Senior oil services executive sentenced in securities fraud scheme

Photo by: WDAY Radio Staff
Photo by: WDAY Radio Staff

(Dickinson, ND) -- A North Dakota senior executive with an oil-services company is facing three years in prison in connection with a fraud scheme.

The U.S. Department of Justice says Joseph Kostelecky was the executive vice-president of Poseidon Concepts Corporation when he engaged in a scheme to fraudulently inflate the company's reported revenue that led to over 860-million dollars in shareholder losses.

Kostelecky pleaded guilty in October for his role in the scheme. Court documents show the fraudulent activity happened between November 2011 and December 2012.