Mines, banks, petroleum, agriculture, tourism: Myanmar’s ruling junta has vested interests in large swathes of the country’s economy, providing it a colossal — and closely guarded — fortune that the United States has targeted with sanctions.
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Swiss authorities said Monday that they were returning to the United States the remaining $150 million linked to a vast financial swindle by Texas financier Allan Stanford, to help compensate his victims.
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The European Union on Thursday imposed a new round of sanctions on Belarus, targeting dozens more officials over their role in the security crackdown launched after the contested presidential elections in August.
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The European Union on Thursday extended for six months its sanctions against scores of people and organizations accused of undermining the territorial integrity of Ukraine.
Read moreThe SEC said it obtained an asset freeze against five people and six offshore entities that “generated more than $25 million from illegal sales of multiple microcap companies’ stock, including four that were the subject of recent SEC trading suspension orders: Sandy Steele Unlimited, WOD Retail Solutions, Bioscience Neutraceuticals, and Rivex Technologies.
Read moreThe SEC says it has frozen the assets of Florida-based investment adviser Kinetic Investment Group and its managing member, Michael Scott Williams, for an allegedly fraudulent, unregistered $39 million securities offering.
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Russia’s main opposition leader Alexei Navalny said Tuesday that authorities had frozen all of his bank accounts and those of his family, including his elderly parents.
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A woman from Azerbaijan who is suspected by British authorities of having ill-gotten wealth has lost a legal bid to get her seized assets back.
Read moreThe SEC said Tuesday that it obtained an asset freeze against Kenneth D. Courtright III, 49, of Minooka, Ill., and his company, Todays Growth Consultant, for an alleged Ponzi scheme that raised at least $75 million from more than 500 investors.
Read moreThe SEC said Tuesday it obtained a temporary restraining order and asset freeze against California-based solar panel company Nanotech and three of its directors who allegedly defrauded more than 100 investors and diverted more than $2.4 million to themselves.
Read moreThe SEC on Tuesday said it obtained a restraining order and asset freeze against Palm Financial Management and Shore Management Systems and their operators, Neil Burkholz of Boca Raton, Fla., and Frank Bianco, of Pembroke Pines, Fla., for an alleged $6 million Ponzi scheme.
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President Donald Trump ordered his staff to freeze nearly $400 million in aid to Ukraine a few days before a phone call in which he pressured the Eastern European nation’s leader to investigate the family of political rival Joe Biden, a revelation that comes as more Democrats move toward impeachment proceedings.
Read moreGafur-Arslanbek Akhemdovich Rakhimov, a Russian citizen who lives in Dubai, claims in a federal complaint that the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control falsely claims he provides material support to the Thieves in Law, a “purported transnational criminal organization,” and froze his U.S. assets.
Read morePresident Donald Trump on Monday ordered a freeze on all Venezuelan government assets in the United States and barred transactions with its authorities, in Washington’s latest move against President Nicolas Maduro.
Read moreUpholding an asset freeze imposed against Hamas, the European General Court rejected an argument Wednesday that the group’s attacks in Gaza are not terrorism but the actions of a legitimate political movement.
Read moreThe European Union is slapping asset freezes and travel bans on seven more people accused of human rights violations against the Rohingya minority in Myanmar.
Read moreFour years after it questioned the basis for an asset freeze against Hamas, the European General Court reversed course Friday, saying American decisions hold no sway but that EU lawmakers were entitled to rely on the findings of a U.K. official.
Read moreThe European General Court tossed a challenge to sanctions Wednesday from the erstwhile head of administration for former Ukraine President Victor Yanukovych.
Read moreCiting allegations that they benefitted from the misappropriation of state funds, the European General Court upheld an asset freeze against relatives of former Egyptian President Muhammad Hosni Mubarak.
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