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Egypt's most determined creditor seeks ammunition from closed ENI case

Mohamed Abdel Raouf Bahgat, a dual citizen of Finland and Egypt, is pulling out all the stops to recover the $120m he says Egypt owes him. [...]

Published on 25/10/2021 at 06:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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Egypt
Cairo creditor Mohamed Bahgat gets access to ENI's sealed Damietta LNG file

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