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The US Securities and Exchange Commission has filed civil charges against Statim Holdings, Inc. and its owner Atlanta investment adviser, Joseph A. Meyer. The regulator is accusing them of defrauding the private fund Arjun L.P., which they managed, and its investors.

Arjun, set up by Meyer in 2007, is a pooled investment vehicle. Its records indicate that its assets under management have never gone over $45M. By the middle of 2009, about 40 investors had invested in the fund, which had lost almost 36% of its value as a result of trading losses.

However, Meyer reported high return rates for Arjun, which caused investors to jump on board. In 2015, Bloomberg News and other services even ranked Arjun as among the best performing hedge funds. Yet it was also at around this time that then-Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp, who is now governor, notified Bloomberg that his office was looking into “irregularities” involving Arjun and its owner. The following year, Bloomberg raised questions about Arjun’s performance. In 2017, the SEC opened its own probe into the hedge fund firm and its owner.