It has taken two years but two former bosses of Afren (AFR) will tomorrow be charged with fraud. Watch out Rob Terry your time will come too. Well done the Serious Fraud Office.
Remember the Afren (AFR) disaster 2015. Readers of this website were warned numerous times but still thousands of investors lost a packet. Afren was a story of over-gearing, falling oil prices, incompetence but also of fraud. Elekwachi Ukwu was the Afren plc Company Secretary and claims to have been fired for whistleblowing. Now Ukwu is preparing to spill the beans.
I do not hold out much hope for this bunch and they should have heeded my oft repeated advice to sell their shares instead of insulting me. However it seems as if some Afren (AFR) shareholders want to fight on and nail the directors. In that - since I instinctively have no time for City fat cats I wish the Afren Legal Action Group (ALAG) the best of luck and if they can make the lives of directors who earned a fortune but failed, more miserable this Christmas that has to be a good thing don't you think? ALAG has written to its members thus:
Afren’s (AFR) ex head of IR Simon Hawkins has just posted an amazing confession on LinkedIn which really begs the question who knew what and when about the corrupt management team. And have all the bad guys been named and shamed. If you have lost money prepare to explode with rage. Mr Hawkins writes:
We have been sent this question posted on a Bulletin Board by some sap who bought Afren (AFR) using CFDs. He seems unaware of the horror that unfolds on a margin call.
Oh well you cannot say that you were not warned often enough on these pages. To the Bulletin Board Morons who abused us and said we did not know what we were talking about as we warned of impending doom, we say “enjoy poverty peasants” because it really is all over for Afren (AFR). And that is official, although no doubt on the LSE Asylum someone will spin news of administration as a buying signal for the shares.
This morning Afren (AFR) released an odd RNS to say that the General Meeting scheduled for last Friday which it called off had not happened. Over to the ShareProphets RNS Translation Service to explain….(original in bold)
As predicted HERE the currently proposed restructuring of Afren is dead in the water. Given that the shares are already suspended from trading, I see absolutely no excuse for this announcement coming after-hours, at 4.31pm – see HERE - it is contemptable. The General Meeting scheduled for Friday and the Scheme Meeting scheduled for Wednesday of next week have both been adjourned until further notice.
Ever keen to help people understand what is really being said, we have run today’s RNS from Afren (AFR) which announced a suspension of the shares pending clarification of the company’s financial position through our trusty ShareProphets RNS Translation Service. Here is what it said (original in bold):
