On November 17, the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) announced that it has awarded a total of $585,000 to three whistleblowers, each of whom provided timely, specific and creditable information that helped advance enforcement action resulting in monetary payments to the OSC.
The whistleblowers included company outsiders who provided OSC Enforcement Staff with specialized technical analysis on a complex area of securities law that led to the opening of an investigation, and that broadened an existing investigation. The whistleblowers’ detailed information brought to light violations of Ontario securities law that would have otherwise been difficult to detect.
November 11, 2020