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1 | Synopsis / Business History |
2 | Overview |
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4 | Nov 2005 - Mar 2016 - Ranvir CEO Years - RS Thefts & GB Blackmails Towards RS. Supplier Litigation (MNI, DOW) |
5 | in Nov 2005 RAN Ltd was set up by MC, RS and SNE (SNE was seed investor). GB was a school friend of RS who brought in as a shareholder (buying equivalent of 5% of co. in shares from RS and MC), bringing a number of family members (sister, mum aka CB) and later on best friends (AV, JV). In late 2007 RS was caught with a relatively minor theft. GB seized this to his advantage and effectively blackmailed RS to pay him back £70K. RS had to remortgage his house to make this happen. Furthermore, GB sold some of his shareholdings to his best friends (JV, AV) at face value and did not reveal the backhand deal to them. RS later called him up over it suggesting to JV that they "go to court" over the matter because RS was so disgusted. This left RS and MC bitter to GB. Separately RS developed a two-faced bitterness towards SNE due to the excessive costs/leverage SNE had over the company via the back office services. It set the way for the later frauds that followed. In Nov 2011 MC sold all his shareholding to CP and SS to raise £150k to help is father settle debts. MC bought shares back at the same price in April 2013 when his father was in a better position. All shareholders were happy for this transaction to go ahead except GB who in order for him to forego his preemption rights wanted £10k from MC in cash so his "mum could buy a new kitchen". MC said no, GB later agreed to leave it. In August 2015 following external litigation by Market News International, MC and RS fell out as RS disproportionately wanted MC to wear any litigation fallout (to the tune of >£1m). Also AC (was pegged as a fall guy when he had done nothing wrong and had no benefit in being put in that position). MC effectively acted as a whistleblower to frauds committed by RS and in part by himself, going to GB in late 2015 / early 2016. In Jan 2016 GB blackmailed RS via CB over £13K in missing dividend payments (clearly not paid due to past bitterness). This conflict combined with the backdrop of MNI litigation put RAN Ltd almost to its knees and ended with RS being evicted in Apr 2016 (MC already left the company in Nov 2015). |
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7 | Apr 2016 - Aug 2016 - Post Founder Fallout - GB, MS & SNE Temporary Leadership |
8 | GB took over with SNE, however, neither trusted each other. GB became aware that SNE was plotting to remove GB and saw historic emails pertaining to RS / SNE collusion. JE unaware of both parties took sides with GB initially. A board meeting in June 2016 was held to remove MS as a director and move offices. JE assisted GB removing SNE from the business via a bitter series of legal conflicts and acrimonious share buybacks following successful litigation of RS. Meanwhile, GB discovered RS has sold his house so this enabled the company to buy back SNE's shares. GB also discovered that RS had broken the original settlement agreement by fraudulently misrepresenting himself to Reuters and thus more RS litigation ensued afterwards |
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10 | Aug 2016 - Mar 2017 - SNE Removal, JE & GB Restructuring via JET Companies |
11 | JE and GB restructured the business into the two JET companies to distance it from the history of RAN. This was done over an IP claim JE had over the company from RS failing to secure a contract. In doing this an agreement was made with JE and RAN stakeholders that JE would act as a temp director/shareholder while the RS and SNE threats were addressed because of JE's trustworthiness and history. taking input from RAN stakeholders. It was agreed JE would retain some free shares as part of the deal. At this point, JE was unaware of GB's history (i.e. blackmail). Meanwhile, it was discovered months later (Mar 2017) SNE was trying to do a deal with Livesquawk (competitor, despite non compete in the SA). This seeded a bitter fallout between LS management (HD, SP) where SP was unlawfully evicted. SP and HD underwent their own battles. Due to GB pinching staff from LS, HD and SNE formed an alliance, and GB took SP's side. GB took out huge sums of money from RAN Ltd (Circa £300K) into his service company GCV. This was done under the guise of the litigation threats made by RS (and DOW which was provoked by RS in a similar way to Reuters was) and was for a "rainy day" in case RS succeeded. |
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13 | Mar 2017 - Mar 2018 - SNE Non Compete Violation / Moles / LS Injunctions / Spying |
14 | GB, AV, JV funded SP's legal battle. This was most certainly done via the money stashed in GCV, mostly given to SP via brown paper bags of cash. To make it seem more accountable SP "sold" antiques and jewelry. However, this was only supposed to be a temporary paper transaction for the duration of the legal battle. SP was assigned a new lawyer, KT, who used to work with DB for the purpose of obtaining the injunction. GB hired KRIS to spy on HD and SNE as it was known SNE was influencing HD in this battle. Following the injunction in Feb 2018 GB brokered the administration IP of LS via AA, someone who was a friend of RR, who in turn knew AT from PJM. The IP assigned by GB (AA) has done little to act for SP despite overwhelming evidence SP presented. The money syphoned into GCV that has funded this is totally unaccountable, but due to everyone being in alignment is was not really questioned at this point |
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16 | Apr 2018 onwards - LS Administration and Failed LS Take Over Bid. Breakdown between GB & NP / SP / HP / MP / AP / JE |
17 | JET later tried to bid for LS but it was brought back by a consortium allied with HD using money stolen from SP (in Microlatency Limited). From this point relations with GB took a nosedive. GB had a very public and brutal breakup with his then-girlfriend, NP, who worked for JET via GB's service company GCV. This along with the leverage and mistreatment/bullying of SP / HP this lead to a wave of staff (Ant Barton, LB, ER, SI) leaving in early summer 2018. JE became increasingly worried about this and tried to steer GB back on the path. Concurrent to this MP raised disputes about his dad (CP) not being able to redeem shares in JET, along with a dispute over MP's shareholding (i.e. 26% vs 36% based on how MP & GB split shares returned to RAN Ltd from MC). MP / AH / JE started to talk more about GB's conduct as result of this. MP became increasingly concerned GB was using the same tactics that were used to exclude SP from LS (and ultimately SNE tried to use on GB but failed) to exclude MP / CP from the business. GB further tried to use the cover of SP's legal case and inflated contracts as a vehicle to syphon money out of the company. Upper management started to fall out increasingly with GB to a point where things have been untenable since June 2018 and GB now needs to compulsively lie to hold things together The legal case in RAN from RS continued to drag on due to GB being unable to wind up RAN. Probably/partly due to the syphoned GCV cash. Because of this and the failure to resolve / unwind transactions between SP / GB / AV / JV, GB continued to syphon cash from TTN and JET and spent 3 months drawing a contract to attempt to facilitate this. JE and MP became very concerned this would further marginalise MP's situation along with the JET balance sheet. MP / CP sent numerous emails instructing company structure to be frozen, and JE / MP worked with SP to address GB bullying/leverage that left SP / HP on the verge of bankruptcy due to unpaid legal bills inflicted from GB's actions. Ultimately, JE stood in the way of GB's contract with SP. Not only did it leverag SP unfairly but also served to exclude MP. When JE refused to sign this, within hours GB unlawfully changed directors and share structures on 25 June 2018. This got filed with Action Fraud by JE and MP. JE has tried to work with MP and GB to resolve the issue but struggled to avoid being conflicted and with growing concerns about accounts not being filed resigns from JET Group Services in Aug 2018. Meanwhile company accounts have been overdue, this is normally done by PJM and GB. GB's affair with LS has ended with JET being unable to meet it's commitments to HMRC and the fallout between JE / MP / GB has lead to a numerous high level management disputed centred round GB's conduct. During this time MP / MC / JE had discovered how GB had originally blackmailed RS back in 2008. Ultimately, this has lead to a position where GB is no longer trusted, but the company has become beholden to him. |
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19 | Evidence Bundle Download |
20 | Download (User / pass trillium:StokeyScumbags) - You will need to unzip using 7zip as Windows Zip folder doesn't work for some reason |
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22 | How to Navigate |
23 | Initials are used in most places for names, companies and other legal entities. A breakdown of who these are can be found on the names sheet The "Timeline" sheet contains the bulk of the information. Each row is an event of aggregated piece of information. Because events overlap a number of wrong doings, there is a "Related Matters" column which links with the wrongdoings sheet. In due course you will be able to use the filter tool isolate a timeline of events based on the category of wrongdoing When navigating, using the search tool (Ctrl + F) to search by related matter / initials will help Evidence is linked separately on a Google Drive in an Evidence folder. This contains subfolders with names correlating to the evidence column. This might also get supplied on a USB stick in some cases |