Steel tycoon Sanjeev Gupta offloads Scottish power station
teel tycoon Sanjeev Gupta has quietly offloaded a hydro-electric power station in the Scottish Highlands as his empire struggles for cash amid the pandemic.
Investor Equitix took over Kinlochleven power station last month from the Indian-born trader’s Simec subsidiary, filings show.
Gupta has become one of Europe’s biggest steel-makers during a five-year spree.
He bought Kinlochleven from miner Rio Tinto — along with another hydro-electric power station and aluminium smelter in nearby Lochaber — in 2016 for £330m, promising to revive Scottish industry.
Gupta, whose businesses trade under the GFG Alliance umbrella, then used those assets to sell hundreds of millions of pounds of bonds, via the finance firm Greensill, to Swiss fund manager GAM.
The controversial bond sales were lubricated with a 25-year Scottish
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