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A Short Seller’s Case Against a Medical Devices Company Just Got Even Weirder

Quintessential Capital Management claimed that a “fake doctor” wrote scientific research connected to Penumbra. Now the hedge fund claims it has new evidence about who the doctor really is.

围绕着安蒂克·博斯博士的诞生,新的线索已经出现在这个神秘的世界里——这个假医生在社交媒体上有着精心制作的简介,里面充斥着豪华的汽车和炫耀的房子,他自称是与备受争议的医疗器械公司Penumbra有关的科学研究的作者。

一个多月前,精粹资本管理公司的卖空者加布里埃尔·格雷戈(Gabriel Grego)向半影发起了一次短线攻击,声称为中风患者生产的导管是安全的not safe.

Late Tuesday afternoon, the Food and Drug Administration said that it had requested Penumbra voluntarily remove the catheter, called the JET 7 Xtra Flex, from the market to protect patients. The FDA said it has received over 200 medical device reports, including 14 unique patient deaths, related to the catheter. Penumbra has begun the recall.

Last week Grego外出the fake doctor he claimed was behind much of Penumbra’s research related to the product.

Penumbra, in a statement to亚博赞助欧冠,否认制造这名假博士是为了撰写其“核心科学研究”,并称Quintsential的指控“绝对是错误的”。该公司已证实,这项研究是由其联合创始人Arani Bose博士撰写的,并说他是Antik Bose剽窃的受害者,Antik Bose是一个“真人”,一直在“试图在网上冒充医生,名字和他在全球的名字相似。”

但格雷戈认为这项工作可能外包给了其他人。

The short seller believes the person behind the fake Dr. Antik Bose is California real estate broker Manny Khoshbin, whose identity Grego said is one of two that Antik Bose appears to have used, based on a reverse images search by Quintessential and published in a report last week unveiling the existence of the fake doctor.

当格雷戈发现安蒂克·博斯的照片上的真人是霍什宾时,他打电话给霍什宾的办公室,告诉接电话的人:“有人偷走了你的身份。“请让我和曼尼·霍什宾谈谈,”格雷戈说。“但他从不接电话,也不回电子邮件。”

“It’s very odd that his photograph shows up, and when I say ‘Let’s have a chat,’ the guy ghosts me,” said Grego.

霍什宾的YouTube页面上充斥着在社交媒体网站上发现的与Antik Bose有关的名贵汽车(Antik Bose除了是一名医生外,还被指是一名亿万富翁酒店老板)。格雷戈说,霍什宾的网页是由一个名叫内森·米兰达的人编辑的,他是霍斯宾公司的营销经理,在LinkedIn的个人资料中说,他在“内容创作”方面有经验。米兰达还说,他是一个巨大的汽车爱好者,有照片可以证明这一点。

“I did not want to blame these guys,” said Grego, but he now thinks they were hired to create the social media profile of Antik Bose.

还有第三个人。格雷戈指出,霍什宾通过加利福尼亚州奥兰治县一位名叫保罗·达夫塔纳(Paul Daftarian)的房地产经纪人出售了自己的豪宅,另一个人的身份被Antik Bose用在了他的社交媒体资料中。

“Almost every photograph ostensibly of Antik Bose on Facebook, Everipedia, Pinterest and YouTube actually belongs to Daftarian. Similarly, the featured real estate ostensibly belonging to Antik Bose, are actually some of Paul’s former real estate deals,” Quintessential’s report claimed.

“These guys are all connected,” Grego asserted, though he admitted he doesn’t have proof for his suspicions and doesn’t know of any connection of these individuals to Penumbra, aside from the fact that all live in Southern California.

霍什宾、米兰达和达夫塔拉没有回复置评请求。上周,达夫告诉我彭博社他不知道他的照片是如何与假安蒂克·博斯联系在一起的。截至周一,他的照片仍被安蒂克-博斯的一家社交媒体使用。

A Penumbra spokeswoman dismissed the allegations, saying the company “did not hire a third-party firm to create Antik Bose or any other fake online persona.”

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在Quintsential上周二关于他的报道发表后的几个小时内,AntikBose博士的社交媒体资料的许多部分,包括科学研究,都从互联网上消失了。

但是,在这些网页被取下之前抓拍到的《半影》(Penumbra)说,他们的联合创始人的研究并不是安蒂克·博斯(antikbose)在打磨学术证书方面所做的唯一工作。他们说,他模仿了其他医生,包括印度奇塔兰詹国家癌症研究所的阿纳米卡·博斯博士、匹兹堡大学托马斯·斯塔尔兹移植中心的阿米特·巴苏博士和弗雷德·哈钦森癌症研究中心的阿纳布·博斯博士。

Antik Bose列出的研究和他的专业是一样的:肾移植(和Amit Basu博士一样),中风(和Arani Bose博士一样),癌症和结构生物学(和Anamika Bose博士一样)。

Grego didn’t deny that Antik Bose has posted research unrelated to Penumbra’s medical products. But he asserted that some of it also relates to clinical areas in two startups Penumbra acquired — Chemofilters and Voyage Biomedical, whose companies and related individuals “appear to have clear links with kidney transplants and diabetes, clinical areas where Antik Bose’s non-stroke related research and academic qualifications seem to converge.”

尽管这个冒牌医生的网络形象的创造者还不确定,格雷戈声称找到了“冒烟的枪”,以证明安蒂克·博斯博士实际上是阿拉尼·博斯。这是一个邀请假医生加入一个项目组Researchgate.com网站-有点像医生的脸谱网——来自科学领域的一位半影派的顶级支持者。

The person who extended the invite is Dr. Osama Zaidat, whom Grego called “a frequent coauthor of Antik/Arani Bose, recipient of Penumbra’s payments, and evangelist of its products.”

2017年5月,Zaidat博士邀请Antik Bose博士(而不是Arani Bose)加入一个小组,该小组包括其他四位与半影相关研究的合著者。

格雷戈在报告中问道:“现在的问题是:为什么奥萨马·扎伊达在他的研究项目中邀请了安蒂克·博斯,而不是阿拉尼·博斯呢?”。“你会邀请一个你从未听说过名字的人加入一个敏感的研究项目吗?”

Zaidat医生在记者发稿前没有回电话。