Article: Montague's assets `cover loans'

ROBERT Montague, the Tiphook chief executive whose personal debts have been estimated at more than pounds 30m, has told creditor banks that he has sufficient assets to cover his liabilities.

The head of the trailer rental group also said he was meeting the terms of a pounds 2.3m loan from Royal Bank of Scotland, which last week filed a bankruptcy petition against him. Yesterday, the petition had still not been served.

Ian Clubb, the incoming chairman of Tiphook, which has been renamed Central Transport Rental Group, has said he needs to keep Mr Montague on the board to help solve the company's financial crisis. If he is declared bankrupt, Mr Montague will be disqualified from being a ...

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