US$5 Million Seized From Taylor's Associates

The assets, which total over US$5 million, have been seized from 7 of 11 countries on the UN’s list .

France, Ghana, Germany, Lebanon, the United Kingdom and the United States have all frozen liquid and solid assets from persons alleged to have accrued their wealth from service and business with the corrupt regime of Taylor.

The latest UN Panel report named those affected as Mohammed Salame and Moussa Cisse, whose assets were seized in France; Leonid Minins, whose assets were seized in Germany; Grace Minor, whose assets were seized in Ghana; Mohammed Salame, Ali Ramadan Kleiltat Al-Dilby, Charles Bright and Edwin Snowe, whose assets were seized in Lebanon; Agnes Reeves-Taylor, whose assets were seized in United Kingdom; Benoni Urey and Victor Bout, whose assets were seized in the United States.