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JPMorgan Says Payments to Libya Oil-Fund Fixer Weren’t Bribes
TRIPOLI (Capital Markets in Africa) – JPMorgan Chase & Co. acknowledged that Bear Stearns made millions of dollars of payments to a friend of the son of Libyan dictator Moammar Al Qaddafi around the time it raised $200 million for the country’s wealth fund. But the bank is refuting the Libyan Investment Authority’s central allegation in a London lawsuit that the funds were used to bribe and intimidate officials who awarded the 2007 bond deal. The payments were for help…
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