Surely it would have been a greater conflict of interest had he not done any sabre rattling? Further sanctions will most likely depress the share price of the bank. The shares don’t seem to be owned by him personally but by a fund run by his company - I think this has been covered previously in...
The article is almost 4 years old, do you know how it played out and the outcome for JRM? Without wishing to defend him, if those shareholdings were part of several hundred holdings in a billion £ fund, disclosure might not be as straightforward as the article suggests.
Thanks for clarifying. I had thought their need for disguise was to do with their pre-meditated and uninvited attendance at an event that they intended to disrupt because they are unable or unwilling to enter into reasoned debate. Obviously I was mistaken and they simply stumbled into this event...