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dipsydoodle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-11 09:00 AM
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Switzerland blocks funds of Haiti ex-leader Duvalier
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Source: BBC News

Switzerland has blocked funds held in Swiss bank accounts by Haiti's former leader Jean-Claude Duvalier under a law that has just come into force.

The funds of some $6m (£3.7m) were frozen in 1986 after Mr Duvalier was ousted as Haitian president.

Last year, a Swiss court ruled that the money be returned to him but the Bern government sought a new law covering the restitution of the money to Haiti.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-12332329
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