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Ah good, at least I know you're around and not plunged off Ben Nevis (or taken a hotel room with Onion):o) Good to hear from you both.. Come and join me over at Strat. maybe? Have a read of all the past RNS' - there's no certainty, but..anyway. The main thing I miss about the Oxus board is the banter etc - although at times I felt like General Custer at the Little Bighorn (or maybe I'm thinking of my boudoir nickname) I was keen to hook up for a pint/drink before the decision because I figured the Winning Party might not have an eponymous title.., maybe join up for a drink in the future when I next visit Welsh Wales, or Loopy Leeds? Ruby , maybe in future de-risk and take profits when you get a % up? Hope you bounce back.. I'm taking it that this Oxus message board will be taken down soon, so Schofield/ Ruby et al...maybe will see you over on another board at some point? I don't have any other shares apart from Strat - I had a few Churchill Mining at 16p but sold 'em when they went up recently - although there is a fair chance they'll triple - or much more- so if they get good news soon and I will miss out on a bumper return - many similarities with the Oxus gamble really. You can see where I am from my recent posting history to drop me a message if you like- and I'll head a message with your name if directed at you. Glad you're both around still - and Schofers - what the f*ck is 88E?? is that gambling site or something (no difference with this one then!?!) I'll take a look. Is there room in the world for more than one Onion? Best wishes and talk soon Yaki Da ;o)

Hi Hotshot - Strat's definitely worth a good look and if you listen/look at the recent presentations by the CEO at investment events, it's all spelled out there. Massive potential if they can do it right initially. I think one of the better ones on AIM. My mate had a theory (even last year) that Vlad was a company worker (maybe Wilkins , who has family/links in Uzbek), but I don't think so..I think he's probably lost face (and money) with it. I often wondered whether Ruby was a company plugger too - maybe not, but there were a few that just disappeared immediately at the end. Thought Schofield might be on a few other shares - but he seems to have evaporated too. Good luck and might see you over there.. :o)

Where are you Taffy??!

Haven't been on here for a while and those who know me know that I don't usually ramp/tip other shares... But since the Ox is so dead that I'm eating its tail for dinner tonight, I've recently got into a share that might be a fantastic growth investment..if anyone has any money left from the Ox, it could be a fruitful way of seriously mutlibagging - with patience. Strat Aero - started just over a year ago - reinvented itself with an experienced and top notch BOD in September (ex Vodafone/ TSB etc etc) and quickly finding a new market that is potentially massive. They're the first company to offer worldwide start-to-finish Drone/UAV technology - training, drones, full patented software solution - hitting the potentially massive flood mapping/windfarm inspection fields among many others. . Strat recently bought a US drone firm (AeroKinetics) who hope to be first to get FAA certification (and predict year on year 1000% growth), bought Geocurve,(UK) who hope for large flood mapping contracts (with an existing possible $10Mill order pipeline), hooked up with Chinese t/Asian raining firms, have offices around world - and just managed to snaffle the first ever wind turbine contract in the US ( a smallish foot in door deal that could expand massively) Strat's CEO Tony Dunleavy is a dynamic very pro-active Irish bloke who is doing a great job. Just had publicity in last week's Sunday Telegraph for the recent US contract. With a fair wind, this could be MASSIVE. CEO aiming at £1 a share in 3 years (4p at moment) Pros: $Multi-billion worldwide market growing near exponentially. Forecast to be biggest growth sector after internet. Footholds in 5 countries/ several continents Start-up potential- right at the start of their journey First-ever wind turbone contracts - with mega growth potential Potential multi-million future earnings, and multi-bagging (income for February alone predicted to be near $200K) CEO/BOD experienced and focused with industry contacts. Mainly recession proof (due to expanding demand) Saves firms millions in inspection costs. Cons: Could be subsumed./consumed by the rapidly expanding international drone market if they're not canny. A couple more company purchases will involved more fundraising (dilution) Still loss making (as a result of initial mistakes when they started with ex BOD - targeting military markets) Market is still backward looking with this. If successful, may be a slow burner this year until bigger contracts won. There;s some useful links on advfn for those interested.. Anyway, apologies for returning to my old backyard with some different mates ;o) but this one might help some Oxers out of a hole... Nothing's for sure on AIM (as we've seen) , but Strat is as legit as they come, IMO. I like it. Good Luck and DYOR - and I mean DYOR! ps S

To everyone on board.. I'll keep reading but this is the end of my posting Have a happy and healthy New Year x

Enjoy your beer Siengred :o) Vascular, my feeling is that this is counted a (perverse) win of sorts...as it says the "Case dismissed SAVE for the....etc etc"... so although the overriding majority was dismissed, there was a small part that wasn't - so I reckon Calunius will call this a technical win - and are going to get their slice (or should I say All the pie)

These massive European Institutions have something really insidious in common... Whether it be FIFA, UNCITRAL, or the European Union....there is something, that as Brits, we find really unsavoury about them.. It's the lack of openness, anti-democratic, non-elected personnel ...plus major lack of scrutiny. It seems to be a system with little way to rail against/. I've nticed whena country applies for an Arbitrator to be dismissed for bias, it never happens (as far as I can see).. There's the big players , like Stern and Co, and no doubt this has turned into a very cosy closed shop. We talked abou ti ages back, but this is one FLAWED system..But who changes it??

Yorkie - are you talking about the £10mill Court case against Oxus that was on hold at the time? Which documents are you referring to by the way? There was always a sneaking suspicions Oxus were idiots in 2009/10 - let's see how true that turns out to be. Regarding the UNCITRAL and legal system.. It reallty is a money go round for these people. Sat ensconsed in their Ivory Towers, surrounded by books and legal points, enjoying lectures, seminars and meals together. I don';t know why some posters thought this would be a landmark case. I bet this is one of the most insignificant cases on their Champagne jolly. It is a F*cking joke though - Five long years (after years of hard work in Uzbekistan for the company workers) A Panel of 3 people - one of whom we all knew the way she was voting before the case! - so basically this ENTIRE thing ultimately is down to ONE person! A Legal team that never loses - and probably has massive Kudos in their bigwig circles (Lamm and Case) .. And a payout of $10-$15Million that will cover Calunius costs and bit more on top - and no doubt a few left over for a Directors bonus! As Johhny Rotten said at the last ever Sex Pistols gig: "Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?"

Oh well Mike...it's easy to get sucked in..I was too. In fact if the result had come in as originally expected late 2014, I'd have had quite a big chunk totally wiped out. So it was only the passing of time (luck) that let me read more into it (I;'d always intended de-risking on a spike though)..but had the result come earlier I'd be in the sh*t with this one. On the face of it, It does seem unreal that the original investment wasn't returned , and..I thought that would provide some sort of backstop (albeit only about $50Mill) ..unless corruption was involved, then I could see Zero. But then again, Tim Hart , and White and Case , Stern, just seem to have this entire field stitched up, The Arbitration circuit is definitely an Old Boys network...and big names hold sway. I wonder if the result would have been different with different lawyers and a different panel? Or whether it's been quite a simple case of Oxus not fulfilling contractual obligations..and therefore completely losing their licence rights?

I realise that you may be feeling gutted, shocked, low about this, but I hope that you'll be able to come back on here at some point and offer your views as you posted some great things over the years and were admired for your knowledge and thoughts. Hope you can still enjoy Christmas The timing has been shocking to say the least

I tend to agree... although hoping they do appeal and some sort of trading begins again.

Let's hope so...New case, Lift suspension, get out with a few quid.

I've got to correct you hotshot, in that (in the 1000 posts I had removed - and partly because of this theme) I'd actually started to think there was a real chance that we'd lose and I was feeling so uneasy about it that I sold all but 20% of my holding (which I later increased slightly, unfortunately). The posts got quite vicious at around that time - as this is the type of thing that message boards do not like to hear - , and I was also to blame for biting back. But, I had thoroughly been through the accounts/annual reports and some interesting past cases again - and had started to see our chronological case as a couple of bad years for Oxus (2006 etc) at the hands of the Uzbeks, costing only a few millions -(the chairman even states the loss figures attributable to this in the Annual Reports) . But they picked up from - but then were whacked by the financial crisis - when RBS pulled out as funders a direct result. Oxus' BOD . back in 2009/10, had quite a bad rep on iii message boards, and I'm one of the few who regarded poster davidUzbek as genuine. He's shot down - but he was right about Oxus. My subsequent phone call with him a few weeks ago strengthened my concerns (he was out there and knows the personnel involved). I'd started to see this case as about a 30-50% chance of outright loss - but with a good chance of getting my money back. And since I was in profit here from derisking,, I saw it as a fair, if not great gamble. Greed got the better of me and I lately put some profits back - which I'd hoped to get out on a New Year's Eve Spike!! Timing eh?? I also then was more freaked out by the Statistics that 80% of claimants lose or get less than 20% of their claim - which meant to me, that there a 4 in 5 chance we'd get next to B*gger all after legals. I thought we'd lose Khandiza (which I stated in posts earler this year -taken off now) - and there was an interesting recent development in Churchill Mining where the Arbitrators slammed their ex-lawyers for claiming for a high sum - but then saying "but we'll also have restitution value back as a fall back"..it sounds like tokenism That set alarm bells ringing for how arbitrators see that chancing.. I think Oxus were chancing it with Khandiza and threw it in there as part of the pot rather than a fervent belief of injustice. Anyway, I ended with a 25%ish profit on my overall investment when it was about 50% a few weeks ago,. I'm still kicking myself like I lost money beause it feels that way to me, as I didn't keep to my own beliefs fully. I realise there are many more in a worse situation who have lost money, and it does all leave a very hollow feeling...still sinking in. I had my doubts about "Hero" Captain Shead and about Vice Skipper Wilkins, but I'll keep counsel on those thoughts..Is he anyone's "hero" now?

Oh, I see what you mean getcarter - you think I'm refrring to mysel fas "one of The best".. No, I've been knocked down many times, but try not to any more.

Thank You getcarter Again, I'm honoured... there's nothing arrogant about it... Many people on here make decisions on the basis of misreading info and links like that, believing ramping, refusing to believe statistics , refusing to see that the Oxus Info was less than 50% of that avai;able (probably much less when you consider we were fed what Oxus wanted us to have).. No point thinking I'm arrogant. It's people not being able to read lines - and between - lines that is the real insult. Thankfully, I can take my brain into the next investment. No one's here to make friends - but I did make a genuine and heartfelt attempt to try to stop people jumping off a cliff with overly optimistic beliefs. (and ps...No, I didn't get the girl in the pub, you're right ;o)

Yes, but the best tend not to get knocked down many times at all..It's better not to get smashed in the face many times to learn that it hurts. I mean come on...how many will get caught out again in the same way?? LOADS!! The majority probably. The next thing that wets their pants. The thread about White and Case "knowing the result" early in December says it all. Honestly.It's PATHETIC. I'm more p*ssed off about "investors" not knowing their heads from their ar*ses than losing the arbitration. Some people are so LAZY . They can't even read, or look further than one line...forget DYOR, most people wouldn't know what that meant if it whacked them in the face. I'm not even sorry to say that anyone with half a brain cell would know that link: ref White and Case referred to the Metal Tech Arbitration. Some people just can't be helped ....ever! They just shouldn't be in shares at all.

Whether there may still be a little ray of light in this yet... That because of the Gibbons/ Funding scenario, Oxus may decide (on lawyer advice) to lodge an appeal on a procedural point of law.. So an RNS is released stating that, the share resumes trading, and we get a small dead cat spike (up to 2p maybe) on news that an appeal is being lodged?.. and those with big holdings here can get some out? I may be overly optimistic here, as I'm not sure who would be buying in such volumes to soak up the sells on such an RNS, but just a thought.

Onion, now you're adding confusion to disappointment, although there is some light entertainment here..! Who is "This Bell guy"...who "Wing and a prayer'd it" and who let what "pan out as it has"..?? Just so I can settle down with some booze and mull over it

Bob - It's alright mate..same to you :o) Just wish there'd been some sort of win so we could have all had a excuse to meet up

Good question Oil. I would think not since the Arbitrators have found against us. Looks like there'll be some breach of contract that made it all "legal" to break the 50% deal and take the mine Seems amazing doesn't it? Is this what you're driving at, that we may still have some rights? Even with a loss (not including corruption) I did expect $50Mill+ back for Oxus' investment.