18 hours ago
How credulous are Guild Advisory and AQSE Regulation that they are again letting Valereum (VLRM) get away with what is an obvious fraud? Today the company claims it has security for its $289.5 million of untradeable crypto in the form of a California gold mine with 8 million ounces worth $8.17 billon or perhaps $32 billion. My arse!
7 days ago
I have written to my contact at the FCA & to the Oxymorons at AIM Regulation requesting a formal investigation into what looks like a clear case of forward selling/insider dealing ahead of this week’s placing by Energy Pathways (EPP). I write to my contact:
15 days ago
What is it with Quantum Blockchain (QBT), disgraced Nomad SP Angel of the Mysquar fraud infamy and wanker PR Christian Taylor Wilkinson and telling the truth? Despite the best efforts of myself and AIM Regulation, folks are still being lied to about the Italian House.
23 days ago
Yesterday’s expose HERE makes it slam dunk certain that Cirata (CRTA) hid adverse price sensitive information from investors ahead of its June 25 2026 placing at 15p. I have now written to AIM Regulation and the FCA
25 days ago
Last night the Quoted Company Alliance held a black tie beanfeast where all the Nomads, brokers, PR fluffies, lawyers, accountants and other crony capitalists used money extracted from PLCs (i.e cash raised from mug punters) to book tables and get pissed. Your cash, their hangover. But before you beat them up too much the poor bastards had to suffer a speech from the bogus Sheriff of AIM, Marcus Stuttard about how his crack team of Oxymorons at AIM Regulation were doing such a great job.
36 days ago
I have been putting the timeline together and am now 100% convinced that Cirata (CRTA) was sitting on very bad price sensitive news which it withheld from investors when it did a placing at 15p, raising $7.4 million, on June 25.It sat on that bad news until July 24. After yesterday’s diabolical interims and a lack of profits warning the regulators must surely launch a full investigation. I have sent a letter.
45 days ago
What 80 Mile PLC (80M) is NOT telling you in today’s RNS is that its joint broker Zeus has quit. That is not because of today’s joke all paper merger with Nasdaq dog Greenland Resources but because of a series of regulatory failings not least the recentplacing scandal that the FCA and AIM Regulation are all over. It is not obliged to announce a broker resignation but I thought you should know. As to the deal… it’s a total rum ‘n’ coke
49 days ago
Earlier today I flagged up what appears to be a breach of closed period share dealings by the CEO of Tooru (TOO) a company listed on the AIM Casino and advised by London’s worst Nomad, Mr Roland “Fatty” Cornish. I have written to the Oxymorons at AIM Regulation.
50 days ago
The FCA, AIM Regulation and everybody who cares about market integrity should be all over 80 Mile PLC (80M) over the way investors were duped about lack of drilling permits ahead of the July placing as exposed HERE. But 80 Mile is now, I can reveal, hiding another bombshell.
50 days ago
How is it acceptable for a company to tell a slam dunk lie with your first RNS and for nobody among the Oxymorons at AIM Regulation or at Nomad SP Angel of the MySquar fraud infamy to give a rats arse? I refer to Coastal Africa Group Limited (CAGL) which listed on June 10 and lied immediately stating:
51 days ago
On 18th August Quantum Blockchain (QBT) issued a spurious ramptastic release which I predicted was an attempted pump at 0.33p and that, running on vapours , a dump would follow. Sure enough…
56 days ago
Over the years I have reported Eden Research (EDEN) and some of the chancers who ran it to numerous regulators, including the FSA ( the equally useless forerunner of the FCA), AIM Regulation and the Financial Reporting Council. As a result of my efforts, The FSA did twice slam the former managers at Eden. The FRC has twice slammed the current managers at Eden. So, it is not pointless. I have written again
57 days ago
I showed in my expose yesterday that Eden Research (EDEN) had booked a significant sale of £434,783 representing over 10% of its revenues for the 15 months ended 31 March 2026 to a related party namely TerpeneTech which it classifies as an associate because it considers that it exerts significant influence over that entity. I also raised concerns about TerpeneTech’s ability to pay for that in light of almost continual losses in recent years and negative net current assets as shown in the Eden accounts. I have some very real concerns about the probity of this transaction. In this Note I look at guidance for auditors on the topic of fraud.
57 days ago
A City source has been on the blower, noting that shares in Andrada Mining (ATM) have rocketed from 3.75p to 6.3p over the past six weeks.
71 days ago
72 days ago
I start with the Bodybags Burnham plan to revitalise the High Street and look at the stores that seem to dominate that closest to me, Hope Street in Wrexham. Yes: if you want a Turkish hair cut, your nails polished, to buy some vapes and peruse rwtsh in a Charity shop you really are spoiled for choice. then after today's GOTCHA shocker from 80 Mile (80M) I look at statements made to investors in the 27 July placing. Finally the sound of silence at Skinbiotherapeutics (SBTX) is deafening.
72 days ago
The Guardian ran the story 4 days ago and nothing happened. I flagged it up here yesterday calling from an RNS from 80 Mile (80M). Maybe the folks round at AIM Regulation read the UK’s top investigativef inancial website rather than the paper of the purple haired lanyard wearing classes? Only jesting. The main thing is that 80 Mile has been forced today to ‘fess up and its shares are crashing.
77 days ago
Shareholders in Union Jack Oil (UJO) have received begging letters from Reabold Resources (RBD) offering them a chance to chat to the clowns running Reabold and making the case for its crap all paper offer. But it is NOT telling folks the bad news. The letters are grossly misleading. In fact they contain an outright lie. Have advisors and AIM regulation really approved this deception?
78 days ago
I wrote to the embattled chairman and trougher in chief at Union Jack Oil (UJO) yesterday and oddly enough the despicable David Bramhill has yet to reply. Perhaps he is busy pushing Reabold Resources (RBD) to update us all on the number of votes now pledged to reject the crap offer via Letters of Intent. I know that, again, Reabold is sitting on letters and so the total is now greater than 19% of the equity. I have today written about the EGM and AGM putting him and his lawyers on notice
90 days ago
This gets more bonkers by the day. How Guild Advisory and AQSE Regulation tolerate this madness just defies belief. The hook up between Valereum (VLRM) and Cayman based start up Quorium Global Photonics with its $200 website and run by the son and business partner of a convicted ponzi fraudster started last November. The company’s then advisor thought the deal was so bent it quit and told AQSE Regulation why. But current advisor Guild then stepped up to the plate.
107 days ago
Ut is quite clear that David Bramhill breached the Companies Act 2006 in adjourning the AGM of Union Jack Oil (UJO) to thwart shareholders whom Union Jack now admits wanted to vote him and his gang off the board. This may allow Bramhill to bully his shareholders into accepting a duff offer from Reabold Resources (RBD) as he will control what they are told. I am afraid that I do not expect the FCA or AIM Regulation to address what appears a criminal act and a clear denial of shareholder democracy, but I want it on record that they were alerted and did nothing.
108 days ago
Shares in companies valued at £20 million do not collapse by 40% in just five days for no reason at all. Even on the AIM casino. I have written to the Oxymorons at AIM Regulation regarding Microsalt (SALT). It and its Nomad Zeus should be forced to issue a statement
113 days ago
The company in question is, of course, Union Jack Oil (UJO) run by trougher David Bramhill who broke the Companies Act 2006 to keep his job by adjourning the AGM last Friday. The recommended, albeit doomed to fail, offer by Reabold Resources (RBD) now begs the question of whether it is the Nomad SP Angel or the auditor Crowe LLP that has allowed dangerously misleading statements to be issued. I have written a letter to my good pals at the Financial Reporting Council and my not so good non pals, the Oxymorons at AIM Regulation, suggesting that they jointly establish which advisor has acted with a bent management team to mislead investors.
114 days ago
The biggest bezzle on AQSE, Valereum (VLRM) has issued calendar 2025 results. CEO Gary Cottle just cannot be serious.
114 days ago
Oh dear, Oh dear as Old mother Mike Walters used to say as yet another one of his tips went disastrously wrong, and he did indeed tip Union Jack (UJO), now 93% down on its IPO share price. Thanks to Winnileaks I can bring you a damning set of emails from Chris Bailey, the twitter gimp for whom an £82,000 Porsche was bought by the company. He cc’s in NED Zac Philips so is clearly acting on a mandate.
115 days ago
The position of David Bramhill and the troughers at Union Jack Oil (UJO) is now wholly untenable. On Friday Bramhill acted, as I exposed HERE, ultra vires to adjourn an AGM which was set to boot him and his fellow fat cat incompetents off the board. His pretext was a possible all paper offer from Reabold (RBD) but today Reabold published accounts with a material uncertainty. Not even Bramhill can recommend a paper offer from such a company. It gets worse for Brammers, as I can reveal…
117 days ago
Oh dear, oh dear as Mike Walters used to say as yet another of his disastrous shares tips saw its shares plunge again. Down by 92% since its IPO while management has trousered millions, Union Jack Oil (UJO) is just the sort of shitco that Old Mother Walters would have loved. On Friday troughing chairman David Bramhill acted ultra vires to adjourn the AGM simply to stop him and his gang being votedo ff the board by shareholders. Things are now moving fast.
119 days ago
As I noted earlier, David Bramhill of Union Jack Oil (UJO) knew that he and fellow directors would be ousted at the AGM today and thus acted to adjourn it which for all sorts of reasons was disgraceful. In an accompanying RNS he says he was entitled to do so under Union Jack’s Mems & Arts but that was a lie. He acted ultra vires. I have written to advisors and regulators demanding urgent action against Bramhill.
120 days ago
Back in the years 2015-17 Cloudtag (CTAG) investors used to say I was short, de-ramping, being paid by the Mossad to destroy a Great British company ( they really did say that) and that I should stick to cooking pizza and was an all round useless prick. These days, as memories of a peak £44 million market cap in December 2016 fade, those who ignored my advice to sell shares in the one time darling of the AIM casino say much nicer things. The lead claimant in a class action underway against Cloudtag but also, possibly others including Nomad Cairn has dropped me a note. He correctly identifies the much larger story than just another AIM fraud.
123 days ago
You may remember how Cloudtag (CTAG) was once the AIM BBM fraud du jour. For calling it out while others, like the wretched Mir, sang its praises I was slammed as being part of a shorting conspiracy, seeking to buy shares on the cheap and, quite seriously, as being paid by the Israelis so the wicked Jews could get the tech on the cheap. In the end it delisted but raised fresh funds with new lies and a $234 million attempted fraud using the Johnson & Johnson name.
133 days ago
As I flagged up earlier, David Lenigas has emerged as the new chairman of wind energy, then bitcoin in treasury and now oil explorer Energy B (NRGB) on AQSE. But after events at Pennpetro (PPP) should Big Dave be allowed to run a public lavatory let alone a public company? Has AQSE Regulation done full due diligence on him and spoken to the new board at Pennpetro PLC (PPP) which has made explicit allegations about Mr Lenigas. I have dropped AQSE Regulation a note.
148 days ago
Back in the good old days when Neill Ricketts was the darling of the BBM community and pumpers such as Alan Green, Doc Holliday and Zak Mir used to launch vile personal attacks on me, queerying my motives, for asking numerous questions about Versarien (VRS) and exposing its LIES one if the defences was the strength of the asset backing.
161 days ago
In allowing Valereum (VLRM) to buy off its advisors by handing out 1 million warrants with a 1p strike and another 2.5 million with a 2.5p strike in return for not demanding answers to massive questions but instead organizing a bailout fund raise, AQSE Regulation shows why it is not fit for purpose. The whole AQSE market is officially a total rum ‘n’coke.
164 days ago
Having collapsed yesterday there is a tiny bounce, to 1.45p, in the Blackbird (BIRD) share price. But its looming financial crisis has not gone away. I have written to nomad Allenby
165 days ago
I simply cannot understand why shares in Valereum (VLRM) continue to trade after it has been shown to have deceived investors so often. At 3.25p it is, quite amazingly, still capitalized at £16 million. There are three questions that hapless advisor Ross Andrews of Guild should be forcing his client to answer. If it can’t or won’t the shares should surely be suspended.
170 days ago
When, albeit in a misleading manner, Optibiotix (OPTI) announced that it had dumped most of its shares in Skinbiotherapeutics (SBTX), the family silver, its Nomad, Liam “the Toke” Murray signed off on an RNS saying that Optibiotix had enough working capital to last into H1 2027.. But…
177 days ago
There have been two disciplinary notices snuck out by the AQSE Regulation team in the past week. And each of them makes me despair of the clown show. The first was snuck out after hours at no-one is watching O’Clock last Friday although it is dated as being a sanction on March 9.
178 days ago
A reader flags up that Quantum Blockchain (QBT) appears to be having a few problems with its patent applications in the US. My reading of the most recent setback, which Quantum has yet to respond to via RNS, is that the patent office seems to think that the IP has no distinictive features at all, it is essentially worthless. But maybe I do not really understand what is going on.
182 days ago
Yesterday. Powerhouse Energy (PHE) announced a £400,000 placing at 0.2p and a WRAP Retail Offer to raise up to £250,000. If punters knew the truth about Project Noble they would realise that the WRAP Retail offer will see punters raped. The FCA and AIM Regulation should be all over brokers Turner Pope.
195 days ago
Another day in the Valereum (VLRM) circus sees CEO Garry Cottle posting the letter below to the company’s telegram group. It is quite bonkers. On the one hand he says that there will be announcements in the coming days and on the other hand he says he’d like to buy out unhappy shareholders. If he know things that are going to happen would that not be insider dealing? Just how long can AQSE Regulation and advisor Ross Andrews tolerate this sort of behaviour? Cottle also accuses his former advisor First Sentinel, which quit with immediate effect because of the QGP deal, of “spouting nonsense.”
196 days ago
No cash coupon, however paltry, appears to have been received by Valereum from Quorium Global Photonics, the start up with a $200 website run by the son on a convicted ponzi fraudster, within the five business days schedule it announced on March 31. Maybe it has arrived and Valereum has just not issued an RNS. I have written to its advisor Ross Andrews of Guild
206 days ago
Crazy Colette Quinn will, like the Valereum (VLRM) share price, be in meltdown on belated news today that Quorium Global Photonics has defaulted on its quarterly coupon of $3.95 million due on Sunday. Yes the 2025 start up created by a man, Stephen Fathers, who co-runs another company with his ponzi fraudster convicted dad and which has a $200 website, has not paid. Who would have thought?
213 days ago
As we are told two different stories about the placing I think the Oxymorons should be having serious chats with the management of Kefi Gold & Copper (KEFI). I then consider Iran and the latest news and finally why WeCap (WCAP) is now worth minus money AND has no cash so must be technically insolvent. If it gigs with the Fat Lady I hope those, I name, who promoted its shares recklessly, get a good grilling.
214 days ago
I have raised numerous questions about Quorium Global Photonics, QGP, which has supposedly put up $200 million to get a 50% stake in worthless Valereum (VLRM). Here is another massive red flag, spotted by an IT whizz of a reader. Now maybe advisors Guild and AQSE Regulation are IT savvy and know better. I doubt it.
219 days ago
The world and his wife can see that the 2025 drilling results from Red Setter, finally announced this week by Wishbone Gold (WSBN) were utterly appalling. I have written to the Oxymorons at AIM Regulation asking if folks were misled ahead of two placings in August/September 2025. Even the BBMs have turned on the company and the chuckle brothers, David Lenigas and Richard Poulden, who run the show. But one chap takes a different view…
221 days ago
Today’s drilling results from Red Setter are shockingly bad, truly dreadful and raise very real concerns about statements made in August 2025 ahead of Wishbone Gold (WSBN) doing two placings raising £5.5 million at 125p and 130p on 27 August and 30 September2025. Today the shares are just 44p as the actual drilling results are finally in. I have written to AIM Regulation and AQSE Regulation as the shares are listed on both markets.
223 days ago
Colette Quinn still insists that my writings on Valereum (VLRM) are market abuse and must stop immediately. Whatever. It is 2026 so asking questions and pointing out facts should not be allowed. One of the things she claims that I am getting wrong is not appreciating that the $200 million loan notes Valereum owns, provided by a start up with its website down for maintenance, are a really sound asset. I put this to a real Banksta and his answer only adds to my belief that this is a disaster waiting to happen.
229 days ago
As I pointed out to AIM Regulation last week, Martin Groak should be fired as a NED at Tanfield (TAN) because he is a proven crook, that is to say he was at the heart of a demonstrable prospectus fraud.There is another issue to consider…
230 days ago
Yesterday it was the fallout from the demise of the Zamaz fraud. Today, as we hope that the Oxymorons at AIM Regulation do something about that, I move onto RegTech Open and Nuburo (US:BURU). The former delisted in the UK, the latter a still listed insolvent US fraud.
232 days ago
Regarding today's shocking revelation that a UK PLC paid vile thugs Nick Leeson and Seth Freedman to destroy me with Leeson sayimg he wanted to bludgeon me to death and Freedman weaponising my mother's suicide and roping in Bloomberg reporters to the conspiracy, I wrote last night to AQSE Regulaton about the whatsapp group TWProject as its contents suggest illegal share trading arranged by Paul Mathieson and that he may have to make a mandatory bid for now delisted Amazing AI (AAI). I had made my pals at AQSE Regulation inside on this a few days ago and U know they are receptive to what I have flagged up.
235 days ago
Oh dear, Oh dear. The curse of struck off dentist Ajan Rejinald strikes again and, as a bonus, we lucky Welsh taxpayers are left picking up the tab. Calon Cardio Technology was run by Mark Clement who was sacked from Swansea University for gross misconduct (financial). At another taxpayer funded company Allerna he worked with Rejinald.
240 days ago
On 12 February I revealed here how AIM listed Jade Road Investments (JADE) led by John Croft was facing a £109 million legal claim, something that dwarfs its cash reserves of sub £6 million and its puny market cap. Jade has made no comment but I have confirmed today with the claimant that the claim is very much live although Jade has not actually responded to it. I have written to both AIM Regulation but also the FCA as this also concerns Main Market Listed Golden Rock Global (GCG).
253 days ago
Unbelievably, and with AIM Regulation made aware by myself of the claim revealed HERE yesterday which could sink Jade Road Investments (JADE) there is no RNS from the company. Cowardly nomad Zeus and colourful chairman John Croft of Fusionex infamy are not returning calls. But Helix, lawyer to the claimant has been more forthcoming.
1529 days ago
It has been suggested to me that my criticism of Zak Mir’s Lift Global Ventures (LFT) is driven by jealousy in that The Sith Lord is clearly coining it in. Au contraire. It is because everything about this stinks. And if the FCA and Aquis Regulation were not so utterly useless they would be all over this. Let me explain why.
2562 days ago
Is shorting Neil Woodford stocks like shooting fish in a barrel? I argue not and explain why it could be dangerous. I look at the FCA enquiry into Woodford and question whether its remit will be wide enough. Then, touching on the Fiske (FSK) AGM statement I look at calls for more regulation in the wake of the Woodford scandal.
3089 days ago
Another excellent column in yesterday's Sunday Times on regulation provides some inspiration for today's bearcast. But here is my friend Luke Johnson in full flow at the UK Investor show. Enjoy.
4455 days ago
The way that the AIM Casino is set up is based on one great enormous conflict of interest and that is why companies can and do tell lies to investors – that is the Nomad (Nominated Advisor) system.
A company must, under AIM rules, have a Nomad. If its Nomad quits the shares are suspended. If no replacement Nomad is found within a month the stock is booted off the Cesspit for good. The Nomad must verify every statement that is put out by a company and ensure that it complies with the rules. As such it is the Nomad who is at the front line of regulation and it works FOR the LSE.
