RE: Good Morning all30 Dec 2025 13:07
To recap on why the below bet was a sure thing/MAST has been the latest in a line of scams and why “Piranha of Puerto Rico” (aka the new Wolf of Wall Street) is a must for our cinema’s:
- MavDB (in Puerto Rico) have done a number of fundraises for struggling companies (e.g. MAST, MET1, Satsuma) saving them (to be fair) but creating huge profits for their warrant investors (possibly >£100m):
- MavDB’s modus operandi is an emergency fundraise for a struggling company with:
- share consolidation (eg 10-1),
- issue of a huge number of warrants, c.10x the current shares in issue (eg £5m pre-paid & £10m cash ),
- charging a £2m fee (from initial £5m) &
- then dubious advertising appears (funded from Cayman Islands) causing the sp to spike up to 50x (got MAST to £2)
- Once the sp is high, the warrant holders (5 of them; no doubt controlled by MavDB as there is no competition to sell) start to exercise & sell making huge profits
- eg MAST exercise 6 million warrants at 4p & sell at to £2 in early September .... £11.76m PROFIT … 5000% return!!!
- To ensure control and influence over the company:
- MavDB have a 2-year advisor contract
- Celia Li (the partner/possible wife of MavDB’s founder Josh Bartch) is put on MAST’s board (July)
- There are a series of puff RNS with minimal info on the warrant exercise (often hidden at the foot of the RNS)
- The warrant holders made c. £50m on MET1 & would have made up to £250m on MAST if people hadn't spotted the scam &
- (1) in the case of PI's posted & alerted new PI's to stop them falling for the advertising
- (2) in the case of professionals, such as ii, stopped allowing PI's to buy shares on their platform (or for that matter short the stock!!)