A Victoria resident barred from trading securities in British Columbia will appear before regulators in Ontario later this month.

Larry Keith Davis, who used money from an investor to pay personal bills, finds himself barred from trading securities after the British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) had ruled against him earlier this year.

The case against Davis, whom the BCSC also fined $15,000, also drew the attention of the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) in early 2017. The OSC is CanadaB次元官网网址檚 largest securities regulator in Canada, whose jurisdiction includes the Toronto Stock Exchange.

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While Ontarian regulators held back their case against Davis to let proceedings unfold in British Columbia, the case is now back before the OSC with a hearing date scheduled for Dec. 12. The OSC is seeking what it calls an B次元官网网址渋nter-jurisdictional enforcement orderB次元官网网址� against Davis.

The BCSC ruling against Davis stems from events that date to back to June 2011, when he sold 40,000 shares of a company to the investor for $4,000. In April 2012, he sold another 30,000 shares for $3,000. An investigation though revealed that Davis did not own any shares in the company at the time of either investment or at any subsequent time.

B次元官网网址淲hen the investor began asking for her money back in April 2013, Davis repeatedly refused her requests, claiming that her investments were in shares tied to the stock market,B次元官网网址� the commission said in a release.

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While the investor never received any shares from Davis, she eventually succeeded received her money through small claim courts B次元官网网址� at a considerable cost though.

B次元官网网址淲hile the amount of the fraud in this case and DavisB次元官网网址� enrichment were not substantial, the harm suffered by the investor was significant,B次元官网网址� reads the ruling. B次元官网网址淪he was deprived of her funds for several years and eventually forced to seek recourse to the courts for their recovery. She was also negatively impacted emotionally and testified at the liability hearing that she had not invested since.B次元官网网址�

BCSC in June 2016 found Davis liable for fraud in the amount of $7,000 contrary to provincial regulations. An appeal by Davis against his life-time ban and penalty for $15,000 failed, leading to the commissionB次元官网网址檚 final ruling.

Its conditions prohibit Davis from any professional dealing in securities, with the proviso that Davis may trade or purchase securities for his own account.

Davis, according to the ruling, attempted but did not complete the educational requirements for working with securities, because he began working in 1987 in a small firm. When authorities interviewed Davis in December 2013 as part of their investigation, Davis told them that he ceased to be active in the industry about one and a half to two years before.