The anti-mafia agency said in a statement it was the biggest ever seizure of mafia-linked assets.
U.S. lawyers are likely to hit a wall of sovereign immunity when they try to seize assets linked to the Chinese government.
Last week, Hargreaves Services, a coal-mining and logistics company based in Durham, bought the debt linked to secured assets that belonged to another big Scottish coal producer ATH, which was forced into administration in December.
Deflation pushes up the real burden of debt, while the value of assets linked to that debt, such as house prices, may have to fall even more sharply in nominal terms to return to a fair level.
Since then, significant fund flows to emerging markets have been recorded, as investors believe Japanese retail investors are keen to buy assets abroad to diversify from assets at home that are linked to the weakening yen.
As well as being coaxed into reducing leverage, the banks may face pressure to ditch some of their illiquid assets, such as mortgage-linked securities and private-equity stakes.
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The EU has already frozen the assets of dozens of groups and individuals linked to Afghanistan's Taliban, Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda network, and other Islamic radical organisations.
U.N. members must now freeze the assets and monitor any travel by individuals and businesses linked to Iran's nuclear program.
The company actually gets smaller, because it has less assets and less equity. (Compared to LInked-In, for example, that grew larger by selling shares and increasing its cash asset.) Over time the cash disappears, and the equity disappears.
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Mr Takenaka also wants it to buy less conventional assets such as exchange-traded funds (index-linked equity funds).
Rather, the extra pay is linked to the meeting of certain benchmarks for rapid disposal of the assets.
He will also have to deal with subprime-linked lawsuits and a regulatory investigation of Merrill's accounting for illiquid assets.
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