1. Trade among individual currencies has all but come to a halt since May, when European authorities, making way for the euro, froze exchange rates. 2. Asked what leverage an American court might have over Switzerland, he said U.S. authorities could freeze Swiss assets in the United States. 3. Authorities might freeze the assets of three Islamic charities that the United States says may be funding terrorist activities, a law enforcement official said Tuesday. 4. Authorities have frozen the Swiss account. 5. Former prime minister Benazir Bhutto was meeting with her jailed husband in Karachi Tuesday, a day after Swiss authorities froze bank accounts linked to the couple. 6. In February, Saudi authorities froze four bank accounts linked to suspected terrorists. 7. In September, the Swiss authorities froze bank accounts belonging to Bhutto, her mother and her husband Asif Ali Zardari. 8. Justice authorities later froze the bank accounts of Rappaz and of Valchanvre as part of the money-laundering investigation. 9. Kabila himself said earlier this year that Swiss authorities should freeze the accounts on grounds that they contained stolen wealth from the Zairian people. 10. Swiss authorities froze the accounts late last month on suspicion that money was being used to finance illegal arms trafficking in the Yugoslav province. |