Shares of Alliance Mineral Asset's CEO Pramoko and wife seized again to repay debt
Shares of Alliance Mineral Asset's CEO Pramoko and wife seized again to repay debt
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SINGAPORE (Dec 4): Shares of Alliance Mineral Assets, belonging to CEO Tjandra Pramoko and his wife, executive director Simone Suen, had been seized on court order dated Nov 30.
In a company filing on Dec 4, some 40 million shares, representing 7.2% of Alliance Mineral, has been seized. The shares will then be sold by the Court Sheriff to raise proceeds of some $5.5 million.
This is the sum of money Pramoko owes businessman Jonathan Lim Keng Hock as part of a settlement agreement the two men inked earlier this year.
The balance of the shares will then be returned to Pramoko.
The latest legal action is a repeat of what happened back in July, when shares belonging to Pramoko was seized and sold so that Lim can be repaid. Shares were returned to him on Oct 30.
Back in 2009, Lim lend Pramoko A$7 million ($7.2 million) in return for half the value of a mining asset that the latter was trying to develop.
This mining asset would eventually become Alliance Mineral, which is slated to start producing lithium in the new year.
Shares of Alliance Mineral gained two cents on Monday to close at 35.5 cents. Assuming the court-mandated sale was carried out at this price, some 15.4 million Alliance Mineral shares would have been sold.
Prior to the seizure, Pramoko and his wife hold 86.1 million Alliance Mineral shares. With the sale, they might be left with an estimated 70.7 million shares, or 12.7% of the company.