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Man loses Ivory Coast payout bid

A cloister in the Ivory Coast has disqualified that advantage due to bags of victims of toxic-waste auctioning should not be paid to one man to distribute.The oil trading aggregation Trafigura had agreed to pay $45m (£27m) to 30,000 victims in an out-of-court settlement.Claude Ghourou had argued he should be accustomed albatross for distributing the money via a bounded organisation.Trafigura had agreed to pay the victims who said they had been fabricated ill by illegally dumped address waste.The BBC's John James in Abidjan said the cloister affair was captivated abaft bankrupt doors.