No, mjk is a jock sniffing clown who has a lake house here in Panama. Maybe he even spends time in it, who knows. I have no idea what his actual connection is with Petaquilla if in fact he has any. He obviously knew precious little about the enterprise. And as far as I've ever been able to determine he is not connected in any formal or semi-formal way to the company. I doubt very seriously if he is in any way a major shareholder. As I've mentioned, he's a jock sniffer. All the time when he was proclaiming that My group strongly supports management and is buying shares regularly!!! the volume was no more than several thousand shares a day.
We own eleventy billion shares and won't sell at a penny less than seven dollars! Petaquilla es pura paja!!!
Then again maybe he's got millions of shares and is even dumber than I thought.
But yeah, I doubt that he was any sort of a paid shill. Someone like Fifer would likely consider that kind of activity unrewarding. My guess is that he's simply delusional.
One thing I do know that I'll share here - the Petaquilla employee that I know best (not a friend as such but someone I'd be happy to say hello to if I ran into him on the street, and someone who'd ordinarily be happy in turn to see me), this guy is burning up his LinkedIn page with new skills. It's almost as if he thinks he'll have to be looking for a job soon.
I have no idea if he's any good at what he does. In fact, I have no idea WHAT he does. He may not do anything. Hence the new LinkedIn skills. Maybe he didn't need to demonstrate any skills at Petaquilla. He's a member of Richard's extended family, so make of that what you will.