Grecia pagará a acreedores bonos

Genevieve Signoret & Patrick Signoret

Grecia decidió llevar a cabo el pago de los 430 MMn de euros que hoy se debían a aquellos acreedores privados que en marzo se negaron a participar en la restructuración de deuda (Reuters). Estos acreedores no habían podido ser obligados a participar en el traspaso de bonos por otros de mucho menor valor, porque sus bonos habían sido emitidos bajo leyes internacionales, y no bajo las leyes griegas que se cambiaron retroactivamente.

In an about-face, Greece opted to pay holders of 430 million euros ($552 million) of a May 15 bond, despite having told those who took its bond swap offer in March that they would otherwise get nothing, government officials told Reuters on Tuesday.

The decision averts litigation by the bondholders, and will infuriate the 96.9 percent of creditors, mainly European banks, who agreed to take the deal.

Nearly all bondholders agreed to suffer a loss of 75 percent after being told they had no choice. A few held out, however, demanding to be paid in full. That left about 6 billion worth of bonds that the Greek government must now decide how to handle.

There was no official announcement on paying the bond or what Greece would do for remaining holdouts. No reason was given for repaying the bond.

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