Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf of the International Court of Justice, has been named as the neutral judge on an international arbitration panel looking into Vodafone's Rs20,000 crore tax dispute with the Indian government over an eight-year-old acquisition.
Yusuf, who is vice president of the ICJ, will join Govt arbitrator former chief justice of India RC lahoti and Vodafone nominee Yves Fortier of Canada on a three-member panel constituted to resolve the issue. Sources said that after Yusuf confirms his participation, the arbitration proceedings, which has been pending for a year now, will start.