Mealey's ( August 14, 2026, 12:28 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) on Aug. 13 published an ad hoc committee’s decision denying in full the Argentine Republic’s application to annul a split tribunal’s award against it worth more than $23 million in favor of Austrian investment entities whose gaming license investment was expropriated and ordering Argentina to pay more than $1.2 million in attorney fees, expenses and arbitration costs because it raised “duplicative” arguments “which could never have been sustainable.”...