Matthew Waxman, a Columbia University law professor who was a national security official in the George W. Bush administration, said seizing control of Venezuela’s resources opens up additional legal issues.

One of the most celebrated moments of President Joe Biden's State of the Union address came when he spoke directly to Russian oligarchs: “We are joining with our European allies to find and seize your yachts, your luxury apartments, your private jets.

If sanctions were going to have an effect on global reserve holdings, we presumably would have seen it by now. In the past two weeks, President Donald Trump has totally reoriented the U.S. approach to the war in Ukraine. A call with Vladimir Putin and ...

The second anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is approaching and the Biden administration increasingly fears that its policy is failing. Although in public President Joe Biden remains confident about Ukraine’s future, the Pentagon reportedly ...

A group of legal experts sought to bolster the case for seizing frozen Russian central bank assets, arguing that such actions are allowed under international law given the scale of Russia’s continuing attacks in Ukraine. The European Union, the Group of ...

Rebuilding Ukraine after Russian President Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked invasion and a year of unrelenting Russian military assaults will require far more resources than can be obtained from just seizing Russian oligarchs’ assets. It’s time to go ...

In addition to Bitcoin, the Defense Ministry has succeeded in seizing such payments made in other digital currencies, including XRP, Ethereum, Tether and joke crypto Dogecoin, in accordance with the 2016 Counter-Terrorism Law. “The intelligence, technological and legal tools that enable us to get our hands on terrorists’ money around the world constitute an operational breakthrough ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover criminal justice, entrepreneurship, and offbeat lawsuits. This article is more than 10 years old. Federal drug agents may be racially profiling and unjustly seizing cash from ...

New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani touted his “end goal of seizing the means of production” during a 2021 Young Democratic Socialists of America conference. In his remarks, Mamdani asserted that the Left “is in a more ascendant position ...

Jacob Zuma's MK party not only wants to take over white-owned land, it also wants much of the private sector, including the mines and private schools - Bloomberg /Waldo Swiegers Seizing white-owned farms and nationalising all mines are among the demands of ...

Britain provided ‌support ​to the United States ‌in its operation to seize a Russian-flagged ​oil tanker in the North Atlantic, the Ministry of Defence ‍said on Wednesday. The U.S. ​seized the tanker - which was being shadowed by ​a Russian ⁠submarine - on Wednesday,