The share transfer of Catholic Syrian Bank has been completed with the allotment of 23.2 per cent equity shares to 20 investors, amounting to over Rs 157 crore, a top official said today. "In all 87,44,090 shares of the bank at the rate of Rs 180 per share, each with face value of Rs 10 and premium of Rs 170, amounting to Rs 157,39,36,200 were allotted to the new investors, the bank's Managing Directer and CEO Rakesh Bhatia told PTI here. The share transfer issue of the CSB was pending over two decades, Bhatia said. The take over bid of the bank in 1994 by Bangkok-based NRIs Siam Vidhya Group, headed by Surachan Chansrichawla, by acquiring bank's 19,59,016 shares out of a total of 54,14,000 shares, ran into rough weather with the Catholic Archdiocese coming out against it. SVG had acquired about 20 per cent of shares at the rate of Rs 85 per share in 1994. The then bishop of Thrissur diocese Mar Joseph Kundukulam had threatened to withdra...