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Cayman court freezes $9.2 billion of Saad assets
Published in Daily News Egypt on 31 - 07 - 2009

LONDON: A Cayman Islands court has frozen $9.2 billion of assets belonging to Saad Group, the Saudi Arabian investment firm at the centre of a financial scandal, including some of its equity stakes outside the Gulf.
The ruling was in response to a complaint filed by indebted Saudi family conglomerate Ahmad Hamad Algosaibi and Brothers Company (AHAB), which is locked in a legal tussle in the United States with the billionaire owner of Saad Group, Maan Al-Sanea.
Companies included in the Cayman court ruling, seen by Reuters, include Cayman Islands registered Saad Investments Company Limited (SICL), owner of many of Saad s equity investments outside the Gulf.
Bank lenders to SICL, owed up to $2.8 billion, are considering making a claim over these assets, Reuters reported last week.
The Cayman Islands freeze order, issued on July 24, prevents Maan Al-Sanea and 42 companies associated with Saad from selling assets.
These companies include the group s airline, Saad Air, as well as Singularis Holdings, which bought a 3 percent stake in HSBC in 2007.
Following HSBC s capital raising, this stake now totals about 2 percent, analysts at Cazenove said in June, with a current value of about 2 billion pounds ($3.31 billion).
Shares bought by Saad also include stakes in Petra Diamonds and Imagination Tech.
Saad Group said in a statement late on Thursday the claims made by AHAB in its application to the Cayman court were without foundation, made before a full investigation had taken place and without full information.
AHAB s application for the Cayman orders represents a continuation of the baseless, yet public, campaign it has chosen to wage, Saad Group said.
Saad itself is working hard with its creditors to determine a fair resolution across the board of all current difficulties, the statement said.
AHAB was not immediately available to comment on Friday. - Reuters


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