Charge of antimony pentafluoride

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There's a question in my class test paper today which requires us to draw the dot-and-cross diagram for SbF5.

There's a charge on that molecule.

I drew it like this: (attached image)

Where does the charge come from? I don't even see any extra electrons. :shy:
 

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