The Swiss government extended a freeze on former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier's bank accounts here for another year, reports AFP (Aug. 23, 2007):
7.6 million Swiss francs (US$6.2 million) held by "Baby Doc" Duvalier in Switzerland were due to be released on Sept. 1 after a three-month freeze expired, government spokesman Oswald Sigg. But the Federal Council (government) extended its decree for another 12 months following a request by Haiti's President Rene Preval, he added. The money has been caught up in nearly two decades of legal and political wrangling since it was blocked in Switzerland at the request of Haiti's govt. fter Duvalier was toppled in 1986; …
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