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Tuesday, April 2, 2019
MTN has paid $53m to settle Nigeria dispute -central bank
Reuters
The logo of MTN is pictured in Abuja, Nigeria. [Photo: Reuters]
ABUJA - South Africa’s MTN has paid $53 million to settle a money
transfer dispute with Nigeria’s central bank and the matter has been
withdrawn from court, Governor Godwin Emefiele said on Tuesday.
The central bank had ordered MTN and its lenders to bring back a total
of $8.1 billion it alleged the company had illegally repatriated using
improperly issued paperwork between 2007 and 2008.
Emefiele said the money paid by MTN was a notional sum and that the
company has been absolved from any wrongdoing, he said duing a monetary
policy meeting at which the bank left interest rates on hold at 14
percent.
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