Unfreezing these assets is one of the main bargaining chips in talks with Western governments, with the ban on girls’ education a key sticking point – meaning the very money that once funded that schooling is now being withheld to try to restore it.
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Kara Fox,
CNN Money,
15 Aug. 2026
The victim, whose name is being withheld at the request of detectives, is the father of an 8-year-old boy and was preparing to celebrate his 50th birthday.
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