Wednesday, March 2, 2011

The government froze the assets today that the Libyan regime has in Spain

The Spanish Government will proceed on Wednesday to freeze all assets that the Libyan regime has in our country, as reported by diplomatic sources. This includes the estate of over 6,000 hectares dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi has in Benahavis, a suburb of Marbella (Málaga), and where I intended to build almost 2,000 homes.

The Ministry of Economy and Finance will investigate whether bank accounts are located Libyan regime in our country. The measures will take place this Wednesday, when the European Community issued a regulation, rule binding on all member states-from a list drawn up by the UN in which details all the names of individuals, businesses and associations that Qaddafi's regime used to place property and money in foreign countries.

Furthermore, on Wednesday Spain shall also semi embassy in Libya. According to diplomatic sources, all diplomatic personnel present in the African country will be withdrawn and only working on local headquarters staff, exercising administrative tasks. This measure does not mean, however, the rupture of diplomatic relations.

This measure has already been carried out previously by the other European partners. According to diplomatic sources, Spain has maintained to this day the staff of the embassy because the minister, Trinidad Jimenez, ordered the Ambassador Luis Garcia Cerezo to stay in the African country until he left the national final.

The announcement of the seizure of the assets of Gaddafi in Spain comes at full travel of the prime minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Tunisia. A visit is a gesture of support for the democratization process in the country, plunged in recent days in a cascade of resignations in the transitional government and growing fears of a coup.

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