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Kuwaiti bank reimburses Madoff losses

By Brooke Masters and Henny Sender

Published: January 29 2009 23:31 | Last updated: January 29 2009 23:31

The National Bank of Kuwait has fully reimbursed all its clients who lost money in the alleged $50bn Ponzi scheme run by New York broker Bernard Madoff, banking sources said.

NBK paid about $50m to some 20 individuals who invested in Madoff feeder funds through its Swiss bank in December, one NBK executive said. The clients received the principal they initially put into the funds and the gains, said by authorities to be fictitious, that they thought they had made.

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