Mozambique had commenced an action against, among others, the respondents over allegations of corruption in relation to a transaction by which Mozambique had borrowed money to finance the purchase of equipment and services under supply contracts with the respondents. The Court denied the respondent’s application to stay proceedings based on the arbitration clause in the supply contracts, finding that Mozambique’s claims related to an alleged corrupt scheme involving the transaction as a whole, with the supply contracts being only one of its elements; hence, the claims did not have a sufficient connection with the supply contracts containing the arbitration clause.