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RE: Frontera Archive21 May 2019 12:10
Posted by Devex on ii yesterday :-
Agreed - good to see Mr TOT back in action! A few more points regarding Lothian.
Lothian Oil and Gas Partners originally had two directors but Andrew Knott resigned on 12th December 2017, leaving just Taleh Musayev as a director. On the same day a Company called LOGP1 Ltd was registered as a “Director” - but Taleh Musayev is the only declared director for this “company within a company”. We can safely assume LOGP1 Ltd stands for Lothian Oil and Gas Partners.I
Then there is Lothian Partners Ltd and Lothian Capital Partners Ltd (amongst others of the Lothian “brand”) both only with Musayev as a Director. On 19th March 2019 the name was changed to Scintilla Financial Management Ltd, but apart from that there appears to be no other activity . So a business that appears to be inactive changed it’s name just a few months ago. May be completely irrelevant but does seem odd.
Then there is Lothian Capital Partners 1 Ltd - incorporated a long while back with Andrew Knott as Director - he remains in this role as of today and the company is reporting as dormant. So we have a Lothian Oil and Gas Partners 1 - recently renamed Scintilla - (Musayev) and a Lothian Capital Partners 1 (Knott). Don’t ask me to interpret but people usually set up, maintain and name companies for a reason - and the word Lothian is a common feature
For the record here is the transcript of the FRR court submission from 2016 regarding Lothian and Outrider - when of course Knott was clearly a Director - and clearly also knows Hope:
“…Then, in June 2016, Outrider introduced yet another entity to Frontera, Lothian
Partners (“Lothian”), which Outrider represented was interested in investing in Frontera.
Mirroring its prior conduct in concert with MND, Outrider demanded that Frontera provide
Lothain access to its confidential information in order to evaluate a potential investment by
Lothian in Frontera. At that time, Frontera, through its financial advisors Rothschild, was
already engaged in good faith efforts to reacquire or restructure its debt. Notwithstanding
Frontera’s past experience with Outrider, however, it responded to Lothian’s overture in good
faith.
36. During an introductory conversation between Lothian and Rothschild, Rothschild
requested basic information regarding Lothian’s identity, the sources of the funds it proposed to invest, the nature of its proposed investment, its past experience in similar investments, and related basic information that any oil and gas exploration company would reasonably request prior to considering disclosures of confidential information to a third party.
This information was especially crucial, in light of Frontera’s past experience with Outrider and its fraudulent attempt to present MND as a “Trojan horse” investor to obtain Frontera’s trade secrets and confidential information in aid of a hostile takeover bid.