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$2 billion: Amount Anil Ambani needs in asset sales to save last stronghold

Reliance Capital, the company that controls India's fifth-biggest mutual fund, is racing to close a planned $2 billion of asset sales to bolster its finances after cash dwindled to Rs 110 million

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RCom Chairman Anil Ambani outside the Supreme Court after a hearing in a case on a contempt plea filed by Ericsson India against him over non-payment of dues | Photo: PTI

P R Sanjai and Anto Antony | Bloomberg
The last stronghold in embattled tycoon Anil Ambani’s phone carrier-to-power empire is also developing fault lines.

Reliance Capital Ltd., his financial services business that almost doubled its profit in five years, had largely remained insulated from the distress plaguing the wider conglomerate. Now, the company that controls India’s fifth-biggest mutual fund, is racing to close a planned $2 billion of asset sales to bolster its finances after cash dwindled to Rs 110 million ($1.6 million) as of March, according to CARE Ratings.

With $252 million of debt falling due over May and June, a unit of Moody’s Investors Service and two other

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