Frozen Assets

Frozen Assets
Author: Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
Publisher: Pan Books (UK)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1969
Genre:
ISBN: 9780330022026

Freezing Assets

Freezing Assets
Author: Mahvash Alerassool
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 251
Release: 1992-12-18
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1349225320

In November 1979 the US government froze over $14 billion of Iranian assets in response to the Iranian revolution and the seizure of US hostages. Since then, freezing sovereign assets has become an increasingly frequent and highly effective economic sanction. It has been used against Nicaragua, Libya, Panama, Kuwait and Iraq. This book is a comprehensive study of asset-freezing as an economic sanction and a political weapon. It analyses the international financial, legal and political implications of asset-freezing. It concentrates on the freeze against Iran to discover the initial motivations and mechanisms of asset-freezing. The book examines its political, economic and legal basis: beginning with the US International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977; through the legal implications of the extraterritorial application of the freeze order and the litigation in European courts; and ending with an examination of the political agreement that resolved the Iranian crisis in 1981. It shows how this agreement superseded litigation in the US courts which would have produced judgments far more favourable to Iran. Finally, there is a comparative analysis of freezes after the Iranian case and suggestions for the ways in which countries vulnerable to asset-freezing can protect themselves against this unilateral instrument of hegemony by a major financial power.

Frozen Assets

Frozen Assets
Author: Quentin Bates
Publisher: Soho Press
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2011
Genre: Banks and banking
ISBN: 1569478678

Officer Gunnhildur investigates the discovery of a body floating off an Icelandic fishing village and uncovers a web of political intrigue and corruption.

Mexico

Mexico
Author: International Monetary Fund. Legal Dept.
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2018-01-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1484335481

This report provides a summary of the anti-money laundering/combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) measures in place in Mexico. Mexico has a mature AML/CFT regime, with a correspondingly well-developed legal and institutional framework. Most of the key authorities have a good understanding of money laundering (ML) and terrorist financing risks, and there is generally good policy cooperation and coordination. The financial sector demonstrates a good understanding of the primary ML threats from organized crime groups and associated criminal activities as well as tax crimes, but the recognition of corruption as a main threat is uneven. Financial intelligence and other relevant information are made available by the financial intelligence unit and accessed on a regular basis by competent authorities.

Foreign Relations Law

Foreign Relations Law
Author: Curtis A. Bradley
Publisher: Aspen Publishing
Total Pages: 884
Release: 2024
Genre: International and municipal law
ISBN:

"Casebook for law school courses on Foreign Relations Law, offering a mix of cases, statutes, and executive branch materials, as well as extensive notes and questions and discussion of relevant historical background"--

International Law Reports

International Law Reports
Author: E. Lauterpacht
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 766
Release: 1998-01-29
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780521580694

A unique and essential work of reference for the international lawyer.

International Sanctions: Monetary and Financial Law Perspectives

International Sanctions: Monetary and Financial Law Perspectives
Author: Chiara Zilioli
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2024-08-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9004705708

The monetary and financial dimensions of economic sanctions have become critical components of sanctions strategies. A wider range of monetary and financial assets, entities (including central banks), and services are now targeted. Financial institutions, infrastructures, regulators and central banks play an increasingly influential role in shaping sanctions channels. Furthermore, sanctions may have significant impacts on financial obligations. This book, prepared under the auspices of the International Monetary Law Committee of the International Law Association (Mocomila), is the first to focus on the unexplored financial and monetary law aspects of economic sanctions and examine their impact on central banks and payment systems.