The Globe and Mail reports in its Monday edition that a TD Direct Investing customer says criminals liquidated more than $230,000 of his investments, then drove his account deeply in the red to buy an obscure Hong Kong stock already involved in a similar case at TD. The Globe's Erica Alini writes that Ray Politeski, a retired teacher in Lloydminster, Alta., said scammers gained access to his account in mid-February, sold all of his equity holdings, valued at $234,000, and bought nearly $355,000 worth of shares of Rich Sparkle Holdings Ltd., a little-known Chinese company whose stock price soared and then collapsed early this year. Mr. Politeski said he was left with a loss of around $93,000. The trades in Mr. Politeski's account happened the same day that another Alberta TD investor, Tim Tycholis, said he learned that someone had accessed his funds to perpetrate a seemingly identical fraud. Mr. Tycholis, a businessman in Calgary, says fraudsters sold most of his investments to buy more than $5-million worth of Rich Sparkle, ultimately causing him a loss of around $4.5-million. Mr. Tycholis has launched a lawsuit against TD, while Mr. Politeski said he is waiting for a third internal review of his account activity.