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The company said it owes its creditors more than US$165.8m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Northern Mariana Islands.- Imperial Pacific International (IPI) CNMI has applied for Chapter 11 bankruptcy as it seeks to restructure its debts. The company said it owes its creditors more than US$165.8m. IPI manager, Howyo Chi, represented by attorney Charles McDonald, signed the application.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among the company’s largest unsecured creditors are the CNMI Treasury, MCC International, the Commonwealth Casino Commission (CCC), the law offices of Hughes Hubbard & Reed, Century Estate Investment, CNMI Division of Revenue and Taxation, and Joshua Gray<\/a> with claims ranging from US$5.68m to US$62m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Mariana’s Variety, IPI also owes money to the Internal Revenue Services (US$4m), the U.S. Department of Labor-Wage and Hour Division (US$950,000), and the US Department of Justice-Civil Division (US$1.46m, labelled as “contingent disputed”).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today (April 22), the CCC will decide whether to revoke IPI’s exclusive casino licence<\/a>. Meanwhile, the High Court of Hong Kong has ordered the liquidation of IPI Holdings, the Hong Kong-listed parent company of IPI CNMI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The company said it owes its creditors more than US$165.8m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":777009863,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Imperial Pacific International (IPI) CNMI has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, citing over US$165.8m in debt to various creditors, including government entities and contractors. Concurrently, the Commonwealth Casino Commission (CCC) is set to decide on revoking IPI's exclusive casino license, while the High Court of Hong Kong has ordered the liquidation of its parent company, IPI Holdings.","focusai_entities":"Imperial Pacific International (IPI) CNMI, IPI Holdings, Howyo Chi, Charles McDonald, CNMI Treasury, MCC International, Commonwealth Casino Commission (CCC), Hughes Hubbard & Reed, Century Estate Investment, CNMI Division of Revenue and Taxation, Joshua Gray, Internal Revenue Services, U.S. Department of Labor-Wage and Hour Division, US Department of Justice-Civil Division","focusai_location":"Northern Mariana Islands, Hong Kong","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (1.0), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (0.9), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.9), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Regulatory Precedent","query":"What specific regulatory compliance failures, beyond financial distress, contributed to the Commonwealth Casino Commission's decision to consider IPI's license revocation, and what precedent does this set for other operators in emerging jurisdictions?"},{"label":"Cross-Jurisdictional Impact","query":"How will the High Court of Hong Kong's liquidation order for IPI Holdings interact with or complicate the Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings for IPI CNMI in the Northern Mariana Islands, particularly concerning asset recovery and creditor prioritization?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,157],"tags":[24134],"class_list":["post-777014899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-business-news","tag-imperial-pacific-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777014899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777014899"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777014899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777014922,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777014899\/revisions\/777014922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777009863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777014899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777014899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777014899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}