July 09, 2020
Crystallex is asking a Delaware court to forge ahead with an auction of Citgo's parent company as it looks to enforce a $1.2 billion arbitral award against Venezuela, even as other creditors of the crisis-stricken country have begun to circle around Caracas' most important foreign asset.
May 22, 2020
A Delaware federal judge on Friday gave Citgo's parent company two weeks to respond to an order allowing Crystallex to seize its shares to enforce a $1.2 billion arbitral award against Venezuela, days after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up the country's challenge against the order.
January 28, 2020
Crystallex International Corp. can't force Citgo's parent company to immediately respond to a seizure order aimed at enforcing a $1.2 billion arbitral award against Venezuela after a Delaware federal judge ruled Tuesday that it wasn't clear the information was needed for U.S. government approval of an asset sale.
January 13, 2020
The Canadian mining company Crystallex can't force Venezuela to speed up its bid to have the U.S. Supreme Court review a $1.4 billion arbitral award dispute, the Latin American country said in Delaware federal court.
December 20, 2019
Political turmoil in Venezuela shouldn't stop the country from responding to its $1.4 billion bill, Crystallex told a federal court in a brief that decried the country's attempt to "drag out" its appellate fight against the arbitral award.
December 12, 2019
A Delaware federal judge on Thursday paused efforts by Crystallex to enforce an arbitral award against Venezuela now worth some $1.4 billion, citing a litany of reasons, including U.S. sanctions and the "greater-than-usual" possibility that the U.S. Supreme Court may take up the case.
December 10, 2019
Venezuela told a Delaware federal judge Monday that Canadian miner Crystallex and other companies cannot seize and sell off shares in Citgo's parent company unless they obtain a specific license from the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control.
November 25, 2019
Venezuela has urged a Delaware federal judge to maintain a prohibition on Crystallex seizing and selling off shares in Citgo's parent company, telling the court that allowing the Canadian miner to proceed would violate U.S. sanctions.
October 16, 2019
Crystallex urged the Third Circuit on Tuesday to keep in place a panel ruling that lets the Canadian miner seize shares in Citgo's parent company, saying the panel correctly found that Venezuela and its state-owned oil company are not separate entities.
November 26, 2018
Crystallex International Corp. has reached a deal with Venezuela and will temporarily halt efforts to enforce a $1.2 billion arbitration award issued after the financially troubled nation expropriated its mining investments, saying Monday that it's already pocketed $500 million in cash and liquid securities.