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Vulture Fund awarded $100m in Jersey court
Jubilee Debt Campaign has...condemned a $100 million judgement in favour of US vulture fund FG Hemisphere...The original debt, which FG Hemisphere bought in 2003, was for $37 million. It has now risen to more than $100 million...and is growing by around $27,500 a day, according to Jersey Court of Appeal...The judgment comes six months after the UK passed the landmark Debt Relief (Developing Countries) Act, the world’s first law to restrict the ability of so-called 'vulture funds' to sue developing countries for historical debts and make massive profits...Nick Dearden, Director of Jubilee Debt Campaign, said “It is only a few months since Congo finally got debt cancellation from the World Bank after 7 years of promises. Now those debt relief funds are being hijacked by a US vulture fund when they are desperately needed to tackle the enormous poverty the country faces."