A few lines on Twitter: Tesla boss Elon Musk, that in the last month, an avalanche. Now the text message on the Internet has a legal Nachspiel.
Tesla center in New York
To the surprise announcement from Tesla chief Elon Musk, the electric car manufacturer from the stock exchange, is caught in the sight of criminal investigators. Because of the Tweets from August, the U.S. Department of justice documents requested, the company confirmed. The requested documents had been handed out. A subpoena or request for a statement not to have given it to. The Ministry of justice declined to comment.
Musk had announced at the beginning of August, surprisingly, in the short message service Twitter, Tesla for 72 billion dollars by the exchange to be deducted. The financing is secured””.
“The better way”
Not three weeks later, the billionaire then went back down. The whereabouts of the stock exchange would be the “better way for Tesla,” he wrote in a Blog post – probably also because some investors saw the plans critical. Moreover, Musk had to admit, a promise of funding from Saudi Arabia, had not yet been in dry towels.
The U.S. securities and exchange Commission SEC is examining, among other things, whether the announcement on Twitter was lawful, or whether they would need to be done in a different way. She also wants to clarify the extent to which the Board of Directors of the project knew, and how resilient the financing commitments at the appropriate time.
In response to the parquet
After Musks announcement, Tesla shares had risen first. She gave in, in the meantime, grew since last week. On Tuesday, as transpired that the Ministry of justice had turned, dropped the rate to almost four per cent.
Tesla had gone in 2010 to the stock exchange. Musk considers himself almost a fifth of the shares. He applies with an estimated fortune of about 20 billion US-Dollar as one of the 100 richest people on the globe.
jj/bru (dpa, afp, rtr)