| Société Générale has decided against filing a summary judgment application in the UK High Court over its earlier plea to have a bribery-linked lawsuit filed against it by Libya’s sovereign wealth fund to be dismissed.
The Libyan Investment Authority, which apparently oversees assets worth almost $60bn, has charged SocGen with paying about $58m in bribes to influential members of the erstwhile Gaddafi regime - including senior LIA executives - to smooth over transactions that cost the state-backed fund hundreds of millions of dollars...............................................Full Article: Source
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