1661 days ago
FCA regulated institutions will still be able to deal with Rangers FC, should they want to associate themselves with the financially toxic soccer club, but as of today they can have no dealings at all with its chairman Dave King. The cold shoulder ruling was imposed by the Takeover Panel today.
2105 days ago
Brokerman Dan has been replaced as the maps man on our Woodlarks Charity walk on Saturday. Perhaps we now know why in his former career he did not always get away. For it turns out that the walk is not 32 miles but 33. Lucian has mapped it out in full. Cripes. We now need just over £2,000 to reach our £20,000 target so if you have not yet sponsored me please do so HERE. Get us to target & I will shut up about it. In the podcast I look at IQE (IQE), Rangers FC and another date in court for Dave King, Thirsty Paul Scott not understanding what research means & wanting me not to cover Sosandar (SOS), Cenkos (CNKS), ADVFN (AFN) and Online Blockchain (OBC), Highlands Natural Resources (HNR) and Fishing Republic (FISH) which, I think, is AIM toast in waiting
2603 days ago
Earlier today the Takeover Panel slammed the dodgy antics of Dave King on numerous counts and ordered him to launch a 20p per share, £14 million, bid for the 85% of Rangers (RFC) shares he does not own. King has responded with a statement of complete and utter horseshit showing that he holds the law of the UK in contempt. King has issued a statement via Rangers which it is worth dissecting for the half truths and bollocks it contains. The statement follows with my comments in bold.
2603 days ago
The Takeover Panel has today slammed Rangers (RFC) supremo David King for breaching the UK Takeover Code as well as being a prize arse in not co-operating, indeed appearing to obstruct, its enquiry. The upshot is that he has now been told that he must launch a 20p per share offer for the 85.43% of Rangers he does not own by April 12. That will cost him up to £14 million if everyone accepts.
3101 days ago
Rangers FC (RFC) has announced that it will postpone its ISDX stockmarket listing until the criminal cases against Charlie Green, Imran Ahmed, Craig Whyte and others are concluded. Pro tem Dave King and associates will bail the club out with short term loans. This is all to do with who owns Ibrox.
3135 days ago
Featurng all your favourite players in this mad old tale: Craig Whyte, Charles Green, Aiden Earley, Paul Shackleton, WH Ireland, Dave King, Mike Ashley, Old Mother Worthington (WRN) et al. The big question is whether Rangers FC (RFC) can get a stockmarket flotation away and if so when? It is that which I try to answer in this podcast.
3339 days ago
I am delighted to see that 85% of shareholders in rangers FC (RFC) voted at the EGM to boot out the Ashley patsies and vote on the Dave King slate as directors. But there remain a series of questions about the club’s future on AIM and also about the behaviour of disgraced advisers WH Ireland and Newgate Communications.
King himself has not taken a seat on the board but instead Douglas Park has joined along with the other new boys Paul Murray and John Gilligan. The old board indicated that AIM might have issues with King given his colourful past and I guess he has side stepped that and so there is now np reason AIM can object to Rangers staying on the Casino.
All that it needs to do is to find a Nominated Advisor (Nomad) to replace WH Ireland – the employer of disgraced China fraud specialist Paul Shackleton – which quit two days before the EGM. That should not be an issue.
Most Nomads will represent anyone for a fee. After all Paul Shackleton was happy to represent Naibu (NBU) even though its CEO was languishing in gaol although he did not feel the need to inform investors. Shackleton was well aware that the Naibu CEO had a criminal record but again was happy to take Naibu’s money. Quite why Mr Shackleton regards Dave King as worse than Houyan Lin of Naibu escapes me but then perhaps the fact that Naibu had paid his employer £750,000 in two years swayed his opinion. But I guess Shackleton would not be of interest to Rangers.
But
3368 days ago
I shall turn to the matter of the forthcoming Rangers FC (RFC) EGM later but the high-handed statement signed off by its adviser Mr Paul Shackleton of WH Ireland yesterday should be viewed in light of a shock revelation I serve up today about his own actions (or inactions) regarding AIM listed China fraud Naibu (NBU).
In the Rangers statement Shackleton throws mud at rebel shareholder Dave King, suggesting that his criminal record might make him unsuitable to be director of an AIM casino stock. There is no doubt that in his efforts to evade tax in South Africa, Mr King broke the law and was no angel. So Shackleton would not act for a fellow with a dodgy past (or present)? Really?
I spent a lot of time in 2014 accusing AIM casino listed Naibu of being a fraud.
3371 days ago
Rangers FC (RFC) has still not shown a shred of evidence to demonstrate that in accepting loan proposals from Mike Ashley and rejecting other refinancings it acted in the best interests of ALL shareholders. The Ashley minions who run the Rangers board are clearly loathed by the vast majority of Rangers supporters (rightly so in view of the refusal to provide evidence) and businessman Dave King has stated today that their days are numbered.
King is a colourful character having had a spit of bother with the South African tax authorities and having lost £20 million when Rangers last went bust. But he is a die-hard blue nose, unlike Ashley, and he reckons that he has the support of the 51% of shareholders needed to oust the board. And today he reckoned that the board would agree to hold an EGM this Friday, for later this month.
Interestingly King also said today that current Nomad, WH Ireland and its China fraud specialist Mr Paul Shackleton, was not “fit and proper”. Since we have seen absolutely no evidence
