| Heavily indebted 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB), a strategic development company wholly-owned by the government of Malaysia and cooperating, among others, with Middle East investors such as Aabar Investments and Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), said on June 8 that it has repaid a $975mn loan to an international consortium of banks, a move that “proves its commitment to reducing its debt.”
The fund, which has amassed debt since its inception in 2009 that is said to stand at $11.4bn, has used a fresh $1bn cash injection paid on June 4 by Aabar Investments, a unit of Abu Dhabi’s International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC), to repay the loan to the six-bank syndicate led by Deutsche Bank...............................................Full Article: Source
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