{"id":31912,"date":"2012-10-12T06:48:51","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T10:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=31912"},"modified":"2012-10-12T06:48:51","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T10:48:51","slug":"no-liberty-for-libertad-argentinas-battle-with-hedge-fund-billionaire-for-navy-vessel-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2012\/no-liberty-for-libertad-argentinas-battle-with-hedge-fund-billionaire-for-navy-vessel-continues.html","title":{"rendered":"No Liberty For Libertad: Argentina&#8217;s Battle With Hedge Fund Billionaire For Navy Vessel Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes &#8211; The\u00a0incredible story of the Argentine vessel\u00a0detained in Ghana at the request of a hedge fund tied to billionaire Paul Singer continues.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, a court in Ghana\u00a0rejected\u00a0the Argentine state\u2019s request to grant the Fragata Libertad diplomatic immunity, despite it being a military ship.\u00a0 NML Capital, the hedge fund, is looking to extract payment from the Argentine state on sovereign bonds that were part of the largest sovereign debt default in 2001 and 2002.\u00a0 The Administration of\u00a0Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner\u00a0called<span style=\"line-height: 24px;\">\u00a0Singer\u2019s Elliott Capital a \u201cvulture fund\u201d and accused it of us<\/span>e Administration of\u00a0Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner\u00a0calling immoral and \u201cusurious practices,\u201d while claiming the vessel is protected by immunity granted by the Vienna Convention.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/afontevecchia\/2012\/10\/11\/no-liberty-for-libertad-argentinas-battle-with-hedge-fund-billionaire-for-navy-vessel-continues\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes &#8211; The\u00a0incredible story of the Argentine vessel\u00a0detained in Ghana at the request of a hedge fund tied to billionaire Paul Singer continues. On Thursday, a court in Ghana\u00a0rejected\u00a0the Argentine state\u2019s request to grant the Fragata Libertad diplomatic immunity, despite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31913,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31912\/revisions\/31913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}