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[UPDATE 30 March] Do any of the Albion VCT directors have the slightest idea what they are doing?

[UPDATE 30 MARCH] The new Chied Executive of the Insolvency Servce seems to have some "cojones" Letter received today: DBT is now to compel ELLIPTIC ENTERPRISES to comply with the law. That makes a change! Will Fraser-Allen to resign with immediate effect? Not a chance - he is one of the most dishonest immoral company directora in the UK today trousering more than £1m pa for adding little value to anything.  Albion and Octpus to resign as VCT Investment Managers in the light of the letter? Fat chance fees, fees, fees and "trebles all round".  All Albion Capital Group llp members to now admit criminal tax evasion, fraud and "cheating the public revenue", and accept suspended prison sentence? We shall see. .................................................................................................................................................... Ben Larkin, Chair of Albion Enterprise VCT plc and the defunct Albion Development VCT plc, went to great le...

Proof that Albion have been deceiving shareholders for years.

Having filed my Witness Statement earlier today, and while we wait for the inevitable nonsense in their reply due in 3 weeks time.... Let me take interested readers to what the liars masquereding as Members of  Albion Capital Group llp and the Directors of the VCTs told shareholders nearly 6 years ago: Page 35 of the Albion Enterprise accounts to 31 March 2020 right next to Albion Capital's signature. ..."we will not" hold virtual or hybrid meetings other than in exceptional circumstances e.g. when a shareholder dares to point out fraud, bribery, false accounting and breaches of fiduciary duty so that we don't have to answer any questions. Is there a single member of Albion or a Director of any of the VCTs who has the courage to admit, even at this late stage, that they lied to shareholders to induce them to approved a half-baked wording which they had no intention of following? The next AGM Notice has to be published within the next 8 weeks. Will they all carry on wi...

Trial date set for all day Wednesday 2nd December 2026 at 11.30. Open Court

 Will Benjamin Michael Larkin , Registered Solicitor no:161022, and whom Chambers advises everyone " heads the London Practice at Jones Day " for restructuring/insolvency, now do the right thing before he resigns as Chairman at the next Albion Enterprise VCT plc AGM in June 2026 and properly oversee that AGM in accordance with the Articles and the requirements of the Companies Act? Don't hold your breath. Do look at the GC100 "Guidance for Virtual Meetings of Shareholders" and see what Messrs Larkin and Fraser-Allen have been upto for the last few years. NB Albion are the only VCTs to have virtual meetings and even those are in breach of the Companies Act just by looking at the Notices alone. See what the VCTs share registrar, Computeshare, says and you will note that all the Albion Directors couldn't care less - that is why they all need to go and go now. https://www.computershare.com/uk/insights/share-registry/how-to-comply-with-virtual-agm-guideline s The...

[UPDATE 24 February 2026] Why did (and still do) the Albion VCT directors lie to all the Members about the value of Elliptic Enterprises Ltd - will we get answers at the CRWN AGM?

UPDATE 24 FEBRUARY 2026 Following the publication of  ELLIPTIC's accounts at the last possible minute, I wrote asking for a copy of the Register of Members including the warrants issued some time in 2023. Despite repeated requests I never got a reply which is a strict liability offence (s118.1 Companies Act 2006 with a fine of <£1,000 and a further 10% per day after the 5th day of default), and then to cap it all ELLIPTIC reported that only minutes after the Auditors had signed the accounts, the Directors had  issued more than 15% of the entire issued share capital for a total of £1.59 (yes you did read that correctly) on the excersise of warrants valued at only £152,191 in the accounts for a company previously valued at nearly £200,000,000 by Albion and Octopus (Octopus' lesser 14% holdingis apparently worth £30,000,000). Dodgy/false accounting or what! What was going on? Is it all the fault of the Directors of the Albion and Octopus VCTs and the fraudster and liar Richard...

The Directors of the Albion VCTs issued a prospectus without telling investors that they knew that the value of the largest asset has collapsed by one-third

This is the reason that the Directors refuse to answer questions at the AGM and why they want to deny shareholders an in person AGM. I do of course refer to the scam that is QUANTEXA. https://clcluk.blogspot.com/2026/01/quantexa-ltd-and-british-business-bank.html The simple distilled facts for the sucker Albion VCT shareholders are: 1. The Albion VCT Directors knew the Series F shares had not been issued nor paid for. 2. The Albion VCT Directors knew about the warranties given by Quantexa as to its financial position and that those warranties had not been met before the prospectus and VCT September statements were issued 2. The Albion VCT Directors knew the deal was to only issue 40% of the shares in March 2025 and then issue and pay for the remanider only after the next shareholder disclosures deadline 3 weeks before the Quantexa 2026 y/e with a price calculated on what turns out to have been a dreadful year for Quantexa with Breach of Contract claims and a total £8.4m write-off of th...

Total collapse of Albion's foray into private education?

Having refused to answer any and all questions about the investment at the recent AGM's, Messrs Reeve and Fraser-Allen seem to have quietly written off £5m  (almost the entire equity investment value) in the Radnor House school in Sevenoaks - the only explanation being "changes in UK taxation" - just before the Prospectus was issued AND written off another  <10% of June 2025 carrying value since then. The only things left are secured loans totalling almost £10m with the security Trustee being the defunct Albion Development VCT plc. Time to remortgage and get rid of this dog? Even though it is stated the interest rates are upto 9.8% - it is  hardly a "qualifying asset" as any normal person would understand the VCT phrase. NB Gerald Eve valued the property at £32m in 2023 so that's all right then. Is the interest actually being paid?  School numbers now reported at 519 against 750 capacity ( https://get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/Establishments/Est...

Well what a to-do .........what are the Directors of the Albion VCTs high on today?

 " The Albion VCTs are not required to register with or pay an annual charge to the Information Commissioner as they only  undertake  exempt processing" Anyone care to read the list of exemptions and express an opinion? https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-resources/exemptions/a-guide-to-the-data-protection-exemptions/ Is Will Fraser-Allen really arguing that it is a matter of National Security that "his" VCTs are exempt from UKGDPR?  Poor cannon-fodder shareholders - stuffed again.