id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt pur1.32754077080814 United States. Congress. House. Committee on Financial Services. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. Divesting Saddam : freezing, seizing, and repatriating Saddam's money to the Iraqis ; hearing before the Subcommittee on Oversight and investigations of the Committee on Financial Services, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, first session, May 14, 2003 2003 .txt text/plain 28985 1947 69 Initial press reports are startling, with stories of shell companies in numerous countries, discoveries in Iraq of hundreds of millions of U.S. Dollars, and oil smuggling schemes that are without parallel among other petty dictators They have confirmed yesterday that more than $495 million of previously unknown assets held by the central bank, the former central bank of Iraq, and by SOMA, the State Oil Marketing Organization, have been secured and will not be released to anyone until we Stateand regime-owned property that has been vested in the U.S. Treasury from banking accounts in the U.S. and stateand regimeowned cash, funds, or realizable securities found and seized in Iraq in the Treasury approximately 1.7 billion in Iraqi Government assets to be used to assist the Iraqi people and to assist in the reconstruction of Iraq. ensure that vested and seized assets of the Saddam Hussein regime are used in accordance with law, and rigorous accounting and ./cache/pur1.32754077080814.pdf ./txt/pur1.32754077080814.txt