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  • 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

  • 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
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    The case for a rescue of Liberty Steel assets

    Price of any support for the plants should be the exit of Sanjeev Gupta

  • Monday, 29 March, 2021
    LexSanjeev Gupta
    Liberty Steel/Gupta: no Greensill and no green shoots Premium content

    Finding buyer for GFG’s hodgepodge of steel assets is a job for administrators, not taxpayers

  • Sunday, 28 March, 2021
    Sanjeev Gupta
    Sanjeev Gupta rushes to raise cash to save steel empire

    GFG Alliance seeks to shore up finances while it finds alternative long-term funding

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