12 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.
23 days ago
With only a million quid or so in the bank and spunking cash hard, Delta Gold (DGQ) is, at 150p, capitalised at a bonkers £97 million and is drowning in more red flags than you see on a May day parade in Moscow. Today there are two more to highlight.
33 days ago
Do not tell crazy Meg Short at Bloomberg but the real problem on AQSE is that you cannot short stocks. That means that most bears do not offer critical comment and thus nonsense on stilts can be pumped by means fair and foul to ludicrous valuations. In the end gravity kicks in and mug punters do their conkers. It is a crazy system, have a look at Delta Gold Technologies (DGQ), how the bears wish they could short it.
40 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.
41 days ago
In February of this year Guild Advisory “parted company” with what was then Wildcat Petroleum , now Wildcat Gold (WCAT) as its Main Market listed advisor. Wildcat could not afford to pay the fees so declined to renew the annual contract. Guild let it be known that it was not devastated, it had read all the exposes of the lies, the pumping and other shenanigans on this website, it knew Wildcat was a wrong un. Today…
43 days ago
Falconedge (EDGE) the AQSE lobster pot bitcoin in treasury box of frogs has issued an April update. Who is it trying to fool: investors or the poltroons including PR genius Steffi – who sit on its board? Poltroons who got their cut priced shares just weeks before the IPO.
44 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.
47 days ago
When it was known as Wildcat Petroleum (WCAT) this company told a monster porky with its first RNS and over the following five years it has been downhill ever since. On 25 March shareholders in this company voted to move from the Main Market to the AQSE lobster pot and Wildcat said that it hoped to appoint an advisor over the weekend ( 28th-29th March). And…
56 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.
68 days ago
I am utterly gobsmacked that Guild Advisory, run by Ross Andrews has not resigned as advisor to AQSE Lobsterpot posterboy Valereum (VLRM). One wonders what exactly a company needs to do to get Andrews quitting, other than weaponizing my mother’s suicide. The last statement from Valereum left two big new questions unanswered. Ross is refusing to return calls so I want it on the record what he should be forcing his client to state in an RNS.
69 days ago
You could not make it up. Well I guess Valereum (VLRM) can. Quorium Global Photonics, the Cayman based start up created by the son and business partner of a convicted ponzi fraudster with a $200 website has again defaulted on its coupon payment. This is the third time and how on earth Ross Andrews at Guild Advisory has not resigned is truly baffling. He has not returned my call. The statement is opaque.
70 days ago
I simply cannot believe that after its serial misleading statements Valereum (VLRM) is still trading on the AQSE lobster pot. I can only conclude that AQSE Regulation and Ross Andrews at Guild Advisory have been having a heavy session with my old pal Liam “the Toke” Murray at Cairn, so allowing this farce to go on. Anyhow, today is day 4 so where is the RNS?
74 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.”
75 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
78 days ago
On Wednesday 25 March shareholders in worthless perma dog Wildcat Petroleum (WCAT) voted to quite the Main Market once a move to the AQSE lobster pot had been finalized and the company said it was looking to appoint n AQSE advisor “over the weekend” (28/29 March) and that a move would take 4-6 weeks. Here we are and there is still no news of an appointment,. I wonder why?
85 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?
93 days ago
We are back once again to AQSE listed Valereum (VLRM) and its drowning in red flags partner Quorium Global Photonics, QGP, which is supposedly good for $279 million over the next five years. On its newly relaunched $200 website it claims that its assets are audited twice a year by a big 4 accounting firm. I have written to AQSE advisor Ross Andrews of Guild
93 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.
97 days ago
WeCap (WCAP) is an AQSE penny dreadful that has been promoted by every spiv in town, most notably Britain’s self styled leading chartist Zak Mir, Gavin Burnell of Globo infamy and Alastair Cade, the man who engaged Harvey Weinstein's paid thug Seth Freedman to harass and threaten me to protect his investment in the Zoetic fraud. Natch, I have been a perma bear but the share price collapse is now accelerating and are we close to endgame? Its net assets are, as of today, negative.
98 days ago
Which is the biggest faller on the AQSE lobster pot today? There are so many utterly rotten companies that it is hard to guess without having a butchers. But I shall put you out of your misery…
98 days ago
As shareholders in Amazing AI (AAI) found out, if an AQSE advisor quits without notice shares in that company are suspended at once. If thus us not the first advisor resignation then with a limited pool of other advisors it can be impossible to find another advisor and so the shares get booted off the market and punters lose everything. I have written to Ross Andrews whose firm Guild Advisory acts for Valereum (VLRM) with a series of questions.
98 days ago
I put this article outside a paywall as a service to Reform UK voters – your leader is leading you up the financial garden path and it is you who will pay for this with your own hard cash. I am no swivel eyed Remoaner. My grandfather, Sir John Winnifrith, spoke publicly in the 1975 Referendum arguing we should leave the EEC. My uncle, godfather and mentor Christopher Booker was dubbed “the grandfather of Euroscepticism” by Farage himself. Euroscepticism is hardwired into my DNA and, until now, I would almost certainly have voted Reform in May. But Farage is behaving like a rotter.
100 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.
102 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.
103 days ago
According to AQSE listed Valereum (VLRM) the party that has invested $200 million in it via loan notes (so no actual cash up front) for a 49.9% stake, Quorium Global Photonics is good for its cash and, despite only being established in 2025, and having almost no interweb presence is 100% kosher.
104 days ago
At a £35 million market cap, Valereum (VLRM) is one of the biggest companies on AQSE. So this is embarrassing for the folks round at the Lobster Pot but, following my expose earlier, its shares really need suspending and if I was advisor Guild I’d be drafting a resignation letter now. I have written to my friends at AQSE Regulation and to Guild Advisory. Enjoy
107 days ago
It is one of those days when you despair for the entire political class. Nigel Farage claims to be economically sound but has just got into bed with the UK’s worst ever chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng and has paid more than £200,000 to invest in bitcoin at a 56% premium to fair value. Now his moronic followers in Reform UK are piling in and paying more than twice fair value. Follow your leader and get your financial trousers taken down.
111 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.
120 days ago
My thoughts on the promotion from the AQSE lobster pot to the Main Market are HERE. But with the sky full of soon to be exercised 2.5p warrants my NBF Andrew Webley rang the opening bell at the LSE today. Please provide a suitable caption in the comments section below.
120 days ago
This morning my NBF Andrew Webley of the Smarter Web Company (SWC)ran the opening bell for the LSE to mark Smarter’s move from AQSE to the Main Market. This sort of ceremony is, I think, an import from the USA and like Trick or Treat, Lloyd Grossman and Ellen DeGeneres I rather regret the import. But what does the move say about the shares and the wider markets?
124 days ago
As this website exposed, Wildcat Petroleum (WCAT) lied with its very first RNS when it joined the main market at 1p just over five years ago. It claimed to have raised cash before joining but its later published annual reported showed that it had not. The cash came in after the IPO once spivs had flipped the stock as the company, floated as an oil explorer, spoofed mugs with a supposed foray into blockchain taking the shares to almost 4p. Today there is a a killer admission, in fact four killers and the shares are just 0.055p, a market cap of a Bernie and a Half. That is far too high..
126 days ago
According to the LSE the 559 companies on the AIM Casino, the self styled world’s most successful growth market, have a combined market cap of c#42 billion. Well up to a point. The past 2 days have seen two of the largest companies announce they are off to the Main Market this year.
133 days ago
When I last wrote about much pumped AQSE penny dreadful WeCap (WCAP) on 12 January 2026 its share price was 1.875 pence mid, currently the share price is a mid price of 1.01 pence. The collapse is only beginning.
154 days ago
You really could not make this shit up. It is a surreal creation of nonsense on stilts brought to you by Andrew Monk of VSA Capital (where I am an unwitting shareholder). Stack Holdings (STAK) was a crypto play on AQSE formerly called Kasei Digital
157 days ago
In various guises and under various management teams I have always been a perma bear of AQSE listed Valereum (VLRM). Its shares were suspended on December 17 when advisor First Sentinel quit with immediate effect. Valereum said that a replacement would be found soon. So far…crickets.
161 days ago
I discuss my only AQSE holding Probiotix (PBX) and then the value pick suggested by Liverpool's greatest numbers man since Ken Dodd, the bull and the bear case.
163 days ago
It may happen and I may buy shares, not that they are cheap, to assist in sacking almost all of the directors. I discuss that, turning 58 today and The Smarter Web Company (SWC) as my new best friend seeks to upgrade from the AQSE Lobster pot to the Main Market.
168 days ago
As Amazing AI (AAI) today departs the AQSE lobster pot with its shares, listed at 80p just two years ago, having been suspended at 0.27p, I look back on all the articles I have published about a bezzle run by a man who tweeted that he wished my mother had killed herself earlier. In order of descending popularity...enjoy.
172 days ago
I covered the IPO of FalconEdge (EDGE) on AQSE on October 31 HERE. You may remember the dishonest promotion of it by the tattooed lady, PR genius Steffi ( on a £36,000 a year NED screw) and how insiders got in at 0.0067p just two months before an essentially dormant company raised cash at 1.034p. The shares are now 1p valuing the shitshow at c£10 million on a fully diluted basis although its cash backing is now well under £2 million and falling fast. But heck it is bitcoin advisory and investment so who cares?
198 days ago
Showing Skinbiotherapeutics (SBTX) levels of contempt for its shareholders in terms of AGM timings is AQSE listed Cardiogeni (CGNI) which listed at 147p on January 31 2025 and whose shares are now 5p to sell. It states that its AGM will e on 31 December, New Year’s Eve, at 10 AM in Stratford Upon Avon. This is another bastard creation of struck off dentist Ajan Rejinald and I have called this out as a dog from the start.
202 days ago
The loans business behind Amazing AI (AAI) had already listed on three Exchanges before it joined AQSE at 80p per share less than two years ago. Each time it racked up huge losses and delisted costing shareholders everything. For some reason Liam Murray at Cairn thought it would be different this time. Today, with the shares suspended at 0.275p after advisor Guild quit because of the weaponization of suicide tweet, Amazing says it plans to leave AQSE. But its defamatory statement makes no sense at all.
202 days ago
Yesterday I flagged up that Amazing AI (AAI) was again planning an Investor Meet Presentation and suggested that anyone doing business with a scumbag who weaponized my mum’s suicide had no moral compass. Zak Mir may still be “liking” X posts by Amazing but it seems that other advisors and enablers are abandoning ship. Marc Downes you are my first hero of the day.
203 days ago
It seems that for the 3rd time in six weeks Amazing AI (AAI) is set to appear on the Investor Meet platform. I wonder how much Investor Meet is trousering for platforming Paul Mathieson who most of the City is rushing to cold shoulder. I called Investor and spoke to its CEO Marc Downes following it up with the email below. Downes seems to think that both Amazing and I have equally valid two sides to a story. He had not bothered to fund out why Guild had quit as advisor last week. Giving moral equivalence to a man who publicly weaponises the suicide of a woman and to the son of that woman is despicable but that is the position Downes seems to take. My email , copying in my lawyers, reads:
234 days ago
Amazing AI (AAI) the AQSE listed dog, majority owned by CEO Paul Mathieson, who risibly describes it as “a global fintech group specialising in online consumer loans and AI finance-related services” is undergoing a significant ramping exercise at present.
236 days ago
Cassiopeia, the PR firm run by PR genius Steffi ( Stefania Barbaglio) employs only one person (Steffi) according to its last annual report. But it still tweets as “we” in the most ridiculous fashion as I noted HERE. Yesterday a tweet caught my eye regarding the November 5 IPO of Falconedge PLC. I am made almost nauseous by what I have discovered. Steffi tweets:
243 days ago
Comrade Richard Poulden is no longer involved with Valereum (VLRM) the AQSE listed dog that he, his bromantic partner Dave Lenigas and brown envelope man Zak Mir pumped with claims of a 100p or 200p valuation. Investors who bought into that pump did their conkers and the shares are now 4.375p with a new band of scholars and gentlemen on board, lead by CEO Gary Cottle.
249 days ago
Shares in The Smarter Web Company (SWC), 660p just three months ago, closed Friday at just 55.5p.Grifter Andrew Webley was urging folks to buy all the way down insisting that new valuation metrics made the shares look cheap. The grifter is still at it, and still misleading his flock, as I shall demonstrate later.
275 days ago
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.
299 days ago
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.
302 days ago
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..
310 days ago
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?
319 days ago
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?
325 days ago
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.
341 days ago
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.
362 days ago
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.
362 days ago
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.
365 days ago
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.
372 days ago
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.
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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?
427 days ago
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.
429 days ago
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.
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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.
497 days ago
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.
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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!
