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This is where a fair chunk of our money went... nice place to drink wine and pretend to be running a business.
https://www.fundainbusiness.nl/kantoor/den-haag/object-42959703-nieuwe-uitleg-24/
Cochran's probably spotted a few £ he missed extracting for himself.
Anyone seen this below
HALO OFFSHORE UK LIMITED
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It bothers me immensely that he can just walk away from this without any repurcussions or significant effect on his life, after many of us had entrusted our hard earned capital with him and lost everything due to his inept decision making.
The whole affair thoroughly stinks and the UK authorities should be equally ashamed of their inability to exercise reasonable action against this individual.
A scam operation from start to finish, enabling Cochran to fund a lifestyle at the expense of his gullible investors.
I am waiting for Cochran to resurface, whenever that may be.
Anyone worked out if there are any authorities out there to express concerns / displeasure with either HALO management (especially Cochrane who continuously lied and failed to communicate with investors), the NOMAD (who seemed to walk away for unclear reasons to allow HALO to act autonomously), AIM itself (for clearly not keeping an eye on HALO and letting them drag out their bankruptcy to allow Cochrane to continue to fund his lifestyle), the Administrators (who seemed to have progressed no consequences to Cochrane whatsoever, or recovered any funds to shareholders), or anyone else who one would think should be held responsible for the debacle seemingly engineered by Cochrane to steal shareholder's money? Appears there is little consequences to being either crooked or incompetent in AIM - seems HALO is a poster child (or at least alcoholic delinquent) for the risks of investing on AIM.
Dead duck indeed. Cochran has walked with our hard earned money after years of funding his multi million dollar lifestyle including a top end house in the exclusive area in The Hague and funding his daughters through the private The American School of The Hague.
Now he's ****ed off back to the US and hiding from the authorities with the shield of his mates in the Administrators he selected to wind it all up with zero backlash.
I was expecting to receive something in writing from the Administrators....I guess this will not be the case...?
Administrators appointed 24/12/2021. I have heard nothing since - held these shares for many years through different name changes.
Is this one completely dead now then - shareholders money completely disappeared?
Knowing Ghost personally, and I'll say no more than that, I will say that you, wellsite, are just a slimeball piece of s h i t e for your utterly wide of the mark accusation about Ghost. He tried his best to get transparency and accountability from AC, for all here.
He did lose a small fortune, and I lost a somewhat lesser fortune than he did, on HNL. Yes, I have seen the factual evidence. And no, he isn't the reincarnation of that other slimeball, slippery character that led to all this grief in the first place.
I wish anyone on here the very best of luck in learning lessons about avoiding shysters like AC in the future. They still abound on AIM, given the nature of that exchange and its dismal regulation.
My parting shot will be reporting FRP and OC to their regulators. FRP should not have appointed OC and OC were too conflicted to accept the appointment. You cannot act for a company and its directors in its business and transactions, and then properly discharge statutory duties to investigate eg those same transactions as potential sales at undervalue etc. There was a lot to investigate and I and I know a number of other shareholders raised serious legitimate detailed concerns.
Too much of a conflict in these circumstances, it's close to a conspiracy with Cochran to defraud shareholders.
I doubt reporting will do any good mind but it's important to do it. Bad luck to them all now.
Flundra, I agree - the Administrators seemed to do the bare minimum. Reflects badly on AIM, makes them look like a banana republic stock market - no protection against crooks - actually appears like the market is in cahoots with shady investors - not a good look.
Wellsite, I signed up to Ghost's list. I think he tried hard on behalf of the average shareholder, unlike people like Anto who continued to bleat that Cochran was a genius, attack anyone who said otherwise and preach that all would be fantastic in the future - right up to the end.
For Ghost to be an incarnation of Cochran, Cochran would indeed have to be a genius to create and maintain such a persona. Cochran could though pretend to be Anto, as Anto was such a caricature, with seemingly exaggerated terrible grammar, continuous anger & insults, and whacky positions - all doable by Cochran. I'd say 60% chance Cochran was Anto, 0.1% he was Ghost!
I was shocked by FRP and Osborne Clarke's appointment and conduct. How on earth could the administrators appoint Cochran and Halo's own lawyers ffs who had presided over this sh.i.tshow? What hope was there ever of genuine scrutiny of Cochran's conduct and all his dodgy deals? Gross conflict of interest, misconduct and a proper stitch up of shareholders.
Did I really have to rejoin just to put you all straight? Me, anto? Really?! Just goes to show how pointless all my efforts were to extract some sense out of this sorry mess for everyone.
You can't even distinguish between a genuine person that lost a small fortune in this fraud and a character that was either just simply deluded or a front for the duplicitous "interim CEO" himself.
As for Cochran, I'm watching and waiting for him to resurface in whatever scummy form he inevitably does, so I can enlighten the next group of gullible twats as to his previous existence.
No rush. I'm patient.
ghost's disappearance suggests he was in on it as well. Anyone sign up to his list ?
My suspicions as well Rob or someone close to or paid by Cochran, so fervently against PI action and as you said deflecting attention from Cochran. Then right at the end removed from the message board. Obviously job done. It's disgraceful that the markets and those that are supposed to police the markets, allow the directors of public companies to act in this deceitful and destructive manner, total PI wipe out.
I always suspected that Anto was Cochran, as Anto hero-worshipped Cochran and would post such troll-like rubbish, seemingly to deflect attention off Cochran. My real question is whether Cochran was incompetent or a crook. I suspect the latter.
We can only hope to see a return? I have held since the WSX days and, I think, another name before that. Not my best investment thankfully! Lets hope for a Good New Year for all! ATB
In fact if I remember right. up until a week or so ago, his last post was at the top of the message board, then it disappeared.
So where is Anto ? I do not see any posting history from him, looks like his name has been removed from the board !!
Anto and Ghost the same person? that is mental they had proper arguments with each other ....lols
Seriously though, do we have any hope of getting anything out of this shocker?
I did suspect ant and ghost were one of the same, looks like I was right
What are we waiting for?
https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/SC342665/filing-history
https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/03793723/insolvency