Company: AEHL
Filing Date: 2025-05-01
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001641172-25-008020
Chunk: 95

Company: Antelope Enterprise Holdings Ltd
Filing Date: 2025-05-01
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 16I
Chunk 95
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ITEM 16I.   DISCLOSURE REGARDING FOREIGN JURISDICTIONS THAT PREVENUE INSPECTION
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Please see the supplemental basis documentation pursuant to Item 16I(a) of Form 20-F, attached as Exhibit 99.1 to this annual report, to establish that the Company, organized in British Virgin Islands, is not owned or controlled by a governmental entity in the British Virgin Islands.
 
During our fiscal year 2022, we were conclusively listed by the SEC as a Commission-Identified Issuer under the HFCA Act following the filing of our Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022. Our former auditor Centurion ZD CPA & Co. for the years ended 2022 and 2021, is a registered public accounting firm that the PCAOB was not able to inspect or investigate completely in 2021 according to the PCAOB’s December 16, 2021 determinations. Centurion ZD CPA & Co. issued the audit report for us for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021. Our current auditor ARK PRO CPA & CO for the years ended December 31, 2023 is not on such list of the firms that PCAOB was not able to inspect or investigate.
 
On December 15, 2022, the PCAOB issued a HFCA Act determination report that vacated its December 16, 2021 determinations and removed mainland China and Hong Kong from the list of jurisdictions where it had been unable to completely inspect or investigate the registered public accounting firms.
 
The jurisdictions in which our consolidated foreign operating entities are incorporated include mainland China, Hong Kong, and British Virgin Islands. We hold 100% equity interests in its consolidated operating entities, except for Hainan Kylin Cloud Services Technology Co., Ltd., in which the Company indirectly holds 51% equity interest. We reviewed (i) the shareholder register provided by Transhare Corporation, our transfer agent, and (ii) Schedules 13D and 13G filed by the shareholders, the absence of any Schedule 13D or 13G filing made by any foreign governmental entity with respect to the Company’s securities, and the absence of foreign government representation on its board of directors, we have no awareness or belief that we are owned or controlled by a government entity in mainland China.
 
We received written confirmations from the directors of the Company and its consolidated foreign operating entities and