Kitchen Culture Says Notices Filed to Correct Attempts By Director to Change ACRA Records of 5 Fellow Directors, Company Secretary and Address After Purported EGM That Has Been Deemed Invalid
The Company has sent corrective notices to the
- The Company's efforts follow attempts by Mdm Hao, who is intricately linked to requisitioners seeking to replace 5 current directors, to change ACRA records of the Company Secretary, office bearers and registered address of the Company
- Requisitioners led by substantial shareholder
It said that Mdm Hao and 5 persons seeking to replace 5 current directors are circumventing the need to go through "proper and required legal processes" to determine the validity of a purported extraordinary general meeting ("Purported EGM") held by electronic means on
The Company deems the meeting to be invalid as requisitioners had not sent valid notices, while 5 persons they sought to appoint (the "5 Purported Appointees") were ineligible for election in the first place as they had failed, neglected or refused to submit relevant documents on time, even assuming that it was a valid general meeting.
The Company has also received many emails and calls from shareholders voicing frustration that the requisitioners had proceeded with the Purported EGM and announced "the results" in a press release issued on ACN newswire the same day. Many shareholders have also said they had not received the notices calling for the meeting.
The requisitioners have yet to respond to the Company's request to bring the matter to Court. Instead, in recent days, Mdm Hao, on behalf of the "new board" supposedly comprising herself and the 5 Purported Appointees, appears to have been contacting or attempting to contact the Company's professional firms to replace the incumbent Company Secretary with 2 others and to change the registered office to the latter's.
The "new company secretaries", without waiting for a determination by the
In any case, these are matters which shall be effected according to resolutions properly passed by shareholders or the proper Directors, the Company said. "The filing of any such 'changes' does not have any substantive effect on the legality - or, for the matter, the invalidity - of the removals, appointments, or change of registered
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