Cyprus Freeze Serb Accounts at Request of War Crimes Tribunal

On October 27, 2000, the media reported the Cyprus Government has imposed a freeze on between 10 and 15 accounts of businesses suspected of ties with Slobodan Milosevic. The freeze order was issued at the request of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). The ICTY is investigating the former Yugoslav president for alleged involvement in war crimes against Kosovo Albanians last year. During the second week of October, the ICTY Chief Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte visited Cyprus and gave Cypriot authorities a list of accounts she wanted frozen....[more]