One consideration is freeing up the frozen assets of the Taliban to help fund Afghanistan's interim government, he said.
That case seeks garnishment of millions of dollars in frozen assets from U.S. bank accounts connected to the FARC.
The point of holding frozen assets is to use them as leverage against the foreign regime, not to give them away.
This week the Supreme Court of the United States agreed to hear the case, which could affect a number of other white-collar cases where the government has frozen assets upon issuing an indictment.
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The Treasury lists nine outfits as fronts for the Tigers, and has frozen the assets of four Sri Lankans.
The African Union and ECOWAS have also slapped the military junta with travel and economic restrictions and have frozen its assets.
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The African Union has frozen the assets held abroad by junta members.
The Iranians want to talk about America's economic sanctions which, while not stifling, make life harder and costlier, and the release of frozen Iranian assets.
Until now, the CERFs have been drawn from frozen Iraqi assets, regime money caches and Saddam's bank accounts seized in the course of liberating the country.
Since 2003, Christian notes, investors have been hoarding gold in Australia, Malaysia and Thailand, all places with no political risk--that is, their governments have historically not frozen private assets.
The EU has already frozen the assets of dozens of groups and individuals linked to Afghanistan's Taliban, Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda network, and other Islamic radical organisations.
It doesn't cover "regular" insolvencies, where a bank is just shut down, its assets frozen and liquidated.
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He hopes that some of the financial assets frozen by President Bush could pay for the damages.
The company has had its assets frozen and is under investigation by the stock exchange's regulating body.
The move means billions of dollars of Libyan assets frozen in US banks could be released to the rebels.
The prince's passport has been impounded, his assets frozen, and his movements restricted.
People are angry that the king's son-in-law will only have some assets frozen if he does not pay his bail.
His assets frozen, Dr. Gleason, represented by an appointed Federal Defender, pleaded guilty to a reduced charge in a plea bargain.
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Syrians suspected of involvement in the killings, some very close to President Bashar Assad, could face a ban on travel and have their foreign assets frozen.
U.S President Barack Obama has frozen the American assets of seven foreigners who have been identified as foreign narcotics kingpins under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act.
Friday's lifting of sanctions did not include reinstating direct air service between the United States and Libya, nor is the release of frozen Libyan government assets authorized.
The EU squeezed Mr Mugabe harder this week by adding 27 Zimbabwean officials and 36 companies to a black list, with assets frozen and travel in Europe barred.
And many of them have now had a substantial amount of their assets frozen by the actions taken unilaterally by the United States, announced by the Department of Treasury.
UN's terrorist blacklist (and had all their assets frozen) for the past six years, even though no one has ever succeeded in bringing criminal charges against either of them.
Thaksin, who bought City last June, had his assets frozen and fled to Britain last month to escape corruption charges in Thailand, claiming that he could not be assured of a fair trial.
Fraudsters face jail, and their assets are frozen and divided up among their victims.
Following his arrest, Mr Dotcom's assets were frozen and he has been placed under house arrest at his New Zealand mansion.
It is one of two Islamic Chicago-based charities whose assets were frozen.
Adm Na Tchuto - whose assets were frozen by Washington in 2010 - was arrested after a failed coup in Guinea-Bissau in December 2011, but released in June.
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