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"In light of the limited working capital availability, the Company's operations remain impacted. Operations are currently being run intermittently, resulting in lower production and sales, as depicted in the result for the year ended 31 March 2024"
This seems to be the last information around ops on ground that I could find in the RNS.
Ladies and gentlemen, today I have uncovered something really quite sinister about the requisition group and the proposed directors.
I thought I recognised the name Ninja-Pe. A quick check on Twitter reminded me of a poster with the same name. The handle of that account? @lwkoot. I brought this to the attention of a friend who showed me a screenshot. Funnily enough this revealed the previous profile picture to in fact be of Mr Leo Koot, one of the proposed directors of the requisition group. A reasonable conclusion to arrive at therefore is that Ninja-Pe is Leo Koot.
A further quick search shows Ninja-PE (LK) to be 1 of the first followers of the Free Tirupati Twitter group, and one of its most adamant retweeters and commentators, essentially communicating with themselves to amplify misinformation and a perception that their sentiment is/was more widely felt. This has been the case for nearly a year!
Alongside this other early followers of the FTG group include Alpina “@alpinacapital” - that’s the investment vehicle Mr Mark Rollins is a director of.
Leo Koot, now very apparently on here as “Ninja-PE” has commented multiple times on the LSE bulletin board of the Company, Beacon Energy, upon which Board he is a Director alongside his good mate Mr Rollins! The evidence stacks up.
The same goes for the poster on here called “Gaisan”. A quick review of the poster’s history shows similar posts on Beacon Energy’s LSE bulletin board. Perhaps “Gaisan” is Mr Rollins?
Beacon Energy’s broker is Optiva Securities. The same broker of TGR. Does Optiva have a role to play here?
What would the FCA make of reports that PLC directors have been using questionable ethical, professional and legal tactics and possible misinformation to suit their ends, possibly in league with another company’s own broker?
After all there has been chatter on Telegram and on here that Optiva has a role to play. In fact the FTG Twitter has previously even retweeted a Vox Markets tweet about Roquefort Therapeutics (Mr Rollins also a previous NED there, shock), which guess what? Yep, a company Optiva is also the broker of. All this stuff in the pledges of the group about access to capital etc smells very off to me, especially seeing these peoples’ track records. Their own interests are made very apparent by the demands of the requisition letter which of course they happily shared online themselves, and seemingly leaked to Share Prophets before the requisition was officially announced - that’s the sort of people TGR shareholders are now faced with dealing with. So yes I wonder indeed what would be made of all this?
Either way we will find out after the email that I am sending tomorrow to the FCA, London Stock Exchange, FT, CityAm, and others to ask for a review into the relationship between these actors and the other proposed directors, and to ask for an investigation into potential market abuse. I will also cc it to TGR, and TGR’s