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Is there any possibility any return for afren shareholders after administration ? Does anyone have any idea regarding this? Historically is any proven that after administration any company like afren is being listed again? or everything for afren shareholders is finished or ended up. Can I get clarification or explanation from any sensible persons?
Realistic21, There is virtually no hope of receiving anything for your delisted shares. Shareholders are at the bottom of the pile for payments when a company is declared insolvent. The administrators have first pick, followed by the Inland Revenue, secured creditors, bond holders etc. Administration charges are so high, that the taxman will be lucky if he gets paid in full, shareholders I'm afraid have little or no chance. The administrator is charged with keeping the company running, or selling it as a going concern if possible. Failing that he will sell off the assets, often at fire sale prices, and pay off the creditors (if there is anything left after extracting the administration charges). Afren will not rise from the ashes. It is far too late now, as some assets have already been sold. Write off your shares and forget about them. In the unlikely event that the administrator does recover any money for shareholders he should contact you. The payment may however, be a pitiful 1 or 2p in the pound. FWIW an article in today's Daily Mail stated that the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is investigating the collapse of Afren. So the villains may one day face justice, but going on past SFO performance this could take years, and result in little more than a slap on the wrist for anyone deemed to have acted improperly.
I wrote repeatedly to my mp before the collapse about the obvious fraud that was taking place in setting Afren up to fail and take the assets from the pi's. He was 'moderately' helpful but no more than that and tbh I hold no hope at all that we will ever see the guilty parties held to account. And the worst thing is we knew damn well what the bod in concert with the institutions were doing but were unable to get the support to stop them.
"And the worst thing is we knew damn well what the bod in concert with the institutions were doing but were unable to get the support to stop them." I fully agree with you Whitespirit it was obvious what the BoD were doing. However, their job was made easier by the shareholder group ASOG's support for the CEO Alan Linn. The other directors resigned on mass the morning of the AGM, rather than face the ignominy of being voted down. Alan Linn who before being appointed CEO had been a consultant to the company when the restructuring plans were hatched, received nearly 88% of votes cast. So a large majority of shareholders and many posters on here voted for a guy who had colluded in the planned wholesale transfer (theft) of the company's assets from the shareholders to a group of greedy bondholders. Booting Alan Linn out may not have saved Afren, and may have hastened the end, but appeasement rarely works either, as Nevile Chamberlain discovered 77 years ago.