Sanctions - and cranes?

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Cos it costs money to do that as well, and probably somebody else wants to continue, but the legal wrangling involved are holding it up. Personally, I'd have let him finish it then confiscated it and turned it into council houses. Brian

Possibly something about contractual obligations. Mr Oligarch has appointed a prime contractor to do the work. The prime has subcontracted somebody else for the cranes, huts etc for a year (or however long). The prime is still in business and the subcontractor is honouring their contractual obligation to provide a crane. Mr Oligarch is in default with the prime, but that doesn't mean the subcontractor can take their crane away - they're fulfilling the contract with the prime as stipulated and expect to get paid as normal.

Presumably the prime is on the hook for the cost of this, but then it will depend on break clauses in the contracts etc. It may have gone to lawyers and everything is frozen until the lawyers sort it out.

Theo

Possibly its just free storage for the items with no urgency to remove them untl they are needed elsewhere

I suppose that you are right. Hopefully, the prime contractor got enough up-front to pay for the plant hire.

Even so, after a year, I'd have thought that they would negotiate with the hire companies to remove it and use it elsewhere.