Anson Funds has a treasure trove of interesting communications listed on its schedule B-1 that it is desperate to keep from the public. (The entire Schedule B1 can be accessed here.)
Aphria emails
There are a number of documents in here that will be of great interest to people – especially investors and management of the cannabis company, Aphria.
There are 10 documents below:
BLK00001529 – 3/16/2018 1:42 AM – Title: Fwd: The Uncloaking of Aphria International – from Sunny Puri to Nate Anderson. With 1 attachment
BLK00001526 – 3/19/2018 3:10 PM – Title: 20180130_APH_MA_Call_FS0000000023 95991618.pdf – from Sunny Puri to Nate Anderson. With 1 attachment
BLK00001532 – 3/22/2018 5:46 PM – Title: Short-seller sounds warning over Aphria Nuuvera deal – from Sunny Puri to Nate Anderson
BLK00001533 – 3/26/2018 5:41 PM – Title: Fwd: INK Filing Alert :: Aphria Inc. (APH) (Portfolio – CA Portfolio 1) – from Sunny Puri to Nate Anderson
BLK00001534 – 3/26/2018 12:21 AM – Title: Aphria insiders held shares in takeover target, didn’t disclose – from Sunny Puri to Nate Anderson
BLK00001525 – 3/27/2018 11:58 PM – Title: Aphria, Nuuvera deal prompts questions about disclosure rule gap – from Sunny Puri to Nate Anderson
BLK00001521 – 4/14/2018 12:07 PM – Title: aph calls available – from Sunny Puri to Nate Anderson. With 3 attachments
BLK00001535 – 4/30/2018 5:40 PM – Title: FW: Invoice – Attachment with the title: Microsoft Word – 2018.04.27 ClaritySpring Invoice Anson
BLK00001531 – 7/9/2018 6:19 PM – Title: RE: Updates – from Sunny Puri to Moez Kassam.
BLK00001520 – 7/17/2018 7:52 PM – Title: Aph – from Moez Kassam to Sunny Puri
Going into more detail:
On March 16th Sunny Puri sent an email to Nate Anderson (Clarity Spring email) with subject “Fwd: The Uncloaking of Aphria International” attaching a Word document.
On March 19th 2018 at 3:10 pm– Sunny Puri sent an email to Nate Anderson with the subject“20180130_APH_MA-Call_FS00000002395991618.pdf” attaching PDF (Business Update Call authored by anonymous)
Then 3 days later Nate Anderson put out 2 negative reports on Aphria.
On March 21: https://hindenburgresearch.com/could-rampant-red-flags-drown-aphrias-proposed-nuuvera-acquisition/
Then on March 22: https://hindenburgresearch.com/aphria-insiders-disclose-stake-in-nuuveras-initial-financing-round-just-1-day-before-expected-deal-closing/
Why would Anson Funds be speaking with a notorious short researcher days before a negative hit piece came out on the company?
Sunny Puri then sent Nate Anderson another email on March 22, 2018 at 5:46 pm– with subject “Short-seller sounds warning over Aphria-Nuuvera deal.
Now, everyone knows Anson Funds have a relationship with the Globe & Mail, and it just so happens that they covered the Hindenburg accusations in detail, and multiple times: Short-seller sounds warning over Aphria-Nuuvera deal (we believe that Sunny promised Nate he could get The Globe to deliver)
Then, on March 26, 2018, at 12:21 am, there was another email from Sunny to Hindenburg with the subject “Aphria insiders held shares in takeover target, didn’t disclose”.
There was yet again another Globe & Mail article to follow.
Additionally, on that same day, Sunny Puri sent Hindenburg an email with the subject: “Fwd: INK Filing Alert :: Aphria Inc (APH) (Portfolio–CA Portfolio 1)”
Then, on March 27, there was another email from Sunny to Hindenburg with the subject: “Aphria, Nuuvera deal prompts questions about disclosure rule gap.” Again, the Globe & Mail followed suit with another article.
We would bet that the Globe & Mail was publishing these articles at Anson’s behest.
Why would Anson Funds be paying Clarity Spring money so shortly after two negative pieces on Aphria that Anson Funds had multiple conversations with Hindenburg about? It is important to note here that Clarity Spring is the company that owns Hindenburg Research and where Nate previously used to have payments sent.
We were unable to find the actual emails and attachments themselves, and have requested these additional files from the court.
There are a number of other documents that might be of interest to others but that we haven’t been following:
SOL Global:
BLK00001667 – 3/2/2021 1:36 AM – RE: SOL Global Case – From Blakes to Anson Funds
BLK00002173 – 2/26/2021 8:37 PM – RE: SOL Global Case – From Anson to Blakes
BLK00002253 – 3/1/2021 7:36 PM – RE: SOL Global Case – From Anson to Blakes
BLK00002647 – 3/2/2021 2:02 PM – RE: SOL Global Case – From Anson to Blakes
BLK00002775 – 3/1/2021 10:00 PM – RE: SOL Global Case – From Anson to Blakes
BLK00003348 – 2/26/2021 8:34 PM – SOL Global Case – From Anson to Blakes
BLK00003439 – 3/1/2021 4:34 PM – RE: SOL Global Case – from Blakes to Anson
Recon Africa:
BLK00001872 – 4/26/2021 8:23 PM – RE: for records – reconnaissance energy africa ltd – From Anson to Blakes
Other:
BLK00002563 – 6/4/2021 4:49 PM – West Face Order – Blakes to Anson Funds
BLK00002583 – 6/4/2021 6:23 PM – RE: West Face Order – Blakes to Anson Funds
There are of course all of the Facedrive communications in there as well.