sunnycrest Drive in North Vancouver, after receiving a call at 12:35 a.m. They discovered evidence of multiple shots, and contained the area for forensic examination.
There were people home at the time of the shooting, but there were no injuries. An unidentified vehicle left the scene at high speed. Mr. More was not present and is out of the province.
Police remained at the scene Friday morning, and the house was behind police tape. Property records indicate that Mr. More has owned the residence for over a year. He purchased it on Aug. 30, 2012, for $3.05-million.
The RCMP has not said if the residence was targeted, and it is not immediately clear why Mr. More’s house would be a shooting target. Mr. More was a top-producer at Canaccord Genuity Corp. until 2008, when he left the brokerage business and became a promoter. He is a director of three companies, Aldrin, Mira Resource Corp. and Athabasca Nuclear Corp. At the time of the shooting he was believed to be in Saskatchewan, where Athabasca has a drill program under way.
He has also served on the board of at least one OTC Bulletin Board company, Mainland Resources Inc. Unlike the TSX-V companies for which Mr. More is a director, Mainland has attracted some controversy. On Dec. 9, 2013, the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada launched an enforcement action against Mr. More’s sister, Nicola More, for dealings associated with the company.
IIROC claimed that Ms. More, who was an adviser with Canaccord at the time, disclosed confidential client information to people not authorized to receive it. The recipients included her brother (only identified as “JM”) and an individual IIROC only identified as “BP.” (IIROC said that BP had a serious regulatory history. The description of that history matches that of Brent Pierce.)
IIROC claimed that Ms. More accepted and executed trade instructions for Mainland Resources from her brother for a number of client accounts. Her brother did not have trading authority over the accounts, and there was no written authorization from the clients to accept trading instructions from her brother, IIROC said. She also disclosed confidential client information relating to Mainland positions to her brother and to BP via e-mail and text message, according to the notice of hearing.
Although IIROC mentioned Ms. More’s brother many times in the notice of hearing, he is not a respondent in the case. That matter is set for a hearing beginning April 22, 2014.
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