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Former B.C. stock promoter sentenced to prison for pump-and-dump fraud

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Avtar Singh Dhillon, 63 , was sentenced to four months in prison for a pump-and-dump stock fraud.

He was ordered to pay back illicit profits and fines of nearly $1.5 million US .

He and his wife own more than $24 million in property in Metro Vancouver through two numbered companies.

In a separate case related to a $1-billion stock fraud involving West Vancouver -mastermind Frederick Sharp .

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