Uttaresh Venkateshwaran is in conversation with Moneycontrol Corporate Bureau Chief Prince Thomas to discuss Ruias seemingly losing out on Essar Steel.
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For now, lenders have rejected Ruias' offer and approved the bid by ArcelorMittal Rs 42,000 crore - with an additional Rs 8,000 crore equity infusion into Essar Steel
Essar Steel’s promoters Ruias offered to pay Rs 54,389 crore to the company's creditors. Lawyers see this as an attempt to delay an almost-done deal.
Essar had in July 2014 sold Aegis USA Inc, an outsourcing and technology company with operations in the US, the Philippines and Costa Rica, to Teleperformance of Paris for USD 610 million.
An Inter Ministerial Group (IMG) will review the security of Ruias-promoted Essar Steel's iron ore slurry pipeline, which supplies treated ore from its plant in Bailadila to pellet plant in Visakhapatnam in May
The corporate world in 2011 found itself on tenterhooks as various scams in the telecom and the mining sector came under the prying eyes of the Supreme Court.
Diversified Essar Group is planning to list its infrastructure business in London next year, a move that could raise about Rs 3,700 crore for the Ruias-led conglomerate.
In regards to the ownership of Loop Telecom, the CBI was initially confident of coming up with a charge sheet against the Ruias. However, CNBC-TV18’s Siddharth Zarabari reports a portion of the CBI believes that this is a case of corporate greed and not corporate fraud.
In-line with market expectations, the Ruia’s-owned Essar Oil has posted a net profit of Rs 469 crore y-o-y, mainly due to robust refining margins
Revising the deal, UK-based Vodafone today agreed to pay over USD 400 million more to its Indian partner Essar for buying its 33% stake in the joint venture Vodafone-Essar.