NEPI SEEKS VICEROY INQUIRY

NEPI ROCKCASTLE has requested the regulators to investigate any market manipulation offences by Viceroy Research, following the publication of its damning report about the listed property company. Shares in NEPI Rockcastle slumped by 14.07 percent to close at R99.14 last Thursday, the day the report was released. Shares in NEPI Rockcastle rose 0.93 percent on the JSE yesterday to close at R108. It said that it had made a written submission to the JSE, Financial Sector Conduct Authority in South Africa and the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets and Euronext Amsterdam requesting an investigation into trading in NEPI Rockcastle shares in the days leading up to and immediately following the publication of the Viceroy report. | Roy

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