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PreveCeutical Announces Default Judgment Against Essos Corporate Services Inc. and Detona Capital Corp.
Vancouver, British Columbia: PreveCeutical Medical Inc. (the “Company” or “PreveCeutical”) (CSE: PREV, OTCQB: PRVCF, FSE: 18H), announces that it has obtained a default judgement against each of Essos Corporate Services Inc. (“Essos”) and Detona Capital Corp. (“Detona”) in connection with a Supreme Court of British Columbia action (the “Action”). The Action was brought by PreveCeutical in December 2018, against a group of defendants (the “Defendants”) for fraudulent misrepresentation, breach of contract, conspiracy, unjust enrichment and breach of duty of honest performance in connection with services that the Defendants failed to provide to PreveCeutical, and various consulting agreements and subscription agreements entered into between PreveCeutical and certain of the Defendants (see news release dated January 7, 2019).
“The default judgement shows due process and that proceedings are moving forward. We have confidence in the judicial system and thank our shareholders for their continued patience while we see this through,” said PreveCeutical’s Chairman and CEO, Stephen Van Deventer.
A notice of civil claim was filed on December 17, 2018 by the Company, as plaintiff, in the Action against the Defendants, consisting of Aly Babu Mawji, Justin Liu, BridgeMark Financial Corp., Rockshore Advisors Ltd. (formerly known as, Cam Paddock Enterprises Inc.), Detona Capital Corp., Escher Invest SA, Essos Corporate Services Inc., Jarman Capital Inc., JCN Capital Corp., Kendl Capital Limited, Lukor Capital, Northwest Marketing and Management Inc., Sway Capital Corp. and Tryton Financial Corp.
The amount of damages and costs to be awarded to the Company and against Essos and Detona remain to be assessed by the court. The Company is continuing to pursue its claims against the other Defendants in the Action.
About PreveCeutical
PreveCeutical is a health sciences company that develops innovative options for preventive and curative therapies utilizing organic and nature identical products.
PreveCeutical aims to be a leader in preventive health sciences and currently has five research and development programs, including: dual gene therapy for curative and prevention therapies for type 2 diabetes and obesity; a Sol-gel drug delivery program; Nature Identical™peptides for treatment of various ailments; non-addictive analgesic peptides as a replacement to the highly addictive analgesics such as morphine, fentanyl and oxycodone; and a therapeutic product for treating athletes who suffer from concussions (mild traumatic brain injury).
PreveCeutical sells CELLB9®, an Immune System Booster. CELLB9®is an oral solution containing polarized and potentiated essential minerals extracted from a novel peptide obtained from Caribbean Blue Scorpion venom. This product is available on PreveCeutical’s website.
For more information about PreveCeutical, please visit www.PreveCeutical.com, follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/PreveCeuticals and Facebook: www.facebook.com/PreveCeutical.
For further information, please contact:
PREVECEUTICAL MEDICAL INC.
Deanna Kress
Director of Corporate Communications & Investor Relations
+1-778-999-6063
deanna@PreveCeutical.com
Forward-Looking Statements:
This news release contains forward-looking statements and forward-looking information (collectively, “forward-looking statements”) within the meaning of applicable Canadian and U.S. securities legislation, including the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements in this news release that are not purely historical are forward-looking statements and include any statements regarding beliefs, plans, expectations and orientations regarding the future including, without limitation, the Company’s anticipated business plans, the ongoing litigation against the other Defendants and the court’s assessment of the amount of damages and costs to be awarded to the Company and against Essos and Detona. Often, but not always, forward-looking statements can be identified by words such as “will”, “pro forma”, “plans”, “expects”, “may”, “should”, “budget”, “schedules”, “estimates”, “forecasts”, “intends”, “anticipates”, “believes”, “potential” or variations of such words including negative variations thereof and phrases that refer to certain actions, events or results that may, could, would, might or will occur or be taken or achieved. Forward looking statements are based on certain assumptions regarding PreveCeutical, including that the Action will result in a judgement in favour of the Company against the other Defendants and that the Company will be able to obtain the relief sought by it in the Action. Actual results could differ from those projected in any forward-looking statements due to numerous factors including risks and uncertainties relating to the inability of the Company, to, among other things, obtain any required governmental, regulatory or stock exchange approvals, permits, consents or authorizations required, including Canadian Securities Exchange acceptance of any planned future activities, complete its research programs as planned, obtain the financing required to carry out its planned future activities and risks and uncertainties relating to the Action. Other factors such as general economic, market or business conditions or changes in laws, regulations and policies affecting the healthcare, cannabis, biotechnology or pharmaceutical industries, may also adversely affect the future results or performance of the Company. These forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this news release and, unless required by applicable law, the Company assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements or to update the reasons why actual results could differ from those projected in these forward-looking statements. Although the Company believes that the statements, beliefs, plans, expectations, and intentions contained in this news release are reasonable, there can be no assurance that those statements, beliefs, plans, expectations, or intentions will prove to be accurate. Readers should consider all of the information set forth herein and should also refer to other periodic reports provided by the Company from time-to-time. These reports and the Company’s filings are available at www.sedar.com.
Readers are cautioned that forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance or events and, accordingly, are cautioned not to put undue reliance on forward-looking statements due to the inherent uncertainty of such statements.