Video: Cristina Kirchner triumphant as seized Argentine tall ship returns home "These "vulture" funds (hedge funds) that tried to take our Libertad ship, this is the 28th extortion they've attempted. They're the product of this global crisis that can be defined as "anarchist capitalism" where there are no global rules and only the lobby of the most powerful is in the right," she said. Ghanaian courts ordered the ship to be held in October following a claim by a Cayman Islands-based hedge fund, NML Capital Limited. Its owner, American billionaire Paul Singer, leads a group demanding payment in full, plus interest about $350 million (£218 million) for dollar-based Argentine bonds bought at fire-sale prices after Argentina's 2001-2002 economic collapse forced a sharp devaluation of its currency. The conflict over the ship reached an especially tense moment in November when Argentine sailors brandished weapons to block Ghanaian officials from moving the vessel to a less busy dock. But the United Nations' International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea ordered the ship's release last month after Argentina argued that warships are immune from seizure.