A high court judge has grant­ed an in­junc­tion re­strain­ing the liq­uida­tor of CL Fi­nan­cial from com­plet­ing the sale of Trinci­ty Com­mer­cial Cen­tre, which in­cludes the Trinci­ty Mall, un­til Oc­to­ber 27.

Jus­tice Kevin Ram­cha­ran grant­ed the in­junc­tion on Mon­day, af­ter hear­ing from a lawyer rep­re­sent­ing At­tor­ney Gen­er­al, John Je­re­mie.

In April this year, Guardian Me­dia re­port­ed that the shop­ping cen­tre had been sold by the liq­uida­tors of the CL Fi­nan­cial group to a con­sor­tium of re­al es­tate de­vel­op­ers—John­ny Aboud, An­tho­ny Ra­hael, and con­trac­tors Kall­Co and Fides Ltd. The sale price was $505 mil­lion.

The Trinci­ty Com­mer­cial Cen­tre was part of the CL Fi­nan­cial (CLF) group, which is in liq­ui­da­tion.

Last Oc­to­ber, the ANSA McAL group, then the pre­ferred bid­der to ac­quire Trinci­ty Mall, with­drew from the trans­ac­tion, and the mall was re-list­ed for sale.

The liq­uida­tors, Grant Thorn­ton, were grant­ed ap­proval for the sale in 2021, but it was on­ly put on the mar­ket in Sep­tem­ber 2022.

Jus­tice Ram­cha­ran or­dered the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al to file an ap­pli­ca­tion for the in­junc­tion on or be­fore Oc­to­ber 21. The judge al­so ad­journed the mat­ter un­til Oc­to­ber 27.