VietNamNet Bridge – The total bank debts incurred by Bianfishco, the seafood company which
has become the hottest topic of the discussions with its financial problems,
have reached 1000 billion dong. The names of the nine banks which are the
creditors of Bianfishco have been made public.
The
nine banks include the Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam (BIDV),
which lent 139.2 billion dong and 2.6 million dollars, An Binh Bank, which lent
63.5 billion dong and 10 million dollars, Can Tho-Hau Giang branch of
development bank 310.2 billion dong, Asia Commercial Bank 61.3 billion dong.
Most of
the banks said they have been put on tenterhooks after hearing about the
problems with the debt payment capability of Bianfishco. A lot of loans have
become overdue, while Bianfishco does not have money to pay.
Nguyen
Thanh Toai, Deputy General Director of ACB, said that the unpaid debt of
Bianfishco does not worry the bank much. “We are not too pessimistic about the
debts incurred by Bianfishco. We are trying to collect debts by selling the
assets mortgaged by Bianfishco for the loans,” Toai said.
Toai
declined to give detailed information about the mortgaged assets and the value
of the assets.
The
same words were also released at the bank’s shareholders’ meeting held recently
to calm down the shareholders who expressed their worries about Bianfishco’s
debts.
Meanwhile,
Tran Bich Quan, PR Manager of An Binh Bank, has only informed that the bank has
been discussing the issue for the last some days--to find out the most feasible
and reasonable solution to collect debt from the big debtor.
No
official statements have been made, but it seems that the two bankers will not
interested in the plans to rescue Bianfishco, such as freezing debts, injecting
money in Bianfishco to become members of the board of directors.
Another
banker said he has heard that a creditor suddenly refused to provide additional
loans and take necessary measures to sell the collaterals for the loans. The
bank has even blocked the company’s bank account.
“We are
also considering doing this,” the banker said.
The
thing which the public has been most interested in is who out of the nine banks
would get the priority to get debt payment first, and how the debt payment
priority order would be.
Dat
Viet newspaper has quoted lawyers as saying that under the current laws, the
laborers of the company would get the first priority to get salaries and
relating allowances. After that, the money left by the bankrupted company would
be used to clear unpaid taxes.
As for
the bank debts, the loans with mortgaged assets would be settled first.
As
such, there is no regulation to which lawyers can refer to say who it must
prioritize to pay debts - banks or farmers. The total debt that Bianfishco is
owing to banks and farmers has reached 1275 billion dong. Meanwhile, no on can
say what bank of the nine banks would get the priority to get repayment.
A
banker-creditor has revealed that one of the mortgaged assets is the company’s
seafood processing factory.
In the
past, borrowers could not mortgage the same assets at different banks for
different loans. However, under the new regulations, one asset could be used as
the collateral for many loans, provided that the total value of the loan is not
higher than 70 percent of the assets’ value.
Besides
BIDV, ACB and An Binh Bank, the other bankers-creditors of Bianfishco include
the Vietnam-Thailand Bank, HCM City Branch (3.5 million dollars), the Can
Tho-Hau Giang branch of the development bank (310.2 billion dong), Habubank HCM
City branch (63.9 billion dong), Vietinbank Can Tho Branch (3 billion dong),
Housing Development Bank Can Tho Branch (20 billion dong), the Saigon branch of
the export bank (24 billion dong and 304,800 dollars).
Source:
Dat Viet
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