Do you have any evidence of a payment request from Vod?
Also FYI, mining hashpower does not guarantee anything because there is nothing stopping you from pointing the equipment at another pool/pool account. You might be able to have the equipment hosted with a trusted third party (or the lender if you trust him) and the mining revenue would go toward repayment of the loan.
Sure, let us lend 200+ Antminers to someone on this board. I am sure VOD and his troll friends would like to take this offer, give us a shipping address we will have a truck deliver them all this week.
Then whoever wants to invest can send their money to VOD and friends. They will be the "escrow" as you guys call it right? Sounds like a lucrative plan.
By the way - we are giving free litecoins (yes free) in our other thread. It sounds like you guys need to make some money so, feel free to get involved.
I am sorry for the bad news but we are here to stay and not going anywhere or paying anyones extortion fees on this board.