As Auction Holdings, we are against this practice and we are appealing to farmers to desist from it, not only because it is wrong, but it is also against international labour laws," Matabwa said.
And, according to fraud charges filed Thursday by the Massachusetts securities regulator, the managing director of the UBS (nyse: UBS - news - people ) group responsible for auction rate securities in the U.S. began liquidating his own holdings just as that sales effort got off the ground.