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  • Saturday, 12 June, 2021
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    HK fund takes action on alleged unpaid debts by Gupta’s GFG Alliance

    TransAsia is claiming more than $71m from GFG’s trading arm

  • Friday, 11 June, 2021
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    How Credit Suisse wooed Sanjeev Gupta before a bitter divorce

    The Swiss bank ignored red flags as it financed the British industrialist’s Sydney mansion and chased deal fees

  • Wednesday, 2 June, 2021
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    Trafigura warned Credit Suisse over Gupta invoice last year

    Commodities trading house raised concern in July 2020 over a bill it apparently owed one of industrialist’s companies

  • Monday, 24 May, 2021
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    National Crime Agency involved in Gupta bank probe, BoE governor says

    Andrew Bailey tells MPs the NCA was informed of investigation over concerns about transactions with ‘certain parties’

  • Monday, 24 May, 2021
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    Italian bank collapses on exposure to Greensill and GFG

    Aigis Banca was ordered into liquidation by the Bank of Italy, with its assets transferred to a rival

  • Saturday, 15 May, 2021
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    White Oak: why the ‘white knight’ is so attached to Gupta’s metals group

    Would-be rescuer has existing ties to GFG Alliance but wobbled after an SFO announcement

  • Thursday, 13 May, 2021
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    Sanjeev Gupta’s Wyelands Bank teeters under weight of bad debt

    Regulators forced lender to repay hundreds of millions of pounds to depositors

  • Wednesday, 12 May, 2021
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    MPs say Lex Greensill may have misled parliament

    Treasury committee investigating Greensill Capital collapse invite founder to correct record

  • Wednesday, 12 May, 2021
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    Akshay Naheta: the former Deutsche trader behind SoftBank’s bet on THG

    Executive who runs SB Northstar negotiated deal with British ecommerce billionaire Matthew Moulding

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    How Lex Greensill helped sow the seeds of Carillion crisis

    Supply chain finance scheme launched in 2012 helped failed contractor mask mounting debt

  • Friday, 7 May, 2021
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    Credit Suisse casts doubt on Sanjeev Gupta’s £200m bailout loan

    Swiss bank’s clients are owed $1.2bn by the metals magnate and lender says it has not been contacted about the plan

  • Wednesday, 5 May, 2021
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    Sanjeev Gupta agrees new funding for Australian assets

    Agreement comes as Liberty Steel appoints advisers to its board to speed up a restructuring

  • Friday, 30 April, 2021
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    Czechs demand probe into carbon credits sale by Sanjeev Gupta steel plant

    Concerns that factory would lose out on funds to modernise its operations

  • Wednesday, 28 April, 2021
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    The tiny audit firm that signs off Sanjeev Gupta’s empire

    Based over a row of shops, King & King audits more than 60 of the steel magnate’s companies

  • Sunday, 25 April, 2021
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    How Sanjeev Gupta sold his green revolution to Britain’s politicians

    A promise to rescue ailing industries helped build a metals empire that is now under threat

  • Friday, 23 April, 2021
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    Invoices to ‘Friends of Sanjeev’ underpinned Greensill loans

    Bulk of business at Gupta’s Liberty Commodities was from trades within the company or with close associates

  • Friday, 23 April, 2021
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    Greensill tried to use NHS pay ‘gift’ as lever to sell supply chain finance

    One of the collapsed finance group’s executives has since joined health service’s procurement arm

  • Thursday, 22 April, 2021
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    Cameron lobbied BoE and top Treasury official over Greensill

    Senior civil servant Tom Scholar tells MPs he received phone call and texts from former PM

  • Tuesday, 20 April, 2021
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    How Credit Suisse rolled the dice on risk management — and lost

    Senior executives pushed compliance to become ‘more commercial’ and dissenting voices were suppressed

  • Friday, 16 April, 2021
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    Cameron pitched Greensill’s services to German government official

    Former UK prime minister sought to lobby Berlin during official probe into Germany’s Greensill Bank

  • Thursday, 15 April, 2021
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    Gupta carved up business empire in attempt to secure UK Covid loans

    Steel magnate incorporated new companies in an effort to tap government’s emergency lending scheme

  • Wednesday, 14 April, 2021
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    General Atlantic pays up to exit controversial €300m Greensill loan

    Private equity firm borrows at double-digit rate from Goldman Sachs to distance itself from collapsed finance group

  • Friday, 9 April, 2021
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    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
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    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
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    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

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