“Vulture fund threat to third world”

February 18, 2007

Wednesday, 14 February 2007, 20:03 GMT

Meirion Jones
BBC Newsnight

The full article is at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/6362783.stm

"On Thursday 15 February a high court judge in London will rule whether so-called vulture fund can extract more than $40m from Zambia for a debt which it bought for less than $4m."

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