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World Bank orders Argentina to pay $320 million over seized airline: newspaper

Published 07/22/2017, 01:31 PM
Updated 07/22/2017, 01:40 PM
© Reuters. A Boeing 737-700 aircraft belonging to state-run Aerolineas Argentinas lands at Buenos Aires' domestic airport

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - The World Bank's arbitration tribunal has ordered Argentina to pay $320 million plus interest and legal fees to Spanish travel group Marsans for expropriating its airline Aerolineas Argentinas SA in 2008, a local newspaper reported on Saturday.

The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) ruled against Argentina for "illegally expropriating the investments" of Marsans, the tribunal was quoted saying in daily newspaper Clarin.

ICSID and a spokesperson for the office of Argentine President Mauricio Macri did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Argentina's former President Cristina Fernandez ordered the state seizure of the airline in 2008, alleging mismanagement. It has remained under state control since then.

Pro-business Macri has been trying to dismantle state controls on the economy implemented during Fernandez's government since taking office in 2015.

© Reuters. A Boeing 737-700 aircraft belonging to state-run Aerolineas Argentinas lands at Buenos Aires' domestic airport

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