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Wednesday, July 15, 2009

x-Dictator's Fortune Is to Be Returned to His Heirs

Zairian President Mobutu Sese Seko, right, flanked by his new Prime Minister General Likulia Bolongo, left, raises his stick while they arrive to speak to the press, at Mobutu's Palace in Kinshasa, Saturday April 12, 1997.
Switzerland: Ex-Dictator's Fortune Is to Be Returned to His Heirs read more
The New York Times
Switzerland's top court ordered Tuesday that more than $7 million in Swiss francs belonging to Mobutu Sese Seko, the former Zaire dictator, be unfrozen, clearing the way for its return to his heirs. Zaire is now known as Congo. The Swiss government froze the funds in 1997, and extended the freeze in 2008. Congo's money-laundering case was rejected...

photo: AP / Laurent rebours

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