Steve1872 4 Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 Rangers investor to crack Blue Pitch and Margarita mystery Greig Cameron Deputy Business Editor Friday 13 December 2013 A RANGERS shareholder with decades of experience in fund management has begun high-powered moves to reveal the identities of the people behind the secretive Blue Pitch Holdings and Margarita Funds. The investment professional, who asked not to be named, is a long-standing season ticket holder at Ibrox, said he has consulted a "mainstream" law firm in London to investigate the options available. He intends to take the matter further down the legal route if the board at Rangers International Football Club (RIFC) are unable to provide answers. He said he wanted to know what exact efforts the current board (RIFC) has made to uncover who is behind Margarita and Blue Pitch. He said: "I am getting a bit irritated with this obscurity about Blue Pitch and Margarita. "If [the board] say we don't know then I want them to make a public report saying that. If they do know who is behind it they should be telling us. "I think the fans really need to know the identities of the people behind these holdings. That is only fair." Blue Pitch has four million shares in RIFC, equivalent to more than 6% of the share capital, with Margarita holding 2.6 million, or 3.6%. Both are believed to be backing the current regime at the RIFC annual general meeting on December 19. Shareholders are being asked to vote at the AGM whether to retain chairman David Somers, chief executive Graham Wallace, finance director Brian Stockbridge and non-executive director Norman Crighton. Along with several other resolutions there will also be votes on whether to accept Malcolm Murray, Paul Murray, Alex Wilson and Scott Murdoch. The fund manager indicated he will pursue the identities of Blue Pitch and Margarita regardless of how the AGM turns out. He said he would like to have access to the latest financial incomings and outgoings at RIFC and see details of commercial contracts. The possibility of disenfranchising secretive shareholders was raised last month by former RIFC chairman Malcolm Murray. That option is thought to relate to a section of the Companies Act 2006 which states a company has the right to know the beneficial owners of shares held in nominee accounts. A company has to maintain a register of such interests which must be available for shareholders to see. If that is not made available one possibility is for the voting rights of the shares to be suspended. http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/h...stery.22943607 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
crucible 0 Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 (edited) We already know the answer their actions like it or not are legal, why the piss poor media constantly regurgitate drivel is anyone's guess, having said that they do keep sources and high powered in a job. The irony is apparently lost on the articles author. Edited December 13, 2013 by crucible 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stefanovitch 0 Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 I thought McColl and Paul Murray already knew the identities of the people behind them. Surely Malcolm Murray, while chairman and in charge of the IPO knew who these people were. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BEARGER 1,829 Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 A nameless shareholder wanting to know the names of other nameless shareholders? 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calgacus 8 Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 A nameless shareholder wanting to know the names of other nameless shareholders? That's market capitalism for you! 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
crucible 0 Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 He if he exists doesn't need a lawyer. http://www.rangersinternationalfootballclub.com/share-information 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
der Berliner 3,234 Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 A nameless shareholder wanting to know the names of other nameless shareholders? This comes hot on the heels of Kieran Prior's other statement, so who might that "unnamed" fund-manager and known investor be? EDIT: It looks to me like catering to the masses, rather than someone wanting to know for himself. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calgacus 8 Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 He if he exists doesn't need a lawyer. Why deprive the Legal Profession of much needed revenue? 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
calscot 0 Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 A nameless shareholder wanting to know the names of other nameless shareholders? Yeah, I laughed out loud at that one. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Barristan Selmy 222 Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 An unnamed shareholder with decades of experience in fund management? That's the equivalent of robbing a bank with a see through balaclava, is it not? 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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