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Tuesday, 16 October, 2012

Bern freezes $1 billion in Arab Spring assets

Switzerland has blocked nearly a billion Swiss francs worth of assets from former dictators and their associates in Arab Spring countries, including Egypt, Libya, Syria and Tunisia. BBC reporter Imogen Foulkes tells WRS’s Alex Helmick how the government is eager to show the world its tougher stance on corruption:

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