21.10.2014 - Libya-Goldman clash sheds light on formerly secretive fund
In 2008, Catherine McDougall was a young Australian lawyer seconded to the Libyan Investment Authority’s offices in Tripoli to assist its legal team and review financial transactions conducted by Goldman Sachs. She was “shocked” by what she learnt, according to her witness statement detailed in a London court earlier this month. In it, Ms McDougall details a “very angry tirade” allegedly unleashed by Mustafa Zarti, then the deputy director of the LIA, towards Goldman bankers Youssef Kabbaj and Nick Pentreath at the sovereign wealth fund’s 22nd floor offices at Tripoli Towers in a meeting in July 2008...............................................Full Article: Source
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