Greensill Capital Sues, founder of Lex Greensill

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The Director of Greensill Capital filed a lawsuit against its founder, Lex Greenszel, and six other former managers of the failed financial company, adding to the legal challenges facing the Australian financier.

The main Greensill Capital company in the United Kingdom, which collapsed to the administration in March 2021 as part of a sprawling political and financial scandal, filed the lawsuit at the London Supreme Court on Tuesday.

The court records recount the case of the case as a “violation of the credit duty”, but the full details of the demand and the nature of allegations against each of the defendants were not yet available.

The official, Grant Thornton, who is assigned to recover the funds on behalf of the failed company’s creditors, wrote in this month’s report that he was taking “a measure of recovery against third parties” and “issued additional messages before taking action against a number of parties.” The report added that the official had “issued measures” in an attempt to restore $ 570,000 from the loans submitted to “former employees.”

The lawsuit is the latest legal procedure against Lex Greenszel, the Charity Founder to start the named lend David Cameron And prominent business characters including SoftBank founder Massayoshi Son.

The insolvency service was launched in the United Kingdom last year Procedures to cancel eligibility Lex Greensill from “running or controlling companies” for up to 15 years, which is the maximum possible. The government agency’s allegations included that the 48 -year -old is made “A series of distortions” About major insurance contracts.

Lex Greensill has already refused the insolvency service against him and has also prosecution The Ministry of Business in the United Kingdom and Trade due to the alleged misuse of private information during the investigation of insolvency service.

Although the insolvency service did not take a measure against any other former managers in Greensill Capital, the court records show that six other former members have been named as defendants in the official’s lawsuit: ALASTAIR EADIE, Diveya EAPEN, Neil Garrod, Sean Hanafin, Jonathan Lane and Bartholomeus RAS.

Before joining Greensill Capital as a financial president, Garrod was a Vodafone treasurer for more than 18 years. London’s communications group was also a major agent in Greensill Capital, which specialized in providing companies with companies against their bills.

Eadie and Lane kept commercial relations with Lex Greensill after the company’s collapse, after they invested both alongside the Australian Mawluk family in A. Sustainable coconut waste starts In 2022.

Lawyer Lawyers Lawyers Lien Lin Lynn as his international product in the United Kingdom, an investment vehicle linked to the Greensill family.

The collapse of the Greensill Capital led to the losses of billions of dollars to investors in its financial products, including the Swiss Credit Suisse, which has now ended with a German regional bank that was part of the wider Greensill Group.

The report of the company’s recent official shows that $ 8.4 billion has not been paid out of $ 17.7 billion of assets supervised by Greensill Capital at the time of its collapse.

Lex Greensill did not respond to the comment. The other six former managers refused to comment or did not respond to a request for comment. Grant Thornton refused to comment.