Libya loses challenge to OIC award in Switzerland

The assets were nationalised after Gaddafi seized power in 1969 (Credit: Shutterstock/Sodel Vladyslav)

A Swiss court has upheld a US$74 million award won by a Middle Eastern family against Libya under the OIC investment agreement – finding nothing improper in the use of a most-favoured nation clause to resolve an impasse over the appointment of a tribunal chair.