Mining investor Tolga Kumova has won an order banning the man behind the Twitter handle Stock Swami from publishing allegations concerning the his past actions after a judge found he was defamed by tweets accusing him of insider trading.
The man behind the Twitter handle Stock Swami has been ordered to pay $275,000 in damages to Tolga Kumova, after a judge found his tweets defamed the mining investor by accusing him of insider trading, misleading the market, and running a pump and dump scheme.
A judge has questioned why solicitors representing Twitter personality Stock Swami published a media release about his âbackstoryâ two days before trial in a defamation case brought by mining investor Tolga Kumova.
Mining investor Tolga Kumova is âlikelyâ to go after Twitter personality Stock Swami for contempt of court after he admitted he lied and withheld evidence in a defamation case, despite a judge saying there was âno smoking gunâ.
Twitter personality Alan Davison, who runs the account Stock Swami, has admitted he misled lawyers for mining investor Tolga Kumova and deliberately failed to obey court orders for discovery in cross-examination during a defamation trial.Â
The man behind the Stock Swami Twitter account is flying to Sydney for cross-examination after a judge halted a trial in mining investor Tolga Kumovaâs defamation case, saying he had âno confidence whatsoeverâ the Twitter user complied with discovery obligations.
A judge has halted a defamation trial in a case brought by mining investor Tolga Kumova after saying he had âno confidence whatsoeverâ that the owner of Twitter account Stock Swami complied with discovery obligations.
A self-described âcitizen journalistâ who publishes âcynical and crankyâ opinions about the Australian Stock Exchange on the Twitter account Stockswami cannot claim journalist privilege to protect his source, a judge has found.
In a win for the corporate watchdog, a court has found collapsed education provider Vocation engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct and breached its continuous disclosure obligations by failing to inform shareholders of problems with a large government contract.