Australia’s Future Fund has invested over $90m in weapons manufacturer Raytheon
by Ben Doherty and Ben Butler from World news | The Guardian on (#5VK5Q)
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Australia's sovereign wealth fund, the Future Fund, has invested more than $90m in weapons manufacturer Raytheon Technologies, whose laser-guided bomb was allegedly used in an airstrike on a detention centre in Yemen this month killing nearly 100 civilians.
Documents released under freedom of information laws show the Future Fund, which invests on behalf of the Australian government, had $91.22m invested in Raytheon as of December last year.
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