Emitents | Latvijas kuģniecība, AS (48510000VYR04HZGC213) |
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Datums | 2010-12-17 09:14:35 |
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JSC “Latvijas kuģniecība” is forced to postpone shareholders’ meeting; sabotage possible Joint stock company „Latvijas kuģniecība” (LK)
apologizes to its shareholders and informs that because of
emergency conditions due to which the shareholders’ meeting of 17
December 2010 cannot be held, the LK extraordinary
shareholders’ meeting tomorrow will not take place and is postponed
to 28 January 2011. LK carries out all necessary activities
to inform all its shareholders about the emergency situation
through a wide range of mass media – TV, radio, Internet and
printed media. LK cannot exclude possibility of deliberate
malevolence to intrude upon proper course of the shareholders’
meeting at the venue duly announced by the LK Management
Board. That is suggested by suspicious coincidences when during the
last twenty-four hours emergency situations have occurred in
several LK Groups companies.
To serious long-term damages of electric power supply devices
on 16 December 2010 due the previously announced LK
extraordinary shareholders’ meeting in the conference and
recreation centre “Lejastiezumi” in Renda Rural Municipality,
Kuldīga district on 17 December 2010 shall not take place.
LK extraordinary shareholders’ meeting is postponed to 28
January 2011, and will be held in Ventspils Business Centre, 23
Ostas Street, Ventspils. Extraordinary shareholders’ meeting shall
begin at 10:00 AM, registration of shareholders – from 9.45 AM.
Agenda of the meeting will include all the previously announced
issues: approval of annual reports for the year 2009; distribution
of the profit for the year 2009; election of the auditor for the
audit of the annual reports for the year 2010; approval of
amendments to the Articles of Association; election of Supervisory
Council; recall of audit committee and election of a new audit
committee.
Information available to LK states that several persons
in crossovers this week visited the venue of the planned
shareholders’ meeting and were inquiring, whether the conference
centre territory is perimeter guarded and has night vision
surveillance cameras. These visits were obscurely followed by
sudden damage of the electric power supply devices disconnecting
the venue of the meeting from all kinds of communication and
causing suspicion of a deliberate sabotage.
But in Riga, in another property of the LK Group –
business centre “Daugava”, at 3 Balasta dambis, yesterday, late on
15 December 2010 the fire-alarm was activated and burning was
stated. Police and fire brigade were called immediately. At the
moment the LK security department is assigned to carry out
official inspection of both mentioned accidents in order to decide
upon necessity to appeal to law enforcement
institutions.
In this context the inadequate authorisation granted to
LK largest shareholder’s JSC “Ventspils nafta” (VN)
authorised representative Lauris Liepa that does not comply with
provisions of the Civil Procedure Law of the Republic of Latvia,
and was used to try to achieve involvement of large LK
financial resources in legal proceedings against LK
Supervisory Council and Management Board members looks ambiguous.
We would like to emphasize that in case of bringing of an
unjustified action LSC would have to repay all losses
resulting from such case, starting with state duty of more than LVL
170 000. Bureau of L. Liepa represents interests of the former
LK Management Board member Valērijs Godunovs, who is a
suspect in defrauding
LK of
approximately USD 100 million and a companion of
former LK Supervisory Council member Oļegs Stepanovs who is
involved in the said case. Unofficial information states that V.
Godunovs, likely, is promoted by VN to a position in the
LK. VN, whose largest shareholder publicly calls
itself an international and honourable investor has not deemed
necessary to observe the stock exchange Principles of Corporate
Governance and to nominate and publish its candidates to the
LK Supervisory Council in due time. VN has neither
made public its candidates to the audit committee.
We would like to remind that one of the suspicious candidates
to the LK shareholder’s status is the offshore company
“International Baltic Investments Ltd.” (IBI) that claims to be LK
shareholder and regarding the property rights to the LK shares of
which an action has been brought. LK has already informed that the
United Kingdom’s High Court of Justice, Queen’s Bench Division,
Commercial Court in May 2010 ruled that a number of offshore
companies, connected with former JSC “Latvijas kuģniecība”
officials, that are defendants in a case in which they are accused
of defrauding LK of approximately USD 100 million must post
security in the amount of USD 40 million, or make over more than 55
million LK shares in favour of LK and pay an additional USD 20
million as security for the claim being brought against them by
LK. The ruling by the British High Court applies to the
confiscation of LK shares on behalf of LK which are currently
nominally held by IBI, which is connected to Mārtiņš Kvēps and
Arnis Nīcgalis, the attorneys of Oļegs Stepanovs.
LK also reminds that its largest shareholder is VN, not the
Vitol Group that is related to the Cyprus offshore company “Euromin
Holdings (Cyprus) Limited” and has usurped the rights to speak on
behalf of all VN shareholders and today has spread public
statements doubting the chosen venue for the LK shareholders’
meeting at “Lejastiezumi”. LK categorically stands apart from these
statements and informs that formerly this conference centre was
owned by VN and VN has held several of its shareholders’ meetings
there. After conclusion of the VN real estate object sales
transaction with LK this centre belongs to LK, and the meeting was
organised there with the aim to save LK financial resources.
Ventspils Business centre where in January next year it is planned
to hold the shareholders’ meeting also belongs to LK and was chosen
due to money-saving purposes.
Additional information:
Ģirts Apsītis
Adviser of the Chairman of the Management Board
Latvian Shipping Company
Phone: +371 67020126
E-mail:
ir@lscgroup.lv
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