Blue Star Capital plc Significant Shareholder Dealing & Director Dealing (5960B)

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RNS Number : 5960B

Blue Star Capital plc

05 April 2017

Blue Star Capital plc

("Blue Star" or the "Company")

Significant Shareholder Dealing

Director/PDMR Dealing

Blue Star Capital plc (AIM: BLU), the investing company with a focus on technology and its applications within media and gaming, announces that further to its announcement made on 4 April 2017, the existing Consideration Shares have been successfully placed out with new and existing investors at 0.12p per ordinary share ("Vendor Placing"). Accordingly, FastForward no longer has an interest in the ordinary shares of the Company.

The Company also announces that as part of the Vendor Placing, Tony Fabrizi, CEO of the Company, has purchased 4,166,666 ordinary shares in the Company at a price of 0.12p per ordinary share. Following the purchase, Mr Fabrizi has an interest of 19,757,959 ordinary shares in aggregate, representing approximately 2.04% of the Company's issued share capital.

Unless otherwise stated, capitalised terms used in this announcement have the meaning as set out in the announcement of 2 March 2017 and 4 April 2017.

This announcement contains inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of EU Regulation 596/2014 ("MAR").

For further information, please contact:

 
 Blue Star Capital 
  plc 
 Tony Fabrizi                [phone] 
 
 
 Cairn Financial Advisers 
  LLP                        [phone] 
 (Nominated Adviser) 
 Emma Earl/Jo Turner 
 
 Smaller Company Capital 
  Limited                    [phone] 
 (Broker) 
  Rupert Williams/Jeremy 
  Woodgate 
 
 

About Blue Star Capital Plc

Blue Star is an investing company with a focus on technology and its applications within media and gaming. Blue Star's investments include a 19.3 per cent. holding in SatoshiPay, a nanopayment software and blockchain company; a holding in Disruptive Tech Limited, an investing company with five investments including a 38% holding in VNU Group LLC ("VNU") a speciality online direct retailer of premium goods paid for through an instant credit facility and a holding in Nektan PL; and an investment in Sthaler, an early stage identity and payments technology business which enables a consumer to identify themselves and pay using just their finger at retail points of sale.

About SatoshiPay Ltd

SatoshiPay is headquartered in London with development led through its office in Berlin. Angel funding for SatoshiPay Ltd was supplied by Axel Springer Plug & Play and Henning Peters, seed funding was raised through publicly listed companies Coinsilium Group (ISDX:COIN) and FastForward Innovations (LON:FFWD). Development of SatoshiPay's nanopayment product started in April 2015 and its beta version was released in February 2016. Find updated information at the company's website https://satoshipay.io, its blog https://medium.com/@SatoshiPay and Twitter @SatoshiPay.

Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging

managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them

 
 1.   Details of the person discharging managerial 
       responsibilities / person closely associated 
---  ---------------------------------------------------------------- 
 a.   Name                            Anthony Fabrizi 
---  ------------------------------  -------------------------------- 
 2.   Reason for the notification 
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 a.   Position/status                 CEO 
---  ------------------------------  -------------------------------- 
 b.   Initial                         Initial 
       notification 
       /Amendment 
---  ------------------------------  -------------------------------- 
 3.   Details of the issuer, emission allowance 
       market participant, auction platform, auctioneer 
       or auction monitor 
---  ---------------------------------------------------------------- 
 a.   Name                            Blue Star Capital Plc 
---  ------------------------------  -------------------------------- 
 b.   LEI                             - 
---  ------------------------------  -------------------------------- 
 4.   Details of the transaction(s): section to 
       be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; 
       (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each 
       date; and (iv) each place where transactions 
       have been conducted 
---  ---------------------------------------------------------------- 
 a.   Description                     Ordinary shares of 0.1p each in 
       of the Financial                Blue Star Capital plc 
       instrument, 
       type of                         ISIN: GB00B02SSZ25 
       instrument 
       Identification 
       code 
---  ------------------------------  -------------------------------- 
 b.   Nature of                       Purchase of shares 
       the transaction 
---  ------------------------------  -------------------------------- 
 c.   Price(s)                         Price(s)     Volume(s) 
       and volume(s)                   -----------  ---------- 
                                        GBP0.0012    4,166,666 
                                       -----------  ---------- 
---  ------------------------------  -------------------------------- 
 d.        Aggregated 
            information                 N/A 
             *    Aggregated volume 
 
 
             *    Price 
---  ------------------------------  -------------------------------- 
 e.   Date of                         2017-04-04 
       the transaction 
---  ------------------------------  -------------------------------- 
 f.   Place of                        London Stock Exchange, AIM 
       the transaction 
---  ------------------------------  -------------------------------- 
 

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