Frozen North Korean funds released from Macau bank
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Most of the North Korean funds long frozen in a Macau bank have been transferred, an official said on Thursday, raising the prospect of an end to the deadlock stalling a nuclear disarmament deal with Pyongyang.
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South Korea said it plans to crack down on people who demand money for organizing mass-defections of North Koreans. So-called brokers - often Koreans living in China, South Korean
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The U.S. buyout firm whose sale of Korea Exchange Bank was blocked by a corruption investigation, will collect $445 million in dividends from the bank.
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BEIJING - Two employees at a Chinese bank dream of getting rich quick. The only two with the keys to the vault, they steal a few thousand dollars to see whether anyone notices. No one does. In the course of a month, they take out $6.6 million.
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Most of the North Korean funds long frozen in a Macau bank have been transferred, media reports said on Thursday, raising the prospect of an end to the deadlock stalling a nuclear disarmament deal with Pyongyang.
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The United States is wrapping up its investigation of a Macau bank that holds $24 million in North Korean assets, a development that could lead to the release of some of the funds.
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Technical problems prevent the transfer of N Korean funds previously frozen in a Macau bank, US officials say.
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Russia believes $25 million in unfrozen North Korean funds will arrive in one of its banks on Friday, deputy foreign minister Alexander Losyukov was quoted by Itar-Tass as saying, as part of a nuclear deal.
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A financial dispute that has held up North Korea's pledge to shut down its nuclear reactor could be nearing a breakthrough amid a news report that the long-awaited transfer of frozen North Korean funds will start Thursday.
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Russia has accepted a U.S. request that a Russian bank help end a stalemate over frozen North Korean funds that has halted progress in the North's nuclear disarmament, a news report said Sunday.
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About $3 million in United Nations money intended to help impoverished North Koreans was diverted by the Pyongyang government toward the purchase of property in France, the United Kingdom and Canada, according to a confidential State Department account of witness reports and internal business rec...
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Russia has stepped in to try to help with the transfer of funds from a Macau bank to North Korea, said U.S. officials on Monday, who hope an end to the deadlock will quickly revive a stalled disarmament effort.
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The transfer of N Korean funds frozen in Macau, a key issue in nuclear talks, will soon begin, media says.
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South Korea has found illegal aspects in the 2003 sale of Korea Exchange Bank (KEB) to U.S. fund Lone Star, a senior prosecutor said on Thursday, which may eventually lead the courts to declare the deal void.
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Prosecutors made a second request for a warrant to arrest a former finance ministry official caught up in the sale of the Korea Exchange Bank to Lone Star Funds, a private equity fund in the United States. In making the request, the government added accusations of bribery and distorting evidence against the former official, Byeon Yang-ho. Mr. Byeon, who headed the financial policy bureau in 2003 when Lone Star acquired a 50.5 percent stake in Korean Exchange for $1.5 billion, is accused of conspiring to overstate the bankÂs financial problems to reduce the price. The Seoul Central District Court plans to hold a hearing this week on the request for the arrest warrant. Lone Star canceled its plan last week to sell the stake to Kookmin Bank for $7.4 billion.
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Sometimes high diplomacy depends on simple math. Take the North Korean nuclear deal, which was reached in Beijing on Feb. 13. Under a side agreement, the United States promised to resolve within 30 days a Treasury Department case that had frozen North Korean funds at a bank in Macau suspected of...
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South Korea has found illegal aspects in  the 2003 sale of Korea Exchange Bank (KEB) to U.S. fund Lone  Star, a senior prosecutor said on Thursday, which may  eventually lead the courts to declare the deal void.