据Donal Griffin和Constantine Courcoulas报道，英国过桥贷款机构Market Financial Solutions Ltd（MFS）的创始人Paresh Raja在首次针对债权人指控的详细回应中，否认从公司挪用资金，并将公司倒闭归咎于巴克莱银行（Barclays Plc）。
By Donal Griffin and Constantine Courcoulas Paresh Raja, the founder of collapsed UK bridging lender Market Financial Solutions Ltd, denied siphoning money out of the business and blamed Barclays Plc for its downfall, according to his first detailed response to creditors’ allegations.
在一份法庭文件中，Raja表示，公司倒闭的“根本原因”是巴克莱银行在2025年11月决定冻结MFS持有的大约1.45亿英镑（约合1.92亿美元）资金。
In a court filing, Raja said the “ultimate cause” of the collapse was Barclays’ decision to freeze MFS accounts holding about £145 million ($192 million) in November 2025.
他称此举导致公司业务瘫痪，无法向借款人、供应商、员工和贷款方支付款项。巴克莱银行未立即置评。
He said that move paralyzed the business and left it unable to pay borrowers, suppliers, staff and lenders. Barclays didn’t immediately comment.
Raja在提交给伦敦商业法院的辩护书中表示，他从集团实体收到的款项均公开支付，代表了他作为公司创始人和所有者应得的薪酬、利润分成和股息。
Payments he received from group entities were made openly and represented pay, profit share and dividends he was entitled to as the firm’s founder and owner, Raja said in a defense filed in London’s Commercial Court.
他还辩称，管理人声称他用公司资金建立的房地产投资组合实际上是为公司利益而持有，而非他个人所有。
He also argued that the property portfolio administrators say he built with company money was held for the benefit of the business rather than for him personally.
管理人提交的文件显示这些房产价值超过9.5亿英镑，Raja认为这笔金额应从针对他的索赔中扣除。
The administrators’ own filings value those properties at more than £950 million, a sum Raja said should be deducted from their claim against him.
根据辩护书，他“最好的估计”是该投资组合目前价值超过11亿英镑，这意味着公司“不仅没有亏损，反而获利”。
His “best estimate” is that the portfolio is now worth more than £1.1 billion, meaning the business “stands to have gained rather than lost,” according to the defense.
这是自MFS于2月倒闭以来，Raja在两次延期后首次以书面形式详细回应指控并进行辩护。
The filing is Raja’s first detailed response to the allegations since MFS collapsed in February, setting out his defense in writing after two extensions to deadlines.
此次倒闭使包括杰富瑞金融集团（Jefferies Financial Group Inc.）和阿波罗全球管理公司（Apollo Global Management Inc.）旗下Atlas SP Partners在内的华尔街公司面临巨额潜在损失。
The collapse has left Wall Street firms including Jefferies Financial Group Inc. and Apollo Global Management Inc.’s Atlas SP Partners, which collectively provided billions in funding lines, nursing heavy prospective losses.
MFS的管理人指控该公司将同一抵押品抵押给多家贷款方，并已起诉Raja索赔13亿英镑，债权人索赔总额超过23亿英镑。
MFS’s administrators have alleged that the firm pledged the same collateral to more than one lender. They have sued Raja for £1.3 billion, and put creditor claims at more than £2.3 billion.