Ivanhoe Mines founder and chairman Robert Friedland  has blasted the Dow Jones news agency for its recent report that he would be selling his 23% stake in the company – possibly to an unnamed Chinese sovereign wealth fund. Part of his statement on the matter says, “The record should be perfectly clear. I have never offered my Ivanhoe Mines shares for sale to anybody, in any context – and nobody has been authorized to make such an offer on my behalf. I am not considering unsolicited offers for my Ivanhoe shares. The allegation that I would put my personal interest ahead of the company”s at this important stage of our development was false and repugnant.”