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By Nell Mackenzie and Akanksha Khushi
LONDON (Reuters) – The shares and bonds of CPI Group fell sharply on Tuesday after short-selling hedge fund Muddy Waters (NYSE:) mentioned it had guess towards the credit score of the Luxembourg-based industrial landlord.
In a report, the fund mentioned CPI PG’s controlling shareholder, Czech billionaire Radovan Vitek, had misstated the worth of the corporate. The report additionally mentioned some revenue had been booked towards actual property properties that had been actually empty plots of land.
The corporate didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
CPI Group’s Frankfurt-listed shares had been final down 2.8% on the day, whereas the value of its 2027 medium-term observe fell 3.5 cents on the day to 70.259, in line with information from Tradeweb.
Muddy Waters didn’t specify towards which bond it had taken a brief place and the corporate has a number of excellent notes listed..
CPI PG owns properties in Germany, the Czech Republic, Poland and elsewhere in Central Jap Europe.
The report particulars 4 transactions totaling about 441 million euros ($481.00 million) by which the report says the money and actual property accounts “could possibly be misstated.”
The 4 transactions give attention to properties and firms modified fingers amongst totally different house owners by way of holding corporations.
($1 = 0.9168 euros)
