Quintessential Capital Management

The conviction of five top executives of jewelry maker Folli Follie for falsifying balance sheets and other financial offenses in an Athens court last week is "a victory for transparency and integrity in the financial markets," the founder of the hedge fund that revealed the fraud told Kathimerini.

The governing board of online music streaming company Akazoo, which was the subject of allegations by the Quintessential Capital Management (QCM) fund last month, decided on Friday to dismiss chief executive officer Apostolos Zervos.
QCM released a report in April alleging that Akazoo had been misleading its shareholders. 

A series of US legal firms on Tuesday invited the shareholders of Greek online music streaming company Akazoo to take part in legal cases being launched against the Athens-based corporation on the grounds of cheating, following a hedge fund report alleging serious irregularities at the Nasdaq-listed enterprise.

The Quintessential Capital Management fund, whose managing partner Gabriel Grego was instrumental in revealing the true state of Greek jewelry company Folli Follie, has now claimed in a report that music streaming company Akazoo SA will be the next Greek enterprise to crumble. Akazoo, listed on the Nasdaq since last September, is accused of trying to profit at its shareholders' expense.

Italian bioplastics company Bio-On on Wednesday denied allegations of accounting irregularities by US hedge fund Quintessential Capital Management, saying it was considering legal action against the fund.

Some 14 months after Gabriel Grego and his fund, Quintessential Capital Management (QCM), exposed the goings-on at troubled Greek jewelry maker and retailer Folli Follie, leading to the suspension of trading in the latter's stock and hurting many investors and funds, the same fund is back in the spotlight, this time blowing the whistle on an Italian firm.

A financial prosecutor on Friday charged 10 people with fraud and money laundering as part of the investigation into troubled Greek jewelry maker Folli Follie Group, including members of the Koutsolioutsos family, founders of the brand.

A Greek court has rejected a request by Greek jewelry maker Folli Follie for temporary protection from its creditors before it completes a restructuring plan, a judicial source said on Monday.

Folli, whose shares have been suspended since May, said last week that management was producing a revised business plan together with Deloitte for restructuring its operations.

Greek jewelry maker Folli Follie said on Thursday it had appointed a new chief executive officer and operations chief for its Asian business, which has been at the center of an accounting scandal that has led to judicial and stock market investigations.

Greek jewelry maker Folli Follie appointed Nikolaos Kanellopoulos as its chairman on Monday to replace one of its founders who stepped down last month amid an investigation into the company's finances.