Almost like an exorcism, yet forty-eight hours ago, Seif Al-Islam Muammar Gaddafi's son and spokesman, dismissed the spectrum of the freezing of assets of the clan on a global scale with hyperbole worthy of his father. "We laugh when we say that we have money in Europe and Switzerland. But, let's go! It is a lie.
Everyone knows that we are a very humble family." In reality, there is very little to laugh about. And not only for the size of the stakes - a treasure abroad estimated at $ 120 billion, including bank deposits and shares - but for the acceleration that now, after the decisions of the UN and the EU, took the hunt Libyan assets.
It happens that the U.S. Treasury listing "freezing", from yesterday, "$ 30 billion in deposits and securities in any way attributable to the availability of foreign regimes" ("The most important restraint of assets by sanctions programs ever expected" , has called David Cohen, undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence delegation).
But it also happens that even the government of the 'friend Berlusconi, now showing the face after ignoring the wolf and unilateral initiatives which had blocked England and Switzerland, last week, deposits and immovable properties of the dictator, to convene today the Committee for the financial security "(an intergovernmental body, chaired by Vittorio Grilli and son of the post September 11, 2001, when it came to survey and froze the assets in any way attributable to men of Al Qaeda).
Here, police, intelligence and Bank of Italy, will begin screening the property of the Colonel and his clan within our borders and, especially, sets criteria to distinguish in the application of sanctions, between "personal property" of Saddam and "heritage of the Libyan state." A crucial passage (not only in Italy) e - stigmatize qualified sources of our intelligence - "far from easy." The confusion between Saddam's assets, those of his clan (at least two dozen men and women, children, grandchildren, Service men, personal advisors) and the Libyan Investment Autorithy (LIA), the sovereign fund, which has in Tripoli over the years invested in Europe, Asia, South-East Asia, United States, Russia, was in fact the key to conceal the true extent of the involvement of Colonel sheet.
The proof of this came in 2008 in Switzerland. That year - according to data from the Swiss National Bank, the Swiss central bank - the bank formally registered to Libyan citizens and funds amounted to 5.7 billion Swiss francs (4.4 billion euro). Well, since July 2008, after the arrest in Geneva of Hannibal, a son of Colonel, those deposits have dropped to just over 630 million Swiss francs (470 million euro), handing over full control of the evidence Gaddafi's foreign remittances Jamahiriya.
It is no coincidence, then, that in Holland a treasure hunt game is in these hours by cash and real estate in the Libyan oil company Tamoil. And that, in France as in Italy, waiting to know what will announce the individual banks (beginning with Unicredit) the levels of stocks and cash equivalents of the Colonel, the attachment point is precisely that of equity "in the clear" of the fund Libyan Investment Autorithy sovereign.
Banks, publishing, immobility (see table). It 's a fact that in recent days, the "small family of Tripoli," he tried to run for his money and conceal the property (in London were intercepted and blocked 4.8 billion pounds resting on a private fund investment) and to direct it towards the corners of the world from the laughable financial transparency.
As Dubai and the UAE. The old Colonel and large safe. 
Everyone knows that we are a very humble family." In reality, there is very little to laugh about. And not only for the size of the stakes - a treasure abroad estimated at $ 120 billion, including bank deposits and shares - but for the acceleration that now, after the decisions of the UN and the EU, took the hunt Libyan assets.
It happens that the U.S. Treasury listing "freezing", from yesterday, "$ 30 billion in deposits and securities in any way attributable to the availability of foreign regimes" ("The most important restraint of assets by sanctions programs ever expected" , has called David Cohen, undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence delegation).
But it also happens that even the government of the 'friend Berlusconi, now showing the face after ignoring the wolf and unilateral initiatives which had blocked England and Switzerland, last week, deposits and immovable properties of the dictator, to convene today the Committee for the financial security "(an intergovernmental body, chaired by Vittorio Grilli and son of the post September 11, 2001, when it came to survey and froze the assets in any way attributable to men of Al Qaeda).
Here, police, intelligence and Bank of Italy, will begin screening the property of the Colonel and his clan within our borders and, especially, sets criteria to distinguish in the application of sanctions, between "personal property" of Saddam and "heritage of the Libyan state." A crucial passage (not only in Italy) e - stigmatize qualified sources of our intelligence - "far from easy." The confusion between Saddam's assets, those of his clan (at least two dozen men and women, children, grandchildren, Service men, personal advisors) and the Libyan Investment Autorithy (LIA), the sovereign fund, which has in Tripoli over the years invested in Europe, Asia, South-East Asia, United States, Russia, was in fact the key to conceal the true extent of the involvement of Colonel sheet.
The proof of this came in 2008 in Switzerland. That year - according to data from the Swiss National Bank, the Swiss central bank - the bank formally registered to Libyan citizens and funds amounted to 5.7 billion Swiss francs (4.4 billion euro). Well, since July 2008, after the arrest in Geneva of Hannibal, a son of Colonel, those deposits have dropped to just over 630 million Swiss francs (470 million euro), handing over full control of the evidence Gaddafi's foreign remittances Jamahiriya.
It is no coincidence, then, that in Holland a treasure hunt game is in these hours by cash and real estate in the Libyan oil company Tamoil. And that, in France as in Italy, waiting to know what will announce the individual banks (beginning with Unicredit) the levels of stocks and cash equivalents of the Colonel, the attachment point is precisely that of equity "in the clear" of the fund Libyan Investment Autorithy sovereign.
Banks, publishing, immobility (see table). It 's a fact that in recent days, the "small family of Tripoli," he tried to run for his money and conceal the property (in London were intercepted and blocked 4.8 billion pounds resting on a private fund investment) and to direct it towards the corners of the world from the laughable financial transparency.
As Dubai and the UAE. The old Colonel and large safe.
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