Check-Cap Ltd. Issues Strong Condemnation of MediPharm Labs Chairman Chris Taves for Fabricated Defamatory Statements Press Releases
Taves Times his Attack to Commence 23 Minutes before the Start of Shabbat to Delay the Company from Responding
ISFIYA, ISRAEL, June 04, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Check-Cap Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHEK) ("Check-Cap" or the "Company"), a clinical-stage medical diagnostics company incorporated in Israel, today publicly condemned MediPharm Labs Corp. (LABS) ("MediPharm Labs") and its Chairman, Chris Taves, Head of Asia for BMO Capital Markets, for disseminating derogatory, false, and misleading statements about Check-Cap during a profoundly sensitive and challenging time for Israeli Companies.
Check-Cap is deeply disturbed that Mr. Taves would leverage the implied authority of his position as a senior BMO Executive to exploit the wartime circumstances currently affecting Israel, in order to knowingly spread false information aimed at harming Check-Cap’s reputation, stock price, and business relationships. This conduct is not only unethical and unlawful - it is shameful.
Specifically, MediPharm Labs's May 23, 2025 press release quoted Mr. Taves making what Check Cap believes to be demonstrably false statements about Check-Cap. Even more egregious, Mr. Taves, a financial executive who surely knows better, publicly disseminated his accusation of there being deficiencies in our public disclosures, without any actual factual basis whatsoever.
Check-Cap believes that Mr. Taves is misusing his position of trust as a BMO Capital Markets Executive to intentionally issue these misleading statements during trading hours in order to manipulate and drive down Check-Cap’s stock price, violating Section 9(a)(2) of the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
Check-Cap demands that MediPharm Labs and Mr. Taves immediately retract the defamatory press release, cease all related misleading communications, and publicly apologize for Mr. Taves disgraceful actions.
The fact that Mr. Taves and MediPharm Labs have chosen to launch such deplorable and unfounded attacks on an Israeli company minutes before the start of Shabbat at a time of war is reprehensible. Check-Cap will vigorously defend its reputation and its rights against these highly unethical attempts at aspersion, market manipulation and interference in a public transaction.
About Check-Cap
Check-Cap (NASDAQ: CHEK) is a clinical stage medical diagnostics company aiming to redefine colorectal cancer (CRC) screening through the introduction of C-Scan®, the first and only patient-friendly preparation-free screening test to detect polyps before they may transform into colorectal cancer and enable early intervention and cancer prevention. C-Scan is an investigational device and is not available for sale in the United States.
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