The businessman Nelson Tanure reached 10 % stake in oil and gas company HRT last Friday, and decided to pick a fight with another shareholder of the company , managing the Canadian Discovery .
Advocates of JG Petrochem , Tanure company , sent two notifications to Discovery , which had access EXAMINATION firsthand that accuse the management of insider information to trade stocks and have exceeded 20 % of the capital of HRT – the would trigger a tender offer to the minority . The Discovery is the largest shareholder of HRT today , with 17 % of the capital.
According to the document of JG Petrochem , sent as a complaint to prosecutors , the Securities Commission ( CVM ) and the capital market regulator in Canada , Discovery allegedly received insider information from two directors appointed by it , François Moreau and Oscar Prieto . At the last board meeting in January , the two directors were questioned by competitors hold positions in companies of HRT , which would create a conflict of interest .
The two directors have resigned from office, the same day as the other four independent directors have resigned. In another notification, JG Petrochem accuses Discovery have exceeded 20 % of the shares , without notice to the market ( which is mandatory as per the rules of the CVM ) , which would trigger a purchase offer on the roles of minority shareholders.
The company attributes this Tanure information ” to the market and the press ,” citing a statement published in the newsletter Reserved Report.
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Maria Luiza Filgueiras of EXAME São Paulo