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BANCO CENT. DE RESERVA v. RIGGS NAT. BANK

Civil Action No. 88-3327 (HHG).

919 F.Supp. 13 (1994)

BANCO CENTRAL DE RESERVA DEL PERU, Plaintiff, v. The RIGGS NATIONAL BANK OF WASHINGTON, D.C., Defendant. The RIGGS NATIONAL BANK OF WASHINGTON, D.C., Plaintiff, v. The REPUBLIC OF PERU, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

December 12, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel Ben Silver, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, Washington, DC, Mark Alan Cymrot, Baker & Hostetler, Washington, DC, Thomas O. Gorman, Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur, Washington, DC, for Banco Central de Reserva del Peru.

Richard H. Sauer, Sullivan & Cromwell, Washington, DC, David Gerard Feher, Weil, Gotshal & Manges, New York City, Margaret Kolodny Pfeiffer, Sullivan & Cromwell, New York City, for Riggs National Bank of Washington, DC.

Mark Alan Cymrot, Baker & Hostetler, Washington, DC, for The Republic of Peru and Banco Central de Reserva del Peru.

Richard Lee Cys, Davis, Wright & Tremaine, Washington, DC, for Banco de la Nacion, Corporacion Financiera de Desarrollo S.A. and Banco Popular del Peru.

Opinion

HAROLD H. GREENE, District Judge.

Plaintiff, Banco Central de Reserva del Peru ("BCR") seeks to recover a $2 million dollar deposit placed with the Riggs National Bank of Washington, D.C. Defendant Riggs has filed a counterclaim requesting that the Court declare that it properly set off the deposit against outstanding debts. The parties have filed cross motions for summary judgment.

Background

In the early 1980s, Riggs...

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