A US court has ordered the government of Iran to pay more than $1.4 billion in punitive and compensatory damages to the family of former FBI agent Robert Levinson, who disappeared during a visit to an Iranian island in March 2007, Reuters reported Monday.
According to the report, in a decision issued late last week, US District Judge Timothy Kelly said that he adopted a special expert’s recommendation that Levinson’s family be awarded $107 million in compensatory damages. The judge awarded punitive damages of $1.3 billion.
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