| The Libyan Investment Authority, the violence-hit North African nation’s $60bn sovereign wealth fund, is likely to name senior World Bank executive Ahmed Ali Attiga as its new chairman by the end of the year, The Daily Telegraph gathers. Attiga, who is currently representing the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation unit in Jordan, hails from a high-profile Libyan family associated with King Idris, the ruler before the late Muammar Gaddafi.
Separately, it emerged on Tuesday that Goldman Sachs had withdrawn a summary judgment application it filed in April at the UK High Court, requesting the quashing of a lawsuit filed against the investment bank by the LIA. The state-backed investment fund had charged Goldman Sachs with mis-selling it second-rate investment products that cost the LIA billions...............................................Full Article: Source
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