{"id":337461,"date":"2020-02-14T11:46:38","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T06:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=337461"},"modified":"2020-02-14T12:15:21","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T06:45:21","slug":"lenders-seize-prized-assets-of-tycoons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/lenders-seize-prized-assets-of-tycoons\/","title":{"rendered":"Lenders seize prized assets of tycoons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI : Indian tycoon owners of bankrupt companies are being told their assets aren\u2019t off limits.<\/p>\n<p>Weeks after India\u2019s criminal enforcement bureau announced a second auction of the prized personal possessions of fugitive jeweller Nirav Modi including his favourite watch and his Rolls Royce Ghost, the UK high court recently asked Anil Ambani to deposit $100 million of his personal wealth to partially pay back debt due to a trio of Chinese banks.<\/p>\n<p>The rush to collect on the assets includes a swoop on Vijay Mallya\u2019s French island mansion and yacht by Qatar National Bank (QNB). The moves come as India is battling $130 billion of bad debt that has sparked bankruptcies at some companies. Some tycoons have held assets through arcane webs of holding companies, which has complicated creditors\u2019 efforts to recover funds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI : Indian tycoon owners of bankrupt companies are being told their assets aren\u2019t off limits. Weeks after India\u2019s criminal enforcement bureau announced a second auction of the prized personal possessions of fugitive jeweller Nirav Modi including his favourite watch and his Rolls Royce Ghost, the UK high court recently asked Anil Ambani to deposit $100 million of his personal wealth to partially pay back debt due to a trio of Chinese banks. The rush to collect on the assets includes a swoop on Vijay Mallya\u2019s French island mansion and yacht by Qatar National Bank (QNB). The moves come as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}