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Laughable Julie Meyer press release tries to explain Maltese FSA suspension - but its all fake news from Farrer & Co

Another day and another fake news press release lands from cash strapped devout Christian Julie Meyer signed off by her new lawyer from Farrer & Co. Gosh I want to see the Farrer bitchez in Court on this one... On Friday the Maltese regulator the MSFA suspended Meyer's license to operate on the island (and thus under passporting rules anywhere in the EU) and made a damning statement as you can see HERE. Meyer's response is fake news so I serve it up with a Shareprophets translation service. Fake News from Farrer & Co is in italics.

Ariadne Capital Group Limited Clarifies MFSA Licence in Malta Announcement

We saw the damning coverage in the Maltese press and on ShareProphets and were alerted to the fact that the dozy tossers on the UK deadwood press were on the case 36 hours after averyone else so to reinforce the line we fed to the Sunday Times we thought we'd issuje a fake news press release.

The Maltese Financial Service Authority on Friday (11 May), simultaneously wrote to Ariadne Capital Malta Limited
(ACML) and issued a Press Release announcing it had withdrawn ACML's regulatory licence. This co-ordinated action should be seen in its proper context.

Yes it should. That contact being that Julie Meyer has fled Malta to avoid criminal charges and is being investigated by the FCA, HMRC and other agencies outside of Malta.

ACML has not been conducting any regulated business and does not intend to do so.

No but the EU passport it gives allows Meyer to manage a fund in the UK and to raise money from investors for companies. Not that she does either very well or on any scale.

Of immediate relevance to the MFSA's announcement is the fact that ACML informed the MFSA on Tuesday 8 May that it wished to close its business in Malta because of the MFSA's failure to process basic administrative tasks, as well as needing to protect shareholder interests by operating in a secure legal and business environment. Sadly, the MFSA's response to ACML's closure notice vindicates the decision to leave Malta.

The MSFA started to investigate Ariadne and Meyer in November 2017. The statement to this effect by the MSFA has been corroborated by a whistleblower to whom I spoke to today. On April 16 2018 the MSFA called her in for a major dressing down warning her that a license suspension was almost certainly on the cards as a result of an ongoing investigation.

On 25 April Meyer fled Malta ahead of a criminal trial at which, after her no show, the magistrate instructed the Police to hunt her down. She has since refused to return to Malta.

On Wednesday 2nd May the MSFA informed Meyer that the license of Ariadne was going to be suspended. The announcement was only delayed, until after Meyer announced that she was "finishing with you first" because Julian Pike at Farrer & Co fired off various missives to the MSFA threatening it if it went ahead.

An announcement will follow about Ariadne's Capital Group Limited's future business operations.

The only unregulated activity Meyer operates is her events business but with only 17 folks paying for tickets to her last big conference and with speakers pulling out of her next planned event faster than you can say "Praise the Lord" that does not look very exciting does it. Is that the events business which has a cash crisis as exposed HERE today? Er.. yes.
Clearly Meyer has served up A1 fake news. But the UK deadwood press will probably buy it anyway.

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That Was the Week that Was 7 Days of ShareProphets

Tuesday »

Bearcast
Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Why I do NOT trust the new management and why owning Skins shares is madness
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 22 September 2026, 16:22
PULS
Pulsar Group – “as expected, the group has paid the outstanding amounts owed to HMRC”. Er, is it not “expected” to pay in a timely manner then?…
  • By Steve Moore
  • 22 September 2026, 16:15
PDL
BREAKING: Petra Diamonds subsidiary winding up petition – not good news I suggest: I smell 0p by Christmas
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 22 September 2026, 14:54
Cat_Fixing_Lightbulb
Peel vs Harworth and the shrinking list of listed firms
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 22 September 2026, 14:34
EGT
European Green Transition – interims, more to come from an already massively winning share tip?
  • By Tom Winnifrith & Steve Moore
  • 22 September 2026, 13:15
UJO
Yet again, another week goes by and nobody else has accepted the Reabold offer for Union Jack
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 22 September 2026, 13:11
MIDW
Midwich – interims emphasise “outlook for the full year remains unchanged”, but how much risk is there to that?
  • By Steve Moore
  • 22 September 2026, 13:05
SBTX
Skinbiotherapeutics – utterly dire news
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 22 September 2026, 12:34
SYME
Supply@Me Capital – dire trading update & ongoing suspension
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 22 September 2026, 11:47
SAA
M&C Saatchi – I having questioned ‘how “confident” to be for its argued growth in 2026?’, what about now its half-year results?…
  • By Steve Moore
  • 22 September 2026, 10:58

Monday »

TTG
An organic trading recovery (or possibly inorganic) Buy…
  • By HotStockRockets
  • 21 September 2026, 15:40
Bearcast
Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Learning Welsh or having a monthly Church lecture on the poor Palestinians and blessed asylum seekers
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 21 September 2026, 15:40
AXS
Accsys Technologies – expects full year “broadly in line with market expectations”. Really?…
  • By Steve Moore
  • 21 September 2026, 15:39
RBD
Reabold bites back at Union Jack – this is pointless, it is just nose candy money for the City
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 21 September 2026, 12:44
Gold
Video: Gold Suppression, Bond Markets ‘Revolting’ & Why Juniors Will Outperform
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 21 September 2026, 11:57
CRW
Craneware – full-year results, how much confidence to really have for now “conditions should become progressively more supportive”?
  • By Steve Moore
  • 21 September 2026, 11:28
MTC
Mothercare can’t say its screwed too often
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 21 September 2026, 10:45
KEFI
New, or not so new, anti Government alliance in Ethiopia – am I panicking about Kefi? No.
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 21 September 2026, 09:49
Sinking_Ship
Today's Ayn Rand quote, tell me it's not true
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 21 September 2026, 08:07
Boom
EXPOSE: Amazing AI – Companies Act contraventions undertaken by Paul Mathieson
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 21 September 2026, 08:02

Sunday »

Bearcast
Tom Winnifrith bearcast: explaining balance sheets to a Skins owning lunatic
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 20 September 2026, 19:13
Top-10
Notes from Underground – Most read articles for the week ending September 20
  • By Darren Atwater
  • 20 September 2026, 18:00
Gold
The View From The Montana Log-Cabin As Gold Firms In Response To Fed Hike
  • By Nigel Somerville
  • 20 September 2026, 09:12
Quiz
The ShareProphets Sunday Pub Quiz #364
  • By Darren Atwater
  • 20 September 2026, 08:28
Reading
Sunday Long Reads: Lucy Letby, Paul Smith, American Age, Mining Guam, Montessori Ponzi
  • By Darren Atwater
  • 20 September 2026, 08:27
Blackboard
Visual Aid: The Top 10 Sectors for Foreign Investment in 2026
  • By Darren Atwater
  • 20 September 2026, 08:27

Saturday »

Boom
UPDATED: Lucian Miers & Jim Mellon are coming back to Sharestock in 2027: early bird tickets now on sale, event 15% sold out!
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 19 September 2026, 16:57
Bearcast
Tom, Winnifrith Bearcast: hope and despair
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 19 September 2026, 16:55
DEBS
Boohoo Group – emphasises “turnaround continues at pace”, but how materially compared to the valuation already?
  • By Steve Moore
  • 19 September 2026, 13:21
Roulette
'The Takeover 12' Great British Takeover stakes competition leading picks performance update – some improvement...
  • By Steve Moore
  • 19 September 2026, 13:21

Friday »

Bearcast
Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: the Sydney Sweeney row with the Mrs and daughter 2
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 18 September 2026, 15:40
TEK
Evil Banksta weighs in on TekCapital after today’s spooftastic RNS
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 18 September 2026, 15:10
SBTX
Good news travels fast but bad news….the case of Skinbiotherapeutics
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 18 September 2026, 11:50
MTC
Mothercare: the end is nigh, don’t blame Trump, I told y’all eons ago
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 18 September 2026, 11:25
Collapsing-Reactor
EXPOSE: Nuburu shares in a slump post relisting on American Stock Exchange and latest accounts contain a material error
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 18 September 2026, 10:57
Boom
Letter to Pointon Young, former auditors to Amazing AI
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 18 September 2026, 10:25
SATS
Reinvesting my Satsuma Winnings
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 18 September 2026, 09:50
TRB
Tribal Group – “Proposed Acquisition by Main Capital Partners” provides us with another share tip winner
  • By HotStockRockets
  • 18 September 2026, 09:34
QDE
Quantum Data Energy - why are its shares still suspended?
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 18 September 2026, 09:14
Boom
EXPOSE: Paul Mathieson and the strike off: you might think that, I could not possibly comment
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 18 September 2026, 08:53

Thursday »

MCB
McBride – having argued earlier this week “transformational future growth”, now CFO “Sale of Shares”!…
  • By Steve Moore
  • 17 September 2026, 16:25
Bearcast
Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Hang on for the PS in the podcast
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 17 September 2026, 15:44
CRTA
EXPOSE: Stephen Kelly’s CV – why the Cirata boss has to go and its not just the SEC investigated stock options scandal
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 17 September 2026, 13:43
INSG
Insig AI – “pleased to announce… results for the year ended 31 March 2026”, why then not announced until now?…
  • By Steve Moore
  • 17 September 2026, 13:34
OPTI
Optibiotix Interims – get your cheque book ready Adam
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 17 September 2026, 12:38
Bear
Video: Rigged Markets, Why The Real Bubble Is In Government Bonds & Revaluing Gold
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 17 September 2026, 11:11
ABDP
AB Dynamics – “performance for FY2026 is expected to be in line with the guidance”, not the initial guidance though!…
  • By Steve Moore
  • 17 September 2026, 11:10
CRTA
Cirata letter to FCA & AIM Regulation: was bad news suppressed ahead of fund raise? I bet it was!
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 17 September 2026, 10:04
PAF
Pan African Resources – full-year results, a winning share tip still Buy
  • By HotStockRockets
  • 17 September 2026, 08:45
AVCT
TW does not understand the science and maths at Avacta so what do Evil Banksta and Jim Mellon say?
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 17 September 2026, 08:14

Wednesday »

Bearcast
Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Joshua turns 10, congenital idiots turn on me and a victory lap as Cirata crashes, the FCA should be all over this
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 16 September 2026, 16:42
SMWH
WH Smith – argues “solid peak trading”, but how ‘solid’ really?…
  • By Steve Moore
  • 16 September 2026, 16:03
AVCT
Avacta: it’s a spoof says Evil Banksta add to shorts into the share price spike
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 16 September 2026, 14:32
ADF
Facilities by ADF – interims emphasise its “strength”, so a trading warning (natch!)…
  • By Steve Moore
  • 16 September 2026, 14:25
Newsboy
BREAKING: Farewell Oak Securities hello Crest Corporate Brokers, oily Jerry Keen & team jump ship
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 16 September 2026, 13:32
HUI
I try to be fair and show balance
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 16 September 2026, 12:24
BMV
Writing to Bluebird Mining Ventures & the FCA as the company tries to steal my warrants
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 16 September 2026, 12:12
CTA
CT Automotive – interims emphasise “revenue increased”, but what about the bottom-line?…
  • By Steve Moore
  • 16 September 2026, 12:07
Boom
Amazing AI – Auditors Resignation letter in. Oh dear. What is being hidden?
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 16 September 2026, 10:18
BRES
GOTCHA: Blencowe’s Ralston axed after my FCA intervention and loses options but the company is still talking shit
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 16 September 2026, 09:50

Tuesday »

Bearcast
Tom Winnifrith Bearcast No 2: back to the 1970s
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 15 September 2026, 16:42
ALU
Alumasc – full-year results, a “resilient performance” and a “positive start” to this year?
  • By Steve Moore
  • 15 September 2026, 16:25
Clown
Dr. Jeevun Sandher MP celebrates wage growth – a new contender for dumbest Labour MP out there
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 15 September 2026, 14:06
BRCK
BRCK Group – “the board’s expectations for the current financial year remain unchanged”, but how creditable is that?…
  • By Steve Moore
  • 15 September 2026, 13:21
STAK
Breaking: Stack BTC, Direct Bullion, Paul Withers and Nigel Farage, this is just so sleazy
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 15 September 2026, 13:02
Boom
Amazing AI – Oooh Er Missus, what's this I see?
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 15 September 2026, 11:53
Crime-Scene
Expose: Africa Bitcoin Corporation and Guild Advisory: no prizes for due diligence here!
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 15 September 2026, 11:30
MPAC
Mpac – interims, how positive is “outlook for the full year remains unchanged following the company’s update in June”?
  • By Steve Moore
  • 15 September 2026, 11:08
Bearcast
Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: a long chat with Harry Adams
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 15 September 2026, 10:29
BRES
Letter to the FCA: If you do not prosecute Mike Ralston of Blencowe, you admit you are useless
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 15 September 2026, 08:51