Adamus Resources Limited and businesswoman Angela List have rejected “false and malicious attempts” to link them to alleged regulatory breaches in Mali.
In a press release issued through their solicitors, Apatu-Plange & Co PRUC, the company and Angela List accused some media houses of deliberately publishing misleading reports aimed at damaging their reputation through sensational headlines and distorted narratives.
The statement followed a series of newspaper publications claiming that a “sister company” of Adamus Resources had been implicated in alleged regulatory breaches referenced in a correspondence from Mali’s Ministry of Mines.
According to the lawyers, a careful reading of the circulated correspondence clearly shows that the allegations were directed specifically at MIKO-SA and not Adamus Resources Limited.
The statement stressed that Adamus Resources was nowhere mentioned in the correspondence and accused certain newspapers of deliberately framing their reports around the phrase “Adamus sister company” in order to create the impression that the Ghana-based mining firm and Madam Angela List were involved in the alleged breaches.
“Our clients’ attention has been drawn to a series of coordinated newspaper publications and sensational front-page stories deliberately framed around the claim that a ‘sister company’ of Adamus Resources Limited was implicated in alleged regulatory breaches,” the statement said.
The solicitors argued that although some companies may exist within a broader corporate structure, affiliated companies remain separate legal entities under the law and allegations against one company cannot automatically be transferred to another.
They further maintained that the allegations contained in the Malian correspondence had not been proven and pointed out that MIKO-SA itself strongly denied the claims.
The statement also questioned why the issue had received intense media attention in Ghana rather than Mali, where the correspondence originated.
According to the lawyers, the coordinated publication of the stories across several newspapers and their prominent placement on front pages suggested a deliberate agenda by unnamed individuals seeking to damage the reputation of Adamus Resources and Madam List for ulterior motives.
“The synchronized manner in which these stories appeared across several major newspapers and the strategic placement of the publications on front pages expose a coordinated agenda by unseen actors seeking to injure the reputation of our clients,” the statement added.
The solicitors further accused some sections of the media of exploiting ongoing public discussions relating to Adamus Resources in Ghana in an attempt to create what they described as a false narrative suggesting that Angela List and companies associated with her operate outside lawful and regulatory standards.
They insisted that their clients had over the years built reputable businesses through lawful enterprise and would not allow “faceless interests” to manipulate the media into spreading falsehoods and defamatory material.
The lawyers therefore called on all media houses and individuals responsible for the publications to immediately cease further circulation of stories linking Adamus Resources and Madam List to allegations for which they had neither been cited nor accused.
“The public is advised to treat these publications with utmost disdain and to recognise them as a deliberate and coordinated attempt to damage reputations through falsehood and sensationalism,” the statement concluded.
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