1.   And soon after the war ended, the battle over abandoned accounts and looted assets left in that country began.

2.   Other areas, beside the IMF, that investigators are studying as potential sources for the money include looted state assets and corporate corruption.

3.   People said that the issues we raised, like their bank trafficking in looted Jewish assets from the Netherlands, simply could not be true.

4.   Recently disclosed government documents have also raised questions about whether Swiss banks may have been used as conduits by Nazis to deposit or launder looted assets.

5.   The conference takes place amid rising concern that the looted assets of Holocaust victims may be held in many European countries, in Israel and in the U.S.

6.   The Israeli delegation also demanded that looted assets be returned to victims and their heirs.

7.   Burg added that the investigation needed to expand and deal with dormant safe deposit boxes, looted assets and insurance policies.

8.   He said a French delegation of officials and experts would attend the meeting in Washington D.C. that starts Monday on looted Jewish assets.

9.   In the lawsuit, looted assets include dental fillings and other gold taken from Jews by the Nazis, resmelted and sold to the private banks.

10.   The United States, France and Britain set up the commission at the end of World War II to return looted assets to central banks.