GENEVA - Switzerland has blocked nearly one billion Swiss
francs (664.80 million pounds) in stolen assets linked to dictators in
four countries at the centre of the Arab spring - Egypt, Libya, Syria
and Tunisia - the Swiss foreign ministry said on Tuesday.
Swiss
authorities are cooperating with judicial authorities in Tunisia and
Egypt to speed restoration of the funds, 700 million francs of which are
tied to former President Hosni Mubarak and his entourage, said Valentin
Zellweger, head of the international law department at the Swiss
foreign ministry.
"Today a total of one billion francs is blocked
in the framework of Arab spring," he told a news briefing in Geneva,
giving the latest figures for funds seized since early 2011.
Source: Reuters
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