Sentences with phrase «asset freezes from»

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Forced to evacuate 30,000 Chinese workers from Libya, they now find their oilfields there frozen as the new regime attempts to nationalize the assets of companies that co-operated with the deposed Ghadafi regime.

The accounts» owners could have their assets frozen or be blocked from the domestic financial system, the people said.

Senior administration officials said the individuals targeted by Thursday's sanctions will have assets frozen in the United States, will be barred from doing any business in the U.S. and will be unable to make transactions in American dollars.

Diplomats have said the UN Security Council could now consider banning Pyongyang's textile exports and the North's national airline, stop supplies of oil to the government and military, prevent North Koreans from working abroad and add top officials to a blacklist to subject them to an asset freeze and travel ban.

The sanctioned entities now fall under the label of Specially Designated Nationals (SDN), which means their U.S. assets are frozen and U.S. entities are forbidden from doing business with them.

Although there were a range of hit properties, including the movie Frozen, much of the earnings increase came from assets related to Marvel, whether it was movies like Guardians of The Galaxy or merchandise sales involving characters from the Avengers» franchise.

Imagine you had no legacy customers to satisfy, no assets to maintain, no dividend to pay — nothing to stop you from creating the perfect postmodern organization.What would you do?If you're a seasoned and successful chief executive like Christine Day, you just might join something that looks a little like Luvo Inc., an ambitious young company that makes, of all things, healthy frozen dinners.

As the accused allegedly acquired more than $ 5 million of the $ 6 million under scrutiny from within the state of Massachusetts, it was Judge Rya Zobel of the District Court of Massachusetts who issued a freeze of their assets on January 16, 2018.

Moreover, the same order from Judge Zobel also froze assets related to three relief defendants: Kimberly Renee Benge, Barbara Crater Meeks, and Erica Crater, all of whom have been linked to the company and whom allegedly received customer funds «without providing any legitimate services to clients and without any interest or entitlement to such customer funds.»

Yet, even with all increasing red flags that suggest that assets held within the global banking system could be devalued, frozen, or seized, or all of the aforementioned, including warnings of possible negative interest rates applied to commercial and corporate bank accounts in the near future from big global banks like the Royal Bank of Scotland, most of us go about our daily lives without giving a second thought about taking preventive actions to prevent such mind - blowing and negatively impacting life - changing events from happening.

The United States placed sanctions against Maduro, freezing any assets he holds in the US, and barred Americans from doing business with him.

Shortly thereafter, the U.S. Treasury Department froze all of Maduro's assets subject to U.S. jurisdiction and prohibited all U.S. citizens from dealing with him.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 2017 - 219 Washington D.C., Dec. 4, 2017 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced it obtained an emergency asset freeze to halt a fast - moving Initial Coin Offering (ICO) fraud that raised up to $ 15 million from thousands of investors since August by falsely promising a 13-fold profit in less than a month.

On January 17, 2012, Judge Carol E. Jackson of the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri granted the SEC's request for emergency injunctive relief (including an asset freeze and appointment of a receiver) against Burton Douglas Morriss as well as several investment management companies and private equity funds operated by Morriss in response to the SEC's complaint alleging that Morriss misappropriated more than $ 9 million in investor assets from 2005 through 2011.

Supreme court judges have unanimously prevented the Treasury from freezing the assets of five terror suspects.

Meanwhile, the president Buhari's Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu in a Facebook post said «records will be obtained from the CBN and the investigation agencies regarding recovery and seizures, and actual status with regard to frozen sums in banks and assets held wherever they are.»

It wants an extension of the asset freeze against Russians who are responsible for the military incursion into Ukraine, as well as travel bans and asset freezes against Russians who have «misappropriated» funds from Ukraine.

Libyan assets in Britain which were previously frozen are to be released, including # 91 million of frozen funds from a Libyan oil company, the Arabian Gulf Oil Company.

«We are also consulting with the administration on possible sanctions actions against individual Russians and Ukrainians that range from visa bans and asset freezes, to the suspension of military cooperation and sales, as well as economic sanctions,» the New Jersey Democrat said.

The term «frozen assets» originally refers to when someone is prevented from selling their property to make money.

All assets under the defendants» control are frozen by an emergency court order and Lanzana and Masanko are prohibited from «destruction or concealment of their books and records».

This will also protect the companies assets and funds from being frozen by any debt collector looking to collect the money you may owe them.

What headline are you referring to regarding assets being frozen by a call from a politician's aide?

This can mean you will be getting a visit from a debt collector to recover the funds or the medical practitioner might decide to sue you for the money in which case your assets can be seized and your bank accounts frozen.

That money belonged to the Iranians and came from assets in American Banks that we froze to express our displeasure.

Daybreak Games» Chief Publishing Officer Leaves the Company New Daybreak Games Connections Discovered, LotRO and DDO Say They'll Remain Unaffected $ 2B Worth of Assets from Russian Company Columbus Nova Frozen, Daybreak Claiming No Affiliation

Reports from the hearing said that U.S. District Judge David Godbey extended the freeze on Stanford's personal and corporate assets at least until March 12, and that lawyers seeking to have assets unfrozen were not allowed to speak.

The original proposal was that the federal government would spend many hundreds of billions of dollars buying up so - called «toxic» assets (tied to the collapsing real estate market) from financial institutions, so that they could shore up their balance sheets and prevent world credit markets from freezing up.

Indeed, an enforcement action can result in court - ordered receiverships, temporary restraining orders (TROs), preliminary and permanent injunctions, asset freezes, disgorgement, severe monetary penalties, officer and director bars, penny stock bars, and administrative orders barring individuals or entities from the securities industry.

Our expertise in the pursuit and defence of civil fraud claims, particularly in the commercial context, extends from the early advisory stages and the obtaining (or resisting) of urgent freezing and search order relief (including dealing with the cross-jurisdictional issues that may arise and enforcement through applications for contempt and other measures), through to trial and the tracing and recovery of assets both in the UK and internationally.

(i) A freezing order will be granted more readily after judgment than before; it is sufficient for the grant of relief that there is a real risk that the judgment will remain unsatisfied if injunctive relief is refused; (ii) there is no reason why the court should not exercise a power to appoint a receiver by way of equitable execution over future receipts from a defined asset.

In a bankruptcy, insolvency practitioners» powers include the court - sanctioned ability to: interview under compulsion; search and seize property associated with fraud; obtain freezing orders on assets; overturn transfers of assets to third parties; obtain passport orders to prevent bankrupts from leaving the country; and order the delivery up of records.

A freezing order can be sought at any time in order to prevent a defendant from disposing of assets before enforcement.

However, where the court is convinced that the defendant is improperly dissipating his or her assets to make recovery more difficult or impossible, the court will freeze a defendant's assets to prevent that from happening.

In concluding, Lord Phillips referred to the recent decision in HM Treasury v A (reviewed here on the UKSC Blog) in which the UKSC held that the government's regime for freezing the assets of suspected terrorists (passed by resolution from the UN Security Council, but not by Parliament) was unlawful, since it breached the common law principle of legality.

A recent Fourth Circuit opinion in a False Claims Act case demonstrates that while the government can freeze defendants» assets before trial with lightning speed, getting them unfrozen can take anywhere from many years to never.

This suggests that the Myanmar courts would only enforce monetary judgments, at least from a procedural perspective, and that judgments in rem, such as relating to injunctions, including foreign asset freezing orders and specific performance, would not be enforced.

If, for example, the party who obtained the freezing order used the cross-examination to extract admissions from the person cross-examined on the motive for concealment rather than the location of assets, then the court might consider that it would be unfair to the party cross-examined to allow evidence of the cross-examination, or at least the relevant part of the cross-examination, to be used in the contempt proceedings.

A judge awarded a $ 22 million judgment, which the family was able to collect from frozen Cuban assets.

Freezing orders in family law are used to prevent a wealthy party from dissipating their assets.

Bank accounts and proceeds from the sale of any assets that has already taken place can also be frozen.

By the very nature of the relief — directed towards preventing the defendant from dissipating / concealing his assets — worldwide freezing orders are only effective if applied for without notice.

Many times ex parte interim orders have to be sought freezing assets, prohibiting various activities or obtaining information from banks or other bodies.

Advice was sought informally from counsel on 27 February, who suggested proceedings to freeze the husband's assets.

Assets of the defendant to which the claimant had no proprietary claim whatever were to be frozen to constitute a source from which the claimant could hope to satisfy the money judgment that, in the substantive proceedings, he hoped to obtain.

The frozen assets were removed for the time being from any beneficial use by their owner, the defendant.

A judge awarded a $ 22 million judgment, and the family was able to collect that judgment from frozen Cuban assets.

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced it obtained an emergency asset freeze to halt a fast - moving Initial Coin Offering (ICO) fraud that raised up to $ 15 million from thousands of investors since August by falsely promising a 13-fold profit in less than a month.

Payments from YT, as he's known, reportedly slowed, and his assets were frozen in China earlier this year.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has obtained an emergency asset freeze to halt an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) scam that reportedly raised up to $ 15 million from thousands of investors since August.