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As RCom faces insolvency test; Mukesh Ambani's hope of bailing it out fade

Insolvency administrators will now oversee disposal of RCom assets under rules that could bar him from bidding for them.

Mukesh Ambani
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Bhuma Shrivastava | Bloomberg
Billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s prospects for bailing out his younger brother’s phone company are fading after an Indian tribunal put his sibling’s Reliance Communications Ltd. into insolvency proceedings, which prohibit “connected persons” from acquiring assets of delinquent borrowers.

Ambani is India’s richest man and the founder of upstart rival Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd., which had agreed in December to pay about $3.7 billion for airwaves, towers and fibre assets of the company known as RCom. Insolvency administrators will now oversee disposal of RCom assets under rules that could bar him from bidding for them.

As the siblings are majority shareholders and

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