Directors of embattled AIM-listed investment trust, the Romania Property Fund have confirmed the fund has applied to have its shares suspended from trading.

The fund’s directors, which are discussions to restructure the fund, said the company would be placed into administration unless fundraising proposals are successful.

London-based Lewis Charles Securities is listed as the fund’s manager and distributor, although the fund is domiciled in Guernsey.

A spokesman for the Association of Investment Companies (AIC) – the trade organisation for investment trusts - said the fund has never been a member, although two of its AIM-listed competitors are.

The fund would have been in the AIC’s Property Direct (Europe) sector, were it a member of the AIC, where the average of those AIM listed member companies show the sector made an average loss of 58.3 per cent over 3 years.

Speaking to What Investment.co.uk, Richard Prickett, chairman of the Romania Property Fund Limited today said it was too early to add any further detail with regards to the progress of discussions.

He said, ‘I can’t comment any further. It will be a few weeks more before I can comment. I hope to be able to let out a bit more news in a few weeks time.’

Fellow AIM-listed fund, the Sirius Real Estate investment trust would have lost £658 of a £1,000 investment over a three year period to the end of April, according to figures from Trustnet.