LAS VEGAS, June 10, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HF Foods Group Inc. (NASDAQ:HFFG) ("HF Foods", or the "Company"), a leading food distributor to Asian restaurants across the United States, today announced the final resolution of the previously disclosed formal, non-public investigation by the staff of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC" or "Commission") into allegations that the Company and/or its former executives violated United States securities laws.
As part of the settlement, the Company neither admitted nor denied the SEC's findings. The Company has consented to the entry of an administrative civil cease-and-desist order by the SEC (the "Order") with respect to violations of Sections 17(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, and of Sections 10(b), 13(a), 13(b)(2)(A), 13(b)(2)(B), and 14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and Rules 10b-5, 12b-20, 13a-1, 13a-11, 13a-13, 13a-15(a), and 14a-9 thereunder, resulting from the materially false and misleading disclosures and other fraudulent conduct carried out by its former Chairman and CEO Zhou Min Ni and former CFO Jian Ming "Jonathan" Ni. The Company agreed to payment of a civil monetary penalty of $3.9 million.
The Order states that, in determining to accept the Company's Offer of Settlement, the SEC considered the numerous remedial actions promptly undertaken ...