LONDON, June 3 (Reuters) - The three billionaire founders ofENRC were granted three more weeks to make an offer tobuy out the minority investors in the miner on Monday.
The trio - Alexander Machkevitch, Alijan Ibragimov andPathokh Chodiev - now has until 5pm on June 24 to make an offerto minority investors in the firm.
ENRC's independent directors said that before they appliedto the Takeover Panel for an extension, they received writtenassurance from the bidding consortium that it expected to be ina position to make an offer by the new deadline.
Reuters reported last week that the founders were seekingmore time to iron out technical details of the bid.