Public Statement 1 of 2025 - SEBASTIAN PETRU

SEBASTIAN PETRU

Tortola, British Virgin Islands – 14 January 2024 - The British Virgin Islands Financial Services Commission (the FSC) considers it necessary to issue this Public Statement in order to protect customers,  creditors or persons who may have been solicited to conduct business by SEBASTIAN PETRU and to make the general public aware that the person has never been licensed or regulated by the FSC to carry on any type of financial services business.

The details are:

A forged investment business licence is being circulated and is falsely purporting that SEBASTIAN PETRU has been authorised and licensed in the British Virgin Islands for the purpose of carrying on investment business by dealing in investments or as principal, and arranging deals in investment as a person licensed and regulated by the FSC.

The FSC hereby informs the public that SEBASTIAN PETRU is not and has never been licensed or regulated by the FSC to carry on investment business, or any other financial services business in or from within the Territory of the Virgin Islands.

Members of the public are advised to exercise extreme caution if at any time solicited to conduct business with SEBASTIAN PETRU. The public is invited to provide the FSC with any relevant information on any questionable entities that are purportedly operating in or from within the Territory of the British Virgin Islands, and on any improper activities engaged in by such entities.

The FSC has issued this Public Statement pursuant to Section 37A of the Financial Services Commission Act, 2001.