ARA Environmental Services Inc. the lead creditor, is owed more than $1 million, but has agreed to defer foreclosing on the property until September.

Hana Bank, the lead creditor, asked others to make good on promises to provide financing for SK Global despite objections from shareholders.

Rosneft has been hovering over Yukos for months already as the lead creditor in the bankruptcy process.

The creditors requested new talks with Hyundai Construction's lead creditor, the Korea Exchange Bank, and sent officials to monitor the company's finances.

The Korea Exchange Bank, the lead creditor for Hynix, planned to convene a meeting, probably this week, of the bank's restructuring committee to consider the options.

As Daewoo Motor's lead creditor, K.D.B. spearheaded the car maker's sale to General Motors in 2002.

In late 1993, Mr. Mahanyele said, his lead creditor, Nedbank, told him it was calling in its loan.

The lead creditor to SK Global, Hana Bank, said it had improved the terms for foreign creditors to recoup some of their debts from the trading concern.

Bidders have also complained that the process has been far from the transparent and open one promised by the government-owned Industrial Development Bank of India, the lead creditor.

Korea Development is the lead creditor for the banks that have owned Daewoo since its bankruptcy in 1999.