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Iranian assets

NEW YORK — The Second Circuit vacated a ruling requiring Citibank turn over $1.6 billion held by the Kuwait Finance House Malaysia to the family of Robert Levinson, the FBI/DEA agent captured and tortured by Iranian security forces. The lower court failed to establish that the bank was an agency or instrumentality of Iran.

/ August 11, 2022

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