Teri reports 18 October 2019……Aphria interim CEO Irwin Simon worked a backroom deal to off load the companies stake in U.S. cannabis investments with Canadian mega million Michael Serruya before he took over the CEO job at the Canadian marijuana company.
According to text messages obtained by this reporter between Serruya and Irwin sent on the morning of Feb 6, 2019, Michael Serruya took the lead in speaking for his family and Andy Defrancesco to negotiate the price and timing of when Aphria ($APHA) would exit its stake in Liberty Health Science ($LHS).
In December 2018 the Toronto Stock Exchange, where Aphria was listed, forced the company to divest any stake in U.S. cannabis companies because they sold products that were illegal by federal law.
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Did Aphria’s Irwin Simon give Selective Disclosure to investor Michael Serruya? $APHA $LHS
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