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Exhibit 99.1

 

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POLL RESULTS OF THE EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING

 

Reference is made to the circular (the “Circular”) and the notice of the extraordinary general meeting (the “Notice”) of the Company both dated 11 November 2022 and the announcement of the Company dated 24 November 2022 in relation to the convening of the EGM for the purpose of considering and, if thought fit, approving, inter alia, the granting of the Specific Mandate. Capitalized terms used herein shall have the same meanings as those defined in the Circular and Notice unless otherwise stated.

 

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At the EGM of the Company held on 20 December 2022, voting on the proposed ordinary resolution (the “Resolution”) as set out in the Notice was taken by poll.

 

The poll result in respect of the Resolution proposed at the EGM was as follows:

 

 

ORDINARY RESOLUTION

  No. of Votes (%)
  FOR   AGAINST

To grant a specific mandate to the Directors to exercise the powers of the Company to allot and issue the 35,000,000 new Ordinary Shares to Emerald Energy Solutions LLC as Consideration Shares upon exercise of the Call Option or the Put Option in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Agreement, where such Consideration Shares to be allotted and issued upon exercise of the Call Option or the Put Option shall rank equally in all respects among themselves and with all fully paid Ordinary Shares in issue as at the date of allotment and issue. The Specific Mandate is in addition to and shall not prejudice nor revoke any general or special mandate(s) which has/have been granted or may from time to time be granted to the Directors prior to the passing of this resolution.

 

208,109,053

Ordinary Shares

(98.36%)

 

3,466,180

Ordinary Shares

(1.64%)

 

As more than 50% of the votes were cast in favour of the above ordinary resolution, it was duly passed as ordinary resolution of the Company

 

As at the date of the EGM, the total number of issued Ordinary Shares was 653,685,380 Ordinary Shares, which was the total number of Ordinary Shares entitling the Ordinary Shareholders to attend and vote for or against the Resolution proposed at the EGM. No Ordinary Shareholder was entitled to attend but was required to abstain from voting on any of the resolutions at the EGM. No Ordinary Shareholder was entitled to attend and vote only against any of the resolutions at the EGM. There were no restrictions on any of the Ordinary Shareholders to cast votes on the proposed Resolution at the EGM.

 

Tricor Investor Services Limited, the Company’s branch share registrar in Hong Kong, acted as the scrutineer for the vote-taking at the EGM.

 

Mr. Lau Hing Tat Patrick, Mr. Chan Yick Yan Andross, Ms. Tam Ip Fong Sin and Mr. Liu Kwong Sang attended the EGM in person or by electronic means.

 

By Order of the Board

Graphex Group Limited

Lau Hing Tat Patrick

Chairman

 

Hong Kong, 20 December 2022

 

As at the date of this announcement, the executive Directors are Mr. Lau Hing Tat Patrick, Mr. Chan Yick Yan Andross and Mr. Qiu Bin; the non-executive Director is Mr. Ma Lida; and the independent non-executive Directors are Ms. Tam Ip Fong Sin, Mr. Wang Yuncai, Mr. Liu Kwong Sang, Mr. Tang Zhaodong and Mr. Chan Anthony Kaikwong.

 

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