payback at last

Discussion in 'Off Topic' started by ursula, Apr 14, 2005.

  1. ursula

    ursula Well-Known Member

    this made my day

    [/quote] The heirs of two Holocaust victims have been awarded $21.9m (£11.6m) in the largest single payout to date from a $1.25bn fund set up by Swiss banks.

    The victims - major shareholders in an Austrian sugar refinery before World War II - had put their shares into a Swiss bank to safeguard them in 1938.

    But under Nazi pressure, the unnamed bank transferred the shares to a German investor after the men were arrested.

    The US court award dwarfs the previous record payout of about $4m.
    this is long overdue, atleast in my book
    ursula
     

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