US fund exits ONGC
TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: New York-based fund house TIAA-CREF has pulled out its invesements in ONGC and a clutch of Chinese firms to pressure companies against doing business with the Sudan government which has been accused of human rights violations and war crimes by the West. ONGC said its operations never support any oppressive activities anywhere in the world but it would not move out of Sudan because of the TIAA-CREF move. ‘‘We at ONGC are very conscious that our operations do not cause any concern or anyway convey our support to any oppressive activity anywhere in the world,'' company chairman R S Sharma said. TOI had on December 15, 2007, first reported the prospect of some US investors pulling out in the wake of the Sudan Divestment Bill moved by the US Congress. It empowered US state and local governments besides mutual and private pension funds to withdraw their investments from corporates in Sudan's oil, mineral, power and arms manufacturing sectors. The Ruias-promoted Essar group had sometime back pulled back from its plan to build a refinery in Iran's Bandar Abbas to save its US deals — purchase of steel from Minnesota and the construction of a new mill there. In 2007, State Bank of India refused to entertain letters of credit from a leading Iranian importer for fear of losing US business.--
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