Latest Avocet lawsuits to be funded by Israeli secret services

by OUR BUSINESS UNIT

The re-birth of dissolved cattle rearing business Avocet Agritech will facilitate 'actions both civil and criminal' against a collection of so-called "Bad Buggers", it has been claimed, despite the revelation that all three serving directors of the company actually resigned 20 months ago.

Filings at Companies House dated June 4th 2023 - the day we exclusively revealed that a former employee of Agritech had obtained a court order to have the firm restored to the company register - show that Eirlys Lloyd Company Services together with Martin Frost and Janet Orr Frost had quit their directorships as long ago as October 18th 2021. But the Registrar seems to have been unaware of the resignations until last Sunday.

Meanwhile Mr Frost , in a so-called "news update" dated June 3rd wrote: "Dr Bob Jennings [another Avocet executive] is pleased to see that Avocet Agritech is restored to the UK Company Register. Supported with funding from the Friends of Libertad Ventures, it now gives Avocet a legal locus to sue the Jeffrey clan, and bring actions both civil and criminal against (named individuals) for their part in the theft of Agritech goods".

We could find no reference to an organisation called Friends of Libertad Ventures on the internet. But Libertad Ventures itself is Mossad's (Israel's espionage agency) technological innovation fund which invests up to two million shekels ($568,000) per venture in promising technology companies.

It was a member of the 'Jeffrey clan' who obtained a court order last month to have Agritech put back on the list of active UK companies. The business - one of many formerly managed by bankrupt Mr Frost - owes Tristan Jeffrey, their former livestock manager more than £10,700 awarded to him by an Employment Tribunal judge in 2021.

Mr Frost and/or his fellow directors failed to turn up for the tribunal hearing, and soon afterwards Agritech was compulsorily dissolved for failing to file accounts at Companies House.

Now Mr Jeffrey is free to go on pursuing his tribunal case and hopes a future hearing will award him substantial compensation for breach of contract and other employment law misdemeanours.

After hearing he may be pursued through the courts by an offshoot of Mossad, Mr Jeffrey told us: "Frost’s statement in his recent newsletter which referenced the ‘Jeffrey Clan’ was complete nonsense. It has been both costly and time consuming, for me personally, to have Avocet Agritech Ltd reinstated." 

 He explained that he started working for the Avocet Group in 2016 and was employed under various Avocet umbrellas during his career there. His employer was Avocet Agritech Ltd from late 2019/early 2020. 

"The fact that the Directors and Company Secretary have instantly resigned following Agritech being reinstated to the registrar, only exposes further lies in Frost’s newsletters. I would welcome being sued, that way I would have my day in court.

"He’s afraid to sue anyone because he knows it’ll only expose himself, hence all we ever get are threats followed by no action. I can only imagine the Israeli Secret Service will have more pressing matters than going after a former farm hand."

Mr Frost has repeatedly uttered threats of legal action against critics of Avocet's activities in communications sent to long-suffering shareholders over the last three years.

In June 2020 investors were told of his intention to go to law in pursuit of criminal and civil complaints involving £1.5 million of theft and fraud, and £5 million for loss and damages.

And apparently, in August 2020, 120 Avocet shareholders had made multiple complaints to the Information Commissioner concerning the activities of the online Avocet Shareholders' Forum.

October 2020 saw the first threat by Mr Frost to raise court action in the US state of Delaware against individuals who had been forwarding his shareholders' letters to non-investors including this blogging website.

Then, in May 2021, the ex-Avocet chairman announced a £5 million 'war chest' to fund at least nine separate law suits, including one aimed at Scotland's Crown Office and another at Police Scotland. The money was to come from the sale of intellectual property to mystery buyers.

There is no evidence that any of these lawsuits ever reached court.

Back to Avocet Agritech, which had failed to submit annual accounts since 2017. That means its financial position, its assets and liabilities at the time it was dissolved remain a mystery so far as Tristan Jeffrey and others are concerned.

The 2017 accounts, signed off by Mr Frost, include the following statement: "The company has not traded during the period. The company received no income and incurred no expenditure and therefore made neither profit or loss".

Investments are recorded as having a value of £1,001. Subsidiaries of  Avocet Agritech are listed as Avocet Farms, Avocet Aeroponics, Avocet H20 and Avocet Infinite Foods. The ultimate parent company was Avocet Infinite PLC. A 2020 Confirmation Statement shows all 100 shares had been transferred from Avocet Bio Solutions Ltd. to Avocet NC Ltd on August 9th 2020.

However, it appears Agritech was certainly trading in 2020 when Mr Jeffrey was on the payroll. 

An email from January 2020 confirms that an unspecified number of Piedmontese cattle being managed by Mr Jeffrey at Harcarse Hill farm, in Berwickshire, "are the property of Avocet Agritech".

The message from Avocet's chairman adds: "Most of these cattle (as there has been additions) were sold by Avocet Farms Limited to Avocet Infinite Plc and payment thereto was immediately offset against the substantial money due to Infinite by Farms. Avocet Infinite Plc then sold the Harcarse cattle to Avocet Agritech."