RE: Crml on fox news6 Mar 2025 10:18
Wkw
This is where the whole 'related party' issue becomes a real problem and why this sort of ownership and control structure should never be allowed on public markets.
Recyclus is owned 48% by the public company, TM1, and 52% owned / controlled by the directors of the public company.
The private company, only 48% owned, has had its operation set up and paid for 100% by funds from mug shareholders in TM1. It owes TM1 £7M (and counting) and continues to make losses and guzzle vast amounts of cash.
The Recyclus EIS fundraise wouldn't even pass the most basic due diligence, because investing equity behind that £7M debt is financial suicide. New money for old! And EIS funds must be spent on new operations. To spend EIS money repaying old debts would make the company's EIS qualification invalid, tax relief would be withdrawn and the subscribers to that share issue would be asked to give back the relief.
TM1 cannot demand repayment from Recyclus. Recyclus has no hope of repaying that debt, and would be immediately insolvent. That debt going bad would make TM1 itself utterly insolvent as well.
The whole thing is a ticking time bomb. As soon as a TM1 loan note holder or other significant creditor pushes the plunger with a stat demand, the whole lot goes up.
You can see why the FCA kept kicking the RTO prospectus into the long grass. The whole thing is scandalous and stinks to high heaven.
Tick tock on that bomb.