SFC and ICAC joint operation on listed company's suspicious money lending activities

Media report that the company is Sunway (0058). This probably relates to a pile of 6 loans totalling about HK$130m made in 2016/17 and impaired in 2019. The 2019 accounts stated "The Group has noticed that 6 borrowers (and their guarantors, if any) failed to repay" and "the enforceability of the collaterals, if any, was quite difficult". Also in 2019, HK$100m of "earnest money" paid in 2017 for an aborted acquisition was fully impaired. We hope the ICAC/SFC will investigate that too. A current and a former ED and 3 others have been arrested.

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ICAC statement

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證監會與廉政公署就上市公司可疑借貸活動採取聯合行動

Issue date: 2021-08-13 16:30:47

證券及期貨事務監察委員會(證監會)與廉政公署採取聯合行動“玉麒麟”,其間拘捕五人,包括一家上市公司一名現任和一名前任高級行政人員。

是次聯合行動亦包括搜查該上市公司的辦事處及其他關連方的處所(註1)。

證監會的搜查行動乃基於該上市公司的可疑借貸活動涉嫌違反《證券及期貨條例》,而其管理層可能曾就此從事不當行為或其他失當行為,損害該上市公司或其股東利益。廉政公署就涉嫌觸犯《防止賄賂條例》所訂的貪污罪行,採取搜查及拘捕行動。

證監會與廉政公署將會繼續緊密合作,打擊可疑貸款交易及董事失當行為等上市公司失當行為,以保障投資大眾利益及維持香港金融市場的廉潔穩健。

由於調查仍在進行中,現階段不會作出進一步評論。

備註:

  1. 是次聯合行動乃根據證監會與廉政公署簽訂的諒解備忘錄安排而作出的。請參閱證監會2019年8月19日的新聞稿。
News captured as of:2021-08-13 16:30:47

Source: SFC

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