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    • Monday, 27 March, 2023
      Gupta’s Liberty Steel thwarted as rival snaps up Aartee Bright Bar

      Bradford-based Barrett Steel buys distribution business and property interests, saving 173 jobs

    • Sunday, 26 March, 2023
      Battle over Liberty Steel customer Aartee intensifies after court ruling

      Britain’s largest distributor of steel products could be sold as early as this week

    • Tuesday, 7 February, 2023
      Industrial metals
      Customer of Gupta’s Liberty Steel falls into administration

      Businessman may step in to rescue West Midlands group as steel industry crisis deepens

    • Thursday, 12 January, 2023
      UK manufacturing
      Gupta’s Liberty Steel cutbacks put 440 UK jobs at risk

      Industrialist plans to idle some smaller plants as higher energy costs squeeze profits

    • Tuesday, 15 November, 2022
      Sanjeev Gupta
      Sanjeev Gupta’s Liberty Steel nears deal with creditors

      Struggling metals group could pay less than 50 pence in the pound on outstanding loans

    • Monday, 13 June, 2022
      Sanjeev Gupta’s Liberty Steel wins breathing space on refinancing debt

      Gupta group reaches standstill deal with largest creditor Greensill Bank that could run until end of year

    • Thursday, 19 May, 2022
      Industrials
      Court reverses liquidation of Gupta’s Liberty operations in Belgium

      Decision provides some relief for under-fire metals tycoon

    • Monday, 7 March, 2022
      HMRC drops lawsuits to close Sanjeev Gupta companies over unpaid tax

      Tax authority withdraws winding-up petitions against four of steel boss’s companies

    • Thursday, 10 February, 2022
      Sanjeev Gupta
      HMRC seeks to shut down Sanjeev Gupta businesses over £26mn tax bill

      Winding up of metals tycoons’ companies will put more than 2,000 jobs at risk

    • Friday, 5 November, 2021
      Sanjeev Gupta
      MPs question Sanjeev Gupta’s stewardship of Liberty Steel

      UK business select committee identifies ‘series of audit and corporate governance red flags’

    • Sunday, 10 October, 2021
      GFG Alliance
      Gupta to inject £50m into UK steel plants after Australia restructuring

      Metals tycoon’s lifeline offers hope to 3,000 workers in Britain

    • Friday, 1 October, 2021
      FT CollectionsGreensill Capital
      Gupta parties as GFG’s problems pile up

      Embattled metals magnate celebrates his birthday in lavish style while his business faces an uncertain future

    • Friday, 24 September, 2021
      FT CollectionsGreensill Capital
      GFG’s timetable slips for refinancing $5bn of Greensill debt

      Cooling commodity markets threaten Sanjeev Gupta’s battle to preserve his sprawling metals conglomerate

    • Tuesday, 22 June, 2021
      Liberty Steel UK executive pleads ignorance over finances of group

      MPs frustrated by CFO’s inability to answer questions about state of Sanjeev Gupta’s British plants

    • Tuesday, 1 June, 2021
      ArcelorMittal among bidders for Gupta’s French steel plants

      Germany’s Saarstahl and Italy’s Beltrame also in running to buy tycoon’s factories

    • Tuesday, 25 May, 2021
      FT CollectionsGreensill Capital
      UK government confident buyer will be found for Gupta’s steel factories

      Business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng tells MPs the 3 plants put up for sale are ‘good assets’

    • Monday, 24 May, 2021
      FT CollectionsGreensill Capital
      GFG to sell three UK steel plants as it seeks Credit Suisse debt deal

      Agreement over refinancing could pave the way for restructuring of Gupta’s business

    • Monday, 24 May, 2021
      FT CollectionsGreensill Capital
      Sanjeev Gupta moved part of Scottish loan away from struggling steel plant

      Just over £2m of taxpayer funds were transferred to elsewhere in the industrialist’s empire

    • Wednesday, 19 May, 2021
      FT CollectionsGreensill Capital
      British Steel’s Chinese owner sets sights on Gupta’s UK plants

      Jingye Group tells government it is ready to take on parts of Liberty Steel if industrialist fails to find fresh financing

    • Friday, 23 April, 2021
      FT CollectionsGreensill Capital
      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

    • Saturday, 17 April, 2021
      FT CollectionsGreensill Capital
      Liberty Steel’s Scottish plant misses interest payments

      Factory owned by Sanjeev Gupta stopped making payments on taxpayer-backed facility last year

    • Wednesday, 14 April, 2021
      Aerospace & Defence
      Aerospace industry warns of supply crunch from crisis at Liberty Steel

      Industry body steps up pressure on UK government to help plants caught up in Sanjeev Gupta crisis

    • Tuesday, 13 April, 2021
      UK politics & policy
      Kwarteng puts pressure on Gupta to refinance his steel empire

      Business secretary leaves open possibility of the UK providing a financial lifeline to save jobs

    • Saturday, 10 April, 2021
      FT CollectionsGreensill Capital
      Greensill collapse tests Yorkshire steel town’s mettle

      UK jobs under threat as demise of Sanjeev Gupta’s lender exposes his business

    • 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

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