THOMAS MOSER REFUTES RUMORS ABOUT ACQUISITION OF GIURGIULESTI PORT SHARES

Chairman of Danube Logistics – the company operator of the Giurgiulesti Port Thomas Moser refuted the information, recently appeared in a number of media, that he would buy majority package of Giurgiulesti shares (80%) for only US$340.

Danube Logistics Holding BV paid US$340 for EASEUR Holding BV’s 80% shareholding and US$28.6 million for EASEUR Holding BV’s and BEMOL Retail SRL’s loans outstanding to Danube Logistics SRL.

Thomas Moser maintains that since 2014 Rafiq Aliyev is attempting to coerce him into agreeing to the sale of Danube Logistics Holding BV’s shares in Danube Logistics SRL with frivolous court claims and other measures of his companies BEMOL Retail SRL, EASEUR Holding BV and New Ventures Capital NV.

“During court proceedings in multiple jurisdictions Aliyev’s companies claimed unsuccessfully that Danube Logistics Holding BV acquired Danube Logistics SRL as a result of a fraud in 2011. In 2018 the Dutch court proceedings concluded in a final judgment that “Easeur's reliance on fraud and error fails on substantive grounds” and the English High Court dismissed New Ventures Capital NV’s claims for damages resulting from the alleged fraud.”, Moser said.

Before the transaction EASEUR Holding BV and the Azpetrol Group had not invested US$52 million but US$24.8 million in Danube Logistics SRL – MDL 4320 (the equivalent of US$340) into the company’s share capital and US$24.8 million in form of a loan. Rafiq Aliyev tries to inflate the size of EASEUR’s investments by falsely declaring accrued interest and a loan of BEMOL Retail SRL as an investment of EASEUR Holding BV, although BEMOL Retail SRL’s loan was funded by the subsidy the Moldovan Government granted in accordance with the investment agreement on Giurgiulesti International Free Port.

According to him, the dispute with Rafiq Aliyev does not affect Danube Logistics SRL’s operation and the continuing successful development of Giurgiulesti International Free Port.