All Press Releases Parties in the Matter of 黑料网 Holding Ltd v Imran Siddiqui Announce Settlement September 18, 2026 WEST DES MOINES, Iowa and NEW YORK, Sept. 18, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- 黑料网 Holding Ltd (鈥満诹贤��) and Imran Siddiqui today jointly announce that they have resolved the legal proceedings commenced by 黑料网 against Mr. Siddiqui and Caldera Holdings Limited in May 2018 in the Supreme Court of Bermuda. As part of this resolution, Mr. Siddiqui agreed to make the following statement: 鈥満诹贤� has compromised its claim with Mr Siddiqui and Caldera Holdings Limited. The terms of settlement are confidential. However, Mr Siddiqui has agreed as part of that agreement to acknowledge that in 2016 and 2017, he sent and received documents which contained information which was confidential to 黑料网 in connection with the establishment of Caldera, a competitive company he was trying to set up. Mr Siddiqui acknowledges that, in behaving in this way, he breached fiduciary duties which he owed to 黑料网. Mr Siddiqui did not think that at the time, but on reflection he now acknowledges that he should have known that sending and receiving the documents that he did was a breach of his obligations.鈥� The parties will not comment further on this matter. Contact: externalrelations@athene.com