Really? Did IB or any other broker ever hold or freeze your funds for any significant period? Are you talking about the holding of funds for few days until the funds settle as example of frozen assets? Lol. Your ridiculous example that banks or institutions impose limits on how and what and how much you can transfer has nothing whatsoever to do with freezing assets. It is a decision by compliance departments to be on the safe side and hence they exceed legal requirements in order for them to stay out of trouble. Even the refusal by banks to handle American nationals' assets internationally has nothing to do with freezing assets but is a business decision because cost, associated with complying with legal requirements by US regulators by far exceed the benefits many banks receive by managing Americans' assets overseas. You are as so often conflating a well defined problem and topic (freezing of assets) with all other sorts of issues, throw it all in one pot, stir well, and believe you have a good point at hand. You failed to comprehend and debate the issue here.
Volpunter indeed rose from the dead, but still with a massive candle up his ass.
You can do what you want with your cash if the court does not freeze the assets ??
Why for so many accounts in various countries (i know cases in Switzerland, Hong Kong and Latvia, banks refused to do anything else with the remaining funds but transfer them to same name accounts, with some variations, like 30% could be withdrawn in cash in Switzerland, or funds could be send back to the initial sender ) Talking about lots of cases in Switzerland and Hong Kong, and Hsbc in HK seems to be still holding funds of many account holders which displeased their reborn compliance department, despite neither a court decision nor even a court process against the account holders.
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