further from John Mann as we cling on by29 Jun 2022 16:53
Our fingertips. Apparently sanction's waived wouldn't help much now. I need to slowly read and digest
"Hi Lawrence
We announced back in May that we had new buyers for our gold.
If you re-read our announcements in order, you’ll see the issue now isn’t so much Western sanctions. The sanctions precipitated everything by keeping us from servicing our Gazprombank debt to the point that the bank called in the loans, before selling them off to new debt holders. The issue now is that the loans are in accelerated repayment, the bond coupons have not been paid, and refinancing anything right now is very challenging. Repatriating money to the PLC to service debt at the corporate level is also an issue due to Russian capital controls in response to sanctions. All this was explained in our statements.
Best regards,
John"