RE: Just for clarity30 Jun 2023 19:37
Stretch, my view, but things were being set up on the Cyprus side, subsidiaries, offshore accounts by the looks of things, well in advance. I think the company knew the war was coming. Why didn't they complete the Rosgeo buy out? They didn't need to, they knew what was coming, and they would be de-listed from here as they are a British company with russian assets and at that time a russian national on the Board, whom they then had to swiftly remove, but in all likelihood, it wasn't enough, as the assets are in Russia, and they employ staff who are Russian nationals, so they knew their get out of jail card was extremely limited! They had 8 years to make a sale of something, just MT, but they didn't do it, ever ask yourself why? My theory is they were never going to sell anything, because at the end of the day, it's more lucrative to them to finally return their assets to themselves (inhouse in Russia) and then do as they please. Dmitry won't lose out, not at all, Christian has already got his golden handshake I suspect, and the rest will be okay. NN will no doubt pick up in a private deal from the Russian side eventually. The BOD have made sure they are safe regardless! Suspension and de-listing will free them from the Queeld case, as there will be no UK registered company, it will be dissolved, and if they can't trade and have no assets in this jurisdiction what can Queeld do about it? zilch. They might try to recover funds from offshore accounts, if they get a judgment in their favour, but that's always a tricky one, and very difficult to achieve, in fact nigh on impossible, and they are not going to get access to any metals in Russia. I wonder whats left of the £4 mill? Probably nothing now. Where the £20 mill+ is, who really knows? I hope the auditors can find out but I suspect they won't. My views. Time to catch up on other stuff and whether I take a huge gamble for me and go to Bournemouth to do a Masters. If anyone lives in Bournemouth area, do let me know what you think of Bournemouth as I have never been. Best wishes to the genuine folk here, you deserve better.