{"id":281282,"date":"2011-02-24T19:32:37","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T19:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/02\/24\/swiss-government-freezes-gadhafis-assets\/"},"modified":"2011-02-24T19:32:37","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T19:32:37","slug":"swiss-government-freezes-gadhafis-assets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/02\/24\/swiss-government-freezes-gadhafis-assets\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss government freezes Gadhafi&#8217;s assets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"56.2295311407\">    <!-- PURGE: \/2011\/02\/24\/news\/international\/gadhafi_assets\/moamer_kadhafi.gi.top.jpg --><!-- KEEP --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/f96b77b4hafi.gi_.top_.jpg\" alt=\"Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi\" width=\"475\" height=\"324\" border=\"0\" class=\"cnnstoryImageFull\" \/><span><b>The Swiss government froze the assets of Moammar Gadhafi on Thursday.<\/b><\/span><!-- \/PURGE: \/2011\/02\/24\/news\/international\/gadhafi_assets\/moamer_kadhafi.gi.top.jpg --><span id=\"fb-recommend\"\/><br \/>\n<span>By Charles Riley, staff reporter<\/span><span>February 24, 2011: 2:30 PM ET<\/span><!--startclickprintexclude--><br clear=\"all\"\/><!--endclickprintexclude--><!-- CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK (CNNMoney) &#8212; Switzerland&#8217;s government has moved to freeze any assets in the country&#8217;s banks that might belong to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Federal Council [Bundesrat] has decided to freeze any assets of Moammar Gaddafi and those surrounding him, in Switzerland, with immediate effect,&#8221; the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><!-- REAP --><!--startclickprintexclude--><!--endclickprintexclude--><!-- \/REAP --><\/p>\n<p>The move comes after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/WORLD\/africa\/02\/24\/libya.protests\/index.html?hpt=T1\">ten days of protests<\/a> that have lost Gadhafi control of eastern Libya and led prominent members of his own government to defect and join demonstrations.<\/p>\n<p>Gadhafi has shown no signs that he&#8217;s ready to give up the post he has held for 42 years.<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately clear what assets, if any, Gadhafi keeps in Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p>For the Swiss government, it&#8217;s a case of deja vu, as the country moved earlier this month to <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2011\/02\/11\/news\/international\/swiss_banks_mubarak\/index.htm\">freeze the assets<\/a> of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and his family, following protests in that country that led to his resignation.<\/p>\n<p>The Swiss banking system is known for its secrecy. But in recent years, the banks have made concessions in the interest of providing more transparency.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2011\/02\/24\/news\/international\/gadhafi_assets\/index.htm?section=money_topstories&#038;utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fmoney_topstories+%28Top+Stories%29#TOP\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/0e63013ebug.gif\" alt=\"To top of page\" border=\"0\" width=\"7\" height=\"7\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/CONTENT --><!--startclickprintexclude--><!--startclickprintexclude--><br \/>\n<!--endclickprintexclude--><!--endclickprintexclude--><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/f96b77b4hafi.gi_.top_-150x102.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read more here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/rss.cnn.com\/~r\/rss\/money_topstories\/~3\/dz20kwVbD98\/index.htm\" title=\"Swiss government freezes Gadhafi's assets\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Swiss government freezes Gadhafi&#8217;s assets<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The Swiss government froze the assets of Moammar Gadhafi on Thursday. By Charles Riley, staff reporter February 24, 2011: 2:30 PM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney) &#8212; Switzerland&#8217;s government has moved to freeze any assets in the country&#8217;s banks that might belong to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs said Thursday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Swiss government freezes Gadhafi&#039;s assets - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/02\/24\/swiss-government-freezes-gadhafis-assets\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Swiss government freezes Gadhafi&#039;s assets - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The Swiss government froze the assets of Moammar Gadhafi on Thursday. 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