Swiss Freeze Assets of Milosevic and Defendants Indicted for War Crimes

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Sunday, August 1, 1999

Author:

Bruce Zagaris

Volume:

15

Issue:

8

323-324

Abstract:

On June 24, 1999, the Swiss federal authorities provisionally froze funds in Switzerland belonging to Slobodan Milosevic, the Yugoslav President, and four high-ranking officials, all indicted by the International Tribunal for Crimes in the Former Yugoslavia in May 1999. The case marks the first time the Swiss Government has frozen funds of a head of state... [more]