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Equity Bank loses bid to take over TransCentury in Sh4.8b debt case

Equity Bank Fourways branch along Muindi Mbingu street, Nairobi. [File, Standard]

The commercial court in Nairobi has blocked Equity Bank from taking over TransCentury and its subsidiary East Africa Cables Limited over Sh4.8 billion loan row.

Equity had placed the two firms under receivership claiming that they had declined to pay back USD 20 million (Sh2.8 billion) debt owed by TransCentury and a further Sh1.948 billion owed by East African Cables.

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