Man loses Ivory Coast payout bid

Source: BBC

Abidjan : Ivory Coast | 19 days ago

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The oil trading company Trafigura had agreed to pay $45m (£27m) to 30,000 victims in an out-of-court settlement. Claude Ghourou had argued he should be given responsibility for distributing the money via a local organisation. Trafigura had agreed to pay the victims who said they had been made ill...

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