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Japan firm says doesn't have money for Ecuador 'slavery' compensation / 36QD76P
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A Japanese textile company, ordered by Ecuadoran courts to pay $41 million to compensate its workers for keeping them in slave-like conditions, claims it lacks the money to pay up.
Ecuador's Constitutional Court ordered the company, Furukawa, to pay $120,000 to each of the 342 victims -- a total of around $41 million. It will also have to make a public apology to them.
"Even if we sold all the properties, all the vehicles, all the assets of the company, we would not be able to pay these 41 million dollars," says Furukawa's director. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES