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7 January 2020
AURA energy limited
rESULTS OF GENERAL mEETING
Aura Energy Limited (AEE) advises that the resolution put to the Extraordinary General Meeting on 6 January 2020 resulted in the election of Mr JL Bennett as a Director to the Board of Aura Energy Limited ("Aura" or "Company").
The Aura Board, as constituted prior to the election of Mr Bennett, is extremely concerned at this development given the ongoing legal action against Pre Emptive Trading Pyt Ltd, an entity controlled by Mr Bennett and his family that are now the subject of a writ with the Supreme Court of Victoria where the company is seeking damgaes.
The vote today was passed by a slim margin of approximately 33.4 million shares representing approximately 2% of the issued share capital of the Company. The Board notes that the motion would have been defeated by over 200 million shares had it not been for the voting of a single shareholder.
With only 26% of the Company shares voted in favour of the resolution, the Board does not consider this result to be a clear indication of the wishes of the majority of the Company's shareholders.
The Aura Board today resolved, given the unprecedented situation of having ongoing litigation against a subsequently- elected Director, to assess, with the appropriate legal advice, the degree to which Mr Bennett can be included in the Company's activities and the degree to which information can be released to him. At this stage the Board believes that this will be very limited until the litigation has been resolved.
The Board would like to thank those shareholders who voted against this resolution and to assure all shareholders that Directors remain focussed on continuing to work in their best interests, including the realisation of the recognised value of its substantial asset base.
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The information contained within this announcement is deemed by the Company to constitute inside information under the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) No. 596/2014.
GENERAL MEETING | |||||||||||||
Monday, 06 January 2020 | |||||||||||||
Voting Results | |||||||||||||
The following information is provided in accordance with section 251AA(2) of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth). | |||||||||||||
Resolution details | Instructions given to validly appointed proxies(as at proxy close) | Number of votes cast on the poll(where applicable) | Resolution Result | ||||||||||
Resolution | Resolution Type | For | Against | Proxy'sDiscretion | Abstain | For | Against | Abstain* | Carried /Not Carried | ||||
1 Appointment of Mr John Bennett as a Director | Ordinary | 389,141,426 | 327,176,046 | 15,516,545 | 681,205 | 389,141,426 | 355,715,087 | 681,205 | Carried | ||||
53.17% | 44.71% | 2.12% | 52.24% | 47.76% | |||||||||