Former AVZ director slams $1.5m Mihigo payment, calls for change
Key Points
- AVZ shares have been suspended since May 2022
- The explorer says it owns 75pc of one of the world’s largest lithium deposits
- Three mining executives seek election to its board at its November AGM
A former director of lithium explorer AVZ Minerals has alleged its board’s decision to pay a Congo middleman $US1 million ($1.5 million) cash for services in the African nation sparked a boardroom row that led to his exit from the miner.
Peter Huljich resigned from AVZ’s board in July 2022 just months after the explorer entered an indefinite sharemarket suspension, which has left around 21,000 Australian investors stuck in the stock that last traded with a $2.7 billion market cap.
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