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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Jasper Jolly

Sanjeev Gupta’s auditor quit over ‘lack of information’

Liberty Steel boss Sanjeev Gupta in Scotland.
Liberty Steel boss Sanjeev Gupta in Scotland. Photograph: Russell Cheyne/Reuters

The tiny audit firm responsible for signing off the accounts of several of Sanjeev Gupta’s metals companies has said it quit because it could not obtain enough information about a fraud investigation or whether they had enough cash to survive.

King & King said there was a “lack of sufficient information and evidence” on several issues and raised concerns over whether the businesses could remain solvent, according to near-identical letters filed to the UK’s companies register for five separate companies controlled by Gupta.

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