Mushi regime tried to sell it out to private investors (because they knew that soon this horse was going to die) but the SCP intervened and blocked the sale citing deal not to be on fair valuations. None of the official was able to convince the court that investors also knew the state of the industrial unit and would have to take losses immediately after the investment. So logically they always wanted to buy assets sub-par to create that cushion for them. However, once those investors gone, now nobody is interested in even touching the steel mills with a stick because it is nothing more than land and structure in its current operating status (~10% of its production capacity)