This might be what we've been waiting for...
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-0...body-says.html
Ukio Banko Investicine Grupe, or UBIG, the Lithuanian
investment company that controls Scottish soccer club
Heart of Midlothian, is insolvent, said the Baltic nation’s Department of Enterprise Bankruptcy Management today on its
website.
The department, part of the
Economy Ministry, said that Kaunas-based UBIG, at its own request, had been placed on a
list of companies unable or unwilling to meet their obligations.
UBIG is a sister company of Ukio Bankas AB, a lender that Lithuania’s central bank closed in February for risky lending to related parties. Russian-born investor Vladimir Romanov controlled both companies.
UBIG owns 79 percent of Edinburgh-based Hearts as well as sport, aluminum and real-estate projects in several countries, according to its
website.