FUSTOK v. BANQUE POPULAIRE SUISSE

No. 81 Civ. 4139.

546 F.Supp. 506 (1982)

Mahmoud FUSTOK, Plaintiff, v. BANQUE POPULAIRE SUISSE (also known as Swiss Volksbank), Advicorp Advisory and Financial Corporation, S.A., Alain Brussard, Michel Blattmann, Roger Guex, Pierre-Alain Hirschi, Jean-Jacques Bally, Antoine Asfour and Paul Bisoffi, Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. New York.

September 8, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle, New York City, for plaintiff; Herbert Stoller, Eliot Lauer, Lorraine C. Parker, New York City, of counsel.

Arnold & Porter, Washington, D.C., Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, New York City, for defendant Banque Populaire Suisse; Brooksley E. Landau, Washington, D.C., Robert E. Gerber, New York City, of counsel.

Layton & Sherman, New York City, for defendants Alain Brussard, Michel Blattmann and Roger Guex; Daniel J. Brooks, Fredrick E. Sherman, New York City, of counsel.


OPINION

EDWARD WEINFELD, District Judge.

Plaintiff, Mahmoud Fustok, a citizen of Saudi Arabia and a resident of London, England, commenced this action against other foreign citizens and nonresidents charging them with having defrauded him of $250,000,000 in connection with transactions in the trading of silver futures contracts and deliveries of physical silver. The defendants against whom the charge is leveled are: Banque Populaire Suisse ("Banque"), a...

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