Tracing And Freezing Assets In Aid Of Litigation

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Tracing And Freezing Assets In Aid Of Litigation

1. Foreword

This article presents three examples of how criminal proceedings

and international assistance in criminal proceedings offered a

possibility to attach assets which could then be claimed in civil

proceedings.

The present document is aimed at showing some possibilities open

to the practitioner in civil and commercial law suits who has met

with difficulties to trace assets in the past.

2. United States of America vs. Albert

Hakim

Within the framework of the Irangate affair, the Office

of International Affairs of the U.S.Government addressed a request

for international criminal assistance to the Swiss Central Office

for judicial assistance in criminal matters. According to the

requesting government, Oliver North, a military aide to the

National Security Council, had been mandated to neg...

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