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Britishvolt 'moved too fast', says former boss after company is saved from collapse after securing a last-minute funding lifeline
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Svenskgrundade Britishvolt önskar sälja mot konsortium
Britishvolt äger en mardrömshöst bakom sig. När Rishi Sunak tog tillbaka löftet om miljoner pund (drygt 1,2 miljarder kronor) inom finansiering höll företaget vid att kollapsa, något Dagens PS tidigare rapporterat om.
Britishvolt svenskgrundat
Företaget, liksom grundades från bland annat den svenske entreprenören Lars Carlström , räddades inom sista minuten, och för tillfället vill man säkra långsiktig finansiering från den giga-fabrik man planerar för inom norra England.
Britishvolt vill sälja majoriteten från aktierna mot ett investerarkonsortium, men man vill ej berätta vilka som ingår i konsortiet.
Nya investerare tar över?
The Guardian skriver för att det antas att detta handlar ifall nya investerare, och refererar en källa som säger att parterna inte existerar aktieägare inom nuläget.
Företaget besitter skrivit mot aktieägarna beneath måndagen, samt bett dem att godkänna att enstaka ny investerare ersätter dem befintliga i enlighet med The Guardian.
“Potentiell majoritetsförsäljning”
Britishvolt säger i en uttalande för att man “för diskussioner tillsammans med ett investerarkonsortium angående enstaka potentiell majoritetsförsäljning av företaget”, enligt The Guardian.
“Diskussionernas syfte är för att
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Blyth car battery plant chief quits after tax fraud conviction revealed
The co-founder and chairman of the company aiming to build the UK's first electric car battery "gigaplant" has quit after it emerged he was convicted for tax fraud in Sweden.
Britishvolt's Lars Carlstrom said he stepped down to avoid becoming "a distraction" to the project in Blyth, Northumberland.
On Friday, the company announced the plant would create up to 3, jobs.
Construction of the factory is due to start next year.
Mr Carlstrom was sentenced to eight months in prison and given a four-year trading ban in the s, which was later reduced to a conditional sentence and 60 hours of community service.
He was later accused of acting negligently by Sweden's tax authority over a separate unpaid tax bill for one of his companies in
The year-old Swede also has links to Russian businessman Vladimir Antonov, the former Portsmouth FC owner who skipped English bail five years ago as he faced extradition to Lithuania where prosecutors wanted to question him over allegations he stripped half a billion euros from a bank.
Mr Antonov denied wro