Ana Jimenez

Former Cayman-based stockbroker Richard Harris and his mother, Ana Jimenez, have settled a perjury action brought against them by the British Columbia Securities Commission. Under the settlement, Harris and Jimenez, who now live in Costa Rica, have been banned for ten years from serving as a director or officer of any issuer regulated by the BCSC. They are also prohibited from "engaging in investor relations" in British Columbia for the same period.

The British Columbia Securities Commission has frozen an estimated US$9 million held in Vancouver trading accounts on behalf of Cayman-based broker/dealer Harris McLean Financial Group Ltd. and Ana Jimenez, who is the mother of Richard Harris, one of Harris McLean's principals.