A ruling by the Third District Court of Appeal has pushed a dispute over $2.7 million in allegedly misplaced funds out of the Miami-Dade Circuit Court and into a venue slightly more southward — Brazil.

In March 2013 Hamed Wardak, an Afghani investor who had previously been the subject of scrutiny for his role in transporting U.S. military vehicles through Afghanistan, opened a multimillion-dollar Miami account with Brazil-based bank and financial services firm Estrategia Investimentos. Wardak filed suit in Florida against the bank and the employee who handled his account, Pablo Antoniazzi, alleging that he could not access his funds.