AQSE

74 days ago

Hot Rocks Investments – the new home of Gavin Burnell of Globo and Elephant Oil infamy: when you engage with Ron Bauer who cares about IFRS?

One of those colourful characters from the London Small cap world shown in yesterday’s bearcast expose to have engaged with the now twice convicted fraudster Ron Bauer is our own Gavin Burnell of Globo infamy. He is also the managing director of AQSE listed Hot Rocks Investments (HRIP). Gavin owned 29.54% of the shares at 31 March 2024 and a Jonathan Bellis owned 15.5%. Yes that is the King of the spivs in the small cap broking community, currently plying his filthy trade at bucket shop Novum.

98 days ago

Video: Two clowns called Zak

Zak Mir’s Lift Global Ventures (LFT) has not addressed the pressng issue, exposed here yesterday, of a legal claim that could wipe out its dwindling cash reserves. And some. With the shares trading less often than West Ham manage to win a game maybe nobody at AQSE Regulation cares about the possibility of bankruptcy. The core business of Mir and Lift Global, pumping penny dreadfuls in return for undeclared brown envelopes continues apace.

101 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast No 1: The Smarter Web Company fund raise, is that it? The Rev Andrew Carter needs to pray harder

Today's fleecing of the sheeple is at 193p and has brought in just £3.7 million. The Smarter Web Company (SWC) shares are now 142p. the bubble is deflating ever faster and the Reverend Carter needs to pray harder. I discuss and have a question for AQSE Regulation..

109 days ago

CelAI: Its broker claims….what could possibly go wrong?

I covered the latest Jerry Keen feck up that is Cel AI (CLAI) here. It has raised #10 million but in doing so found itself set to be slung off the Main Market so is heading to the AQSE lobster pot, a move touted as a triumph by those paid to promote but which others can see as a disaster. Now it seems that Keen’s Oak Securities is starting to spill the beans. How is the FCA not all over this?

118 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: How do the regulators allow Dave Richards MBE to run a public lavatory let alone a public company

I have written to the Honours Forfeiture Committee about Zak Mir's chum earlier today. But the real question is for AQSE Regulation: how on earth do you allow this man to run a listed company?

124 days ago

BREAKING Disgraced Rolf Gerritsen pulls down the pants of PR genius Steffi, £250,000 of questions for Peterhouse

According to AQSE listed Shortwave Life Sciences (PSY), Rolf Gerritsen is "an entrepreneurial executive, with outstanding strategic, organisational, commercial and financial skills with an exceptional delivery record developed over the last 30 years. His core strengths included strategy development, implementation and sourcing capital for growth companies, special situations and restructuring opportunities.” Advisor Peterhouse which signed off on that claim on Tuesday as Rolf was appointed chairman and Peterhouse raised £250,000 might think that but I can’t think why.

140 days ago

AIM attracts a new dog: Rent Guarantor Holdings Plc, accounting blunders exposed

The AIM market has attracted a new company, namely Rent Guarantor Holdings Plc (RGG) which this morning announced that it will leave the AQSE Lobster Pot on 15 August and join the AIM Casino on the same date.

161 days ago

TAP Global upgrades from AQSE Lobster Pot to AIM sewer: just pointing out a major red flag

On the surface of it TAP Global (TAP) which has moved markets today does not look an outrageously bad investment but today’s RNS fails to mention one humungous red flag.

161 days ago

Is it GOTCHA? Amazing AI suspended and ridiculous announcement

Amazing AI (AAI) is, as I have, repeatedly, pointed out before, a company that has listed on 3 other markets and gone tits up thrice before it joined AQSE. It has lied repeatedly about what it does and its net cash position is less than what my son Joshua has in his piggy bank. AQSE Regulation should have slung this off the market eons ago, as I suggested, but it and corporate advisor Liam “the toke” Murray seemed to know better. But overnight the shares were suspended citing AQSE Rule 5.1.

164 days ago

Worthless almost insolvent fraud Amazing AI enters the Bitcoin Treasury Bubble, shares up100%

If this is not a sign of the true insanity of the bitcoin in treasury madness, what is? Amazing AI (AAI) listed on AQSE 18 months ago as an online loan shark but lied about having an actual business. In March it changed its name from Investment Evolution Credit to jump on the AI bandwagon. It has almost no net cash, having had to borrow £100,000 from its CEO but having raised just £122,000 the other day. But at 8.5p, up 100% today as it jumps on a new bandwagon, it is capitalised at £7.53 million. Insanity.

171 days ago

Another day, another bit of bitcoin in treasury spiv activity involving many of the usual suspects

The madness continues. The latest company jumping on the shitcoin in treasury bandwagon is AQSE listed Vault Ventures (VULT) which at 0.045p is now capitalized at c£5 million. Vault was formerly Meme Vault, formerly Pitch Pit – it has changed names and business strategies almost as many times as I have enjoyed inappropriate thoughts about Cheryl Cole.

175 days ago

EXPOSE: £125m IPO and 2 fund raises built on flagrant lying

I have covered this company since its IPO on January 31 2025 with a market cap of £125 million. I have been utterly bearish for reasons oft explained but thanks to Winnileaks I can now show the outright lie on which the IPO and two fund raises have been based. Its shares should be suspended NOW and the financial rozzers called in.

185 days ago

Can you short shares in the Smarter Web Company at a joke £157m valuation? AQSE says no but you can!

The Smarter Web Company (SWC) share price is wholly indefensible. At 83.5p the market cap is £157 million and it has cash, or I suspect bitcoin, worth, perhaps, £12 million. Its core web design business is a nothingburger making insufficient profit to cover even a fraction of PLC costs. So, it needs the bitcoin price to jump to c$1.37 million to be even fair value. It won’t happen. But the heavily traded shares are on AQSE which says that you cannot short shares on it. But you can.

196 days ago

Cardiogeni: £120m up in smoke in less than 4 months, First Sentinel disgraces itself (again)

I warned that this IPO on January 31 at 143p was a £125 million disaster in waiting. Advisors First Sentinel would act for Satan’s bastard love child with Julie Meyer and this was drowning in red flags from the getgo as I pointed out HERE. After a £650,000 placing at 17.3p a share yesterday the shares are now just 6p, valuing this crock at £5 million. £120 million nominal value up in smoke in less than four months, well done First Sentinel. You are scumbags.

199 days ago

AQSE Regulation and the Truspine fine: this is just silly and unfair on shareholders

Back in August 2023 AQSE Regulation fined Truspine (TSP), a dog run by a bunch of scoundrels who have now been ousted, £215,000 for a series o rule breaches. But, of that fine, £165,000 was suspended.

204 days ago

Truly insane, the lunatics have taken over the AQSE Asylum with a £50m spoof: do Peterhouse staffers believe in the day of judgement?

A long time ago I had a friend, Tony, who was a financial journalist and a Marxist. His favourite phrase was that “the only problem with revolutions is that you run out of lead.” I think of that as I look at the latest madness at The Smarter Web Company (SWC), now valued at £50 million and where mug punters are going to be trashed. Those crony capitalists responsible deserve to meet a grisly fate when the glorious revolution, led either by we true capitalist libertarians or by revolting workers, takes place.

225 days ago

The tale of V22: explain why we mug punters have not been mugged?

V22 was a Plus (now AQSE) listed company that invested in contemporary art. I quite liked its fragrant founder Tara Cranswick who seemed to know her stuff and so put in a five figure sum. Today I conclude that although I will probably get my original cash back after more than fifteen years, I have been mugged. Can anyone explain why I am wrong?

226 days ago

Valereum - £19m investment deal collapses but something looks very wrong here, I assume ASQE Regulation on the case

Actually I do not. AQSE Regulation has shown over its failure to deal with the prospectus fraudsters still running Eight Capital Partners (ECP) that they are just as useless as the Oxymorons at AIM regulation. I bet both are pretty hot on sniffing out directors who might have made a sexist or transphobic remark but in terms of stopping white collar crime? Forget it.

228 days ago

Readers tips of the year prize contest No 2, Easter Version

I realise that I am yet to send out the 2023 and 2024 readers tips of the year prizes. But two bottles of Greek Hovel Olive oil (January 2025 harvest) have now been poured and I aim to send them this week. Meanwhile, after the Trump market upset our writers are penning 8 new tips of the year (Easter to December 31) so why should readers not have another contest. As ever the prize here is Greek Hovel olive oil.

253 days ago

Investment Evolution Credit PLC – dead canary, time for AQSE and The Toke to pull the rug

Investment Evolution Credit (IEC), floated just sixteen months ago by Liam “the toke” Murray at Cairn, at 80p with a business model and management that has failed on three other markets and which has lied repeatedly, formally announced that its deal proposed deal to buy Credit Canary Ltd is dead:

275 days ago

Investment Evolution : you could not make this up, another CEO quits and is the Canary dead?

The fraud brought to AQSE by Liam “the toke” Murray at 80p continues to entertain. It is hard to know where to start with te shares 1p to sell, 14 months after the IPO.

291 days ago

Kerboom: Max Rets to delist: another member of the White Zamboni crime family falls on its sword

Notwithstanding the loyal support of its advisor, Liam “the Toke” Murray at Cairn, AQSE listed MaxRets Ventures (MAX) is to delist. As it has almost zero cash and negative net current assets it is hardly a loss to the world of capitalism. Of course, the Toke should have quit as soon as it became clear that Dominic White was guilty of multi million pound prospectus fraud. But, these days the Toke seems to be cool with fraud.

295 days ago

EXPOSE: Cardiogeni: More than £100 million up in smoke within ten days of IPO! Funding claims are BOGUS!

I warned explicitly that the AQSE IPO of Cardiogeni (CGNI) was a scandal waiting to happen “Some folks have no shame: First Sentinel floats a con”. Ten days later I have been vindicated. This episode leaves AQSE and adviser First Sentinel disgraced and with serious questions to answer.
Cardiogeni is another company from the stable of struck off dentist Ajan Rejinald who has featured both here and I Private Eye many times. He is a scumbag.

308 days ago

Zak Mir: the cheque from Africa is in the post…oh you mean it’s not?

Two years ago exactly, the Brown Envelope Man, Zak Mir announced that his AQSE listed shitco Lift Global Ventures (LFT) was lending £750,000, most f its balance sheet to a technically insolvent company where Lift’s chairman Roy Kelly, was a director, Trans-Africa Energy Limited. Trans had a murky past as exposed on this website but Zak’s silly sister from Shares Magazine probably thinks its racist to point that out.

1352 days ago

OptiBiotix Health – intention to list its ProBiotix Health business on AQSE, Strong Buy…

OptiBiotix Health (OPTI) has announced that it intends to seek admission of its ProBiotix Health business onto the AQSE Growth Market with an associated fund raise of approximately £2.5 million at an indicative premoney valuation of £22.5 million and a distribution in specie. With, at a 35.5p share price, OptiBiotix as a whole currently capitalised at £31.3 million, is this good news? You bet!