ISR Capital subsequently increased its shareholding in THM to 75% on May 15 with the enforcement of share pledges made by Tantalus Rare Earths AG, which had defaulted on its obligation of repayment under the loan facility agreements.
Last Friday, ISR Capital said its latest financial figures had failed to meet the Singapore Exchange (SGX) requirements to stay out of the bourse's watch-list.
The group had recorded pre-tax losses in its most recent three straight years of financial reporting. As at June 20, the group's latest six-month average daily market capitalisation as stood at $11 million, below the $40 million minimum required by SGX.
SGX’s next quarterly review to identify issuers to be included on the watch-list will take place on the first market day of September.
While ISR Capital had legally completed the THM stake acquisition, it will still have to hold an EGM for shareholders to ratify its previous waiver of a condition precedent for a cash flow budget and liquidity plan.
ISR Capital was one of the stocks allegedly manipulated by John Soh Wen and Quah Su-Ling who are on trial for being the masterminds behind the rigging of three penny stocks – Blumont Group, LionGold Corp and the Asiasons Capital, which is now known as Attilan Group – back in 2013.
The spectacular rise in the prices of the three stocks and their equally dramatic crash in October that year wiped off some $8 billion in market value from the Singapore Exchange.
Quah Su-Yin, sister of Su-Ling, also the CEO of ISR Capital when she was appointed on April 29, 2011. However, Su-Yin eventually resigned to “focus on family business” less than a month after ISR Capital announced on Dec 9, 2016, that it was under investigation by the Commercial Affairs Department and the Monetary Authority of Singapore.
