CAIRO – 15 November 2021: The State Litigation Authority obtained an arbitration ruling before the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague in the Netherlands, in the lawsuit filed by the Bahraini Nile Duma Company against the Egyptian state. The statement of the State Litigation Authority stated that the arbitral tribunal rejected the requesting company's request to compensate it in the amount of $29.3 million in addition to the accrued interests, which saved the public treasury from bearing the aforementioned compensation amounts. The arbitration case lasted 5 years, and the State Litigation Authority was able to obtain a ruling rejecting the two cases. This ruling is the 15th issued in favor of the Egyptian state in the last 7 years in international arbitration cases and disputes before international arbitration bodies and foreign courts. The State Litigation Authority stated that it succeeded in saving the public treasury from paying it during that period, the equivalent of $6.215 billion, 410 million, and €2 billion and LE 4 million, which is the total value of investors' claims in those disputes.
