 When the company acquired its license, the periodical "Økonomisk Ugebrev", "Economic Weekly" began publishing an article series on "sidegadevekslererne", the bucket shops of Denmark, and included Midas.During the autumn of 1996 well-known Danish business man Karsten Ree claimed he had been cheated by Midas into making fictive investments via their wealth management services, suffering losses in excess of DKK 800,000 in one month.The company subsequently underwent a criminal investigation by the Director of Public Prosecutions but was cleared of all charges.