Tag: seizure

Stolen drill find leads to seizure of 1,000 items

Kent Police hopes to reunite owners with their suspected stolen tools [Kent Police] A search for a power tool, fitted with a tracking device, has led to the discovery of more than 1,000 suspected stolen items from across the country, police have said. Kent Police said the combined value of the items – including power […]

Analysis-Russia can’t match a Western asset seizure, but it can inflict pain

By Alexander Marrow LONDON (Reuters) – Russia’s ability to mete out like-for-like retaliation if Western leaders seize its frozen assets has been eroded by dwindling foreign investment, but officials and economists say there are still ways it can strike back. The United States wants to seize immobilised Russian reserves – around $300 billion globally – […]

Putin urges restraint in state seizure of assets

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin has reminded prosecutors that seizing assets and turning them over to state ownership is only justified in cases where failing to act might jeopardise Russia’s national security. Many assets in Russia have changed hands in the last two years. Hundreds of foreign companies left Russia after Moscow sent […]

Russian court orders seizure of JPMorgan Chase funds in VTB lawsuit

MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian court has ordered the seizure of funds in JPMorgan Chase bank accounts in Russia, court filings showed on Wednesday, in a lawsuit filed by state-owned bank VTB as it seeks to regain funds blocked abroad. JP Morgan Chase last week sued VTB in New York to halt its efforts to […]

Supreme Court declines to hear Mike Lindell’s phone seizure case

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell has suffered another legal setback — this time from the Supreme Court, which rejected his request to hear an appeal over the FBI’s seizure of his cellphone. In September 2022, FBI agents approached Lindell at a Hardee’s drive-thru in Minnesota and confiscated his phone as part of an investigation into possible […]

Donald Trump posts £140 million bond to avert asset seizure

Donald Trump posted a 175 million dollar (£140 million) bond on Monday in his New York civil fraud case, halting collection of the more than 454 million dollars (£363 million) he owes and preventing the state from seizing his assets to satisfy the debt while he appeals. A New York appellate court had given the […]