Baha Mar's main contractor yesterday denied reneging on promises to make a supplier “whole” and instead alleged it had "misappropriated" its $390,500 lounge chairs payment, the Nassau and Bahama Islands Tribune reported yesterday. Natalia Dwornik, China Construction America's (CCA) Bahamas contract manager, said that the company was "dumbfounded" to learn that Source Outdoor had applied the payment for 1,420 chairs to instead cover debts owed by Baha Mar's former developer. Her affidavit, filed with the south Florida federal court yesterday, claimed that CCA "never received complete information" from the lounge chair manufacturer to enable it to cover debts owed prior to the chapter 11 bankruptcy protection filing. Dwornik said that the payment could not be made because Baha Mar's receivers — Raymond Winder, the Deloitte & Touche (Bahamas) managing partner, and two Hong Kong-based colleagues — were alleging that Source Outdoor had "refused to honor" $450,000 in deposits already paid.
