Russian accounts frozen in France
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Russian state bank accounts held in France are frozen as a Swiss firm demands that Russia repay debts.
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MOSCOW  - A Russian court on Thursday rejected an appeal by the Yukos oil company seeking to overturn a freeze on the accounts of the struggling oil giant's core subsidiaries.
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French trader accused of the biggest fraud in banking history facing another day of police questioning
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Bank of New Zealand has frozen all accounts held in the name of Access Brokerage, which was yesterday placed in liquidation after a client fund shortfall of around $5 million was discovered.
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French bank Societe Generale has lost $10bn, the bulk of which was lost through fraud by a trader.
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Descendants of two prominent czarist-era art collectors demanded compensation as a major exhibition of Russian art was previewed on Tuesday at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, Bloomberg News reported. The descendants, AndrÃ©-Marc Delocque-Fourcaud, grandson of Sergei Shchukin, and Pierre Konowaloff, great-grandson of Ivan Morosov, did not seek the return of paintings. Instead, they asserted a moral right to a portion of the proceeds from the show, to open on Saturday. A spokeswoman for the Russian Federal Agency of Culture and Cinematography declined to comment. Fears of legal claims to some of the 120 works in the show, âFrom Russia: French and Russian Master Paintings 1870-1925 From Moscow and St. Petersburgâ cast doubt over the exhibition for several weeks until Britain satisfied Russia that the paintings, including art by Gauguin, Kandinsky and van Gogh, would be returned after it ends on April 18.
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Police on Saturday questioned the young trader blamed for a massive fraud that cost France's Societe Generale bank more than $7 billion, as the country's president accused global financial institutions of having "gone haywire" and urged common sense.
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TORONTO (CP) - A Russian steel company has gone to court to block Deutsche Bank&#39;s refinancing proposal for Stelco Inc., one of a flurry of legal objections filed Friday against a sales process critics say is biased in favour of the German bank.
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Russian newspapers question the government's ability to tackle terrorism, while in France, there is hope two kidnapped journalists could soon be freed.
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Russian authorities have canceled a major exhibition of French and Russian paintings set to open in London in January, fearing authorities could seize the art to settle private legal claims, a Russian museum official said Wednesday.
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The Russian authorities have frozen the exports to Russia of many food-industry manufacturers operating in the Baltic states.
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Russia is considering an early repayment of its debt to the Paris Club group of rich lending nations.
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Geneva prosecutors acted within the law when they froze funds belonging to the Russian central bank at the behest of a Swiss firm, the country's supreme court said Thursday.
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Switzerland GENEVA -- Swiss justice authorities have blocked bank accounts containing $100 million in an investigation of an alleged bribery scandal tied to a subsidiary of Halliburton Co. , the oil services company formerly headed by Vice President Dick Cheney. Geneva investigator Daniel Dumartheray confirmed a report in the daily Tribune de Geneve that the freeze was imposed after France ...
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An international election monitoring group sent an advance team to Russia Wednesday amid complaints that Kremlin-imposed restrictions would hamper its ability to observe next month's presidential election.
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The Bank of England on Friday froze all funds linked to the London-based Saudi dissident Saad al-Faqih, just one day after the United Nations listed him as an al-Qaida associate.
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Russia has frozen its participation in a key arms control treaty that limits the deployment of military forces in Europe, the Kremlin announced Saturday.