This article first appeared in The Edge Financial Daily, on June 21, 2017.
KUALA LUMPUR: Ire-Tex Corp Bhd says it failed to meet a deadline to pay interest payment on its irredeemable convertible unsecured loan stocks (ICULS) issued in 2014, which may constitute an event of default. It was supposed to pay the annual interest by June 10.
“The company failed to make the payment due to operational issues. Subsequently, on June 13, the company announced that the payment will be made on July 10,” it said in a Bursa Malaysia filing yesterday, adding that according to the trust deed governing the ICULS, failure in paying the interest may constitute an event of default.
“The company is seeking the trustee’s advice and any material development on the matter will be made to the public accordingly,” it said.
Meanwhile, Ire-Tex said it has applied to the Companies Commission of Malaysia for more time — up to Aug 27 — to hold its annual general meeting (AGM), which it is supposed to hold by June 30. It said it would miss the AGM deadline because the company had been served with a special notice to remove its board of directors, and that “the outcome of the said application will be announced in due course”.
The special notice was issued by Ire-Tex’s largest shareholder Elite Cosmo Group Ltd and another shareholder Tan Yeang Tze, to convene an extraordinary general meeting to remove four directors — Datuk Seri Mohd Shariff Omar, Felix Chin Wui Choong, Ahmad Amryn Abdul Malek and Mak Lin Kum — and appoint Hamdan Mohd Nor and Raja Hizad Raja Kamarulzaman as directors.