RE: Tax revenue19 Mar 2020 15:57
It's not quite as simple as that 3cardbrag... Whilst Beowulf Mining PLC is a listed on the AIM, and registered in the UK, Kallak and all other Swedish exploratory licences are held by our Swedish subsidiary, Jokkmokk Iron Mines AB (JIMAB), which is wholly owned by Beowulf Mining PLC. In respect of the shareholders, 65% of shares are held as SDR's and traded on the Spotlight Market in Sweden - However, they are not all held by Swedish investors. Users of Facebook will know that investors from Denmark and Norway among others hold shares, and so, as with our interconnected world, it's incorrect to assert that the perceived nationality of Beowulf is somehow a barrier to the issuance of the exploitation licence. That I believe can be attributed to Swedish inertia, general incompetence and above-all, Politics. Budge clearly attaches some importance to Swedish ownership, highlighted by several RNS indicating as such, but rarely do governments care about shareholders, particularly a small-cap like BEM. The asset is of course incredibly valuable, but as with SXX (which is an excellent example in the UK), someone will profit from Kallak, and just as it's unlikely to be Sirius, without careful financial management, it's unlikely to be Beowulf, regardless of who actually owns the shares.