{"id":627,"date":"2010-01-22T12:06:37","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T17:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delicious.com\/url\/56693d3677cb533763355c7eae8d21b8#tomathon"},"modified":"2010-01-22T12:06:37","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T17:06:37","slug":"trafigura-pay-out-to-go-to-cronies-not-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/01\/trafigura-pay-out-to-go-to-cronies-not-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"Trafigura pay-out to go to cronies not victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Ivorian court has ruled that a previously unknown NGO should get all compensation, not the victims. &#039;&#8230;a senior partner at Leigh Day, the British law firm that has been representing claimants, said that following Friday&#039;s ruling, &quot;the prospect of our clients receiving their compensation look somewhat remote&#8230; Thirty thousand Ivoirians have been looking to get the compensation due to them to alleviate their lives. Now there is a very real chance they will not see a penny.&quot; Another Leigh Day lawyer, Kouame Klement, said only his firm knew the identity of those due to be paid, and that he was worried Mr Gohourou&#039;s group would create fictional lists of names. Leigh Day said in a statement that it was concerned there was a &quot;Mr Big&quot; behind Mr Gohourou&#8230; Amnesty International is among those concerned that the money could be stolen if passed to Mr Gohourou&#039;s newly created non-governmental organisation.&#039;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Ivorian court has ruled that a previously unknown NGO should get all compensation, not the victims. &#039;&#8230;a senior partner at Leigh Day, the British law firm that has been representing claimants, said that following Friday&#039;s ruling, &quot;the prospect of our clients receiving their compensation look somewhat remote&#8230; Thirty thousand Ivoirians have been looking to get the compensation due to them to alleviate their lives. Now there is a very real chance they will not see a penny.&quot; Another Leigh Day lawyer, Kouame Klement, said only his firm knew the identity of those due to be paid, and that he was worried Mr Gohourou&#039;s group would create fictional lists of names. Leigh Day said in a statement that it was concerned there was a &quot;Mr Big&quot; behind Mr Gohourou&#8230; Amnesty International is among those concerned that the money could be stolen if passed to Mr Gohourou&#039;s newly created non-governmental organisation.&#039;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/01\/trafigura-pay-out-to-go-to-cronies-not-victims\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mYFK-a7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}