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.
Read moreThe U.S. on Monday urged the United Nations’ highest court to toss out a case filed by Iran that seeks to recover around $2 billion worth of frozen assets the U.S. Supreme Court awarded to victims of a 1983 bombing in Lebanon and other attacks linked to Iran.
Read moreAs it did with his brother in February, the European General Court thawed an asset freeze Wednesday that has plagued a onetime administration official for former Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovych.
Read moreThe European Court of Justice on Thursday upheld an asset freeze that has been imposed for seven years against a cousin of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Read moreThe Council of the European Union on Monday extended asset freezes against 13 people believed to be responsible for misappropriating Ukrainian state funds, one of the events surrounding Russia’s 2014 military annexation of part of Ukraine.
Read moreA Colorado man filed a federal class action against the currency exchange Vircurex on Wednesday, claiming it froze $50 million in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
Read moreThe Turkish government seized the assets of a gold trader and his family on Friday, in retaliation for his testimony implicating President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and other high-ranking officials in a multibillion-dollar scheme to bust Iran sanctions.
Read moreWanted in his home country to face charges of high treason, the exiled former president of Ukraine lost his challenge Thursday to an asset freeze imposed by the EU government.
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In the second high-profile drug case out of San Diego in a week, the U.S. assets of a suspected Guadalajara, Mexico, drug-trafficking leader were frozen by the Department of Treasury Wednesday following his indictment by a Southern California grand jury.
Read moreThe European General Court on Thursday upheld the asset freeze of two companies involved in the buying and selling of “conflict diamonds” from the Central African Republic.
Read moreThe European Court of Justice on Tuesday rejected claims that separatists who fought the Sri Lankan government for over 20 years should be subject to international humanitarian law governing armed conflict, rather than blacklisted as a terrorist organization.
Read moreEurope’s lower court on Tuesday upheld sanctions against a London man who was also a known associate of Osama bin Laden, finding his challenge untimely and the reasons for the sanctions sufficiently detailed to support the asset freeze.
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