The company's financials are in a perilous stateafter a potential fraud issue emerged last year to compound an ever-worseningcash flow.

The world's largest panel maker as recently as last year, Suntech has not reported aprofit since the first quarter of 2011. Debts – $2.2bn at the end ofMarch 2012, the last quarter for which it reported results - are mounting aftertwo years of falling panel prices and growing losses.

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