1. Americans who engage in financial dealings with a person or company on the list could have their assets blocked, again without the benefit of full judicial review. 2. And a number of other nations, including several in the Middle East and Africa, aided with coordinated enforcement actions and by blocking assets of the organizations. 3. Beginning last night, with seizing and blocking assets owned by the Cali Cartel, which is the largest drug cartel in the world. 4. Accordingly, last night I signed an executive order that will block the assets in the United States of terrorist organizations that threaten to disrupt the peace process. 5. European nations had already acted to block assets in any accounts linked to those men. 6. In the past, governments and banks in industrial nations have had widely divergent policies on blocking criminal assets. 7. One is blocking assets they may have in this country. 8. The order blocks their assets in the United States and in U.S. banks overseas. 9. Until now, a president could block assets of foreign entities if a finding was made that they threatened the Middle East peace process. 10. Zaire has asked Switzerland to block any assets held in Swiss bank accounts by President Mobutu Sese Seko, the Swiss government said. |