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  • Friday, 9 April, 2021
    FT CollectionsGreensill Capital
    Suspect Sanjeev Gupta invoices used in Greensill loans raise fraud concerns

    Six companies named in invoices and Credit Suisse fund documents deny doing business with steel magnate

  • Friday, 9 April, 2021
    Greensill Capital
    Lex Greensill cited David Cameron in bungled Australian lobbying

    Push to set up lending scheme included a mis-sent message intended for Scott Morrison

  • Wednesday, 7 April, 2021
    Greensill Capital
    Labour faces Greensill pressure over shadow minister’s lobbying

    Defence spokesman John Healey urged ministers to give finance company ability to offer larger Covid-19 loans

  • Wednesday, 7 April, 2021
    Greensill Capital
    Lex Greensill assured staff of ‘enormous’ liquidity before collapse

    Financier said Chubb was ‘very supportive’ in ill-fated dash for vital insurance cover

  • Tuesday, 6 April, 2021
    FT CollectionsGreensill Capital
    Gupta’s eastern Europe steel plants scramble to pay €100m carbon bill

    CO2 credit shortfall is latest sign of financial strains facing businessman’s GFG Alliance empire

  • Monday, 5 April, 2021
    FT CollectionsGreensill Capital
    Commodities groups investigate web domains linked to GFG Alliance

    FT uncovers further indications of companies with ties to Sanjeev Gupta’s troubled steel empire

  • Thursday, 1 April, 2021
    FT CollectionsGreensill Capital
    Greensill Capital’s administrator unable to verify Gupta invoices

    Exclusive: Grant Thornton has received denials from companies listed as debtors to steel group

  • Thursday, 1 April, 2021
    FT CollectionsGreensill Capital
    Sanjeev Gupta denies debts are due ahead of crunch meeting

    Metals magnate pledges not to shut down any steelworks as legal pressure mounts

  • Wednesday, 31 March, 2021
    FT CollectionsGreensill Capital
    Sanjeev Gupta faces winding-up orders in London insolvency court

    Citigroup files applications against some of the metals tycoon’s businesses

  • Promoted Content
  • Wednesday, 31 March, 2021
    Greensill Capital
    Ex-senior civil servant took Greensill job without telling watchdog

    Bill Crothers started role 8 months after leaving Whitehall but failed to get advice from Acoba

  • Tuesday, 30 March, 2021
    News in-depthGreensill Capital
    Lex of Arabia: how Greensill and Cameron tried to woo MBS

    Financier boasted of desert trip with former prime minister and Mohammed bin Salman

  • Monday, 29 March, 2021
    Greensill Capital
    Gupta confirms UK government axed Greensill loan guarantee

    Metals tycoon defends close relationship with financial backer and London property purchase

  • Friday, 26 March, 2021
    FT CollectionsGreensill Capital
    Sanjeev Gupta seeks £170m government bailout

    Sprawling metals and industrials group in race for rescue financing after Greensill collapse

  • Friday, 26 March, 2021
    Sanjeev Gupta
    Sanjeev Gupta explored setting up bank in Panama

    Metals magnate sought help from law firm Mossack Fonseca over establishing offshore lender

  • Thursday, 25 March, 2021
    Private equity
    General Atlantic in talks with Goldman on refinancing Greensill loan

    Unusual €300m of credit from collapsed finance start-up brought scrutiny on ‘growth equity’ pioneer

  • Thursday, 25 March, 2021
    News in-depthGreensill Capital
    General Atlantic: the revered tech investor that backed Greensill

    The firm that spotted the potential in Alibaba also lent credibility to collapsed finance group

  • Thursday, 25 March, 2021
    Greensill Capital
    Labour seeks disclosure on Covid loans to Greensill for Liberty Steel

    UK government has yet to reveal larger borrowers through its main emergency financing schemes

  • Friday, 19 March, 2021
    FT CollectionsGreensill Capital
    How Sanjeev Gupta lived large on the back of rickety financing

    Mansion is latest purchase by ‘saviour of steel’ whose empire received taxpayer loans

  • Friday, 19 March, 2021
    Liberty Steel
    UK draws up plans to run Liberty Steel if Gupta’s GFG collapses

    Industrial group seeking new financing after failure of Greensill Capital, its main lender

  • Thursday, 18 March, 2021
    FT CollectionsGreensill Capital
    Cameron lobbied for Greensill access to Covid loan schemes

    Former UK prime minister urged bigger role for group but Treasury remained reluctant

  • Thursday, 18 March, 2021
    Greensill Capital
    Credit Suisse’s supply chain funds missed out on SoftBank injection

    Funds have exposure to a US construction firm that was a client of Greensill Capital

  • Wednesday, 17 March, 2021
    Greensill Capital
    Greensill family cashed out $200m before collapse

    Share sale came as part of SoftBank Vision Fund investment in 2019

  • Tuesday, 16 March, 2021
    Greensill Capital
    West Virginia governor accuses Greensill of ‘fraud’ in lawsuit

    Politician alleges his mining company Bluestone was victim of ‘material misrepresentations’ from collapsed finance group

  • Tuesday, 16 March, 2021
    FT CollectionsGreensill Capital
    The Australian underwriter who provided Greensill Capital’s lifeline

    Greg Brereton was later dismissed from The Bond & Credit Co after being accused of breaching risk limits

  • Tuesday, 16 March, 2021
    Greensill Capital
    Greensill financed Gupta based on invoices from ‘friends of Sanjeev’

    Collapsed firm provided loans on the back of bills from companies with links to steel magnate

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