Choppies� bosses in P450m payout

Choppies directors Ramachandran Ottapathu and Farouk Ismail are in line for a bumper P452 million pay cheque from the disposal of their shareholding in nine companies related to the listed retail giant.

 In a transaction currently being examined by the Competition Authority, a consortium of investors led by the Standard Chartered Private Equity Mauritius is tying up a deal to buy Spark Capital, a company created to house the nine firms, most of which are suppliers to the Choppies Enterprises.