While sources at County claim there is no debt beyond what is owed to shareholders, the prime anger for supporters is rooted in the draining of assets.
The drain on assets shows no signs of easing for Swiss banks, which manage about $3 trillion, roughly a third of the world's private savings.
A report, by London-based consultancy CrossBorder Capital, claimed it was the biggest drain of financial assets since the Lehman crisis in 2008.
Earlier this year it formed the Leading Group to Stop the Drain of State Assets, headed by the vice-prime minister in charge of the economy, Zhu Rongji, whom the new congress is likely to anoint as the next prime minister.
If anything, he said, Bain Capital stood out from its rivals in the 1980s and 1990s for eschewing quick-fix financial wizardry that drained companies of assets.
Indeed, Czechs and Slovaks both use the word "tunneling" to describe the process by which major companies are systematically drained of their assets.
Correction: December 11, 2000, Monday An article in Business Day on Nov. 30 about the effect of United States Steel's purchase of a mill in Slovakia misspelled the name of a Czech company that exemplifies "tunneling," a process by which companies in Slovakia and the Czech Republic are drained of their assets.
Trend's portfolio, then worth 1.2 billion koruna, has since been drained of nearly 1 billion koruna-worth of assets, including a big stake in Prague's biggest department store, Kotva.In October 1996 Trend was put into administration at CVF's request, after it realised that some of the fund's directors were stealing its assets.
Russia's gas monopoly, Gazprom, has declared war on one of its unruly subsidiaries, accusing the subsidiary's management of draining away assets illegally.
A fifth judge has been charged with bribery, while still another is being investigated for draining the assets of a wealthy aunt.
