The purchase of NNRF by Stafford [Stafford was subsequently renamed Nucon] is unique because it seems that only 2 or 3 people [the former Stafford president for 1] benefited at the expense all the other shareholders of both Stafford and its earlier acquisition of Abucco. Here is a brief history:
1. Abucco, a private B.C. company is formed in 1999 raising capital from friends and family and an Angel group to develop monitoring and control hardware and software. A total of CDN $1,500,000 [approximately] was raised.
2. As Abucco required funds to grow it sold to Stafford Energy Inc. [a Pink Sheets shell] for CDN $250K in 2004, giving the Abucco shareholders 25,000,000 shares of a 50,000,000 Stafford issued position. Stafford was supposed to inject a further CDN $ 1,000,000+ [to assist in the growth of the Abucco operation], which it did not. There was no support provided for either the Stafford shares or the ongoing Abucco operation [the employees and some suppliers went unpaid].
3. By spring 2006 there were no paid employees at either Stafford or Abucco leaving a company whose only assets were a shell without any resources. At this point the president owned about 5-7% of the Stafford stock.
4. On May 2 2006 the president announced that the Stafford board [all Canadians appointed by him] confirmed a stock-for-debt transaction [$10,000 debt for 50,000,000 Stafford shares]. This transaction had a nominal date of Mar.2 2006 [at which point the Stafford shares were trading at $ .005 a share].
5. The transaction was approved by the board, giving the president 55+% of Stafford. The Stafford shareholders were not consulted or informed of this transaction before the fact, nor were any other debt holders offered the same offer.
6. On May 4 2006, with the required 55+% control, the president effectively sold Stafford to Nucon-RF and agreed to a rollback of 275-1 prior to the conversion. Stafford was also to receive 3,000,000 shares of Nucon-RF for post-consolidated debt.
7. This means that the president received 180,000 shares of Nucon for his Stafford position plus his share of the 3,000,000-share debt allocation for $10,000. All the other Stafford shareholders combined received 163,000 shares with no share [to my knowledge] in the 3,000,000 post-consolidation shares.
8. The shareholders were never consulted on the transaction and requests for information on the disposition of the 3,000, 000 "debt" shares have been denied.
9. After the purchase and name change, Mr. Connors resigned leaving Mr. Sinclair as the only NNRF director with any affiliation with Stafford. Mr. Sinclair is an officer and significant shareholder in NNRI.
10. The questions remain; were the Stafford shareholders treated fairly and who benefited from the allocation of the 3,000,000 Nucon shares that formed part of the transaction?
11. The original Stafford/Abucco shareholders did not have the resources at the time to mount a lawsuit at that point.
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