The four-year debt will carry 8% interest and can be swapped for shares at a price of SGD 0.21.

This is a premium of 12.3% over the average share price on 24 March.

If taken up in full, Beng Kuang will issue 23.8m shares representing 4.4% of the issued capital.

Former director Cheong Hock Wee is taking SGD 0.5m, while six other private investors are buying the rest.

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